 everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon vgc 2019 battle series we are in the moon series for only two more days so saying that guys we are back it's thursday hope you're all well having a great week we did finish up with the Mewtwo team yesterday after a resounding result in the poll that we put up last friday so thank you again to everyone who voted on that if you'd like to go back and check out the last few days with Mewtwo you can go back up here i put a comment for you people to check out all the good games that we had but getting on to today's matches games teams and everything like that kindly Cameron who is one of our channel patreons provided me with the team that you've got on your screen right in front of you now which is going to be a lot of fun to play it is a team that he's created himself so big shout out to Cameron thank you so much for giving us a team to feature today in this fun last week in the moon series before we move into the ultra next week so just to recap the team for you guys we've got the cure and black the whole tappie finney incineral stack attacker and the ludicolor quite a solid team we've got the isinium on the cure and black though which is going to be a lot of fun because we've played cure and white we had a real good run with cure and white actually and came up with that really nice team that we finished up with there so to play cure and black i know james becks had a lot of success with it on his channel in the moon series so it's going to be nice to feature at least we featured both curams in the moon series as well it's going to be a lot of fun as always though the team is in the description down below as well as the paste so go ahead try it out and give all big props to Cameron for his kind suggestion and giving us a team to play but without further ado guys let's get into today's episode as always if you enjoy this content please remember to leave a like down below subscribe to the channel don't know what's with the accent um but yes and leave your comments because i love hearing your comments hearing from you guys in general and remember next monday because there's no battle spot because the rules are getting updated for tuesday when the ultra series kicks into gear we won't have an episode of our daily battle series we will have instead some new content on the channel which is going to be all about sword and shield so i'm really excited about it if you've got any questions that we'd like me to answer in the first episode though of this new content that we're doing the coverage of sword and shield then leave them in the comment section below and i'll make sure to try and answer as many of them as possible for monday's episode but we've got our first opponent so let's without further ado jump straight into it right we're going up against nylega holo we've got the mirror already um tapofini ludicolo incinero and kayoga so it's gonna be a really interesting match for us to go into we've got the restricted combination of holo and kayoga we've got the ludicolo there supporting that kayoga with its swift swim ability that it loves in the rain you've got intimidate support faker support from the incinero nylega is going to be a bit awkward to deal with it does do really good damage to pretty much everything we've got on our team so dealing with it is going to be very difficult and we're going to have to make short work of it how it is we go on the defensive side of things so if we can get a trick room up potentially then it will help us out we've also got ludicolo so if the rain is up then my opponent is going to find it difficult to um take number of numerous amounts of those water type attacks but i feel like this is a pretty difficult matchup for us to kick off with today cure and black is going to be really good for us it does hit the hall all very good the finny and the kayoga we've got to watch out for the intimidate support from the incinero so we've got to have something in the back to switch it on um okay let's go incinero let's go ludi and let's go holo because i feel like we need to bring our restrict it's here okay let's click in with this and go for it so good luck to my opponent hmm nilego is the one thing that you think right well this makes things super difficult for us i don't know what that clicking was either bird clicking but yeah ignore me i'm sorry something just clicked behind me though and i'm like what the heck was i'm in this room alone so i'm haunted okay so we're gonna see how and incinero come out we're gonna have to deal with that intimidate support but cure and black still not in the worst position ever we've got to watch out for obviously sacred fire that could come out from that hall or potentially burn us um i do see the intimidate cycle from the opposing incinero which indicates that it's either faster than the one that we're running or it's a speed time we're just bouncing around intimidate so what are we gonna do i think we trade fake outs for sure fake out into the hall and bring an hour on hall and then we're not intimidated at all are we um i am i do worry about the potential kyoga switching in here that's the only thing i'm kind of tempted just to you turn out on the incinero so i've got the intimidate to bring in again and try and maneuver ludi in if the kyoga does hit the feel for my opponent because they might not go for the fake out they might just you turn pivot into kyoga um although with cure and black sitting on the field it might not feel like the best thing to be doing right now but we'll reposition anyway so i've got to try and cover the whole hall if the kyoga does come in and i feel like this is probably the best way for us to do this so we do see the fake out there's a tailwind from the opposing hall and uh we can get ludicolo in it's fine we'll get some damage onto this incinero anyway because we can switch straight back out from ludi and get another intimidate onto the opposing hall or start doing some damage and at least by doing this we kind of detract the the kyoga hitting the field so soon um okay i'm just gonna brave bird the incinero and i'm gonna switch back into our incinero from ludicolo because it's an obvious target for a brave bird from the opposing holo saying all these pokemon way too many times just confusing myself going round and round the circles switch into our incinero we're gonna target the incinero switch out our holo and hopefully the other holo doesn't brave bird uh incinero so which is gonna there we go okay so we're bringing incinero i'm gonna stop the shenanigans this is the last week of the moon series so i'm sorry i apologize it'll be so much more serious into the ultra series looking forward to it the guides are gonna be starting on monday as well guys just for your information uh we do see a brave bird there's a u-turn come on bring that kyoga in take a brave bird okay it's not going out what's coming in it's gonna be nilega maybe like if you haven't brought nilega to this match i do question because it's so good against the team that we're running it's not about switching now i mean you probably don't want nilega to take a massive chunk of damage but at the same time it is going to resist a brave bird and it does make the appearance one pokemon that we did not want to see but we will get a brave bird into an intimidate so we should still do a decent amount of damage i mean that's not bad is it it's not bad it isn't bad at all um okay we've got the fake out nilega i think we go into curam black black curam and uh we fake out nilega this is trexy trexy because curam black isn't going to enjoy taking a power gem neither is hot or really neither is incineral this is what i mean the nilega totally destroys this team hot all gonna reposition itself we're gonna see the incineral come back onto the field now it's fine i think but at some point we're gonna have to switch something in on nilega to take an attack so we do get curam black and tera volt activating get the fake out into the nilega put it in brave bird range now although we're not gonna be able to take any attacks from it um i think curam black probably is strong enough to take at least one attack um the problem is that we have is incineral is right on the money for a power gem although we probably take a power gem from this range do we do we want to risk it that's the thing because i could you turn i could you turn i've got to get around this fake out for sure let's bring in ludi the problem is ludi's one of those pokemon i need for the kyogre that's lurking in the back and if my pot goes for a sludge bomb here it would not be the best situation ever power gem okay yep incineral okay it's all that's really helping out there you turn not so good oh man oh dude that is that is brutal that you turn damage okay whole all incoming inbound right um tailwind does pitter out pitter pitter now do we just fusion bolt the nilega i think we've got to chase that down we've got to get rid of it if we can and just switch in incineral we've got to keep ludic all around for if that kyogre's in the back which i probably expected to be getting an intimidate onto that all whole all's going to be good it's just the risk of a sacred fire now um like i say i think cure is probably strong enough to take a power like a power gem the double up into it maybe no maybe intimidate does help but maybe i'm underessering cure and black as well at the same time i just feel nilego way more than i probably should but i have a good respect for it so that's that's the other thing power gem coming out gonna be in yet oh that does so much damage tailwind okay that's fine that's fine that is all right because we'll get the nilego now now the next thing we've got to deal with is the the kyogre stall out the street because kyogre's gonna hit the field now for sure incineroid incineroid you say this makes it a bit easier for us because now i've got an easy enough switch into hot all um i think what i'm gonna do is protect cure and white and i am going to bring in hot all for incinero then the next turn we've got the potential switch out with cure into incinero to get a double intimidate onto that hot all intimidate onto your poison incinero and we can start chucking our break birds once again with hot all and it does have protecting this build as well so it makes it a little bit easier to kind of get achieve a good board position i should say so incinero going out for us hot all coming in look at these hot alls in tandem synchronized flying it's beautiful okay we do protect there's the fake out perfection and sacred fire yeah so that's not so bad it's not so bad um let's get a good old incinero back onto the field and let's go and did we go recover here that's the other thing like i could just recover um kind of like the idea of just doing that because it means hot all's gonna potentially stick around a bit longer although the opposing hot all's minus two so i'm not massively worried about that i'm gonna break i'm just gonna brave bird the incinero slot because with the fake out we can we can recover the next day okay so i get the intuitive cycle back onto the hot all onto the incinero probably see you turn from there's the sacred fire yeah just checking that slot i'm gonna do too much to a fire cat platelets hmm doubling up now switches it kind of screams more and more and more like the um the kayoga's just not here do you get the brave bird kayoga's definitely here i know who were kidding okay but that incinero is definitely in range this next turn of another brave bird um i don't really want to fake it out though that's the problem um i'm gonna just you turn out onto the hot all and i'm gonna just brave bird again into incinero so if i fake out i proc a berry i don't pick up the knockout onto it whereas if i yeah i do this there's a lot like the platelets should be that minimal at this point on to either told it that we've got it shouldn't proc the berry the recoil i'm hoping hmm it doesn't feel like it's that close to proc in the berry but i could be wrong i could be wrong and it could over of course it could crit so that's the other big thing here or the whole could protect snot i mean it's not ideal that we're not actually getting out on incinero out especially when the kayoga's there definitely sitting lurking in the back because now hot all definitely tailwinds and kayoga just attacks and lulie's knockout but i mean the whole all yeah kayoga the opposing hot was minus two so i mean got that kind of going for us i guess uh we've got a sack incinero i think now you can try a snarl a snarl would be handy if we can get a snarl off and let's get to protect see what this kayoga is if it's scoffed or not so protect kayoga waterspout scoffed i think i think it's scoffed hopefully we don't see a tailwind tailwind would be disastrous but it would make sense for my opponent to set up an end game for the lulie coming in right lulie probably i think when they assault us we probably do take we're probably to take a waterspout but we can always fake out and brave bird the kayoga yeah let's do that because your opposing hot all probably target down on lulie here if we can get some damage onto this kayoga just to weaken that waterspout it gives cure and black a little bit more of a chance when it comes onto the field but we're so low health with cure and black after taking that power gem it's it's really difficult because like yeah it's just the margins aren't the best right now but the rain is helping cure and black against the sacred fires at least there's a fake out curve a flinch z move of course this will be into hot all minus two should take us down i think hmm and our only hope now is that ludicolo is faster than the hot all in this tailwind that is our only hope if we can damage this kayoga enough with a grass knot then cure him can deal with the hall come on ludi do it for the team prove me wrong about how i feel about you in this format please you dancing pineapple you know you want to do this i know you can take the waterspout you've got an assault vest you're ready for the assault you can take it come on ludi let's do this ludi why oh come on well i mean there's there's just no coming back from this now pineapple head i mean to be fair to be fair it was a pretty tough match we could have maybe played it a little differently places you don't get the double protect in the waterspout will be enough telling you though the nigh lego we identified from the start we had nothing to hit it super effectively and it did enough to allow the kayoga and the whole auto just clean up at the end there but good game to my opponent and we'll quickly fly over to our next game hopefully it doesn't take too long to find the opponent ah yeah i mean it's a really tough match up nigh lego is one of those those pokemon when you're building teams in the moon series in particular it's not something that you kind of springs to mind straight away think dang i need to have that nigh lego check because otherwise i mean you are playing hot all but i mean at the same time it's not so popular so it's one of those pokemon you can easily forget about but never mind we'll move into our next one which you got straight away so let's have a look ah this looks tasty we've got incinero ludicolo kayoga whimsicott sogaleo and malamar so malamar for you guys out there that don't know because there might be a few of you it's a psychic dark type it gets contrary as well it gets access to superpower so it's it's a pretty good pokemon um right what are we gonna do though how good is cure and black in this game i mean outside of the sogaleo it's pretty decent doesn't do too bad against it well it does really good against the kayoga good against the the ludi malamar it's not too concerned about um what's our finny got let's have a quick gander so nature's madness heal pulse here's icy wind okay here's could be decent i guess definitely the nature's madness we're gonna bring finny in this game um i don't think we see the kayoga lead i'm gonna bring her up top i'm gonna bring ludi and i'm not gonna bring in tim there it's pretty useless anyway it's like it would be good against the sogaleo but it didn't really affect that because of the full matter body we're not gonna do anything but proc the contrae on the malamar um and the incineroar yeah it would be useful but i mean we can deal with incineroar we've probably faced more incineroar than we've faced any other pokemon on the channel in the combination of the sun and the moon series it'd be interesting to know to know that like we've probably faced quite a lot of arcanine i can imagine from the 2017 season but probably not as much as we faced incineroar which is every game every game maybe not this one though maybe my opponent didn't bring it we're gonna see the sogaleo the women's ago come out for my opponent so uh the misty train's a little bit hindering to us because we would like to secrify the sogaleo and burn it but at the same time we can't have it all can we um okay so they've got to expect tailwind i think uh they've got to be a little bit worried about a sacred fire i'm just gonna i think i'm gonna icy wind and i'm gonna brave bird no i'm not i'm gonna sacred fire the women's ago could brave bit it but i really don't want to take the recoil and i think the sogaleo switch is out or protect it and we probably see a tailwind from the women but let's see we'll soon find out sogaleo withdraws you see kaya oh my oh no okay and wimmy so we're just literally just we're just giving the uh the the good old malmar oh we're not we can get away with it by the skin of our teeth okay that's fine gotta worry about rockslide on malmar because it does does learn rockslide um i think we need to buy this that and we have to readjust we have to readjust rockslides like one of those things it's really not ideal for us to be um facing down against okay do we bring in ludi we get the faker the next turn which isn't too bad yeah i just worry worry a lot about rockslide here from malmar on call not ideal and it does hit this time okay so here we go malmar speedy gonzalez yep speed rose by one goes for the knockoff okay interlude you just get rid of that assault rest it could have been a lot worse we're seeing leftovers on wimmy which is an interesting choice we're gonna have to switch out um let's bring in curem and fake out the malmar and i don't even care about getting on call locked with ludi just to stop this malmar from doing anything going into this next turn it's gonna be pretty important for us as we see it till wind but then again we don't want to take any unnecessary damage with curem black do we nearly said white there's a fake out till wind yeah superpower is the one thing that we have to worry about quite a lot from this malmar i mean and it's just gonna boost and boost and boost we need to get tap a finny and haze it let's just scold and get some damage onto it because superpower is going to come into the finny here no doubt about it yeah uncle ludi the boosts ah wimmy why do you do this this is why leftovers are so good um let's his let's switch to hall hall and let's hope we don't see a rock slide okay wimmy gonna switch out ludicolor coming in hmm if we see a rock slide here we're done but at least wimmy's left the field oh malamore protecting huh the hay is coming in super handy though there and now it disappears from the field so we'll protect we'll nature's badness the malamore and we'll just protect her all because we haven't got the wimmy on the field now so we're not so worried about the the uncle coming in but we might like knowing that finny doesn't really carry protect it's kind of a safe toilet for the the fake out as well so my opponent could take advantage of this but at the same time we've just got to protect this hall try and get some damage onto this malamore the next turn scald and just mindless is this malamore doing knockoff potentially okay trick room now we want the icy wind as the tailwind pit is out that's kind of nice hmm now there'll be more indication now that feel like we've got to read readjust again let's let's go for the icy wind and get ludi back on the field it's just a revolving door of pokemon because i just don't know what to expect from this team there's them and there's another knockoff scald as well yep doubling in not so okay but dealable oh you come on icy wind finny i thought we got past this finny i thought we got past this obviously not um right i mean we can heal pulse a good old ludi to keep it around a little bit longer might not be a bad idea to be honest um and just go for that icy wind once again just to kind of screw over the malamore but it's actually slower but it targets the why didn't i why didn't i fake out with ludi what did i actually do with ludi i i don't even know what i've clicked this is all finny's fault this oh i see winded okay okay yeah heal pulse i see yeah just so confused so confused um all right we will switch into hall and we will scald the malamore which might be enough now to take it down we've got to worry about a potential gigadrain from the opposing ludicolor but hopefully it attacks the finny switch it does and hopefully this scald is enough to take down this malamore want some malamores out the question ugly picture still not enough burn yes burn come on ludi you're pulling it back for the team but is that a lumberry no it's a super berry okay that's still all right because we take that like a champ like a champ we say okay right the burn i think brave bird's gonna be enough to get that malamore now i'm pretty i'm feeling pretty pretty certain about that although we have to take a scald from the ludicolor how many turns of trick room we got left okay one yeah we have to break the malamore to get rid of it um we could just grasp not the ludi as well let's do this yeah we'll get scalded into hall but it's not the end of the world i mean it does so much damage critical hit we're not not getting the rubber the green in this one are we really this has to take down the malamore but after the defense boost you've got to think probably doesn't you need to double into it super par it's fine we get we get our cure him in although now the malamores uber fast which is not what we wanted at all um yeah it's got knockoff which is not ideal let's get finney in it's our only hope and icy wind plus the burn should get it i think that's all we can hope for all we can hope for right now it's not looking too good it's icy wind and let's hope that the malamore attacks or to protect its beloved pineapple head that it's got partnered next to it can we do it can we do it opponents really taking their time though aren't they i mean i don't mind i'm just kind of pointing it out because it feels like every turn is like dragging dragging dragging knockoff into the hole please let the icy wind hit finney you did well hopefully this is enough plus the burn to take down the malamore giga drain yeah the malamore doesn't go down to burn here we're royally royally screwed and we we need to double protect that's the only thing we can hope for now double protect and then we do that oh and then the kyogre comes in and yeah we can't really do anything against it so we go for the protect we go for the protect because yeah if we get it the malamore goes down the wimmy comes in it on core locks us in to protect with which everything it would like to do you still have the z move on cure them but i mean we kind of need the electric z move rather than anything else we get it we get it so that that's that's a huge plus for us knockoff at least we can say we took down the malamore and now it enter the wimmy i wonder if an icinium z is enough to get the ludi potentially could be you're going to lock anything in it's got to be that that cure and white now do we recover no we break it we get rid of the whimsy cop and we go for the the icinium z the subzero slammer into ludi because we'll outspeed it now oh even better i can't believe it i'm nearly choking okay i don't know why you protect wimmy there when you've got a perfect chance to lock in either target to protect but you might i don't know yeah i don't know but we're gonna get this this ludi this should be enough at least we get the z move off this episode as well which is ideal easy peasy okay now brave bird yeah kind of protect a little recovered there but the thing is recovering there is a bit dicey as well because we get locked into recover and if kayaba comes out into the field it's still no good i mean we can still oh it's a course it's so gollio what am i worrying about hmm i know what i'm worried about is we've got to recover with hot all we needed to recover there if we are a bit smarter about things and hopefully we can get nice being often to the wimmy if we lose hot all here we're screwed okay get the brave bird that makes a lot of sense we should have protected there oh actually faster than the so gollio okay can hot all see out these encore turns no phytonium z the super par okay a downfall was predicting and forgetting that the so gollio was in the back but that is because everything else took so long i just lost concept of what was in the back so in my defense that was there but i should have definitely protected with the whole of this last turn taking down the wimmy kind of would have expected the so gollio to be faster than a cure in black because we've got no speed investment here but we do prop the berry so there is still hope there is still a lot of hope here since you'll strike how many turns of encore we are we gonna have to deal with oh we can only break bird we can only break bird can we still do can we do this come on if we can do this this makes everything all all right doesn't it it's a long episode today as well so gollio just protect one turn for no reason fly blitz super fly blitz super par probably got some steel strike you're taking recoil well i'm taking recoil right one or nine probably i mean may get away i don't think we're gonna get away with this maybe the encore doesn't end we need the encore to end oh it's so painful okay so we go down to it in like 70 76 and then 60 we might if the encore ends this next turn we can still do this for sure and we can still do it we can still do it i still believe so it's just right it depends how much this does though this will be more than a fly blitz oh and there's no recoil here on yeah we're not gonna we're not gonna be able to do it now we need another berry or crit the biggest crit in the world and the encore ends and so do our hopes and dreams um let's recover in case for some reason the Suggler protects but nah it's not never gonna never in a million years but very good game to my opponent um the whimsy cock causes loads of problems we had issues in our brain just remembering that there was no kayoga there just scared of it but nappo very good game and guys i hope you enjoyed it at home that is a homage to camera i'm sorry we didn't get the wins for you today my friend but it's been really fun featuring the team we've got the see the z move and this is the last fun week on the channel as well before we go though i will just say don't miss tomorrow's episode because out of all the janky teams that we've had the last couple of weeks tomorrow's one is extra special and a big shout out to our good friend johnny hacks so this tomorrow's episode is going to be the last one of the moon series so i'm hoping to make it an absolutely amazing one i hope you guys have a great day thank you so much for tuning in again and uh well hopefully see you for the last one on the moon series tomorrow but until then take care of yourselves have a great evening morning afternoon night whatever time of day it is and i'll see you then so until then okay and bye bye