 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series I hope you're all doing well. Thank you so much for tuning in and we are here again today to kick off with this team That we've been playing for the last couple of weeks on the channel. So we'll be ending up with it this Friday Hopefully we'll be able to hit that 1800 mark. We kind of have Theoretically set goal for ourselves. I said earlier in a week That I think this team is more than capable of getting up to 1800. We're kind of nearly there now So hopefully we've got what probably minimum six matches left to do it in So it'd be really nice if we can do that as always the team is down in the description below There is a raw paste hopefully the poker paste is back up and running and I'm able to put that down there for you guys You can check that out in your own time try it out if you do and if you do do Let me know how you get on and what you find out with this team because it is a lot of fun And like I've said previously it is probably one of my favorite builds so far in the ultra series So I'm really enjoying it and I really just hope that you guys are as well So without further ado music is on everything is set. Let's just jump into it Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find out first opponent today And it's always if you do enjoy this sort of content guys Please remember to drop a like on the video do subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content which will be coming soon and Also leave your comments even though I am being terrible at the minute and not getting back to as many views I'd like to I Will eventually get around to getting back to you But I do really appreciate all the comments in the support that you give the channel And I just hope that kind of in this interim period things are ticking over and it's it's still entertaining for you guys And just bear with me for like another couple of weeks And I'm feeling like we are getting to the point where I'm gonna find my feet I've got some exciting new content lined up for you guys as well Hopefully that will be something that will be appealing to you I hope and and we'll be catching up with the flinch squad circuit as well So I'm planning on doing all the catch-up episodes So we should be back up to date with those by at least the end of next week And if not this week, so just looking for an opponent I'm gonna kick off with Tim team rainbow rocket, but like I mentioned in yesterday's episode The new plan is with our daily content is to kick into something brand new after the North American International Championships which is happening 21st of June so a couple of weeks time So next week we're gonna have a brand new team like we always do get your suggestions in down below as well to let Me know what you'd like to see played for this final week of our VGC content But it won't be really a final week of VGC content because what we're gonna do I'm gonna bring a brand new series in to kind of see us to the end of the VGC season Which I think is gonna be very exciting It's gonna engage you guys in the content as well And I'm gonna announce it now instead is a road to rank roulette series where we can't find an opponent Hopefully it gives me time to chat about this I guess so basically what I want to do is at the Prior to starting this new series week before I'll put a little tag up on YouTube So keep an eye out for a comment for myself asking you guys to nominate one Pokemon for the following weeks content and all of those comments you guys will get to Obviously nominate one Pokemon each it can be restricted Pokemon It can be a regular Pokemon non-restricted and What I will do on the Friday of that week is we will do a live roulette Drawing of the team that I'm gonna play the following week So I'll put all the comments into a big roulette wheel We'll click it we'll pick Pokemon one through to six and that will be the team that will take on to the Bouncebot ladder the following week, so it should be a lot of fun Obviously, it's gonna be completely crazy because there's no logic behind the team, but I feel like it will be entertaining It's gonna really stimulate the the team building process because we're gonna have to probably cover for a lot of things that are Compensated and aren't covered in our team selection, so it's gonna be a lot of fun nonetheless we're gonna have some rules in Incorporated in the series so we can do some fun things midweek and we'll do that every week And we'll do that until the VGC 2000 20 rules are announced and Then we'll be moving into sword and shield, but I hope it's gonna be something fun I'm really excited about it, but I'd love to hear your comments thoughts on this new idea going forward But I feel like it's something different something I haven't seen really particularly done before on YouTube So and it gets you guys involved Which is something I always want to try and do and I think it's gonna be a lot of fun going into the summer and doing That as a kind of fun battle series So and you never know we can see how far we can go with it man. It's taking ages to find our opponent We are on 1753 at the minute. So if we want to hit that 1800 mark We've got like 47 points to get which I think we can get from like six games But we're not gonna get anywhere if we can't find an opponent So what I'm gonna do we will search for an opponent again I've got all that blurb out the way So that's good and we'll come right back when I find the first opponent of today's episode And we've got a first opponent the episode from the United States 1664 rating will get straight into team preview Okay, so first opponent today is running a QR code team It consists of Tapu Lele, Driftlin, Mewtwo, Groudon, Incineroa and Amungus again and again And falling flat my face because I'm not up to date with QR code teams that are popping up around the global link at the minute But this one you can see it has the restricted combination of Mewtwo and Groudon So something that we have seen before and something very powerful the Mewtwo obviously will be Mewtwo wire and imagine You're gonna have till and support from the Driftlin So there's a speed control they kind of got to imagine that the Lele could be scarfed could have gravity as well to support things like that Mewtwo and the Driftlin particular and the Groudon with those precipice blades You're gonna have support options on the Incineroa with fake out intimidate all the standard things that we see And then the trick room kind of cover is gonna be that Amungus So how are we gonna deal with everything because the sleep spam here could be pretty problematic for us Because it's gonna be hypnosis and we've got nothing to kind of help cover that Just gonna be a little bit awkward, but I think maybe Lunala, maybe Tapu Lele Do we want to bring Hydraegon here? I feel like Hydraegon could be decent Could be decent. We definitely need Kyogre for the Groudon Hmm Hydraegon, do we bring you because outside of the Tapu Lele you do a pretty decent job against everything I think I'm gonna bring you Hydraegon today So a look in with these four these are all with these teams as well with the the the gravity hypnosis I mean when you haven't got Tapu Finney or Tapu Coco It does get a little bit more difficult to deal with or something with safety goggles Well safety goggles wouldn't even help us against hypnosis What if you would need something with a lumbary which we do not have but we'll see how we can get on in this first one First hurdle on the road to 1800 Tapu Lele Drift Blem we can predict it right now Hypnos gravity hypnosis and which target does it go for? Ah Ah There's the unburden activating from that psychic seed drift Blem The Lunala we're not quite we're not really that safe with Lunala right now in front of the in front of both of these either You know I feel like Lunala probably gets put to sleep if we can get a tail wind up I mean if we can get a tail wind up it will really help us out We've got anything we can utilize with tapu Lele like the thing is if you are going for Gravity hypnosis I guess the one thing that we got going for us is that drift Blem probably is gonna Underspeed the tapu Lele so you can get the gravity off before the hypnosis So it's not timid Lele and it's modest then the drift Blem will be a bit slow So maybe we can get a tone on to it Which is that kind of only option to help us here So we'll try the taunt into the drift Blem might fall fat in our face doing this does the gravity Come on, let's get a taunt off. Please. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. No It is into Lunala, we are gonna get the taunt off Which I guess kind of helps us out a little bit, but not lords because we're locked into this this scarf taunt and We're gonna get we're gonna get hit by moon blasts shadow ball Hmm Lunala, it's not gonna enjoy this We've not really got the switch in in the back for this because we don't we've got hydrogen that we could bring in for Lunala for sure But at the same time We need to switch Lele out probably more than anything else Probably gonna lose Lunala, I'll try and tailwind and I'll bring in Kayaga for Lele it's the best thing we've got in the back I need to preserve the hydrogen with its sash for later on we're gonna see tap a Lele switch out So we're not gonna lose Lunala this turn if Lunala has a one-turn sleep as well and can wake up and get the tailwind off It puts us in an extremely good position. You've got to imagine my points last Pokemon will be that ground on We will get the Kayaga and one of the things I probably want to try and do now is Get Kayaga out of here as soon as possible because it's just gonna bait in the ground on coming in I think we'll probably see the Driflin Maybe tailwind here give us a bit of room to wake up I guess if anything so I Can't tailwind because it's taunted so it has to attack shadow ball into Lunala as I'm matching here Do we wake up though, that's a big thing if we wake up Of course we don't But I guess we can bring Hydra again in now it's Do we bring it in for Lunala and try and keep Lunala around for later Because we lose if we keep Lunala on the field and we lose it we do lose it That's just that just how things are gonna go I'd imagine we see a side psychic attack into the Kayaga I want to preserve Kayaga as well so I'll bring tap a Lele in there Now I could have done it the other way around but if I bring tap a Lele in on the Lunala We'll take a shadow ball and I really don't want Lele taking a shadow ball unnecessarily so I'll bring in Hydra again And we'll pull the double switch and you might see the ground on hit field I doubt it though. I think they're me too will mega evolve here and just throw out Side strike onto the Kayaga slot, especially with the psychic training up There we go. Me too mega evolving There's a shadow ball Hydra can you take that pretty comfortably and then the side strike as we suspected into this tap a Lele here. Okay It's ridiculous, isn't it? That's a resisted hit that is a resisted hit and it does so much damage now We can guarantee a tail wind up here. That's the one thing we can do Now do we just lose tap a Lele because I feel like probably The drift blame shadow balls Lele here Do we get some damage off on to the drift blame Probably better getting on to the drift blame because I'm you too. I'm not too worried about I think if we can get some damage onto the drift blame. I just had the The the buff and that would help but we are just gonna see it target the Lele here Lele going down What's me too gonna do though? focus Blast Under gravity, please survive Hydra again The game is over. It's over. It's gravity spam. It's horrible. The taunt wears off. So And I mean if groudon's in the back, there's not really much we can do I we need we need a Leenola to wake up not get taken down by a shadow ball And get a tail wind up and hope that there's no groudon in the back There's a lot of hope in here And I don't feel like we're gonna get any of them This is a shame Just goes to show though if you kind of haven't got the tools to help you prepare for this sort of team And you don't get the luck that you need when you haven't got the tools It's a very difficult team to kind of overcome because just the the the hypnosis gravity. It's just There's a shadow ball. This would be bye bye Leenola Yeah, and then the side strike I mean Oh So disappointed so disappointed, but there's not really much much else. We can do the gravity turns back to normal psychic terrain Leaves a field, but I feel at this point. We're done. We're done We can ice beam the drift blim hop the mute who switches out for the groudon But I don't like it this point my opponent doesn't need to do anything. He'll not blind hypnosis Just rubbing salt into the wound. It is rubbing salt into the wound I'm not salty about it It's one of those things though that you kind of have to appreciate when you come up against the team like this where you've got You struggle so much against these things. This is like this is something that Johnny hacks one of our lovely patrons and and subs to the channel Said replied to comment a while ago and he said you know When when you come across these situations where you get so like things don't go how you want and your team really struggles It's not a bad thing, especially when you're practicing like in a tournament It's a little bit different because you've not it highlights where you've not prepared well enough very good game to my opponent But one of the things it's a really valuable thing especially in practice because it highlights areas of your team that are so Vulnerable and that is amazing information for you to make that team stronger. So what we can do with this information This is what I'll always try and portray to you guys as well When we're practicing on the ladder and things like that like we always want to be winning, of course That's the name of the game But sometimes it isn't always gonna be that case and you don't get to that really strong point By just winning and winning and winning because you're really learning So these are the games where you're you're learning and you're taking away points where you're like, okay Well, what can we do now to get around that for future events because if we came up against this team in a tournament It's kind of an order loss unless we have some real RNG luck on our side We get the one-turn wake at the tail end up and then we can start and build momentum But you're relying on RNG then in any kind of Pokemon game You never want to rely on RNG you want to kind of keep things in your control So all I'm basically saying is it's a really good thing to come across these these vulnerabilities in your team and you know Doing that and actioning what you can do to kind of alleviate that issue We'll just make the team stronger overall But on to our next game today because we have an ex opponent We got Kim from the United States So we will I think from the United States if not I do apologize It was just a flashed up so quickly. We'll get straight into team preview So Kim running a very nice looking team are consisting of to her the law, honey the zonius incineroar lunala tapoco and the mungus, so We've got mega law, honey. We've got double fake out Obviously, that's one of the first things we can identify here between that mega law, honey And the incineroar got intimidate support from the incineroar The tapoco gonna help control to rain gonna be one of the more faster variants here You're gonna have probably speed control on that lunala I'd say more tailwind in trick room and because you've got the mungus there Which is gonna be kind of the trick room counter to the team and then you've got the zonius Which is gonna be the big threat for us to have to deal with Okay so I Think we will lead lunala like one of the things I like to do is lead lunala With tapu lele in the back and then bring katana in the back as well katana does really well here You've got we've got to be careful against this law, honey But we do have tapu lele to help with that but and obviously did the lunala, but Our lunala if we can kind of hmm. Yeah, cause the lunala might be a bit difficult To deal with and that's where the monet trick maybe would have come in quite handy especially with eerie impulse and all We can really pressure the opposing lunala, but we haven't brought it But I mean we can only bring four Pokemon on me. That is the story See what Kim brings. You're definitely gonna bring our restricted zone imagine We're gonna see lawpunny and tapu koko come out for Kim and we will lead off with lunala kaoga. Okay So you got to remember as well lawpunny has Scrappy as well so it can fake out a lunala But it can't fake out our lunala if we have the psychic train up and the nice thing about them leading with tapu koko is probably in In hope that we're gonna lead tapu lele To overwrite it because we're likely to be scarfed and it's something that you see players doing but one of the things that I kind of try and keep in mind is that We don't necessarily want to be leading because it's so obvious that we probably are scarfed So what I'll do is switch in tapu lele for kaoga I'm gonna tail and take this opportunity to get some speed control with the lunala and hope that the lawpunny goes for that Mega evolve fake out into lunala to try and get around SP control setup and we'll see what this tapu koko goes for Might have the Z move Might just fall switch out onto our tapu lele slot For better bold positioning, but we'll see so there it goes There's a fake out it cannot do it in psychic terrain and they're just madness coming up from the koko gonna be into Yeah, what was I can I'll go into the lele makes sense till we can have potential water spa coming out from us But you're gonna be able to get the tail wind up and put ourselves in a really nice position now Now the one thing that would say is lawpunny very rarely has Access to fake out so I think what we can probably do is reliably go psychic into the tapu koko and Do we want to psychic into the tapu koko or do we want to moonblast into it? It's just I'm not really too worried about the tapu koko right now And I feel like the incineroar probably comes in a morn slot So one of the things actually we could do is go for a Z move Into the the koko I don't feel like the lawpunny stays on the field and we can go for Kaoga where our tapu lele is and then we're trying to keep an advantage where my opponent tries to get the incineroar Onto the field they think that's one of the things you probably try and do right now because of the psychic type threats That are coming out from outside of the field it makes sense to try and get your dog type on the field to Give yourself a bit of room. We're not gonna see anything switch out though We're gonna go for the Z move into koko Stay on the field it might be a salt vest But we'll have to come straight back because we need to cut this Z move animation So we'll be right back guys Okay, we are hitting into the tapu koko. Is it gonna be enough to pick up the keo? It should be unless it's sashed It is sashed a bit unfortunate Okay, it makes more sense why my opponent keeps everything on the field Seeing a return into Kaoga, which is not something we really want to be seeing here in a vault switch into that slot as well Mean we are keeping our tapu lele around for later. I Kind of indicates like my opponent probably hasn't got um It's there on the back But it is the zonius coming in. Okay, I think a skull there'll be enough to get yeah, I'm gonna go for side shock into The zonius and we'll go for a skull into law pony law pony's not really that bulky. So I'd imagine a skull in the rain It's probably enough to get it. I would think and if not I mean it takes down Kaoga, but then we do get caught on her back onto the field and that's That's where we want to be with caught on her out. I think that's gonna be the thing that is gonna help us kind of close this game out hopefully anyway, um Kaoga taking so much damage, it would have been better just to stay with what we had on the field to be honest, um Tapu koko gonna come back in it's gonna change the terrain of course It's our side shock in doing as much damage and this makes it a bit more difficult for us to um, okay We're not gonna see a GM anti at least that's fine We do get the side shock into that slot and tailwind I think we'll run out. I think we've got one more turn to tailwind We do pick up the knockout onto the tapu koko What's my pouring got is gonna be lunala? hmm Lunala will be a bit awkward for us to deal with for sure. It's gonna be a lot of money coming back onto the field I think the thing now is that we can definitely go a side shock into the zernius and We'll bring in we'll bring in Lele get her terrain up and that sets up our caught on her for that for later in the game I just feel like I've got a horrible feeling like it's gonna come down to a lunala speed tie At the end and this is where not having monetrick definitely Definitely hurts us a little bit more because why dragon just for that match up, but then again bringing her dragon To his earliest kind of match. It's not really something we want to be doing So we'll see we'll get this. I don't think my oh they do fall for it again, which is surprising We do get the side shock into There's only us do some nice damage there, and there's the geometry which we can't really do too much about Come and get another tail wind up As we can deal with the lawpony. Yeah, I think it's whether or not. Yeah, it's whether or not we see a dazzling gleam or not I Think you've got a moon blast the lunala to be honest, which we should take So I think we can get a tail wind up. Is that really gonna? Yeah, it will help when we get Yeah, and we'll try for a psychic into the lawpony It will help when we get yeah, there's a dozen game. We could have wide-guarded Okay, a lunala should take an attack from the lawpony. It should take return should do Now we get caught on our end now. We can size shock into the lawpony we can smart strike the zernius and Kind of put ourselves in a bit of a better position the The awkward thing now is my opponent can try and stall out a Tail wind But they've got it. They've got three turns where we need to do and it's much strike should be enough to take down The zernius and if not, then we got size shock from our lunala, which will be enough to take it down We've already seen the damage there So GM anti doesn't help against that defensive stat just a special defensive stat With the tail wind up we're in a decent position So I shock will definitely take down the lawpony and if you want to switch out the lawpony now for potentially lunala in the back Then it's coming in breaking a shadow shield and then we guys beam will be enough to pick up the knockout and all the time We've got the cart on a kind of covering our lunala. So We should be all right the problem is When the the lunala comes in the opposing lunala Comes onto the field this next turn. I mean, we're gonna be able to get rid of The zernius for sure it has to get it over attacked As long as we get a beast boost with cartana break that shadow shield on the opposing lunala. Yeah, then we should be alright I think so, yeah We'll go moon guys beam into the lunala we'll go for that smart strike into the zernius The zernius needs a double protect That's what it means Doesn't get it. Unfortunately, the smart strike is gonna be enough. We get the beast boost as well Cartana putting in all the work and we're gonna moon guys beam into the lunala and then that should break the shadow shield Do enough damage to set up the cartana and would you guess it we've had a disconnect from our opponent Which is really unfortunate Now I don't know why you would Do that but I need some people just do that Kim I'm sorry if your internet connection went down That is very sad, but we pick up the knockout anyway, so we actually get the win so Avoiding We get to finish this match even though we have to disconnect But yes, so we do pick up a victory there Which is a nice way to kind of come back after that first match where we we did have that That really really awkward kind of team matchup where we just didn't have answers for what we were coming up against so a little bit Of a shame that we didn't get to finish the game officially there, but we did get to finish it Lunala coming through saying no no disconnect. We're gonna crit our way through first and just close it right now So science seal delivered, but thank you so much for for tuning in today guys I really hope you've enjoyed today's episode. It's been a lot of fun And we've got some really valuable information, especially our game one even though it was a loss We can't get ourselves too down about it because at the end of the day like I've said already It's information that we can use to make this team better. And that's the goal at the end of the day So and suggestions from you guys I would love to hear your thoughts on what you would maybe do to compensate the The weakness that we've got to that gravity hypnosis It's not something that we're gonna see too often But you know it's something that we'd like to be able to have maybe a better game plan for when we do come Up against it and it might be just changing one or two little things in the team to help us Overcome that matchup and but we will wrap things up there guys Obviously, of course as always be back for more action tomorrow and With our VGC contents to do stay tuned for that and I hope you're enjoying the team as it goes We've got two more days left with this one get your comments in for team for a team that you would like to play next week That's the other thing we're gonna have a week where we're playing one team and then we'll move on to this VGC Rotorite roulette series, which we're gonna be doing so Lots of things to comment on Thank you so much for tuning in have a great day Whatever you're up to it's been a pleasure as always love you all and I will see you all for the next one So until I take care and bye bye