 Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2019 Battle Series, we are back with a brand new team this week, I hope you all well had a great weekend and we are kicking off with a Cure and White build that I put out a poll about two weeks ago on the YouTube channel and thank you so much for everyone for voting, getting involved, commenting and deciding what Pokemon we're going to bring this week and it did turn out unanimously to be Cure and White, just edging it in the poll there so it's going to be a lot of fun, it's going to be very exciting to play and I hope you enjoy it just before we get into anything, the pace of the team is down in the description if you want to check that out, there's also a poker pace as well just to make it a bit easier for you guys, if you try it out though let me know what you think of it and I think this team as we're going forward this week is going to be one that we're tweaking quite a lot because there is a lot of elements to it that I feel like we could maybe put this here, we could have this there, if you checked out the stream last week on our Twitch channel we did give a sneak peek of this team and we had Terracion, Whimsicott in there to begin with but then we found that the trick room redirection was a bit awkward to deal with so I've thrown the Gengar back in, we've got Skydrop on Tabakoko, we've got the Isinium on the Cure and White, we've got Oconine instead of Incinero which is a refreshing change, Oconine offers bulldo support, intimidated support, it's got Roar as well and then it's a fire type in to give us that fire type style against things like Cartana, Ferrothorn that otherwise would be a little bit more difficult to deal with and the bulldoze really complements that Sugaleo as well outside of just its general speed control because we've got the weakness policy on the Sugaleo so we can switch that in, proc our own weakness policy and get Sugaleo in a really nice position to stop ripping through teams. Got Gengar there that benefits from the Tapulele's terrain and we've got Scarf Tapulele, we've got Gravity on there, we've got Hyponosis on the Gengar to really help disrupt things and then the Blizzard as well benefits from that gravity and so this is the team in general, we'll get into more of the details of it as we go on in this week's episodes but like I say I'm open to change things and we probably will learn a few things about the team as we're going forward so we will change things as we go along but without further ado let's just get into it and in other news guys we have got big news because Flinch Clothing has finally finally been launched which is amazing so if you want to check out Flinch Clothing go over to flinchclothing.com and you can check that out have a look around some of the articles that we've got there the clothing and things like that and it's just yeah it's really exciting so if you do let me know what your thoughts are but the other thing is we're gonna have a huge big giveaway over this month so if you want to know how to enter the giveaway make sure you tune into the end of the episode where I'll give you all the details of how to get involved in what you could potentially get sent right to your doorstep for the flinch needs so right we've got our first opponent of the episode let's get into this let's be a bit more sensible right our first opponent is playing a team of Yveltal Incinero Groudon, Cherim, Tapulele and Stack Attacker so we've got the restricted combination of Yveltal and Groudon very common to ourselves because we played this last week on the channel but a few variations in here we've got the Incinero support for the fake out, help support everything, organize board position a little bit better, the Intimidate support there to shut down physical attackers not really too worrying for our side of the team we got the Cherim there that there is gonna give the Groudon an attack and a special defense boost as long as that sun is out in the field and we don't have any way to kind of overwrite that got the Tapulele for the terrain control and then you got Stack Attacker which is a trick room element for the whole team so very interesting probably a kind of a mixed Groudon that can benefit from just normal speed and then take advantage of a full trick room here so what are we gonna do we need to be able to do a lot of things in this game and I think Cure and White is not a bad lead especially with the Arcanine I am gonna bring Tapulele and I think probably so Galeo to this one and that is deep review done so let's get into the match and hope it's a good one the thing is I think with this team it's a bit more less serious but it's got a lot of potential to do well I think it's a real good best of one team and it's a lot of fun we had a bit of a hard time last week with Prestivus Blades get a bit crying things like that on the channel but this week is gonna be a lot of fun and hopefully it gives you a bit of inspiration to maybe try out these different Pokemon as well and it's just nice sometimes to have a bit of fun with Pokemon don't have to keep it serious all the time and it doesn't mean that having fun doesn't mean it's not competitive either so right we've got Incineroar coming out with the Groudon for my opponent this first turn and there's a nice play we could make here by switching in the Tapulele and just go for the Zee move into the Groudon for sure and I'm very tempted to do that we get the Intimidate onto the opponent in Incineroar as well so we won't be taking as much damage from potential flablets coming out from that slot and I tell you what let's go for all the style points here let's just go for that Sub-Zero Islam a straight way into the Groudon and get around that fake out and just switch in the Tapulele here for our Arcanine preserve Arcanine for later on and removing the Groudon now is such a nice thing for us because it gives Sugileo a lot more protection and then we've only got to really worry about the Veltor which we can we can potentially deal with quite well with Gravity Blizzard as well and we also have Helpenhand from Arcanine and with this is end up as well then our half labelette is gonna be doing a lot more damage so Arcanine gonna retreat for ourselves Tapulele coming in it's just about what that Groudon protects on up but you'd think with the fake out support probably wants to go for an attack here so fake out psychic terrain Z-Move here we go I love being able to do this and this is such a nice Z-Move as well and it's one that we don't have to put any overlays over so no Dragon Ball Z unfortunately but this Z-Move is well worth kicking off the episode with today so excellent here we are straight into the Groudon there's no way this Groudon takes this no way who's a ever no way no way no Groudon is surviving that so Groudon gone which is very nice and this next turn we have the potential if you want to go Gravity Blizzard and I'm kind of tempted to do that to be honest especially if the Veltor comes in because we should be able to get it in about two hits and we tend potentially depending on its build might be able to outspeed it as well if it is that Soldves variant which you've kind of got to think that it probably is let's go for the Grave Blitz I mean we're not gonna be able to kill anything here wow forfeit we might get three episodes in today okay so good game to my opponent that was a quick one did not expect that okay teams already working right we'll move on to our next one guys I can't believe the forfeit coming out there I mean what did they have in the back hmm well just one of them things I think sometimes where you think I don't want to play this anymore after that first turn so okay let's choose some music let's go and across my version two because it's one of my all-time favorites and I know how much you all love me spamming this track we've got our next opponent from Japan rating of 1680 they're playing the team of Palkia, Kayoga, Tapa Coco, Whimsicott, Incinero and Stack Attacker so we've got that combination of the Palkia the Kayoga it's gonna be a bit difficult for us to deal with we've got to be a bit careful with how we set up against this team you've got the Tapa Coco there for terrain control the Whimsicott there probably for tailwind support it probably has Encore and things like that so Tapa Layla gonna be quite handy for us in this matchup in particular the Incinero there again to help with that trick room set up with the fake out support intimidate support and then the Stack Attacker gonna be one of those other trick room users on the team surprising that we don't see any sort of redirection here you normally see a Moongus probably where that that Whimsicott slides but Whimsicott offers a lot of different things to what a Moongus does what are we going to do what are we gonna do he says okay so and typical could be quite nice here for this be control the sky drop as well as nice and their Whimsicott's and a bit awkward to get around but with Tapa Layla don't worry about that as much and we could go down a Gengar route but I think because there's potentially a scarfed Kayoga there most times here with the team I kind of want to lead Tapa Layla and Tapa Layla and what we're gonna lead next to it do we want we we definitely want Sogaleo Cure him and maybe we want to leave Oconine and bring Gengar because of the focus sash because of the very worst it gives us at least a switch in where we can take an attack and not lose a Pokemon so screen white there we go we're into it so mmm be always nice to have some weather on the team somewhere and that's why I keep thinking it's quite nice doing this as well because I guess we're gonna learn about the team in different matchups that we do struggle with and what we can do to overcome them so it's a good kind of stepping stone for for kind of building a team we're gonna see the Tapa Cocoa and the parking come out my opponent we're gonna see and reveal that we are scarfed because the electric terrain going over our psychic terrain here now we could just throw a moon blast into that park here the one thing I do worry about against Palkia quite a lot is the hydro vortex and then the Kayoga coming in and before we can actually do anything and it's maybe a good idea to preserve Lele for later on in the game if we can and I'm gonna go for a moon blast into the park here and do I keep so glaring because we could just knock off the Tapa Cocoa we could protect as well I think protect it is a bit passive but at the same time I if the Tapa Cocoa vault switch out on that slot which it's not likely to know that the Tapa Lele is scarfed Palkia just protecting here and we're gonna see Kayoga come in I think or an electro web maybe Sky Drop that's fine I don't mind that too much but we probably will see the water AMZ into our solar layout imagine now do they double into the Lele knowing how threatening it is for the rest of the game we're not gonna be able to do too much damage to them either way so I'll just lock into the moon blast but I mean we could just sack Gengor I guess that's not a bad thing we're not really sacking it we're just talking about before and to improve you having that option to bring something in just to sap up a big attack and we still have a sash to kind of fall back on if that is the case so we'll see this Sky Drop come in with the Tapa Lele critical hit and a trick room huh okay now we see the yeah now we see the Kayoga come in for sure scarf we cannot change I think we have to moon blast the Palkia again I want a kind of blind type hypnosis because if we can get a blind hypnosis onto this this Cocoa slot of the Palkia mixing so much easier going forward for us but then again we're probably better off getting some damage onto the field rather than anything else if I can sludge bomb the Palkia or the type of Cocoa I think is the better one because if the Kayoga comes in there we don't want to be dealing with with Kayoga and water spouts yeah so the Cocoa going out Kayoga coming in probably see a Hydra pump from the Palkia into the Lele could miss though if it's not the Z move Z move incoming Hydra vortex into the Lele it has to be feels a bit wasteful I mean if it's into the Gengar then happy days I'm wondering against because this rain matchup does feel a bit difficult for this team in particular and one of the things I do question is maybe Gastrodon could be a good option for us and here gives us that ground type and it also gives us such a good match up against really need the poison there we really need the poison because now I feel this matches really getting away from us hmm but I have to try and get around this trick room as best we can okay let's bring a Curem and try something because Curem is not bad apart from the spacial rent I do I protect the Curem Curem you have to I feel like you have to double into the Curem here with a spacial rent I'm gonna try and sludge bomb this Palkia because if you can get damage onto it and then put it in range for like a Z I see him Z later in the game it's just about trying to reduce our losses here trying to keep resources we've got to hope our opponent doubles into this slot not the Gengar slot there's a water spout because my thinking here is if you don't double it into that Curem then it will take your Palkia down seeing straight through us though so but I mean the hydro pump is gone but it doesn't really help us against spacial rent especially with the Curem and there's no way we get like three protects we should have just attacked there so passive so passive and we're getting punished for it as well but this matchup feels really really difficult for us we just haven't got I don't think we've got the tools and maybe we have maybe we have but it does feel very difficult and it's all about preserving the Laleigh I think in this matchup we're gonna see a spacial rent spacial rent can miss though for sure let's go for the Sub-Zerous Lama into the Palkia and go for a knockoff into that Kyoga because Palkia's moves are pretty they're not the most accurate we're gonna see a Skald so into the Solgaleo my gosh there's so much damage in the thunder this will probably be enough right oh doubling into that slot hmm which is strange because the I think the especially with the Curem I'm protecting the last turn like the most likes kind of sensible thing to do I think in that situation is to at least attack the Curem in case there's a dragon type attack on it but I mean my opponent's taking advantage there and and got themselves into a completely winnable position now and we do get some big damage onto that Palkia but I mean it's gonna be so difficult to close this matchup now because the Kyoga probably switches out we probably see Incineroar come in which my opponent is likely to have in the back I'm just gonna check trick room turns yeah we got one left and so I mean we can protect here and I think we have to although the Palkia might not have spatial rent yeah probably doesn't Incineroar coming in it's too much though for Curem to do by itself ah this is a shame this is a shame off to such a good start as well and then to have this but this is a learning process of the team and we need to learn how to approach these matches a lot better than we are at the moment and it's all about like I guess if I'm gonna give an example of like why not to to get downbeat about this is because these are the teething issues you will come across with a team you know when you're playing a new team you're gonna have teething issues where things don't always work out to plan it's kind of like these points in the game where you're really kind of dissecting what you're doing and learning about right well this doesn't work so we need to look at other options how we can approach this matchup and then look at your options in your team and look at right okay next time we come up against this is what we can do and if you can't kind of formulate those those options in your team that's when you have to look at the you you have to look and think right well I can't go forward this team anymore what can I change or put into the team to make this match up a lot easier for us to to deal with and give my opponent a much harder time so that's the thing don't get downbeat too much about early results for the team especially because they're really actually the gems that you're looking for to kind of make the team a lot better going forward than they are a hindrance on anything and it's only when you're getting to that tournament stage where it really does start to matter anyway hope that makes sense we'll get into our next one hopefully we can finish on a big w today and see what we are okay so if it takes ages to find upon I'll just come straight back like I do where our opponent appears like magic but there we go 1701 rated player so this should be a good one okay I'm playing a team of get into team preview crowbat zonius groudon tabulae katana and incinero so we've got the combination of groudon and zonius is restricted so we've got support and members like the crowbat that's gonna have access to taunt gonna have access to tailwind haze potentially and superfang which is gonna be a bit awkward for us to play around the zonius gives us a lot of issues especially with curama on the field the tabulae there with terrain control to prevent any fake out abuse from ourselves katana gonna potentially have tailwind of its own and probably got the sash as well and then there is the incinero tagged on as always so what can we do against this like all can and it's gonna be good here because of the intimidate support it's got raw as well and it resists fairy type damage that we are so weak against with our curam and but there is the groudon the groudon as well and I mean one thing we could do is go cure him tabulae as a lead have arcanine in the back ah we don't want cocoa come on tabulae arcanine and do we want so goleo in this matchup like so goleo does well against katana can hit incinero tabulae zonius and the crowbar I feel like does good against everything other than the cure there the groudon so if we can get rid of the groudon then this shouldn't be too difficult we've got to watch out for katana with knockoff obviously incinero is going to be a bit threatening especially if it's left unchecked but I mean other than that just those few things we should be alright it's just about approaching the game in a way where we can make sure when maneuvering ourselves around smartly to get rid of the threats and then kind of a eek out a win condition for ourselves so we'll see tabulae and crowbar come out for my opponent as we get tabulae and cure him out for ourselves so we are scoffed so we will be able to to get the jump on that opposing crowbar I'm so tempted I am so tempted to go for the z move into the lele and just sideshock that crowbar so tempted so tempted because we could just clear the field right now we could literally just clear the field we could lose our curem which wouldn't be great at all like that's a risk that's a risk because if it is scoffed tabulae and I don't want to lose curem because I don't want to lose the ability to have something that can just knock out groudon and I think if we do lose curem that groudon becomes a lot more difficult to deal with so being smart about it it's probably a lot safer keeping it for later not leaving it in to get sniped right now so sogale are going to come in for us for the curem we'll keep that in the back should be able to take a combination of attacks coming out here as we see an ally switch of course an ally switch they hate you ally switch so there it's gonna be the guessing game this next turn but I mean that does a lot of damage doesn't it as a tailwind comes out from the other crowbar you've got to think it probably wants to go taunt into the sogale are expecting a trick room like I would totally expect that I'm gonna Sunseal strike into the top of Lele and I'm gonna size shock as well into that crowbar expect that just please don't ally switch again okay no ally switch coming out and groudon coming in yeah paving the way for the groudon and we just got to get through these tailwind turns because you should be able to remove the crowbar now there's the taunt that we expected she's a bit all good for us going into the next turn particularly but because we can't protect the sogale like we probably want to as the crowbar is taken down with a crit I don't think I don't think I'm at it we'll get some damage into the groudon though not a great deal because it's so defensively bulky we could have kept curem in that first turn now that's what I'm thinking I'm like I could have just went for all gravity blizzard but you're not to expect the you just don't expect the ally switch not as much these days I don't think and hmm what do we want to do I probably prefer to get rid of groudon more than anything I want to get arcanine in for the intimidate for sure and it's just the the ground here but I like where's the Z move on this team if we look at it Z moves definitely on groudon I like a hundred percent on groudon it's whether or not it goes into Lele now because if we can get through these trick room turns it's just as ernius is going to geomancy which becomes a big big issue and we're not going to be taking anything down let's go side shock into Zernius so we'll get arcanine in because we couldn't protect the Togaleo the previous turn as a Geomancy it's just whether or not the Z moves into Tapulele but you've got to think because the Togaleo is taunted it makes a lot of sense to go into that slot and if we're left unchecked then we can potentially take down that Zernius with Sunsteel Strike we actually have to beat the groudon still which is interesting so is a slot groudon there's a Z move I don't imagine this into the arcanine I mean if it's not into the arcanine I don't mind this at all because it would then we still have access to Raw which you could totally utilize on our arcanine slot but like I said the logic there is into that slot and poor arcanine going down already but the Intimidate's quite nice for us there onto that opposing groudon hmm Zogaleo we need this trick room to end the tail end to end sorry it's gonna end the next turn okay I want to protect Zogaleo or do we just attack now because it's only Precious Blades it's minus one we could double hmm we probably do we probably don't take a move less than the Precious Blades I'm gonna size shock into the Zernius make the obvious play we're in a bit of a bad situation right now but Precious Blades could miss the Lele and they could double into the Zogaleo but nah you would like they're just making the right play the thing is here though the other reason for protecting the Zogaleo here is that even though the Precious Blades coming out it would always be if my opponent made that play single target attack which makes it a lot more difficult for us to to get around now becomes the 50-50 here because if I'm my opponent I probably protect Zernius in Precious Blades would you protect I don't think you do protect here well you do because we protect curum that's the thing it makes me want to just double into the Zernius and Z move as well like it is just a 50-50 though and Sunsteel Strike into the Zernius do we predict that the Zernius protects though and just attack I think we just attack into the Groudon the Z move hope the Zernius protects okay Groudon gonna be kept for later tap a Lele gonna come in Zernius protects okay because the Groudon is gonna reset its intimidate which is smart my opponent making all the right plays here and really we're gonna have to hit a blind blizzard against the Groudon now I mean we will take a Precious Blades with Zogaleo and we will be able to get rid of the Zernius it's next to it's gonna be close though okay okay two versus two who can win who can win does the Zernius go for a double protect here that's the thing hmm I just don't like the idea of having to hit a blind blizzard against this Groudon the play we have to make is Sunsteel Strike into the Zernius and just protect curing this turn we'll probably see it double up into the Zogaleo if I'm if I'm my my opponent I double into the Zogaleo here dazzling gleam okay that makes sense we'll outspeed the Groudon because it is quite slow we'll get rid of the Zernius and we could kind of do with a Precious Blades missing here all the bad rubbish look we had last week on the channel with Precious Blades we want it back in tenfold right now fire punch okay my opponent's not taking the risk this is what a smart player does we actually take it though and our weakness policy proc so that kind of seals the deal for us and we'll be able to double in now and sunlight does fade and with Curamart on the field he's a beast so we are able we're gonna be able to lock this one up now and like I say we'll just go Sunsteel Strike and do we go blind blizzard fusion flares not bad option it's effective against it I don't really want to risk the yeah we'll do it we'll be we'll be idiots and go blizzard it's never the player to do though it's never the player but my opponent forfeit saves us that so right good game to my opponent and guys we're gonna wrap it up there I hope you've enjoyed today's episode but like I say before we get into saying goodbye I did say at the start of this episode that because flinch clothing has just launched this past weekend I'm really excited about and I would love to hear your thoughts on the website and things like that if you head over there like I say there's some nice blog posts and they'll be continued to be good blog posts and stuff like that about all different aspects of the the whole game in culture the ethos of flinched and things like that so it'll be a nice read and exciting and but one of the things to celebrate that is we're gonna do a big giveaway so let me bring up the giveaway information so here we go on your screens right now exciting boom boom boom and we've got a flinch giveaway and it is gonna run till the 1st of March and so get your entries in to enter the competition all you need to do between now and the 1st of March is go over to flinch.com and sign up to our mailing list it is on the homepage if you scroll down you can see it right here and in front of you on the screen is join the flinch squad sign up and all you need to do submit that your entry will be in and you'll be included in the draw for all of these goodies you can see they're all the new flinch shirts that we've got on sale over at the site there's a nice snapback cap there you've got the t-shirt you've got the skull there the flinch crossbones flinch squad shirt flinch gold and then one of those nice water cans as well you get yourself a hold of so as I say head over to flinch.com sign up to the mailing list and as long as it's before the 1st of March you will be entered in the giveaway and the giveaway will be announced on the 2nd of March on the channel so just a little thank you for all the support that we do get here on the channel and it's a nice way for me to to give something back as well but we'll end it there guys it's been a fun episode today I'm looking forward to tomorrow already so I hope you are and I hope you come back and see again some more episodes from this curium team so until then guys thank you so much for tuning in have a great evening afternoon morning whatever term of do-you-do is wherever you are and I'll see you all for the next one so until then guys take care of yourselves and bye bye