 Welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series I hope you're all well had a great weekend and before we get started I just need to give each and every one of you a huge Thank you big shout out for all the suggestions that we got last week all the comments as well You're all incredible and make doing this sort of content so worthwhile honestly It's amazing as I say, I hope you had a great weekend what you up to we are gonna be back today We said on Friday that we ended up with a couple of losses So the big problems for the core team was the X and Y, the Lunala, Zernius combination So we've had some really good suggestions. We had Tyranitar from Mario We had Greninja from stew. We had Nyligo. We had one that I'm gonna use today From Arryn and that was Raikou. So here is the team that we've got Raikou Now on face value, we do have a little bit of a worse matchup against Groudon, Volcarona, things like that But we've got Tex in there to get around them. So just to recap the team for you The team is in the description below. So if you'd like to go up cruise over that try it out If you try it, do let me know how you get on with it and how you find it It is a really fun team to play So we've got the Zygarde there. We've got coil on it We've got the Thousand Arrows. We've got the extreme speed kind of standard We put the Sogellium Z on Sugileo So we've got that Steel Z type attack that we can utilize if we want to Obviously new Cazernius and any time we would like Which is really useful. Kept the super power, kept the wide guard, kept the protect Got the Phineas, exactly the same incineral. We've put Snarl on there over knockoff to kind of alleviate Those special attackers a little bit more We've got Raikou obviously the new member of the team over the Venusaur Now this Raikou build is very interesting So it can take a full power walk from Kyogre and Arryn It can also Snarl a Lunala Chip it, break the Shadow Shield and allow Sugileo to take the Z move The menacing moon raise, Melstrom, however you pronounce it And then return back with its own Z move to pick up the knockout there Which is quite nice. It's a combination and we're not really going to rely on too much But we know it's there if we can make use of it Snarl's really good for Cernius. We take a plus one Moonblast from Cernius with this Raikou, Proxerberry We've also got Reflect on there as well Just to bolster those defensive stats of the team It means that we are able to take a Groudon, Precious Blades Straight up without an Intimidate Support from the Incineron and Toxicrog Did so well last week. I feel like we don't want to keep it in Now before I lock into this team there is another team that I would like to show you It's got a little bit of a variation of the Raikou And that is the Taranaton. Now this team is really interesting We will feature this at some point this week But it's got Scarf Tito there and it can do I think quite a lot of work Now if you guys would like to see the Tito in action Let me know and I will make sure to feature it if not If you'd like to continue with this one that's fine So without further ado let's get into today's episode I'd better get some music on To the music so hopefully the levels are fine Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent of the day We'll get some music on Lead title defense why not we always kick into this one on a Monday But hopefully as well we've obviously got the green screen working now As you guys have said would be better without any overlay at all So that it doesn't cut into text and things like that I've tweaked as well the actual capture card So hopefully the graphics capture card wires are coming through A lot cleaner a lot clearer for you guys Hopefully the audio is well and we're fine tuning everything So hopefully everything is coming across really good for you guys And the green screen makes it a bit more aesthetically pleasing Do let me know though your comments are always appreciated It's taken a little bit longer than I'd like to to find an opponent So if it does take a little while we have to search again I'll come straight back to when we find an opponent And we have our first opponent of the day is Teo from Italy playing a team of It's going to be Incinero Groudon Typically Zernius, Charizard, Raichu and Venusaur So we're going up against today So straight away in with Groudon We didn't play one single Groudon last week Going up against that Groudon Zernius core here It's going to be really difficult We need to make sure that we are managing the Groudon very well So Sogaleo has a better time dealing with this Zernius We have to be also very careful around the Charizard That can outspeed our Sogaleo and do a lot of damage So I think for starters we definitely want Incinero I do probably want to bring Raichu Although the Raichu is a terrible terrible Pokemon for us to see It doesn't stop us setting up the Reflect and utilising Snarls though Definitely want to have a Finny for some terrain support Against that Venusaur in particular And maybe Zygarde So maybe we don't bring Raichu to this one really The Reflect would be very useful I think we might go Sogaleo, Finny and Zygarde Up front It's kind of difficult And this kind of answers a question for us a little bit Because if we're not bringing Raichu to this game Although there is the Raichu There is a lot of things in there that don't make it accessible For the Raichu to really perform very well And it's not really meant for the Groudon matchup If the team can co-op with this sort of matchup Reasonably well It means that we can alleviate that slot that we've got for the Raichu For those other matchups And then when we bump into the Iveltals The Lunala calls Then we can test it there and see if it works You know how we want it to So we've got our Leeds out We go Incineroar We go Sogaleo We don't get affected by the Intimidate From the opposing side of the field And we do see that we are this slot in Incineroar Though we do get the Intimidate Onto both the Incineroar and the Groudon And we could just pick There's a part of me that wants to switch in Tap of Finny here Start getting some Icy Wind Control We could wide guard with Sogaleo But it is a little bit risky And I think I'm just going to protect Because if they fake out our Incineroar Then we're in a lot of trouble Well Groudon I'm going to switch out We're just going to see it switch straight out Raichu coming onto the field And you've also got to consider as well The opposing Incineroar could just flablet into our Sogaleo So that's something we need to keep in mind as well But we will get the terrain up This prevents the Raichu from going crazy with those Nuzzles And we'll just protect with Sogaleo going into this first turn And likely we may see a U-turn from No, it's just that flablet So it was the right call that we make Going into that one Now I could switch out Tap of Finny into Zygod Here in just superpower the Incineroar But I'm not feeling massively confident About really leaving it in when the sun's up And I could get Zygod in For Sogaleo right now And we could potentially swagger it That might not be a bad option You could swagger Yeah And bring in Zygod And get Zygod powered up now Keep the Sogaleo for later When that Zorneus probably hits the field And start making use of it as soon as we can So here we go We'll get in Get this Misty Seed Proc'd Which is always, always what we want to do There's the fake out It's going to be into Sogaleo Which is perfect Means we do get this swagger off And hopefully we see a flablet and not a U-turn Because the U-turn would cause us a few problems And there's a flablet which is ideal It's going to be into the Zygod But Zygod in a lovely position now Like really nice position Because the Incineroar's threatened The Ryche's threatened We can icy wind So it means that we're staying in control of this match Going into the next turn In just 1000 hours here There's no threat of wide guard or anything like that Coming out So we're just going to see the Incineroar switch out Going to see that Groudon come back in We all plus two The Incineroar wants to go out Because it can potentially come back in And intimidate the Spamus Going to see a wild charge there From the Ryche But it will go down this turn We will get an icy wind onto this Groudon Which is super important And then this plus 2000 hours Which is going to be really nice We'll get rid of the Ryche It'll do a nice chunk of damage To that Groudon in the process And it does open the door for the Incineroar To come back in for my opponent Or potentially Potentially Dazzornious Which we've got to be a little bit careful about still Because we aren't our complete form yet We have taken a little bit of chip damage But we still should be taking attacks from Yeah, it's just going to be the Incineroar here Coming back in It's going to have that fake out pressure Going into this next turn But I think as well what we can do Is just switch Finney out At this point Incineroar Is expendable I would say Although it's very valuable to us That intimidates going to be more than Useful for us in this situation Just to reduce the attack damage of the Groudon And that Incineroar And because I got it still In a really nice position on plus one And just in case we see a U turn From the opposing Incineroar This next turn And bring in Dazzornious Then kind of alleviates that So we've got the fake out support Going into the next turn as well So let's see Protect from Zygarde We'll just play it really safe here Don't need to take any risks There's the U turn It isn't to the Zygarde though So we catch my opponent out On that side of the field there So we do see just a Precious Blades Being pinged out from this Groudon And my opponent trying to get that That Dazzornious onto the field Now I do not really worry About the Groudon too much So I'm going to fake out the Incineroar Stop the U turn And just go for this thousand arrows once again If we take a Precious Blades It's maybe proxies into our Yeah we're not going to see that We're just going to see Groudon protect now There's the fake out into the opposing Incineroar We're going to stop that moving Plus one thousand arrows should get this Incineroar And I really wouldn't complain If we didn't either Kind of postponing that Yeah that that I mean that is perfect for us Perspawning the Dazzornious coming onto the field Is a lot more useful for us In this position Because now we can thousand arrows Get this Groudon down to a really low position And then if we lose Incineroar We get Sogaleo onto the field We can then extreme speed that Groudon The following turn To get the chip that we need onto it I'm going to U turn out onto the Incineroar Just in case we see a hard switch And then Sogaleo can come on And just clean up the Dazzornious As we're going to see here So Dazzornious actually going to hit the field now And I mean I really don't mind this either Because at the same time Dazzornious coming in Taking this plus one thousand arrows And a random name We might be able to do it today We're going to see a berry proc on the Groudon Which yeah we don't really want to be seeing But at the same time We are going to get a U turn off With Incineroar What's this Groudon doing? I mean we have Pretty sure we icy winded it Didn't we earlier Do we get Finney in now? I think we could possibly We could get Sogaleo in I just don't want to take a precipice blade So that's why we're going to get Finney in Sogaleo we need to keep We need to keep It's like main prerogative right now for us See Oh it's going sword stance Trixie, Trixie Groudon What is this Groudon sitting on? Yeah minus one speed We got the icy wind I'm forgetting again that we've icy winded It's like they're caught on our episode last week All over again And if you did miss any of the episodes from last week I'll pop a card up right above here And you can go back and check last week's games out There was a lot of good games we had last week So we've got the Xerneas We've got the Groudon coming out It is going to be plus one We'll get Incineroar back in now And we will just thousand arrows once again If this Xerneas decides to go for I hope it doesn't go for a moonblast here We should take it And we will outspeed the Groudon So we will be able to pick up the chaos onto this Xerneas If we can take the moonblast Which I'm hoping Ooh Oh it's into the Incineroar slot Ha That surprised me Expecting the protect onto the Xerneas We're going to be able to clean up the Xerneas Oh it's so close Come on you're breaking our hearts here But Zygoth dodges Because it is a ninja of course And we'll be able to get the Tapu Fini back onto the field We can extreme speed And we can swagger once again If we would like to Or we can just I mean Do we swagger again? We probably want to swagger again The Zygoth And extreme speed The Xerneas I don't worry about the Groudon too much right now I feel like it's so pressured right now It's not got room to go for a sword stance It could do this turn 100% Okay the Groudon going to protect And we'll get that extreme speed So A random name We've done it We beat the Xerneas We're back this week We're going to get this swagger off Put us back onto plus two Which will put us to plus one When that Incineroar comes back onto the field now And we've got more than enough to deal with With what's in front of us Just get around this fake out pressure We'll probably see A sword stance From the Groudon I would imagine But I'm going to just icy wind With Finny I'll do a heal pulse I kind of don't really want to Because I want us to get the Megazord form In this match It's like the Zygoth show all over But hopefully in the next one We can bring that Raikou Because the Raikou I feel Does a really nice job But like I said at the start of this episode I think the one thing that really we Kind of looking for Is if we could handle this sort of call Well enough with without even considering that slot Which I feel like we can do Now we got away with a few turns here and there Of course but that's going to happen in any match So we could have protected on those turns as well Which opened the door So I think the core in general Did I not select a move there? Oh come on I did select I don't know My time went down But okay Our opponent disconnects Which is really sad But we got the Zernius And we were definitely going to win that match So regardless of the disconnect Good game to my opponent And we'll move on to our next one And hopefully it's just as good As that first one to kick us off today But like I said at the start of the episode guys We've got the Tyranitar variant as well So we can try that And there's a huge part of me I was speaking to one of our good patrons Of the channel Pokermarty earlier And I was telling them There's such a big part of me that wants to I want to keep this quite serious So we can have a really good team at the end of the week But there's a part of me that's like I just want to do fun things In Drapion Was as one Pokémon I really want to build into this core But I'm like I can't do it I can't do it But I really do I feel like Drapion could do some work It makes that ground on matchup way worse But it could do It could do some It could do some stuff It could definitely do some stuff Anyway We've got our next opponent So let's hop into team preview Before we run out of time Because we've got Kyogre, Ditto Ludicolor Driftblim Eveltole And Tapufeet Tapulele Tapulele Not Tapufinny This is a really good one here We've got the 4riku We've got the Kyogre The Eveltole core here It's a really nice combination And we sort of have a lot of success In the Sun series Not so much in the Moon series But it's still got a lot of potential You've got the Ludicolor there With the fake ad support It's got that swift swim ability That pairs Sun nicely with the Kyogre Got to be a little bit careful of that Ditto It's probably an imposter Ditto It's there for a zernius check And imagine with maybe a red card Attached to it Kind of makes sense in this sort of core You've got the Tapulele And that Driftblim as well combination You're going to have the psychic terrain And then the unburdened Double in the speed of that Driftblim So I think we're going to lead Riku in this match I will bring Do I bring Sogeleon? Probably not up front I definitely want Zygarde I don't think I want I definitely want Toxicroak and Tapufinny They're the ones we're going with Running out of time But at least we bring the Zygarde We've not brought the Sogeleo So it's a little sad We haven't seen much of it today But there's plenty of episodes left In this week For us to utilize Sogeleo It's such a big Pokemon It performed so well last week So if Zygarde takes over this week Then I don't mind too much Because the one thing that we've got Going for us is that Zygarde Can steal the show this week Sogeleo's had its time But maybe with the Tapulele Included in the team here Sogeleo wouldn't have been a bad choice And the Veltel really covers the Tapulele Quite nicely from that specific threat Okay so we can go for a Thunderbolt here I think we'll probably just go for a Snarl I should have been paying more attention to When the pressure and when the psychic terrain went up Because this Lele could be Scarfed I'm going to go for the Snarl And I think I'm going to switch Zygarde Out into Tapufinny Get rid of this psychic terrain Because we just don't want this Being something that we have to Okay we're going to see Ditto hit the field now What's little old Ditto going to do It's going to turn into Zygarde But you don't mind too much Hopefully Although the Raikou It's a nice play from my opponent Expecting maybe a T-Ball into that slot But we ain't going for that Because we're going to get this misty terrain up And there's a Moonblast It's going to be into Zygarde Into that Tapufinny here And we take it pretty comfortably We'll get the Snarl off Which is really nice We can start We can start doing some damages next turn If we'd like to We could set up a Reflect as well Which is going to be super useful We're going to see a red card It's going to throw out the Raikou So we're not going to have an option for that Oh perfect Perfect timing, Mr. Zygarde Perfect timing Okay so I think this next turn This is probably Scarfed Tapu-Lele as well So I think what we'll do is We will just protect Zygarde here And go for the icy wind Support with our Tapufinny Tapufinny is such good support here It's not really threatening too much From the Ditto Which is now Zygarde Or the Tapu-Lele And if we can just reduce the speed on things We might force the Tapu-Lele out here as well Maybe I might be playing a little bit passive As if the uh This is one thing that I do worry about a little bit But if that Lele is Scarfed It means the Kyogre isn't So we should be out speeding it the next turn And just the Poison Ditto protects That's fine I mean that is totally fine So we can just go get this icy wind Hopefully onto the Kyogre And this is what I mean about a little bit passive Like we're not taking advantage of a turn Where we could potentially be getting an attack off The Lele was snarled so minus one So it's fine though, it's fine We're not too far behind So I think now we'll go a thousand arrows And we will go for a swagger into Zygarde And hopefully get that set up And plus two should be doing a lot of damage to this Kyogre My opponent still probably feels like they're maybe on the back foot But we've got to be a little bit careful about a potential Thunder coming out into Tapu-Fini Or an Ice Beam into our Zygarde But we do get the plus two Which is really nice So we are going to get this thousand arrows We know our speed in this Kyogre We're going to get some really good damage onto it this next turn Oh we just missed the knockout A critical hit as well That's huge There's the Thunder Okay that's fine This is fine Because we're going to get Raikou back in Right now My opponent has no switches into the Tapu Lele I think taking something down here would have put us Way further behind than we actually want it to be So we'll get this Raikou in And we outspeed both targets On my opponent's side of the field with our Zygarde So we've just got the Evaltul to worry about now So do we snarl or do we reflect Set that up Because the Evaltul could be a physical variant So it's kind of nice just to have that option later on If we would like to Yeah I think we will reflect Because we've got room now to pick up the double knockout here On both things on my opponent's side of the field Forget the reflector I'm just doing this in case the Evaltul is physical And that's the thing we've got to keep in mind Kyogre switching out for the Tapu Lele Which is really interesting Because it's potentially going to go down here to A thousand arrows We're going to see the Ditto protect Obviously we can't utilize extreme speed anymore Because of this psychic terrain being active But Raikou putting in some work getting this light screen up Going to get a thousand arrows If we can take down the Lele here I think we can close this game up pretty comfortably Not close It is so close All right I think we got a thousand arrows And we go snarl Yeah Because a thousand arrows will take down the Ditto Will take a moonblast into Zygarde potentially Yeah that's fine Wow I mean we take that so comfortably Get the snarl off Going to take down the Lele Reduce the special attack on the Ditto The thousand arrows from our Zygarde should take that down It's a shame that we're not We've not taken a little bit more damage So we can get the power construct activated But I mean it's fine isn't it The Kyogre comes back in It is going to be really prone to going down to A thunderbolt from Raikou And we're not worrying about the Evaltul now Throwing out a potential big Z move Because of that reflect that we've got up with the Raikou Which does kind of cover things quite nicely here for us So Evaltul coming back in And for one Pokemon that's given us so many problems Last week when we faced it It's not causing us too many problems right this second So we'll get the thunderbolt off into the Kyogre We'll go for that thousand arrows again We'll ground that Evaltul And again it can't go for a sucker punch If it's got it It's got to go for foul play Which you potentially could do But again I'm not massively worried Because as long as you get the Kyogre Then Raikou can deal with this This Evaltul pretty handily So we'll get the thunderbolt into the Kyogre It's not going to protect this turn We do take it down So just this lowly Evaltul to consider It's going to go for a knock off Because of the reflect though We take that pretty comfortably We get this thousand arrows off And now the zygote's going to be in range Hopefully have a thunderbolt Yeah, yeah, yeah I think minimum it's about 49 About 44% on an assault vest variant So we can't extreme speed it Because it is grounded now So we'll go for the thousand arrows again And Raikou going to steal the shore To finish us off today Which is brilliant And there we go We get the forfeit from our opponent And we are able to pick up another win So a really good start for us today guys And we got to showcase A couple of the new features to the team Especially having the zygote take down Azernius Which is what we wanted to do And then having the new member of the team The Raikou come in And putting so much work The pressure with the snarl The reflect up And then just the t-bolt Picking up really two chaos at the end Which I know one of them was a forfeit But you know, we're going to take that onto it Right, we'll end it there guys It's been a lot of fun We'll be back tomorrow Remember to let me know in the comments down below About the Tito If you'd like to see that at some point this week But we will continue tomorrow's episode With the Raikou And probably come on to the Tito Maybe Wednesday Then revert back and then make a decision Thursday, Friday About what the final build is going to be going into The last stages of the week So thank you so much for tuning in though guys Let me know in the comment section below What you think of the team today And I look forward to reading through those And replying to you as soon as I am able to So take care of yourselves Have a great day, whatever you're up to And I will see you all for another episode tomorrow So until then guys, take care and bye bye