 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 Battle Series. I hope you're all well. Have a great day. We are on Thursday and as you know, if you've caught any of the episodes so far this week, we are doing a brand new team every single day and they're a bit more on the gimmicky, meamy side of things so we're having a lot of fun so far. What we're going to do on Friday as well is put up a poll at the end of the week to say which team would you like to see a little bit more of going into the last week of the Moon Series which will be next week. So you guys can vote over the weekend. The poll will be up on Friday evening. You can start voting and come Sunday night. I will know which team we are going to take forward into next week or at least for the majority of next week because we can always squeeze in some other teams if you've got some that you would like to feature. But on to today's team, it's going to be another new one as always. The teams are all in the description down below. They will be a poker piece and a roll piece for you guys to try out. Check out. Just look over. See what it's all about and try out if you'd like. If you do try it out though, remember to leave a comment. Let me know how you got on with it. How much fun you've had with them. Today is going to be a bit of a, it's not so much me me as much as more gimmicky because I feel like Ditto is a little bit gimmicky. Come on. It is, isn't it? But it's a cool Pokemon. Got the imposter there. We've got the Groudon and Yveltal kind of core going into this team. It's going to be a lot of fun to play. I really like this combination of Yveltal, Groudon. We saw Arash and Mati have a lot of success with and then 2016 format and it's kind of nice to bring back a similar kind of build to that. We haven't got the jump fluff obviously, but we've got Ditto making up for that. So we're going to get into it today and if you'd like to see more of this team by the end of the episode next week, you know what to do on Friday and go ahead and vote. But before we get into it guys, just a quick reminder, if you do enjoy this sort of content, remember to leave a like on the video, don't let a little thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any of these daily battle series as well as our streams, our guides, our flinch squad circuit and our ultra series guides are done. They are ready to go when the ultra series kicks in to action I guess in a week or two's time. So make sure you don't miss them. The subscribe button will allow you to get that notification to tell you that it's dropped on the channel. I think that's how it works anyway. But enough of that. Enough of that. Let's get into the fun stuff. Let's get into this battle. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to getting this one going. I haven't tried Ditto out at all this season and it's had a lot of success. It's been a recent regional, didn't we? So we know it can do stuff. It's got a red card, of course. We've got to do that. So the idea is to switch in on a Zernius because that's the stuff we like to do. Take a potential dazzling gleam. It gets kicked out. We're sitting there with a boosted Zernius, loving life. So we'll see if we can do that today. We're just going to search for our first opponent as always. If it does take a little bit longer than what I'd like it to, I'll cut straight to the chase and we'll come back when we've found someone. And like magic, we have our first opponent of the episode. So let's hop straight in the team preview. Oh, it looks like a great team. So we've got the restricted combination of Kyaga, Palkia, and then we've got Pellipa, bringing a second Drizzle because one is not enough to every team. Then Araquanid, we've got Azumaril and Ludicolor. I'm actually loving this week. We're bumping into a lot of really kind of gimmicky, me-me-team. So it's a lot of fun. We're playing those kind of things ourselves. So what are we going to do in this one? We definitely need Groudon. 100%. I'd say Tabakoko as well. Zernius, what am I talking about Zernius for? I've got Zernius on the brain. I think he Veltel and probably we want Ditto, I think, yeah. We've got to bring Ditto. The word want, Incinero, Incinero could be nice for the Intimidate, especially against the Araquanid and the Azumaril. We've got to be careful about that Azumaril. If it is a Bellydrum variant, of course, but then we have Ditto. It can become a Bellydrum Azumaril if we so please. Okay, let's get serious for a moment. I think what we'll do is we'll lead off with Koko, Veltel, bring Groudon and the Ditto in the back. Ditto and we'll lock in and wait for our opponent. Going very old English. Old English posh here. I love the look of this team though that my opponent is playing like I really do. I've got a soft spot for water types anyway, so a complete mono water type team. This is exactly what, it's exactly my cup of tea, here we go. Right, looking forward to this one. This was like, I was going to play, I've got two teams left obviously, we're playing one of them today, but I'm keeping one of them for tomorrow that I think is probably a little bit more favorable to myself than this one. But I do think this one can do some work. Got Pelipa, we've got Ludicor coming out for my opponent. There's obviously the fake-out pressure there from the Ludi, the Z move as well, that we have to be a little bit careful of. Tailwind from the Pelipa, we've seen it all before in 2017 when the Duck. The Double Duck, we've got a different Pineapple Duck here today. Okay, so we're going to protect Tabakoko, we've got the Sasha on there. We've got Assault Vest's Evelto, so we could just go for an Oblivion wing, we could go for a Snarl, what are we going to do? I think Oblivion wing, probably be better into the Ludicor or to be honest, that's the one that I'm going to go for, because getting damage on that and then being able to suck a punchy potentially in the next turn would be good, but we could just see a fake-out and a tailwind. I've got my opponent in a nice position going into the next turn. But with Koko with these Sasha, we need to be a little bit careful around here. There's a fake-out coming out from Ludi. Yep, identify the Evelto, it's the one that can't. And there's the tailwind, oh no. Oh no! Okay, hopefully this Pelipa hasn't got Rain Dance, because it's a good time for us to bring in our Groudon. I'm going to do that, I'm going to do that, and I'm going to do a Snarl or Oblivion wing. I'm going to Oblivion wing. There's a great, there's a great funeral for a friend song. And yes, we're back in the day, a big fan of funeral for a friend, but we've got a great track. I'm sure it's called Oblivion, actually. It's such a good band, such a good band. I don't know if they still gig. They probably do. But yeah, I've seen them, so I think I've probably seen them in Takenback Sunday more than any other band ever. I've seen Icy Wynne just making sure that speed control is on point here. Hopefully we don't see Rain Dance. Rain Dance would not be good. But we are going to be slowy-veltil now. Hurricane, it hits out of the rain. How dare you, Pilipa? No confusion now, that's good, that's good. Get the Oblivion wing. Okay, we're going to get this into the Ludi, which is nice. Wow, is that a Saltfest Ludi? It must be, it's got to be. Yeah, it will make sense as well with the... Okay, we'll get Groudon out of here. We'll get Tapococo back in. You're going to probably... Oh, do we... We could sucker punch the Ludi-Colo and kind of tend to just a snarl here. I feel like we'd probably see the Kyogre coming for the Pelipa if it doesn't Rain Dance and then a water type attack into the Groudon slot here. I just want to break the potential sash on that Pelipa. We're not going to see that though. We're just going to see Grass Knot. It does break the sash of Cococo, which is a little bit unfortunate. U-turn coming out from the Pelipa into Iveltil. I'm not going to do too much damage. We're going to allow my opponent to reposition now. I'd imagine the Kyogre comes in, which is ideal for the snarl coming out. Hopefully Iveltil is not blind, does not miss. And there's the Drizzle. Drizzle, Drizzle. What are we going to transform into with that Ditto? That's the thing. Like I'm like, hmm. I wonder if it's Scarf Kyogre as well. We will protect Cococo this turn. Of course. Hmm, hmm. Do we sucker punch the Kyogre? The Kyogre, hmm. Not really too concerned about the Ludi. Yeah, we'll sucker punch the Kyogre. Get some damage off onto it. It's likely Scarfed in this sort of team. It's likely Scarfed all of the time in the Moon series and the Sun series though, isn't it? So we'll just protect. We need to keep Cococo around for later to deal with all these other threats. Sucker punch, we do connect. It's not doing that much. I mean, it's not bad. I see wind coming out. We're obviously stalling out these Tailwind turns as well. So that's the other big thing. What's this Kyogre going to do? Water spout. Just going to do nothing. Minus one. It's chipped down. Yeah, big, big scary damage as the Tailwind does pitter out. And, well, Kyogre probably retreats now. Do we bring in Groudon? Once again, I think we probably do. And if Kyogre switches out, then it goes out before us. So we'll guarantee a weather up whatever if that Pelopid decides to come back onto the field. We'll just go for that Oblivion wing into the Ludi and get rid of it once and for all. And hopefully get some health back at the same time. Right, let's see. Groud coming out. Oh, it's not scarved. Huh, interesting. It's gold. No, don't burn us. No burn, okay. Orangey's been really nice to us today. She's good. And there's the knockout onto the Ludi. But this does, unfortunately, open the door, pave the way for this Pelopid to come back in. She's not great. Could be the Palkyr. No, the Palkyr, if it comes in. Now, that's something I probably want to ditto. Ooh, it's a Raccoonid. Definitely not something I want to ditto, I don't think. I'm gonna suck a punch. Oh, what are we gonna do? I think, so I could get Kyogre, all right. Like Kyogre's not gonna be the best thing too. Like the Pelopid's gonna be the thing to transform into later. I'm gonna bring Koko in and I'm gonna go for a suck a punch into the Kyogre. Although this is probably like the most unoptimal play because, yeah, this happens now, Pelopid coming back in. Okay, right. I should have oblivion winged the Raccoonid. It's totally gonna, it's 100% gonna liquidation, are you felt it? We do get the train up. Koko's still gonna be the thing that can really deal with everything on this team. Oh, no. Oh, no! Z move. Let's hope it's into Yveltal. Even though Yveltal's gonna be like the one thing that we kind of would like to keep a hold of going into the rest of this game, it isn't Yveltal. We're not gonna take this, I don't think. Not in the rain. No, no, no. Spyder too strong. Okay, let's get Groud on back in. It's like I say, I wanna transform into the Pelopid more than anything else. Let's go for a vault switch into the Raccoonid and we'll just press with blades in case, in case. I mean, I could press with blades into the Raccoonid as well. It's just a bit protect here. It's a little bit awkward, isn't it? Okay, no protect. We're gonna be able to get, I think the bad thing, well Groudon will outspeed that Raccoonid and it should be in range now of a press with blades. It's just whether or not the Pelopid decides to attack here into the Groudon, which would not be good because we are gonna bring the rain back up. Totally conflict with everything that we're standing for right now. Till when, that's what we wanna see. That's what we wanna see. That's fine. And now we should be able to get rid of the Raccoonid. Then the Kyogre comes back in, which is gonna be a job of, do I wanna sack or go? I don't really feel like I want to, but I mean, we need to get the rain back up. There's sun back up, obviously. That's the thing that we wanna be doing. Well, the Pelopid's not so good out of the rain, although we will just get thundered here. That's the big problem, especially with the electric terrain up. Could we protect? Oh, it doesn't have protect. Huh, don't have protect on your own, Pelopid. That's good information. Does have wide guard. This isn't good, because we could actually be left with just our Groudon if we switch into Coco here, because Coco's not gonna take a scald. I mean, Ditto might be able to take an attack if we don't see a thunder coming out. We'll see. There's no water type attack from this Pelopid, so that's our origin pulse. No, we could have wide guarded. Okay, I mean, Pelopid does take it. We're gonna go down to a hurricane though. I think we lose now. Yeah, we lose that tailwind. Ditto was that undoing. Ditto, you, Ditto, the worst bird. Now we can't beat the Pelopid. Well, I mean, we potentially can. We can't really. We definitely can't. Not a sword stance. Hope in hell. All right. I think we'll protect here. We'll see what this Pelopid does. Probably gonna doubt it. Wide guards. We just try and see if we can outstall this tailwind though. That's gonna be the big thing. This wide guard, you probably see a scald come out from the Kyogre. Origin, oh, it's origin pulse, of course. So, origin pulse misses. We can still do this. I have confidence in you, Groudon. Well, let's sword stance though. Let's get this. Let's get some power behind our punches because that's what we're gonna be relying on. We just need one origin pulse miss. Or an origin pulse miss and a hurricane miss. We'll do the same. Just everything missing. Wide guard again, yeah. You keep doing that, Pelopid. Don't worry about us. Miss? Come on. You shouldn't celebrate like this. It's so bad, it's so bad. But I know you guys do it at home. Do it exactly the same at home. Okay. Right, plus two. Now, do we go for the Kyogre? I feel like we don't. I feel like we got Pelopid. How many turns of sun we got left? This is the thing. I feel like the Kyogre protects here. No, we got three turns of sun. Kyogre probably protects. Pelopid goes tailwind. We know Pelopid hasn't got protect. So we can take Pelopid down in two hits. That's amazing. There we go. There's the protect. Okay. There's the tailwind. Yup. So we can get the Pelopid this next turn. We need one more origin pulse to miss. Or do we go precipice blades now? Because I think my opponent doesn't think we're going to precipice blades. So we precipice blades now and then we can beat the Pelopid. That's what I'm calling. No wide guard. No wide guard. We'll take this. We just got to hope that a hurricane doesn't hit. Oh, okay. Okay. No! We deserved it. We deserved it. We deserved it. That's the way. This makes me so sad. We nearly did a growl on. You can't complain yourself. I'm totally blaming you growl on. But, we didn't need the ditto here. The ditto complicated things. It complicated everything for us. It was not the play. We're going to see wide guard again now, I reckon. In an origin pulse, we needed to miss. We need two origin pulse misses. No, no wide guard. And this is it. Okay, good game to my opponent. Not the best to start with the team today. But it's fine. It is fine. We can do some stuff. We've got one more game to go with this team before we end up today. So, let's make it a good one. The ditto didn't do anything other than complicate matters there for us though. Which was not what we wanted. But it's fine. It's fine. It's fine. He tells himself. Okay. It's all right. It's all right. It's forcing the ditto onto a match that really had no right being there in the first place. But it's like, that's the whole thing about these teams this week. We're going to bring the meme-y stuff. 100%. At least we've got to see a cool team on the opposite side of the field as well, the mono-water type. Okay, so we've got our next opponent. Let's hop straight into team preview. Right, we've got Kyogre, Ivelto, Incineroar, Whimsicott, Ferrothorn, and our bestest friend in the world, Gorgaiest. Here we go. So we're probably going to see a trick room element with the Gorgaiest on this team. I think you've probably got Tailwind through the Whimsicott potentially on the Ivelto as well. What are we going to do here though? I feel like Ivelto has a real good time against this team. We need to be a bit careful about the Whimsicott for sure. What would we like to transform into with Ditto? If we were a Ditto, what would we like to be? We could have two Ivelto's out in the field. Could work. Two Incineroars. Two... Oh, Kyogre, Ivelto. Ah, we could go Kyogre. Yeah, we've got Ivelto. I think we definitely need... Can we rely enough? Yeah, I'm going to bring Coco groudon. I'm going to leave Incineroar and we're going to rely on groudon to deal with that Ferrothorn. So that's a big, big thing. Okay, and we're going to have Ditto on the back as well. Let's do that and lock in. And hope Ditto this time is not the thing that makes us lose. Please, Ditto. Be the thing that makes us win. Do yourself proud. Do yourself proud, Ditto, and do everyone at home a good deed this afternoon. We want to see this work. Okay, the white screen. Going to get anything. Okay, here we go. Getting into it. Right. I think Ditto as well is one of those Pokemon that you need to know how to use well and have a little bit of practice with it to kind of get the most out of it. Look at that shiny go guys. Looks so good. Looks so good. It's not a great spot against us though, is it? We know the Kyogre is not scarfed at all, going after everything else on the field. So we're probably going to look at that go guys being the trick rooms that are here. Does reveal Kingswok on the Coco. Of course, because we like to flinch stuff. Right, what are we going to do? We're going to foul play Snarl, Oblivion Wing, the go guys. Go guys are normally physically quite strong, so we'll foul play it, and we'll just go for a vault switch into the Kyogre. It probably protects you, but we can, I'm confident we can deny a trick room from this go guys. Kyogre going to protect. Yep, that makes a lot of sense. There's a vault switch into that slot. Can you see what these go guys do? We know it's slow because it's a big one. It's not like ours. Shiny go guys as well, it's amazing. Okay, we don't actually pick up the knockout there. There's the trick room. That's fine as well. So fine, it's so fine. It's really all right because we'll just snarl, and we will bring in Groudon. And hope you don't see grass and water type attack it into Groudon because if we lose Groudon, it makes that Ferrothal matchup way more difficult, but we do have Ditto. We've got to remember this. All is not lost when you have Ditto to come back in on. Save the day. But we're going to snarl right now just to lower the attack on this Kyogre and potentially do some nice damage to this go guys as well. Go guys is nice and bulky, isn't it? It is pretty good. We should have dazzled as well. We could have got a flinch with our cocoa. Get the sun up. Can you see our light switch? Huh, okay. Nice. And the Z move. Where are you going to be into? The cocoa, probably. Yeah. Or maybe not. Maybe the Velto. The Velto gives this team quite a lot of, but yeah, but this is not going to be doing anywhere near what it needs to be. Wow. I mean, look at that. It does nothing. Nothing at all. I mean, nearly get the go guys to get some good damage onto the Kyogre. Okay. What are we going to do now? I think we'll just stay in and snarl once again. What's my opponent likely to bring in for that Kyogre? The Velto, potentially. I think we'll just, do we fire punch? I don't know. We could suck a punch. The go guys and just go for a press of his blades. It covers it, attacking. Kyogre just going to protect. Are we going to see the go guys attack? Hopefully it hasn't got Willow Wisp. Destiny Bond. No. No. I should know this. We just played it yesterday. Please miss, please miss, please miss. Crowd on. The one time, the one time you wanted to miss, it never misses. Maybe this is how we should approach matches from now on. When you're in that really awful position where you're like, okay, if my press of his blades hits here, I win the match and I win the tournament. And then that's the point in time where you're like, okay. Let's just do this. If I'm just pray for the miss and you'll hit. Just, yeah. Now do we bring in Ditto and get ourselves a good old Kyogre or Coco? I think Ditto. Let's do this. Let's get the rain back up onto the field. The go guys, it's gone. Instead of all coming out, perfect. See what this Kyogre's holding. So let's go in pasta. Okay, nice, shiny, brand new Kyogre. Activating the rain, getting us right in the driving seat right now. Okay, so yeah, we totally threatened this incinerole. Do we do, do we just keep snarling or oblivion wing? We could oblivion wing the incinerole. And what's this kind of, it has got thunder. Hmm, it has got water spout and skull as well. We could just snarl again. I think snarling isn't too bad. And I think maybe just protect Kyogre here, or Ditto here, just to get around this turn, this fake out. It's pretty obvious what we're doing. So I wouldn't be surprised at all to see my opponent fake out into the Valtol. Okay, Kyogre gonna retreat. We're gonna see Pherothon coming. We need to really become that incinerole. That's what we need. Yeah, we definitely need to become the incinerole, but it makes it very difficult because of the Kyogre. Right, let's oblivion wing the Pherothon. Let's switch into Coco and try and become incinerole with that Ditto, because that's the only thing that we can do. Yep, hopefully Coco takes this. You should do knockoff. We don't want this. This is not the thing we want. We don't wanna become, we don't wanna become Pherothon. I mean, it does give us a better time against the opposing Kyogre, but at the same time, we're facing down against an incinerole that we cannot deal with. Ugh, the Ditto goes from bad to worse, doesn't it? To bad, to even worse. Like I'm mean, priority now is getting rid of this Pherothon for sure. We don't even have leech seed. Come on. We need leech seed. We definitely need leech seed. I mean, we can knockoff the incinerole. At least the opposing Pherothon can't leech seed Airey-Veltel. We lost sight of the game plan here though. We lost sight that Groudon was our wincon. I think another Oblivion win will get the Pherothon, so we might actually be all right with just Airey-Veltel here. There's the berry, flablets. Come on, Pherothon, take this in the rain, please. Oh my gosh, that was just, that was pathetic Ditto. Once again, length of the team down. Knockoff, getting rid of our Soldvest. Yeah, which isn't what we want. There's gonna be tough, Veltel, it's all on you now, my friend. I think the incinerole probably goes out for Kyoga. Yeah, we'll go for Oblivion win into that slot. I feel like the Pherothon might protect. May it protect, who knows. But the Kyoga's not really what we're worrying about too much now. If we can get rid of this incinerole, two hits without proccing the berry, it's impossible though. That's the other thing. I don't know if it is. Okay, no switches, no protect coming out. Definitely berry rage, isn't it? To be fair, it did a lot more than what I expected it to do. There's another knockoff, and a jar of all. Right, this is gonna be the most important damage of them all. Yeah, we just, there's no way we can take another one of those. No chance. We need a crit Oblivion win into this Pherothon to win this, and that is not what you wanna rely on. Okay, that's just not enough. We got screwed, Ditto is just, well, I mean, on paper, I like Ditto. I probably haven't been playing it optimally in this game either, or these games. It's kind of scuppered us both times, but good game to my opponent. And we just didn't, we lost the Groudon, we needed the Groudon for this end game, and we lost it carelessly, and that is that. But that is gonna be today's episode, guys. So this Ditto team will be going into the poll on Friday, whether or not you wanna see any more of it. There's another thing, but it would be nice to change it up and bring it back and do a little bit better with it next week. So you never know. I think it's an interesting Pokemon for sure, but it did more harm, I think, than good in these games. Or at least I did more harm with it than good, not blaming Ditto for any of our outcomes. But I hope, regardless, you've seen some nice teams today. Hope you've enjoyed today's episode. I definitely have enjoyed the games that we've played today, even though we come out of them on the worst side. You wanna win every game if you can, but sometimes not the case, and as long as you have fun with it, when you're not playing seriously, that's the main thing. That is the main thing, guys, to remember. So I'm just gonna say thank you so much, as always, for tuning in, supporting the channel and all that jazz, and I just wish you all a great rest of your day, whatever time of day it is, wherever you are in the world. Just make sure you take good care of yourselves, and we'll see you for the next one with our last team of the week tomorrow. So, till then, guys, take care of yourselves, and bye-bye.