 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our road to ranked roulette series I hope you're all doing well. Thank you so much for tuning in and we are kicking off today with Activating our bonus buttons. So we have four bonus buttons left to activate this week and we haven't done so far this week So here we are today. I'm gonna activate three of our bonus buttons We're gonna activate a switch up a randomizer and a legend maker now a good backfire on us We've had an incredible run with the team so far this week and talking about the incredible run If you'd like to go back and check out the run so far with the team that we selected Got thrown out by that roulette wheel at the start of the week click up here I'll put a card in for you check those games out and then come back into today's episode and then catch up From there on out because I feel like we're gonna have a bit of a switch up now Like I say it could backfire on us the team is doing so well at the minute I'm tempted just to sit on it for the rest of the week But I'm mindful that we have to activate these buttons by the end of the week And we need to try and push on above that 1500 so on the road to 1500 I feel like we can do it as well things are going well Hopefully it doesn't backfire too much, but the first button that I'm gonna activate today is gonna be that Switch up one. I think that's the one I want to do because that's a sure bet I can get rid of one Pokemon of my selection and then we can have the wheels throw us out a new one So I'm gonna nominate a Rangaroo. It's not really featured too much this week Unfortunately, I think it just doesn't suit the team as well as I would have liked it to Hopefully we have a nomination later on in coming weeks where it does get nominated and fits in with the team a lot better So I'm gonna throw out a Rangaroo We're gonna shoot over to the wheel right now and see what the replacement is So please will give us something good. Let's see what the wheel reveals It's an electric type. It is one of the coolest intimidators in the game I've forgotten about intimidator, but it will be so valuable for the team Just protecting things like that Zernius going forward helping it get those boosts of getting big damage off looks Areas an incredible Pokemon. It's gonna be really cool to adapt it into the team So I'm really excited about that. Thank you to so much for the nomination wanna play hugs I think was the person that nominated to be on the screen right now, but that is a great start for us So I'm really pleased about that looks right is a very cool Pokemon, right now. I'm gonna activate the Randomizer so this is a bit well this is where it gets a bit tricky So it will nominate a particular Pokemon from the team and then we will have a new one in place So let's head over to the wheel see which Pokemon gets nominated to be thrown out. Let's go and see Let's go jump. Oh You know what go jump has been such like a secret like undercover MVP to the team It's been dealing and working so well with so many threats in this format and I Don't know I felt like you know when I say it could backfire I feel like this is a little bit backfire So I guess we're gonna have to go over to the wheel now and see which Pokemon comes out from the new selection Let's go to the wheel and see what we get in place of God Chomp Dragonite I know there's a bunch of you out there that want dragonite and have been nominating it for the past three weeks So to finally get it in and it kind of works Over go jump it gets access to earthquakes so we can totally use it. It's gonna be great. It's got multi-scale It has speed controls, so we've got lots of options there great selection again Thank you for the nominations from all of you guys for dragonite and it's a pretty cool Pokemon again It fits into that same league as Luxury a very cool Pokemon and from the original 150 as well So it's got the bonus points there and finally before we get into today's games We're gonna activate our legend maker now This could be pretty tricky because we've got two Pokemon that we can have selected from the wheel One of them will be selected to go out and the other one will be you know kept safe So I don't really know which one I prefer to keep because both evaltel and zernius have been doing such good work Let's go over to the wheel and see which one we're gonna lose this week. Oh, it's sad. It's sad It's evaltel. Okay. Um, I don't mind it too much I think because zernius gives us the ability to boost up. It's a fairy type as well It was kind of otherwise lacking so Evaltel, we've got the flying type now with dragonite, which gives us that ground immunity So it does help us out a bit. So we've got a select a new Restricted Pokemon. Let's go over to the wheel. Come on. Let's get something fantastic. Let's make up for it Let's see what the wheel throws out Every one of you are gonna be like it's a fix. It's a bit. It's swear down. It's not a fix Okay, we get primal ground on that is incredible. We've got zernius ground on Now if we're ever gonna get over 1500 we have to do it with these changes We've got one more change. We've got one more bonus button We'll activate that tomorrow to see what we get in place of something on our team We're gonna have to do a random switch out and then random switch in with the patreon button as well Remember that so we'll do that tomorrow get all these buttons activated, but going forward. We've got a pretty decent team Let's take a look at what we've got So we're gonna lose the oranguru get the luxe array lose the guard chomp get the dragonite Lucy Veltel get ground on. Here's the new team. It looks pretty decent to be honest I like the look of it. We still got mega binette. At least we haven't lost mega binette That's the one thing and purr ugly as well who've been doing so much work this week So the team is always revamped down in the description below. There's a road paste poker paste Let me know your thoughts on it. Do try it out if you like some fun Sure will be a lot of fun and today's episode is gonna be great fun Remember as well guys this week we are running a giveaway a little thanks to you as a community for supporting the channel We're giving away this lovely iHeart flinch flat p-cap to one of you lucky lucky viewers out there All you need to do is leave a comment and a like on any of the videos this week And you'll be entered into the draw which will be done on Monday next week So make sure if you do enter or leave a comment You tune into Monday's episode to see if you are one of the lucky people to get that hat posted straight out To yourself from myself, so The wheels always so stressful I feel stressed out now I need to just de-stress a minute just de-stress Absorb what we've done. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. I mean growdowns not bad Is it I mean it's probably one of the better Pokemon in the format. Let's select some music We're nearly at the 1500 mark as well. Please let this not backfire. Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent today Let's celebrate with no cross my version two I'm excited to use dragonite though dragonite dragon dance. We've got tailwind there. It's got multi-scale So it is a bit of a beast obviously ground on We get really lucky because we lose one ground type we get the the the primal ground on in of a lapping there So that's really nice Obviously if not we could have still went with an earthquake set maybe on dragonite It would have been difficult to utilize though because we don't really have anything else flying or flirty that we can earthquake next to But see how this first team gets on we've got our first opponent of the day. So let's jump straight into team preview Okay, so first opponent today is running a team of Groudon, Lunala, Empolion, Neganadel, Togacus and the Lucario So it's quite a nice composition here. You've got the restricted combination of Groudon, Lunala You're gonna probably see more of a trick room theme, but there will be an underlying tailwind theme to this team So probably a dual mode. We can't underestimate either one Lunala If anything is probably gonna have trick room here to support the Groudon But again, Neganadel and the Togacus have access to tailwind to support pretty much everything as well as that Lunala You're gonna have the defined ability also on that Empolion Which does make it a bit of a risk for bringing Something like Luxoré that we would want to shut down the Groudon with to the match Now Luxoré can actually do a lot of work here in this match So it is something I'm really kind of looking at to say yeah We can do we can do some good work here with that Pokemon, but it's just getting it in and not activating that Empolion's ability Okay, I think we want Perugly It's fake out Mon, let's go Xerneas Let's go Luxoré Do we want Groudon or do we want Dragonite? Because Dragonite could be pretty decent here. I think Let's go Dragonite. Let's bring it I feel like I've just rushed that team preview. Pokemon about the other team fought too much That's what I don't blame it on that. I can't blame it on that. I don't know Probably needed Groudon here That definitely needed Groudon here, I think we might be alright. We might be alright. I don't know So we can do Lunala Lucario Maybe we do have We have changed the setup on Perugly So we do have access to a dark type attack now If this is mega Lucario, it does put on a lot of pressure on both both Pokemon we got out on the field right now We can fake the Lucario out, of course But we can also get Luxoré onto the field as well And get an Intimidate off which might be Quite good. I don't know if we won't do that just yet though We can go fake out into the Lucario. I mean it might not even mega evolve That's the thing it might not mega evolve and if it does have inner focus where we might be better off Just bringing Luxoré in and just protecting with Xernius and just scouting out what my opponents going to do off and rushing in and Loosing too quickly. I think that could be Something not so good Luxoré we have put the assault vest on it. So It will be able to take special attacks a little bit better than some of the other options that we've got on the team. Lucario is revealing that it is Mega Lucario. The Intimidate probably is helping out quite a bit here. I'm just kind of kicking myself that we didn't go for the fake out. Oh wow, yeah. Meteor Mash and Tailwind. Okay, so there's a speed control. Now, Luxury, do we stay in and just go for a snarl? It might be the best thing to do to break the Shadow Shield on the Lunala. Do we bring in Dragonite? Or do we just attack? Cos then you'll probably take a Meteor Mash from the Lucario. But Dragonite feels like good fodder at the minute to just come in and take a potential Meteor Mash and maybe the double up from the Lunala as well. But the Lunala might, I don't know, do you toggle it down? Double into the Xenius? Probably. Are you kidding? Lucario gets a speed boost. We're going to see the Z-Moon from the Lunala now. We're going to have to cut this obviously because it's copyright. I just feel like Groudon would have been the better call here. Okay, so we'll be right back when this connects. Okay, there's a Z-Move into Luxury. We should take this with our Assault Vestal. It's a strong Z-Move, but man, yeah, it's still doing too much damage. We do get the Snarl off. Not really going to help too much against the Lucario, of course, but we do get that attack onto the Lunala. I think what we can maybe try and do now is shuffle around this Intimidate because we really need to get the Lucario minus one. It is neutral at the minute. I'm going to bring in Pyrogly, and I'm going to try and get the Tailwind off with Dragonite. A multi-scale has a boost now. But I think to get rid of the Dragonite, you probably have to double into it because I think we'll take an attack from Lucario and definitely an attack from Lunala here. So I feel confident unless you double in on the Dragonite, we should get our Tailwind up, which puts us in a way better position going forward. 100%. So let's get Pyrogly onto the field. Meteor Mash coming out. We're going to be Dragonite. We take it just about, and there's the Moonlight Beast, and we get the Tailwind. Man, things looking a little bit better for us right now. Okay, so we can fake out the Lucario. And did we just Dragonclaw the Lunala? Just to get some damage onto it. Yeah, because Xernius can come in and totally wreck the Lucario. We've got Throat Chop to potentially take down that Lunala the next turn once their Tailwind runs out, which is what we kind of want. If we can get the Dragonclaw into Lunala, that'll be ideal. But I don't now. We're not going to be able to. We are going to. That Tailwind does Pitter Pitter Pitter out. So, it's just tough with that Lucario. Now, does the Lucario protect here and the Lunala go for a Tailwind? That would be my best bet. Which makes me think, do we just go for the Lunala with the Z-Move and bring in Luxury once again. I think it might be better doing that. So, let's bring in Luxury. Let's go for the Z-Move last into Lunala to try and get rid of it. I'm going to say the Lucario protects here. Because I think it's too easy a target for us to pick up the knockout. And even if it goes for a Meteor Mash, at least getting the Intimidate onto it now will put it down to minus one again. So we should be in a better place to take it. I feel still like this game is slowly slipping away from us though. I think the Groudon was definitely needed in this match. We probably made a bit of a mistake by not bringing it. But there's nothing we can do now. We can just play to what we've got. We do get Luxury back onto the field though. Getting that Intimidate, which is so valuable. We just need that Lucario to protect. Withdraws, so that's... Yeah, I mean, that's fine. I can cope with that. Groudon's going to be real difficult to deal with though. And I don't... Yeah, it's going to be extremely difficult to deal with. We are going to be able to get rid of the Lunala unless it protects here. But I would imagine it probably tries to go for the Tailwind. Yeah, no, it protects. So this will be more than enough to get the Lunala. So there's one Pokemon down. Yeah, the Groudon's going to be so difficult for us to deal with here. In hindsight as well, we could have actually went for probably the Zgeomancy as well here, which might have been better for us in the long run. Potentially. We did get rid of the Lunala though. I don't really feel like the Luxury has got too much it can do to the Groudon though. Lucario coming back onto the field. Now the Lucario probably protects here. We've got two... Oh, this is our last turn, the Tailwind. Hmm. We could bring in Pyrogly and just protect Zernius, expecting Lucario to protect here. What does it protect? I mean, we didn't target the Lucario last time, so my opponent might get cheeky and think, well, we could just attack it. But then... Yeah, let's do it. Let's attack. Let's Moonblast. Moonblast, this could be the downfall of us, but I think if I'm my opponent and might get cheeky and think, well, we could actually... We should probably, yeah, get the Lucario, so we actually do get it. Okay, so all not lost just yet. Let's see if it's a Precipice Blades or a Fire Punch. Precipice Blades does connect. Zernius bulky enough to take at least another one to two. But it depends what my opponent's last Pokemon is for sure. Let's see, what have they got? It's Naganadel. Now I just don't think we've got enough to beat what's in front of us, unfortunately. Then we can fake out Naganadel and Moonblast it. But I just don't think we've got enough to take down the Groudon at this point, which is the third thing. Yeah, I just think our selection was just not correct. Forcing the Dragonite. It kind of did a job, but just not the job we needed to. So we're getting a little bit punished for that, which is not ideal. But we'll see. Ah, yeah, protecting. That makes things even worse. Yeah. No protect from the Groudon. It's a nice play for my opponent. I mean, even if we get this, I still don't think we'll be able to do very much. We do avoid the Precipice Blades here, but the Naganadel is going to be able to pick up the knockout on two zonis pretty easily this next turn anyway. I think in hindsight, if we went for the ZG Mancy, it probably would have been a better call at the time rather than getting the Lunara. But it's always... It's always hindsight. It's always a beautiful thing, isn't it? Sometimes. Oh, we're going to take a loss, I think. Yes, indeed, sir. Right. What have we got? What can we do? Wonder how much an ice fang I'll do to an Naganadel. We've got to rely on a Precipice Blades miss. On our Luxury, of course, as well. And hopefully, like, I guess we'll probably need a crit on the Naganadel if it's not sashed, which it likely is, I'd imagine. So let's see. Naganadel's Ludge Bomb. Into the Protect. Precipice Blades. Fire Punch. Oh, it's into Luxury. So, yeah, it's going to be more than enough. And that's game over. Game set and match. We'll give my opponent all the glory, though. We'll not forfeit. We'll let them get the Kill of Low, and we'll see what we can do with the Moon Blast into Naganadel. Now, if they're cheeky, they protect Naganadel and go Fire Punch into Xernius. But I don't know if you really need to do that, do you? You probably don't need to do that at this point. Sludge Bomb. Like I say, it will be enough. It should be. Yeah, okay. So, very good game to my opponent. A little bit sad that we switched things up and it hasn't really went away. But, like I say, I think the big problem there was not bringing our own Groudon to this match. If we had our own Groudon, we have a way to hit Lucario. We have a way to hit Groudon. We have a way to hit Naganadel. It's a massive oversight on our side of things, my side of things. So, no one to blame but ourselves. But all we can do is come back from that. We're not going to let it get us down. We've got potentially three matches, maybe four, depending on times and things left. So, let's continue on. I think it's enough to actually get to 1,500 over 1,500. So, we're sitting on a rating of 1449. Let's get some inspiration. Let's go across my version two. I know I always put it on, but it's times like this where we need it. We've got Roy, I, or Roy the First, whichever. Let's get into team preview and see what we can do here. Okay, so we've got a Ryoga team, Kyoga, Ryquaza, Incineroar, Landerous, the Gengar, and the Whimsicott. So, double mega obviously going to be between the Ryquaza and the Gengar. Montlain to probably, well, I think you probably go down a route of mega Gengar and then utilize the Ryquaza just as a regular Pokemon going forward. Do I want to bring? I think Perugly. Luxury is kind of appealing here to be honest because just with its Assault Vest, it's Intimidate as well. It can really disrupt a lot of what my opponent's trying to do. I think we definitely need our Groudon, for sure. We could go by Net as well. And then Xernius for sure in the back. I feel a little bit vulnerable though with Xernius without this... without the pile herb. Maybe we need to put that back on but I feel like we can't change it right in the middle of an episode. Although it would be good. Although we've got to stick with our Z-Move, I think. Stick with the Z-Move. Let's see how we can get on. Just not got a tilt. Not got a tilt. Whimsicott Kyoga coming out from my opponent. Which is fine. You're going to see a Tailwind for sure from the Whimsicott. I think that's what I would expect from the Winnie. I probably want to try and prevent that Tailwind if I can and attack into the Kyoga. Yeah. I think that's the best idea potentially going forward. I don't know if he's Snarl. Are we going to get more out of a Snarl or more out of a Wild Charge? Probably more out of a Wild Charge. It would put the Kyoga in range for a gig of impact the next turn. But it could also just go for a Protect here. If it protects, yeah. It does protect this turn. We've got to watch out for an Encore as well. This next turn from the the Whimsicott. But we do have a pretty seamless switch into Groudon. Which we can do. I think we probably want to do now. And do we go Wild Charge? It depends on the build of the Kyoga as well. If the Kyoga is not super bulky, then then a Wild Charge will potentially take it down. We'll get Groudon in. This is risky because if the Whimsicott switches out for the Requaza, I don't think it is because it will outspeed probably or should outspeed probably. So it would have switched out first. I mean getting the Kyoga now would be pretty big for us. Okay. The Kyoga is going to switch out. Going to see. That's a really nice switch from my opponent. In all honesty. That's a really nice switch. Yeah. And there's a tailwind. This mixing is pretty awkward for us. Definitely pretty awkward. Right. Let's protect Groudon. We have to really bring in pretty ugly. For Luxury, we can't keep either of these Pokemon out on the field. Especially in front of the Landerous. Threatening these ground type attacks. If we can cycle intimidate. This is, this is difficult now I think. This is where a Dragonite would have been good for the tailwind. But again. Let's see what my opponent goes for. Is he on call, fails and then hits quick. Okay. So you're going to hit your own Whimsicott. It does reveal that it has got on the corner as well. Probably taking some big damage there. Groudon at least not taking any damage. The thing we could potentially do here is go for an eruption. Fake out into the Landerous. It's risky though because we could potentially see the Kyogre coming and then we would be in a lot of trouble. And even if we get the fake out eruption onto the Landerous. We're giving the Kyogre a free switch in the next turn which still puts us in a little bit of a tricky position. But again. Not the worst I don't think. I'm going to go for for it. I'm going to go for it. I'm going to go for the fake out into the Landerous and eruption. Try and pull it off. I don't know. We do actually get it. What? This is crazy. On call. Oh we don't get it because of the on call. Okay. Now we are in trouble. Okay. Let's protect Groudon because that's all we can do. We'll definitely get a protect off here. And then we bring in Luxoray. We'll get an Intimidate off. Which will be useful. And we might have been better off just sacking per ugly there. At the same time we'll kind of wait in a way the tailwind turns. How I missy Veltel. In times like this. Is it another earthquake? Luxoray should take this. We take a Primal Groudon earthquake so we'll take it a Landerous earthquake. Okay. What's this? The Whimsicott's got a berry. Man. What is this? What is this? Tailwind pit us out. Okay. Groudon can't really do anything. I think if we switch in Xerneas and switch in per ugly. Yeah. We've got to do it. We'll probably lose per ugly on the switching. We need to reset this. It's on cold all. And try and preserve our Intimidate. I guess it's like our only way to neuter this Landerous as well. We've probably seen other tailwind earthquake here. At least Xerneas has kind of taken that pretty well. It's taken it amazingly well. I guess Luxor is the one that we have to bring in, get another Intimidate onto this Landerous. And it will allow us to be in a decent position to start throwing out damage onto their side of the field at least. I don't know if we want a ZG here. We could just Dazzling Gleam and then bring in Groudon. It'd be nice if we saw the Landerous switch but we're not obviously going to see that now. They would have even switched out. You've got to think that the Rayquaza and the Kyogre are in the back so it makes it even more difficult. Going for a taunt and that too much Landerous going for another earthquake. This combined with the Dazzling Gleam will get that Whimsicott. Groudon taking that. It's not so bad. I guess the problem is now that we can't protect with Zernius. Which makes things even more difficult because if we could protect then we can switch Groudon out. Sack Lux Array. But we can't really do that. We have to have Groudon as our last Pokemon which we can't. This is really frustrating. I mean we could go for the ZG so you get at least a plus one across the board. But this is after taking a waterspout I just don't think we can do that. Just try it. I try to protect. The best thing we can do is switch in Lux Array. Get the Landerous down too. Minus three will sack probably both Pokemon here though unfortunately. We're still going to expend another turn in the neck. The following turn we're going for the Geomancy that we can't go for because we're taunted. We have a little bit of a lifeline that Origin plus missing. That's pretty big for us. Might have been better going for. I don't know. I don't really know. The Request is definitely in the back. It comes in at extreme speed range like Zernius is going to be in. Regardless here. And I think the problem with the next turn is that we have to expend a turn so that Rare gets a free switch in for the Landerous. The Kyogre probably just Origin pluses again. Unless you haven't bought the Rare which is crazy. But there's no way my opponent hasn't bought the Rare I don't think. It'd be great if it just turned into like a one turn boost so we could just Moonblast here. The Precious Blades are the re-eruption. Probably Precious Blades into the Kyogre just to try and get damage off onto it. Yeah. Here comes the Ray. We're fully in extreme speed territory from the Zernius. Origin Pulse. Yeah. And that's it. That's an unfortunate end to the episode. So 5 wins 3 losses. That 1500 mark is seemingly slipping away from us which is really unfortunate. Okay. Let's not got too downbeat about it. We've got one more bonus button that we can activate. Hopefully that will be the one that flips everything around and we can make things better tomorrow with that switch. So we're going to end it there guys. Thank you so much for tuning in. Remember to get your comments in, likes in to get into the draw for this hat. I'm going to go away. Consol myself after today's two losses after the start of the week we had which was incredible. The bonus buttons backfired completely but we're not going to let it get us down. We're going to finish positive tomorrow. We're going to come back, finish the week up in style. So do tune in for tomorrow's episode. Have a great rest of your day, whatever you're up to and I'll see you all for the next one guys. Until then take care and bye bye.