 hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our rogerank roulette series my name is leigh also known as osiris i hope you're all doing well and had a fantastic weekend it was the world championships this weekend while it's happening right now because i'm recording this saturday so day two hasn't started where i am right now i'm super excited though got to catch a lot of day one yesterday when i got home from work and i hope you guys who are watching from home did the same and enjoyed it and are looking forward to the rest of the event for the weekend obviously it's going to be monday when this goes up so we will know our new 2019 world champion so we'll readdress this when we come back on wednesday and we'll have a little mention about that but all in all i hope you have enjoyed your weekend if you weren't doing world championship watching then i hope whatever you up to you had a great weekend anyway it's sad though because it is coming down to the last week of our rogerank roulette series so this is the final penultimate week of the series until next season because we will be bringing it back i can guarantee you that it's been a lot of fun doing it and thank you so much to each and every one of you every single week nominating these pokemon and making this series possible it's been incredible doing it we had an amazing week last week which i think really capped off the whole the whole series really it was amazing if you didn't catch it or you haven't seen it i'll link a card up here you can go back and check that out before coming into today's episode but without further ado let's spin the wheel for a final time this season i've got a bit of a tier where it's not going to be the final time because we're going to activate those bonus buttons later this week and i guarantee we'll activate all four of them this week so we've got those to look forward to we're not the final spin but to nominate our six pokemon taking on to the ladder to kick us off this week we'll head over to the wheel right now and we'll see what we're gonna get here you can fix this week you know what the linoon jason with your linoon pick i was a little bit worried when that came out but you know we've got the sableye we've got fake out i think to get that working you need fake out so we're quite lucky in that respect we've got the sableye and you know the sableye it was nominated twice as a normal sableye and as a mega so what we're gonna do is split it halfway through the week we're gonna have normal sableye to kick us off this week we'll activate some bonus buttons further down the line and then we'll change it to mega sableye when we maybe don't have that mega me too wide because i don't want the conflict there so just to balance the team early on give us a good chance we're gonna go that route first see how it plays out and then we'll change things up later in the week so wednesday is our day when we can activate our buttons obviously we've got our randomizer switchup and legend maker and a patreon button as well and so we will activate those on wednesday we'll change up the team and we'll change up a few of the pokemon so just to recap what we've got we've got mega me too wide we've got linoon got sableye got scoff kyoga which is pretty cool because we've been caught up by that a few times ourselves on this series so being able to use it now is amazing it's great and charabug and you can see all the selections on the team in front of you the uh sorry the nominations on the screen in front of you now from all of our great great viewers including yourself so without further ado let's have a look at the team it's always the team is down in the description below there is a raw paste and a poker paste of the team if you're crazy enough to try it out do let me know in the comment section down below but if not you just want to peruse and see the details of the teams it's all there for you to take a look at in your own time and um let me know what your thoughts are on the team in the building everything around it i'm excited to use the little burst there pinco and uh i can't remember of the love the life of me it's been up on the screen though who the other person nominating charabug was but uh it's a pokemon i've never really used so i'm quite excited to see it and its ability battery is obviously really good especially when you combine it with kyoga omg me too why right friends it's time let's hop onto the ladder i'm just gonna change screen so we can see our rating see what we're looking like 1551 that's incredible last week was just so good okay um well that's the bar going into this week we've got to try and we've got to try and be what was it like eight two or nine two i don't know nine two i think was the the record last week so that's the the the record to beat we need to get up to a good start today obviously no losses would be fantastic but we'll see what happens um i'm wondering as well i'm sitting down probably the worst time to record this there's probably everyone's kind of pokemon out or at pokemon events so there's gonna be oh we've got ham ham the man from the united states so we'll get straight into team preview here's a little worried that the ladder would be quiet today but ham comes through for us and is our first opponent playing a team of whimsycott kyoga nigh lego rig quasi taba koko and incineroar so this isn't all bad is it um scoff kyoga just appeals to me so much in this matchup because we can catch so many things off with scoff kyoga um i really do want to lead it and i do want to bring sableye as well just for the the fake out support the quash support as well sableye obviously um yeah i mean like sableye doesn't do a bad job here and we'll go sableye we'll go kyoga as a lead do i want to bring lanun lanun the other option is lanun with sableye which could be really good keep kyoga in the back what can my opponent do really a good we trade fake out do that yeah so lanun's maybe not the best megamyutu why i definitely want to bring because it just out speeds everything can damage everything really good uh i've got to worry about um potential tailwing from the whimsycott as well that's something else we need to worry about maybe charabug is a good pokemon to bring here because of the taba koko um i really would love to know what ham is thinking now looking at this team i really would anyway we're locking we'll get into it today and kick off when our first match ham the man let's go let's see what we can do let's get off to a good start today this is what it's all about this roulette series i'm right i'm kind of sad that it's gone away you know i'm like well we're getting the rules hopefully tomorrow tomorrow will be the day it'll be yesterday for you guys um i'm really hoping it's not ultra for until january the 4th please don't let it be ultra i really want something new uh it will it will depict my um me venturing out to events because i think if it's ultra i probably won't attend events until until january the 4th when we know the rules for sword and shield will be implemented so that's um it's a little bit sad but i just don't really want to play it anymore ultra to be honest that's just my opinion anyway so we'll see what happens anyway hopefully we'll get lucky and you're sitting there now thinking yes it's a brand new ruleset so we see incinero taba koko come out from my point uh sableye we went super fast so we should be able to outspeed this incinero the only worry here would be the taba koko being sashed but let's just go for a tasty old water spout and it should clear the field free goat from sableye incinero water spout can we do it yes no stash koko my fun i'm the man is like oh for god's sake what is this i didn't realize it was scoffed doing exactly what we did okay so that's a good start for us we're still sitting pretty now with a scoff kayoga and uh little old sableye here on the field uh what's my pony got in the back that's like the cleanest turn one for us that we've ever had i feel um okay so it's the the the jewel restrictance um we're gonna see the airlock up here and then we're gonna see primal kayoga um now do a switch kayoga out to bring it back in later um to do some stuff i guess because of foul play into the requires we'll do nice damage we could potentially switch um how do i just stay in the water spout i could just stay in the water spout i just feel like we'd probably get extreme speeded that's the only thing um um i'm gonna go for foul play into the ray and i'm gonna go for do switch into chara bug i feel like it's probably a good idea to switch into chara bug i want to get kayoga back in if i can because then we can lock into thunder to tackle the primal kayoga or we can lock into ice beam to deal with the requires of whichever one is left i guess so switch in the bus here you come here's uh mega ray gonna activate that the delta stream we'll see what my opponent goes for but i don't imagine knowing that it's scoff kayoga you probably either dragon ascent or extreme speed yeah dragon ascent where you've gone please don't be into the save light okay into our chara bug a little bit of a shame but it's fine it's all good wow chara bug you take that like a monster truck you're not a bus you're a monster truck water spot coming out save like sash this should be fine chara bug oh what chara bug hangs on chara bug is legit the bus is so good and that foul play man that doesn't net damage okay um right could we quash well it doesn't matter because i mean whatever we do i mean we could guess and quash the kayoga and then go for a um we could go for a spark into kayoga and try and paralyze it i guess and hope that the ray goes for uh okay yeah all right well that was a waste of time but it's fine it's it's literally fine because yeah i mean that was the most that's the most pointless play in all of pokemon history well let's quash you quash you down i say we couldn't have done anything there anywhere really we would have needed the ray to extreme speed the save light and even then we would have went down to a war spout so it's it's fine we'll bring in mutu and kyogra um so this is this is fine because what we can do now is just attack uh the ray with our mutu and go for that thunder into the kyoga the drizzle doesn't activate we need our thunders to hit though that's the big thing um so it's a little bit risky a little bit risky we'll go for the side strike into the ray and we'll go for a thunder into the kyoga i mean if it lands we're in electric terrain as well so it should do some nice damage and i don't know if my opponent's gonna have um have thunder to be honest they might do they may not though because they've got the tap of cocoa okay let's see come on let's do this did we mega yeah we did mega evolve i was like did we mega evolve did i forget to mega evolve that would have been the worst okay so mega mutu why we'll probably see an extreme speed yeah into kyoga into mutu i whip for that no oh no we're gonna lose mutu because the water spout is incoming i reckon oh god damn it we need to rain up really don't wait for these thunders uh the winds disappear i guess there's a water spout this is not so hot for us right now yeah i mean our kyoga takes up pretty nicely right so we just need to hit a few thunders they haven't got thunder themselves they're pretty screwed they're probably going to protect to stall out this electric terrain i would imagine because i think the next turn it disappears pretty sure we've got to hit these they've got to hit the thunders two thunders should be enough yeah right we just need some thunders come on come on electric terrain has disappeared so the odds aren't in our favor but it's still going to be all right it's still going to be fine come on kyoga you don't need to be primal to to win in this format let's show ham come on this is not going well we need thunder to hit come on come on kyoga hit this thunder please we just need two two is all you need to do there's one bush come on let's do this oh we get the paralysis come on fully paralyzed fully paralyzed okay i think we might actually lose this you know he's definitely got origin pulse we need some fully parallel paralysis you need some fully paralyzed kyoga going on here and we need to hit i like if our thunders had hit we'd win this but i mean come on come on kyoga do this come on fully paralyzed fully paralyzed fully paralyzed come on think it with me come on we hit again okay we need one more after this one more fully paralyzed fully paralyzed no no we're gonna i think we're gonna go down to an origin pulse from this range i don't know what to say to that three thunders missing was it three i'm pretty sure it was three good game ham i feel like it was stolen away from us but i mean i'm not too sad well i am sad i'm sad because kyoga let us down there we may have been better off just gone waterspout and just spamming that to be honest but then again with how especially bulky that primal kyoga is i don't think we would have won out like thunder definitely didn't do as much as i thought it would okay so 15 33 rating we're not off to the best of starts today it's good though the the marking down one loss zero wins but we can all turn this around we can turn this around in the next one so hopefully it doesn't take too long to find an ex-opponent um we're going with team rainbow rocket is that you and uh yeah i'm gonna cut it now and just come straight back when we find that ex-opponent because we could be sitting here a while so i'll see you in a jiffy and we've got an ex-opponent of the episode 15 22 rate play from japan so we'll get straight into team preview an ex-opponent is running a team of lander as theory inform request a robot the katana zernius and smegel or zernius and smegel excellent great just what we want i'm going to bring save like because we've got taunts that we can shit dance things like crowbar things like zernius things like smegel um to be go with a good old kyoga once again um it might be an idea for sure uh just to catch my opponent off god really and we can do some nice damage to like most things um yeah we'll go with the the the kyoga once again um hmm mutu mutu mutu do we bring mutu um and landerus might be better this time just because of the the physical threats there's like three physical threats in landerus requiser and katana and then we can bring fissure as well and then we got a z move i think we'll go with the landerus here leave chara bug at home on the bench although chara bug could be decent as well just worry about the sleep now we'll go with it so here we go we'll bring landerus see if that changes up anything um and we'll see if scoff kyoga can do some more some more work in a way i'm like it's great seeing requiser because you think well raise here that's good for scoff kyoga for sure because we haven't actually got rare which you kind of want to run with scoff kyoga anyway um okay we're going to see a smigo and katana katana um i hope the smigo hasn't got white god and they know is that we're scoffed and haven't primal overted have they and we'll go fake out into the smigo uh oh should we should we go taunt into the smigo uh oh we go fake out into the katana because i think you're if you're gonna fake out smigo you're going to go for the kyoga because you can't fake out save life so we need to trade fake out we'll go for the water spout and see if we can get it off no my god that's not good but i mean yeah okay it's not the worst it's not the worst because um it really isn't we keep kyoga for later we get around the katana going for that i mean we could have we could have went for um fake out into the smigo there but smigo's speed falls um we could taunt the smigo just to stop it putting anything to sleep and switch in landeris isn't exactly the best switch in here i feel like the smigo has to go white god again that's the that's the big thing um so we could potentially go for foul play into the katana just to get some damage off onto it and then taunt the smigo the next turn um yeah i'm going to go for that foul play and i'm going to i'm going to bring in landeris because i want to preserve our restrictives i don't want me to switch in on leaf blade get crit and then things just go from bad to worse from there so we'll bring me to in we might see the katana go for visit like uh tail wins the tail wing could set the team up i guess oh it's going to follow me okay that's fine we're probably really better going for the the taunt there then um definitely uh but we i mean we break a satch on this megal so that's that's fine isn't it um moody boost attack and evasiveness fell okay okay i like we'll go for a taunt into smigo and we'll just protect just protect yeah this could give my opponent a little bit of an opening i think by protecting landeris the katana is probably in a position i don't think it's gonna pick up the knockout but we we're definitely susceptible to a crit leaf blade at this point like it would knock landeris out and that wouldn't put us in a great spot um okay we're gonna see katana switch out ray come in which is fine um as long as we shut down this megal that's the big thing i think for us here okay i do gravity on the landeris so we could gravity with landeris this next turn and go for a foul play into the ray or do we just go for the fissure into the smigo because i think smigo switches out now the ray might attack into landeris but if it does it means we do get either kyle or me too back onto the field so that's not the worst thing in the world i'm gonna fissure into the smigo i know we got the z move but for the style points alone i want to fissure and if we can get the katana with a one hit kill mix today's episode that much better and we're gonna see the ray go for it's a mega evolution activate that delta stream where's it attacking the landeris more than likely i would imagine but if you leave landeris alone we've got the opportunity to punish and if it doesn't then sibilize sitting and yeah sibilize sitting in a really nice position you know they're just leaving it alone as well that's the thing so we will lose landeris unfortunately uh the one thing that we've got going for us right now is that uh kayoga can come onto the field even me too could really this next turn i think me too might be the better option to be honest wow we take down the ray the far play we've got the rhymes um yeah we'll go for me too i think it's probably the better option because the katana's sash the potential sash that it's got is broken so we can we can definitely get it with a roar sphere from this range the smiggle obviously has got access to fake out but it can't fake out as sibilize can fake out on me too um sibilize proven to be an immense support pokemon here we'll go for the taunt again into the smiggle i'm gonna mega evolve and i'm just gonna protect here it does give again the katana the opportunity to go for a tailwind if it's got access to it but at the same time if we don't protect the smiggle could just fake out into me too and then the katana gets the tailwind up anyway and i don't really want to leave me too vulnerable this turn so there's no point letting the smiggle fake us out and then attack coming in on us it just weakens me too which we don't really want to do it's not the the strongest defensively so if we can just protect it and keep it safe makes us a lot better and we've got quash going into this next turn anyway there's the fake out from the smiggle into me too we've got this tasty taunt into the smiggle shut that down stop it doing any supporting and there's a leaf blade uh into the the sea black here so that's fine i mean see some moody boosts i think the thing that probably would make a lot of sense this next turn for my opponent is the smiggle switching out into um i mean what would come in on that slot it's probably the zonius right so the side strike there would be better but because you switch into zonius there probably hmm i'm actually not i'm gonna just file play into this meagle and i'm gonna go for the aurora sphere into the katana i don't want to mess around i just want to get rid of this katana if it sticks around if the zonius comes in that's fine um we've still got the taunt shut down what's gone for the fake out again yeah nothing oh it's scarved katana oh that's a so much damage man okay well we get rid of the katana we'll get some more damage into this meagle if our player don't expect it to pick up the knockout getting close obviously there's the moody evasiveness rose no uh and speed dropped so zonius will be the last one i would imagine to come in we can taunt it um and side strike it i probably want to get rid of this meagle i think this next turn though so i don't really care if i lose both pokemon here because then we've got kyla to come in it's gonna be scarfed and it should be able to beat the zonius one on one um so i'm gonna i'm gonna go for that side strike into this meagle just to get rid of it because if it's taunt wears off then it can start supporting this zonius which you don't want it to be able to do uh i do want to be able to get a taunt download to this zonius you might say the zonius protect this turn which i would kind of prefer if it does because my opponent might try and think well smegle if it gets through this turn um then we can follow me geomancy the next turn but we're not going to see that we'll get the taunt off onto the sit onto the zonius and probably see a dazzling gleam come out here we'll get the side strike into this meagle um there's a part of me that thinks might have been better to go for the zonius just to get damage onto it there oh it does go for the geomancy wow okay so me too gets an extra turn this guarantees it really for us to to lock up with our with our kayoga um so we'll go for the foul play and we'll go for a side strike this should do some nice damage and then kayoga can come in and just go what a spot and we'll tie it up this game hopefully um yeah we should be able to i mean yeah it's definitely what's about range there's the dazzle of pokemon going down and in comes a kayoga the primal scarf a good shout the scoff kayoga it's it's a fun pokemon to play especially in this format where a lot of um a lot of players just don't pay as much attention as they maybe should times see kayoga when it comes in because you always just see a primer of it so you just kind of ignore after a while which is definitely something that i do we're clicking with that what's about it's going to be scarfed it's going to be enough single target to take down the zonius it should be unless the zonius is like uberly bulky but i feel pretty confident yeah what about bing bong yes come on kayoga so we actually tie up finish the day one in one we've had some great battles today i mean that first one we definitely could have won against ham if thunder hit like one more time but it's just how it goes isn't it we didn't have the rain up and that's a drawback but i feel i feel pretty positive about how the team has been performing so far so credit to all of you guys for those nominations this week and i feel good that we're going to finish the week in a decent position you know one one at the minute we've set the bar we can't lose again obviously if we want to beat the bar from last week which i don't know if it's going to be possible to do we haven't really got and made much use of lanoon today all under a steering really so it'll be nice to kind of incorporate those in our next episode which we'll be back with tomorrow so have a great day whatever you're up to for the rest of the the afternoon morning evening whatever time of day it is like i say where you are just to enjoy what you're doing have a great day take care of yourselves and i'll see you all for the next one thanks so much for tuning in and until then i'll see you then so bye bye