 Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon vgc 2019 battle series We are in the moon series We kicked off again this week with the Zygarde Sougalero team and in today's episode is a little bit special because As we mentioned in yesterday's episode but before getting to it if you miss yesterday's all the day before this episode Make sure you go back up. I'll put a card up here for you. You can go back and check those out There's some incredible matches and we've been playing Raikou over. What is a tyrannosaurus slot now? But as I said, we're into a bit of a special episode today We're just gonna have a bit of fun today to see what scarfed tyrannotar can do in this core You know the problems that we've got with this team are the Veltal the Lunala Zurnia is to a certain extent which we need to cover we need to cover the checks for Sougalero Which scarfed tyrannotar? I think does really well at so that's what we're gonna try out today It's gonna be a lot of fun playing it and I hope you enjoy it But one of the things that I was thinking when playing scarfed tyrannotars The predominantly you're gonna see Kyogre and it is going to be scarfed in this format. Yes, it will outspeed tyrannotar for sure But you're gonna get your signed up still so you've still got that benefit even against Kyogre This tyrannotar has got a weird spread, but it can take all sorts of things It's in the description below with the team pairs So if you'd like to go and check it out do that the rest of the teams pretty the same as what what we were playing Just the Raikou switch for the tyrannotar But the tyrannotar can take a press of his blades from an adamant 252 ground on Unintimidated it can take Water spot in the sand from a full power modest Kyogre. It can take a move last from a zonius It gets the knockout on slanderous with ice beam gets a knockout on katana with flamethrower It's got dark pulse as well So if we can get any sand chip to break that cheddar shield on Lunala We're gonna pick up the knockout on that We've got rock slide as well for the coverage to help us against eval toast So we've got a lot of little texts there as I say We're just gonna give it a try today to see how it goes because it's something that I did want to try I mentioned Drapion as well earlier in a week, but I Don't know if we're gonna get that far, but we'll try the tyrannotar as always though guys If you enjoy this content make sure you do drop a like on the video make sure you do subscribe to the channel So you don't miss any of these daily battle series as well as our guides our flinch squad circuit Stream uploads and everything else that we're gonna be doing like I mentioned earlier in the week We are gonna be starting to do some sword and shield coverage Which is gonna be really interesting covering my Opinions on things things that I would like to see competitively and stuff like that. It might be out already It might not be it's just when I've got some time to do this extra content But it's gonna be a lot of fun So we'll hop on to the ladder rating at the minute is 1696 so close to that 1700 mark like we were aiming for by the end of the week will kick off with Legendary Pokemon music and hopefully it doesn't take too long to find opponent if it does this always We'll just cut right to the chase and come right back But we've got our first opponent already Christian from Germany, so getting straight into it gonna jump over into team preview And it is what I think I saw before I flick that screen. It is an Alolan eradicate Which is amazing. Okay, and we got the Lunala, so that's really good for us So we've got Alolan eradicate Zernius Lunala a mungus katana incinero Like I do not know what to expect from this racket. I really don't I really have no idea what to expect from it But whatever it's gonna be it's gonna be a lot of fun, right? Okay, so Let us lead with I think what my kind of game plan was incinero so go Leo. We're gonna have Tyranitar on the back and Oh, although I really want the zygarde in this match and I do want the zygarde in this match I don't know if we're gonna be able to bring it without the misty seed boost The zygarde can still do some work without it though The one thing that I would worry about a little bit is the mungus if we don't bring the type of finny Type of finny doesn't have the best of times against katana But we've got plenty to check the katana especially with that Tita Although we're gonna be locked in and maybe all the switching around that we're gonna do is probably better to bring The finny in this matchup anyway, so let's do this Let's lock in and wish christian all the best and all the style points for bringing that a lot on racket So it's gonna be a lot of fun isn't it a lot on racket. I hope they bring it Really do I really do. I don't want to expect from it at all. I Love seeing these quirky Pokemon though. They're always like fantasy and just people kind of being really Imaginative and coming up with these really cool strategies and things like that It's always it's always I always have my people to try these things out You know there might be just for a little bit of fun or a joke or stuff like that But I mean at least you're trying them and the entertainment value is is priceless So we're gonna see incinero and lunala come out of my opponent and they will lead off with incinero of our own and I suck a little get the full metal body activated So we're not gonna take any damage from the opposing incinero What we're gonna do is the game plan and the game plan is to the game pan is to snarl and To switch in tyrannot are now even if our incinero gets faked out here We'll get tyrannot are in or break the shadow shield with our sand stream It's gonna get brought to the field right now with tita and if the Z move comes into that slot Tyrannot are just gonna be like brushing it off easy easy game And then we can dark pulse at the next turn on rock slide or whatever you want to do There's the fake out. It is gonna be into the incinero So we're not gonna be able to do much here. There's that moon-geist beam coming out into the lunala And we do so much check check mating here because tyrannot are just looks at that and says huh Did you see something lunala and now the shadow shields broke? So that's really good for us We're gonna be able to either adjust here because I feel like the lunala probably switches out So what I'm gonna do is try and stay a little bit ahead of the game I'm gonna go for a snarl here keep tyrannot off for later on because I suspect that we'll see The zernius come on to the field now, and I'm gonna bring so the lower in Problem is if lunala protects here stays on the field and we've got tyrannot are out and then the Incinero pivots out Into zernius and we are gonna see that So we'll get it. Okay. This is fine because if zernius does come in we are gonna get A snarl off And we've still got that nice switch into teetor in the back And teetor is not gonna take like it's gonna take even less damage from zernala It's gonna be katana, which again, I do not mind at all Like at all get the snarl off into this katana potentially break a sash, but it does It does actually it is able to take that and dodge the snarl, which is a little bit frustrating Um, okay. Now it's a bit trickier Can we take a sacred sword with incinero? I don't know if we can Maybe it's a good time to bring in tapafini into that slot because we want to get the intimidate onto katana We'll just protect sogalail So we don't want to overcompensate here. We do want to try and win this game So we'll get finny and we'll get this terrain up, which is nice We'll probably see a sacred sword into the finny slot the next time we can get incinero in for sogalail Um, and even if we see a sacred sword into that slot, we should be able to take it There's a sacred sword like I say it's into that tapafini. It's just a big I just don't feel like we're gonna see the double up into that slot, which is interesting Hmm I mean sogalail the thing is we could z move that lunala now Um And get tapafini out of here into incinero because I think the z move We'll take We'll take a moon guys beam It's just the z move that I do worry about a little bit And I think my opponent might try and predict that the sogalail is not going to stay on the field So if we can z move that lunala, we should be able to take it down We're gonna get the z move as well in today, which is really nice So we'll get the incinero back in get this all important intimidate onto the katana Which is the main thing that we're really worried about here And maybe all the switching that we've been doing has got my opponent guessing as well That's what I would maybe think about Sacred sword there is not ideal and moon guys being doubling up into that slot potentially I would imagine Hopefully we take it was so bulky Now it's into the incinero Excellent excellent news because now it's time I'm gonna have to cut this scene But we are gonna get the signature z move unfortunately cutting it because it's a it's a cool animation roly poly and lion king man Lion king lion really there we go. So there we go. It is into the lunala. Is that enough? It is enough to pick up the knockout So we get rid of the big threat here for us And just the pressure that that taranato is causing the switching that we've done Keep an eye on it guessing is all really helping us out here We've got the superpower to get the katana this next turn the superpower to get the incinero And you've got to imagine that there's only this is probably in the back. It's not that right of k Which is a little bit sad for us And the thing is though if we can get if we can get taranato onto the field now that is ideal for us That is then so ideal for us Um, we have got access to fake out now, which we can take advantage of the incinero obviously has Fake out as well one of the things I kind of want to do is probably switch into tapu fini here and just protect our our soga layer this turn Because I don't really want to be losing incinero And if we can get another intimidate onto this katana is going to help us out so much more And getting an intimidate onto the incinero is also going to be like super beneficial for us because Last thing we want to be doing is taking big damage from Flair blades here. So um, we will just be able to protect with soba layer And there's a flare that's coming in. Yeah, that's right Sandstorm subsides, right. I think now is a good time. So bring in the incinero I don't really want to superpower though. That's the the thing. Um I feel like the incinero the katana potentially switches out here um I'm gonna bring an incinero. I'm gonna bring an incinero And I'm gonna go super super I've got to get the katana once we get the katana. We're fine I feel like the katana is going to be sash though Which is really frustrating because that's snarl earlier on if it just hit we could really pick up the knockout here It's if the katana switches out But I don't think it's gonna because it out speeds everything on outside of the field anyway So I would have switched out first. It's gone for that leaf blade. Hopefully this just procs Are we just miss a berry progging which is super super frustrating. You're gonna see the superpower We'll probably see a flare blitz as well into the soga layer. We're not actually able to pick up the knockout there A little bit sad and then just a u-turn That's into the soga layer. Okay that katana is still minus two though. So that's fine And we've got the fake out going into this next turn And the zoning is coming in. Okay, so our game plan is preserving Preserving our soga layer at all costs. Um, I think we stop and deny And the zoning is setting up here Um, and what I'm gonna do is get the tea toe back in I feel like the katana switches out now and what will happen is if We can just fake out. Oh, we're gonna see the zoning switch out. That's interesting I don't know What I was saying is and the katana might protect you It's just I want the berry proct on our iron cinder all and by getting the sand up and getting tea tar in We check the katana potentially Especially if I bury these prox it puts us in such a better position. Yeah, so we're gonna do that Excellent things plan out as we planned. There's a fake out We've got a little bit of chip damage onto this in snow, which is always helpful. Here we go. Berry Ahoy Ahoy, ahoy Okay, the messy turn does it disappear now. Yeah, perfect time for us to get uh, um, I think I'm just gonna go for Like we're gonna get faked out into The taranato slot. I mean we could double into the katana with just the flablets and the flamethrower Like tea tar's not like super super super super important now. It's more the soggy layer over everything else So I mean we could see the katana switch out reset the intimidate drops It would make a lot of sense But I don't mind getting just a flablet it into the zonius as well at the same time Okay, there we go. There we go The zonius, I mean if tea tar's faked out here, that's ideal because then we can lock into rock slide this next turn Don't see that. I'm gonna see probably A u-turn critical hit flablets. Oh Maybe predicting a switch in from iron general, which is kind of interesting Uh, we will be able to get a flablet into this the zonius as well, which is going to be super nice, especially with Yeah, we're not in a great position with with taranato right now Um, but taranato is going to be a key as long as the katana's kind of kicking around later in this game I'm going to try and go for another flablet into this zonius. Um, we might go down and um I don't really want to bring in soggy layer on a potential flablets Um, I could bring in a type of finny though. It's difficult though because if you see the geomancy here Yeah It's not so hot But I feel like if you're the zonius you may just want to go for the moon blast But geomancy and will be a much it will put you in a much better position for the late game A pro preserve tea tar will get a type of finny in We might get a berry proct with finny here. That would be ideal, but I don't think so The zonius is protecting we're gonna see you turn now just a flablets It's gonna be into You know Wow, it actually takes us down. I didn't expect that to do so much damage Okay I could potentially just get taranato in here. Um and just rock slide. It will be enough to get the zonius But then we're gonna have to pivot around a little bit more. Um Yeah, let's rock slide. It should be enough to get the zonius. I'm hoping and we can go for an icy wind as well We're gonna get the chip on to the incinerole and with sogo leo we'll be able to deal with Yeah, there's a rock slide. Come on flinch squad. Let's do flinch squad Oh, we don't actually get it. We get the incinerole though. Is that crit? Crit on the incinerole. Huh, we get the flinch though. That's huge flinch We're so bad. We're so bad. I apologize to my opponent. Icy wind. Um, yeah teetor scoff teetor for the win And yeah, we've just got the yeah, we get the berry now and then we've got cartana to deal with so it's Super fine because we just switch out teetor and to sogo leo and then whatever happens to finny We get the teetor back in with the flamethrower and we can Totally deal with this thing. I mean, we probably don't even need to but we'll just prolong it a little bit longer We'll go an icy wind as well while we're at it Um, we might see a sacred sword come out from the cartana And it's a leaf blade. It's into the top of finny because it'll take us down Well, like I say, I mean it doesn't matter now because tyrannitol come back in It's got the flamethrower and cartana cannot cannot be just cannot survive the flamethrower and teetor gonna steal steal the show for us In game one the day that we bring it against the lunal azernius team and doing some work Um the flinch I don't know if it matters. It probably did. It probably would have changed the dynamics of the the end of the game We'll go super power. We've got the z move And the flamethrower into the cartana And we'll be able to close this one up pretty nicely here with this flamethrower and teetor My favorite pokemon of all time doing some big work kicking us off today. So Excellent couldn't be happier. I hope you guys are enjoying this as well. That's a big thing So it's nice to see teetor in the moon series doing some work Um, but yes very good game to my opponent and apologies for the flinch I know it sounds bad apologizing for something that you have no control over but you know I I would feel I'd feel a bit hard done by if I was christian in that last game Because like I say it would have changed the dynamics if the teetor went down there to potential moon blast I don't think it would have I think it would survive um but The pace down below if you would like to do the calc to check it out then then be my guest and let me know That would be amazing But we'll go into our next one. We've hit that 17 or 6 mark now with our rating which is super good So we will go with do we go on across my vision too? Yeah, let's go with that one You know what's gonna happen though. It's gonna take us ages to find opponent. Oh Jean mullio from spain, so this is gonna be a really good one and we'll go straight into team preview And we are going up against a lander is toxa croc farathorn kayoga Ho ho and raichu team. So Um, I mean If you ask for a team to play with tyranitar, I don't think we get much better of a one So i'm gonna bring tyranitar up front for sure because we've got the snipe on the landers with the ice beam. I think we'll go Like let's just figure out what we're gonna bring here I think we want zygarde definitely Um in this match, so we want tappofini and then we probably want toxa croc as well So let's go toxa croc Let's go zygarde. Let's go finny and let's let's get this game started. Do we need sogaleo in this game? I mean, it's nice against the farathorn And that's the other thing like if we aren't bringing incinero or sogaleo. We are relying so heavily So heavily on her I mean the one thing we could potentially do is Hmm Because tyranitar doesn't have the best time against toxa croc is maybe leaves zygarde At home, but zygarde, I think can still do some work here. Um and bring sogaleo But it can't touch the now i'm gonna just stick with zygarde and just we're gonna have to play Super cautiously with tyranitar to make sure we've got that flame throw off for the for the end game If that farathorn does come which it's likely it's gonna we need to be careful against this toxa croc as well With that tyranitar Because it's got low kick or drain punch. So we need to be super careful around that I'm gonna see landeris and kayoga come out for my opponent. We've got such an easy turn one as well We'll have to keep an eye on where this intimidate sits in In line with our sand stream. Hopefully the rain goes up first, which it does indicating the scarf kayoga um And as long as this landeris isn't super bulky Indicating I wonder if my opponents picked up on that the the sand stream went up before the intimidate Maybe they do Maybe they don't But we can put this into practice right now and get this snipe This should take down just a four hp standard landeris ice beam. We'll take it down We'll just fake out the kayoga here landeris probably doesn't feel too worried right now. Um, we know it's not scarfed um It's probably z move so it could protect. It definitely like 100 could protect kayoga gonna switch out Gonna see farathorn come in Not so ideal for us, but it's so tempting for the landeris just to um Oh, it's gone for the protect here. Okay We'll get this ice beam into it Iron barbs not going to be ideal for us And this is where the farathorn would come in really really useful Um, I mean we can drain punch the farathorn get some damage onto it I don't think it takes us down It's gonna do a lot of damage to tea to other on the process. That's the thing And it's probably the landeris which is out here 100% so we could pull a double switch We definitely could pull a double switch and go into tapafini Uh zygarde for for tea taran and tapafini For toxic rock and we need to keep this tea tar for later on in the match Like I say prioritizing The farathorn with that flamethrower is gonna be our key because that's uh, it's a definite win con for my opponent So taran ago gonna switch Should be landeris switching out next ideally Yes, there we go. Kyogre coming back in. Ho ho coming in That's still fine And I'm hoping the farathorn chases the toxic rock here with the jarra ball because I feel like Maybe that's the one thing that's causing a lot of issues But then again the ice beam from the tea tar Makes a lot of sense if you attack into either slot here for my opponent Because both things are a pain in the backside For my opponent to deal with we're gonna see jarra ball. It's not gonna do too much desire guard here Um now we're in a really nice position to actually just go for um It's swagger a thousand arrows And I think I want to swagger here because we've got access to nature's madness the next time We've got to be a bit careful this farathorn throwing out potential power whip into tapafini Which wouldn't be ideal and we we are we haven't brought in cinnamon here So we can't intimidate this whole could potentially have a z move out likely say it's on the lander of star So we'll see what we can do like this is gonna be a tough match It's gonna be a tough match. We're godless, but we'll get this swagger off We're gonna out speed the whole as well with as I got which is really nice um Yeah, I wonder if we see just a whirlwind then come out Hmm Interesting if we do each seed Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna whirlwind or roll beside god Yeah, tyrannotar Not the thing we want to be seeing right here Uh, but I mean it's not the worst either. It's not it's really not the worst Then each seeds a bit annoying for tapafini for sure This dang ferrathorn is a pain in the backside It's such a pain. We should have we should have had insinua here I mean We could pull a double switch get zygote back in onto the field My opponent's probably yeah, I'm gonna switch toxic oak out for tita Hopefully my opponent doesn't predict this and I'm gonna switch zygote The whole has got to feel like it's a little bit threatened from the potential fake out From the toxic oak so I may want to protect here probably recovers takes this opportunity to recover But if we can get tita and for free we press you with that rock side the next turn We press you with the flamethrower onto the ferrathorn, which is really useful for us. So get zygote back out onto the field How all recovering? Okay, where's this ferrathorn gonna go? I feel like not having the intimidate here is really punishing us jerebol No, no Tita survives, okay That is all we need that is all we need Let's go flamethrower. I mean we need to And let's go thousand hours. The whole has to switch out here for landeris I think to try and get the intimidate Onto everything if we can nab the ferrathorn this matchup gets so much easier for us And it's just a surprise factor. I think more than anything Come on, let it happen. Let the whole switch out. It doesn't want to sit in front of a tyranitar It knows it's scarfed. There we go. Come on landeris No Oh, this is not how we wanted to go down Kyogre it does make sense to get rid of you know I wonder if this plus thousand hours will be enough to get the ferrathorn Oh, it's no idea gonna be enough this ferrathorn. It's just a bulky bulky horrible pokemon It's not gonna go away Oh, and it has the berry as well. Of course it does This is why this team is like in the 1700s. It's just built like a tank I'm gonna say bye to a tyranitar. Unfortunately Oh, dear Which is not ideal Um My quickfire answer to all these problems has just gone away, but we'll be fine Uh, let's get Let's get I mean we could get toxic rock in What's our game plan here? You can't leave. We can't leave zygote out against this kyogre. It's definitely got ice beam as well I wonder if you can get the ferrathorn with that toxic rock drain punch I kind of I really want to drain punch here. I really do But I don't think the drain punch is going to be enough to get it We've got to try and chip it down and I'm going to switch in finny for zygote It's like the one thing we've got to deal with Ho oh Let's hope this kyogre stays in My opponent's just playing it like super straight down the line safe Making sure that they are taking advantage as much as possible whenever they can Let's see where we go with the kyogre ice beam. It's going to be into this finny Yeah, I mean the game's not over for us yet But it's getting close to being pretty pretty close to being over We've got the drain punch a little bit of damage into this lander us here The problem is now the z move on the lander us it's going to be into the finny I would imagine Shut the finny down But I mean you could go into the toxic rock here Like we need to icy wind the lander us. That's the the only thing um There's not really too much we can do to be honest We've got nothing to hit this lander us with like super effective We could switch the finny out sacrifice zygote Get finny back in And then hope that you don't target the toxic rock That could be an option but the fake out could be More beneficial later on let's go Uh icy wind switcher toxic rock into zygote hope that the kyogre doesn't yeah doesn't ice beam that slot so The problem is though. I feel as though the lander us nukes the finny now that would make the most sense Just get rid of that threat completely But you might be chasing the toxic rock that could be the other option lander us just going to protect you Okay, so we're getting icy wind off into The hole Do I coil here? That's the other question Do I coil because I could potentially coil I could potentially protect I could just take this opportunity to coil Or just attack I think just attacking is just what we need to do Just thousand arrows And icy wind Yeah, I mean that's that's what we need to do. I think we just need to attack Plain and straight it's going to be so difficult. There's the z move I mean either target here makes sense like you take down the zygote then whole has the the wind con You take down the finny the landers has a way easier time because there's no icy wind coming out. So I mean out of both at this point in time. I probably prefer The finny to go down right now And have the zygote in so can at least hit the hole Which we are going to be able to get and do some at least decent ish damage to the landers It's not great. We could have coiled here for sure Well wind coming in again. I don't mind this too much We get the toxic cocaine and get exactly the same board position as we had before We've just got the fake out like we wouldn't it's not changing the The flow of the match too much. Um, and we can get zygote Now I think one thing my opponent probably does now Is switch the lander us out. What do they could they are they just gonna earthquake? Are they just gonna earthquake that would be the thing? Because that's the other thing just like I would probably just go well There's fake out here. I can protect this turn We're gonna have to try and make some plays because yeah, there's no we're just gonna take an earthquake now There's no way we take this with toxic poke No minus one zygote'll take it And we are gonna get a power construct. So it's the zygote versus the world now Ho Ho actually from the thousand hours goes down Does open the door though for Kyogre to come back in and we do get a coil Which is quite good for us right now I mean, we're gonna be able to probably push this A little bit further than what we kind of thought we might do Initially, but we've not got the special defensive boost Kyogre can come in. It's got ice beam It's not looking too good for us my friends And just like I think this is the problem Like when you come up against a really well-built team and it's piloted so well like we're seeing here It makes it difficult to get then the kind of surprise knockouts that you want to get on something like fairthorne And the lander us Because your opponent's not overcompensating so much in these games Kyogre is gonna come in Uh Like we don't take an ice beam We definitely don't take an ice beam and we definitely don't pick up the knockout with an extreme speed I'm gonna go for a thousand hours just in case Yeah, no, it's ice beam all the way. That's all you need to do That is it and very good game to my opponent really nice team Really nice to see something like this featured on the channel as well and it's been a really nice episode I've really enjoyed it today We had a really good game first game seeing the team perform really well And we come up against this really solid team from one and um see him pilot it so well and we did try But I mean he just made the better players there every time so It's just yeah, he was able to lock us down and getting rid of the tyranitar like Looking back the incineroar would have been a lot better to bring with the toxic hook Then we've got that nice switching synergy. We've got the intimidate support Um, I think probably the zygarde and the tapifinion maybe leave the tyranitar at home and that one, but We have no regrets for that one We just take lessons learn lessons from those games and that's what we do But really high quality player like that. It's good taking note from them as well Especially for for everyone watching this as well as including myself, of course, but we're going to wrap things up there guys I've had a great episode. I hope you've enjoyed it. We'll be back with the ryku tomorrow We did say we'd feature the tyranitar And but we'll be back with the ryku squad tomorrow So I hope you've enjoyed today's episode leave your comments down below I'll look forward to reading through those getting back to you very soon and until next time guys. Take care of yourselves and bye. Bye