 Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series. I hope you're all well having a great day. We're here to Friday We're ending the week up with this Zygods Overlayer team that we started playing this week And it's been so much fun if you've missed any of the games from this week You can go back up here and check them out I'll put a card in for you people to check out the game so far and our progress with the team so far and like I Said at the start of the week and I've been mentioning as we've been going on What I want to do with this team is although it's very standard build I put it together put the EV spreads together myself What I want to do is mimic what we did with that Q&Y team and come across and really delve into some of the weaknesses The team has and things that it does struggle against and then tweak and put our own twist on things as we end up next Friday On the episode with a really kind of nice finished polish team We can take ready into tournaments and have a lot of success with so this combination Is really strong. We haven't seen as much from the zygod as I would have liked to have seen But we've got another week to go and we still got two episodes two games today in this episode to give it a good run out with so Never say never just yet, but let's hop into it guys. I hope you're having a great day and Looking forward to this one. It's got the music on already Ready to go and if you do enjoy this content make sure you do drop a like on the channel on the video Make sure you do subscribe to the channel as well. So you don't miss these daily episodes are French squad circuit our guide series and everything else in between that is all good VGC content and everything to do with Pokemon So yes, we're gonna see our first opponent today and we'll hop straight into team pre So they are running a team of Zerniusy Velto in Cynarol Lander as Tepithinni and Amungan So we've got that very common XY core here from my opponent Some things to watch out for and particularly those two dark types and the ground type that are going to really threaten our Sogola, so we need to protect that at all costs Because it is the one good thing that we've got against that Zernius on the opposite side of the field the XY team Kind of feels very difficult for this team So it's gonna be a good test for us going into this first game today We definitely need to utilize Intimidate support and fake out support Cynarol is gonna be very very useful for us in this match in particular. I think We definitely need Tepithinni like I think my opponent probably brings Tepithinni of their own But just for that extra security and kind of board positioning support that it can give through icy wind and other things like that We do need it. I'm gonna bring Sogola and Zygarde as well, and we'll lock straight Already locked in so we'll get straight into this one and see how we get on today Hopefully it's it's not too hard. I do feel like this is one of the matchups that is very difficult for this team though And this is one of the matchups I feel I'm really pleased we've bumped into it because this is the one thing that I think Maybe we need to patch this match up and this is where the Venus or Sog could go out Something else could come in to really give us a hand here Against this these combination of Pokemon. We're gonna see the Veltel and the lander has come out for my opponent For this turn one And we will be able to See the intimate from the lander is get the intimate back onto it with our Incinero I think one of the things I'd like to probably do here is just switch Incinero straight out For Zygarde. I can see the lander is protecting here and just icy wind and get some damage onto the C-Veltel I mean the other option is gone for a nature's madness and T-Veltel, but we can always do that the next turn if we So please The Veltel here probably goes for a knockoff if anything into our type of finial and imagine or a snarl, but I doubt It snarls coming out. So we'll just go for that Zygarde switch And go for the icy wind because the lander doesn't protect here We can punish it by going for that icy wind and getting the speed drop But it does just switch out. We're gonna see the Incinero come straight out for my opponent Try and cycle and intimate it at least on to our side of the field But because our Incinero is slower than the lander is we'll go out before it can get that intimate it on to our Zygarde So it's Zygarde in And with an icy wind even though we've got the fake out pressure from the Posen Incinero the next turn We've still got access to Swagger if you want. There's a snarl. It's not gonna really affect us too much On our end and type of finny really doesn't care about it because you're not using icy wind for damage you're using it for kind of speed control and Support so we will be able to get this icy wind on to Valtor for sure The double intimidates gonna be nasty for us to deal with of course, and I think this next turn I'm just gonna coil and go for a swagger as well Um, oh, I could I could go icy wind again But I'm not I'm gonna go swagger because the double intimidate is gonna be something that my opponent's gonna continue Do I would imagine we might not even see a fake out here from this Incinero where it just you turn pivots out The liner has come in and we get the Valtor back in on that side of the field So getting a swagger now would put us like and a coil would put us to plus two So kind of keeps us ahead of the game a little bit here We need to be careful Of course this Zernis does decide to come out because the lander is kind of checks the soil The little and also the Valtor does as well to a certain extent But you can quite happily rely on the fact that I Valtor with the snarl is gonna be Should I see winded Unless this Incinero does go for a fake out into our finny here, which would make sense Yeah, yeah to cover the icy wind there. Okay, so we'll get the coil off of what's I got Which is nice. So at least back to neutral now um, I think what we'll do is we'll go for a thousand arrows and We'll bring in Incinero It's a tough matchup this one because it's like taking down Three Pokemon and having us over a little left to deal with the Zernis That's basically the situation broken down to its base core That we need to do and it's not so easy When we are seeing things like this come out This isn't incinero It's unlikely that we survived this at minus one could be into the zygote though to try and nuke it But I very much doubt I think you're gonna try and take the support network away from the zygote here Yeah Which is the type of finny unfortunate for incinero Very unfortunate indeed There's no way we survived that The minus one we need the minus two really it's hard to get that isn't it? But I mean that gives finny a better time doesn't it? We do some nice damage to both targets We're gonna see probably you turn now from this. Yeah, Incinero keeps that intimidating going for future turns But we will be able to get to happy finny back onto the field now depending on what my opponent brings in and we could even bring in We could bring in so good little Yeah, I think we're gonna bring in so good little now. Yeah Let's do that. Let's bring in so good little Because we've got wide guard that we can go for We want to if we think the lander is just gonna stay in But there's only us definitely protects here. I think So we could just go for a thousand hours in a wide guard With the Z move gone on the lander's as well we can kind of pin it in These situations because yeah, I would imagine is only doesn't want to entertain being in front of So go later here. So it's either gonna retreat or protect If it switches out, it's probably likely to be eval tall and then earthquake come out Yeah, but it means we get that free thousand arrows with Zygarde so kind of baiting our opponent into doing this and then it makes them think twice so they'll bring in the incineroar Probably the next turn. Let's see earthquake Then we've got the switch into finny the next turn We get some nice damage onto everything as well This is the thing we're just chipping stuff down at the minute and putting it in range to get some damage onto it We'll just keep going for this thousand arrows and we'll bring tapu finny back onto the field Incineroar coming in. Yep, that makes a lot of sense. And if we take the incineroar down now It does mean that the lander's probably gets a free switch in again We could have probably went for the Z move into eval tall here Really that might have been the better thing to do as well file play coming out. Hmm. Maybe not It's a big thing. You're not gonna do too much though Thousand hours comes out again from Zygarde It takes down incineroar. It does open the door again for that Zornius to come back in now though. That's the problem. He's sitting like health-wise with Zygarde I think we'd probably take a moonblast from this range And it probably Geomancy's here to be honest as well So we could niche his madness Thousand hours this Zornius It's gone for an oblivion wing. It's gonna be into the finny, I think Geomancy coming out. We can still win this one. It's gonna be very tough though Especially once it gets boosted up, but we're not out of the run We'll get this nature's madness into the Zornius. So I'll take down a 50% health just depend on how much this thousand hours does I think from minus one at this point. It's pitiful pitiful damage Okay, so I think we protect again. We'll try and get another nature's madness off into this Zornius That might put it in range for an extreme speed It may do Just moonblasting there. Okay, I mean that makes a lot of sense to do that But it depends on the speed of this Evelto because I do think That's all go later probably out speeds this Evelto I want to say it does and the phytinium Z will be enough to take it down And I'm gonna extreme speed the Zornius and I'm gonna go for it because I think it all are prominent should be enough to take This Evelto down We're getting extreme speed into zone don't do anything cause moonblast It's into so Galeo now. It's into the Zygarde. It's faster than us. Okay. Okay. That that seals the deal My good old friend But we will take down the Evelto at this in time. Hmm Yeah, I think like we went into this match thinking that it was gonna be difficult and it definitely was So this is definitely one that we're gonna be writing down saying yeah, okay We need to do we need to have something in the team to help us a little bit better against this call Cuz I do feel like this one is the one that just completely ruins us Just it's there's so many things in the team that just support and make it awkward to have Anything threatening against the Zornius out without it being checked from its partner And So Landers gonna come in they're both at speed so Galeo and we'll go down to even a moonblaster a dozen gleam here So we're just gonna be the graceful ones and Protect I mean we could why guard in case the landers they go doesn't leave There's no need for them to do that though so We'll just we'll just gracefully forfeit here and say very good game to my opponent and we'll mark this down It's one of the teams that we have had a little bit of a problem with so we need to take in if you've got ideas For what you think we should do do comment down below and let me know what your thoughts are to patch this matchup I've got a few ideas myself So we'll be putting them into into Martian over the weekend and any suggestions that you do make I would love to try out so and we will come back on Monday And we would be changing things up like I said, we've been wanting to do that all week going into next week anyway, but This just gives us a little bit more to work on I guess as we go on to our next game Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find opponent as it always is as always guys if it does we'll come back and We will just cut to where we've got opponents. So we've got Kevin though from Canada Kevin from Canada He's playing the team of Lunala Serena Xenius Incinero, Smeagol and Stack Attacker It's Kevin also known as Idu maybe It is the Idu team he won the Oceania International Championships with or a very similar build to that So we've got that restricted combination of Xenius and Lunala We've got the support and options all around it with one other big Big powerhouse then the Stack Attacker with the trick room mode for the team got Smeagol support with Faker follow me Lovely case everything you can think of it's gonna do wide guard all sorts You got the Incinero there the Intimidate support Faker support Pivot support and then the Serena that prevents any sort of Faker support from our end of priority attacks again gonna be a bit of a difficult one We need to manage the Lunala very well. I'm gonna lead off with Incinero on this one And Tabu... Feeny Yeah Tabu Feeny I'm gonna bring Suggal out and I'm gonna bring Zygarde as well. We're just gonna lock straight in Because I feel like between them they should do a decent enough job against this team It's just managing the field. We need the Misty terrain to help us against potential Sleeps from the Smeagol. We can't discount that it might possibly has lovely kiss. It might not as well But we're just gonna have to just be very careful around what we're doing and make sure we don't see Serena lead That it could be something that my opponent switches in turn one to get around us faking out say Azernius But we're not gonna see that we're just gonna see Incinero and Lunala come out for my opponent here And the Misty terrain set by our Tabu Feeny as we see the Intimidate now from our end So we're indicating them a little bit faster maybe or if it's a speed tie. It's likely a speed tie I would imagine And it's the favorite is returned from the opposing Incinero with its Intimidate So I think turn one what we'll do we'll just knock off Yeah, we will knock off the Lunala and we will I see wind as well But we'll see a fake out probably from the opposing Incinero Maybe not though because Slaughtr Incinero is known that they're probably not gonna be able to utilize their fake out as well Tend to pivot out so we might get away with just getting this double up into the Lunala unless it reveals protect here And Lunala gonna switch out. So we're gonna get knock off onto something. It is gonna be that Serena Which is quite handy going into the next turn and I wonder if we do see the U-turn from the opposing Incinero So we'll get some nice damage on to the Serena lower at speed a little bit more Yeah, and now we kind of know what my opponent's brought is there for Pokemon I'd be surprised if it wasn't the Zernius knock off that Agua very and there's the U-turn from the opposing Incinero into ours Zernius now hitting the field from my opponent. Okay. I Mean it's not not the worst at all. We're gonna see the Serena definitely U-turn here And We could potentially just oh, I mean, yeah, what we'll do is U-turn and we'll nature's madness Zernius We'll try and get so Galeo on to the field We're just gonna see a hard switch. It's gonna be back into Incinero That's better than seeing the Lunala come out onto the field now. Definitely We'll probably see protect if anything. Oh, no, just a dozen game and no J-Mancy, which is even better for us Because we're always expecting the J-Mancy. So no J-Mancy. It's good Might see it next turn, but we are bringing the so below in Which will do now and then I want to switch out tap a finny because I want to save this terrain for later in the game Because if we are gonna utilize the zygote later on we need that special defensive boost Do we attack the Zernius or not? I feel like the Zernius probably switches out, but at the same time if we don't attack it in a J-Mancy's we can get punished for that So that's the the question there. Do we want to leave it alone and expect that we The thing is as well, we probably get faked out from the Incinero anyway, so it's gonna get the J-Mancy up regardless of what we do But we've got to try and manage things a little bit because we don't want to let it J-Mancy And then the next thing when we get Incinero in We can fake out The Zernius and go for the all-out pummeling into the Incinero taking that down And then that would be trouble because that leaves the Lunala to come in next to that Zernius And that's what we want to avoid the Lunala next to that Zernius J-Mancy That is what we don't want to see. Oh We're not gonna see yeah, it's just gonna switch straight out. Serena gonna come back in. Okay Do you see the Zernius that just protects you? Okay, that makes a lot of sense We might get lucky there. But no such chance We'll go for the Sunster Strike and I'm just gonna go for the Flair Blitz into Serena here I think we probably outspeed this Serena if it's a similar one to Edo's I knew he'd run a quite slow one So we should be able to pick up the knockout if we don't see the Incinero coming on that Zernius slot of course We'll have to see Yeah We've been risky again though, wouldn't it? We need to be sure when we're pulling the trigger on these sort of things But we will get some damage onto this Incinero and definitely put it in range for a super power to take it down Which is always good So I'm gonna have so much fun. It's such a good Pokemon. Yes, definitely in super power range now There's a Flair Blitz. Is this enough to take down the Serena? We do open the door now for the Lunala to come back in now. Oh, we just missed the knockout We're gonna see this Serena. High jump kick Oh No, we lose our way to deal with Deal with Lunala Okay, things just got a little bit more tricky for us We can bring his eye guard in We can pick up two knockouts here if we'd like to like we totally can we've got to worry about potential And I'm gonna go for the Z moving to Incinero and I'm gonna go for I'm just gonna go for a thousand arrows as well Sonora faking out. Oh It's so good. Oh, okay What's this Serena gonna do? Just you turn on imagine. I'm surprised it has high jump kick It's not something you see so commonly now, but it is very effective when you see it played So all you need to do is get that incident want to range and just do it and then Really does remove it from the field quite effectively It's still a bulky Pokemon like it's bulk always surprises me You'll be able to get this incident or down smash it into the side of the mountain there take it down get rid of that Does open the door for the Lunala to come in though. You see you turn Lunala and zoning us out on the field. That's one thing. We didn't want to see too much of Does the Serena come back out? The Zernius does Actually, I don't mind this too much because we just Sunsteal strike and thousand arrows It might have been an idea to bring Tapu Fini in for so Galeo But I feel like the Zernius attacks here, I think we do take a Moogai's beam from the Lunala as well Sci-Shock, okay doubling into the Zygarde Maybe expecting the solar layer to protect you and blast this will take it down But I mean now Still not so easy. It really isn't because we'll take down the Zernius. Yes The tapu Fini coming in this next turn isn't too bad because we can take tapu fit like we'll be able to icy wind Tapu Fini and then what we can do from there is hopefully just double up into the Lunala slot Because Serena such low health at the moment that will be able to be able to pick up the knockout onto that and then potentially survive An attack from the Lunala Let's go. Yeah, we have to go Sunsteal strike into it and then just icy wind And hopefully it doesn't miss a Serena here it does go for a faint It's going into the so Galeo expecting us to protect here Hopefully we are able to survive this Moogai's beam from the art is the Z move of course it is So this is gonna take down so Galeo 100% and even if we protect it there You can get around it because of that That and it is into the so Galeo It is gonna be more than enough to take us down Unfortunately, and I think that is probably getting there because we're not gonna be able to take down the Lunala one-on-one with that tapu Fini Which is a little bit unfortunate and I think like these teams as well like Lunala as well as that Like the Zernius builds with the Lunala or the Zernius build with the bell So our two cores that really do cause us a lot of problems So I think it's looking for a little switch ups within the team that can really help us against these sort of things We can totally nature's madness here I mean icy wind again just to get try and get some speed advantage But we're gonna take a lot of damage from either side shock or anything else in between And sorry about the noise in the background friends There's rustling Yes, I shock is gonna take us down next to it So it doesn't really matter what we do and the one thing we could have looked at maybe would be a swagger there With the missy terrain disappearing, but because it's still up on the field. We've got really no hope to deal with this so we're gonna have to just Do this and then say good game to my opponent. We are the size shot coming in So I think like we've had a really good run this week. That's the thing we've had like Really good. I mean we've done pretty much every game up to today So today we've lost both games, which is a bit unfortunate But against two really harder cores I feel and they're the things that we want to be coming up against like I'm not Disappointed by them. I think this is good This is good information for us because this is what we need to have to improve the team going forward Because if we didn't have this like we can go on to next week without these two games We've got to be thankful that we've played these and think all the teams doing really well when it's actually not And there is different cores and there'll be other cores out there that we do struggle against as well But I do feel like these two cores that we've played today are the two primary ones that we need to really look at and adjust And make the team a bit more stable against so these other things will do coming into next week guys Again as always and I'm always thankful for the comments So thank you and please keep them coming But if you've got any suggestions for how to approach and maybe change these builds and you want to just air them to Myself let me know and I will definitely consider them going into next week, but we're gonna end it up there guys So I'm gonna say goodbye. Have a great weekend. Thank you so much for tuning in I hope you've enjoyed today's episode have a lot of fun Whatever you're up to over the weekend and I'll see you next week starting again with this team So until then guys take care of yourselves and bye bye