 Hello friends and welcome back to another showdown special on the channel, we're going to be just playing around with this mega ray that we were playing around with in our last episode, it is banded, we've made a little bit of an adjustment here to the team, you can see I've taken the the scissor out and put a gastrodon in, I think the earth power attack, ground type attack is really useful, having something that kind of gets around boosting Xerneas and other boosting attackers is nice as well and it also gives us that trick room element that can operate there nicely, so we weren't really using the scissor very much so I feel like the gastrodon can provide us with a little bit more to go forward with and it deals with stack attacker as well, a lot better than scissor does so it gives us that little bit of an extra boost in those areas that we may be lacking from stuff that we saw in the last episode, the one thing that I do want to change though is we need to get rid of really waterfall on the Rayquaza, now I could go for earthquake, kind of tempted to go for it, it's just like I said in our last episode we don't really have anything else, it synergizes well where we can have earthquake freely firing off on the field, although earthquake is just nice for spread damage and you know what, I don't really like ever being locked into waterfall, so we'll go for it, it just gives us a nice spread attack, so we'll give it a test today, see how it goes, we'll jump straight into it and see how it gets on, we've got a first opponent, geez, Sableye, so we've got the duskman and groudon, Sableye obviously there because he's a Sableye man, right what I'm going to do here because I feel like Coco can be good but probably a late game after this thing goes alternate cross, but we need to watch out for the Imoongus in particular, Rayquaza's not bad here to be honest, Coco's quite good for the Sableye as well, kind of tempted to go, the only other thing I could do is if I expect Incineroar Finny lead and we could go Serena, Rayquaza and just go help and hand Dragnesen into the Finny turn one which might be quite a nice option, Gastrodon could be quite good here as well honestly, we'd have to be a bit careful around the Imoongus but other than that it really doesn't have too much of a hard time against anything, so it makes sense to bring and do we want our own Incineroar or do we want our own Incineroar? I mean I feel like I've got enough to deal with Groudon honestly like Incineroar could be good just a little bit of support against the rest of the team and it does pretty well against the majority of stuff that we're facing down here so click in with that, if I just knock the timer off start timer come on let's go the timer's not working anyway hopefully it doesn't take too long to get into this one why is the timer not working oh my internet is down so yes I'll have to come back to this my friends it'll be right back so we're back friends uh yeah my home wi-fi thanks Virgin is doing its usual but we're back up and running so thank goodness for that we can get into this first one start timer I've gone up against Groudon, Ray and Stax as well so this one looks like a really good one for Gastrodon to be honest there's like outside of the requires that possibly the finny there's not really too much of threatens the Gastrodon too much so we we should be all right here uh crowbar obviously a bit of a pin in the butt uh to deal with but Tabacoco Serena might be a nice lead here for us um with that fin we have to be a bit careful obviously with the Groudon um in the back but Ray's a nice switch in there and then what do we want as the last one we want the Gastrodon probably Gastrodon let's go with it um so this is the tricky thing because if we go for the crowbar then um the Stax gets its trick removed but I don't really mind that too much because if we just bolt switch out onto the crowbar and faint there to break a potential sash uh we should be able to just get Gastrodon in if the tilling does go up but we're not going to see that just as a fade when we when uh we don't win the speed tie a bit of a shame there but we get rid of the crowbar this is not ideal for us really because um one of the things we want to be able to do is um uh not give my opponent the opportunity to get something uh like Groudon in until we end and make use of all of these turns uh okay so Groudon coming in um we could go ice beam into the ray but I feel like you probably double target into the Gastrodon here rather than anything else it could be cheeky and go for a u-turn out onto the ray um and it's probably better doing that to be honest just because if we it's better than just switching in Ray Plaza um and then losing a lot of health that we don't want to be losing here so hopefully we do see oh sword stance that's not ideal at all um but bandit ray um extreme speed yeah we could I mean we can go extreme speed here that's the thing um just we've got to manage this quite well because we need one of these two to deal with the Groudon um ideally we'd want Serena helping hand extreme speed onto the opposing ray but it's not really going to happen so did we switch in Cocoa and sacrifice it probably the better option Omega Evolve and go for an extreme speed into the Ray Plaza it might extreme speed us and not having intimidate ourselves here is hindering us a little bit we're going to see the stack attack could come in for the Groudon it's fine um do get the extreme speed so one more will get okay that's fine now we do have the ability to get Serena out it prevents the opposing ray from going for that um attack because it can't extreme speed itself and we can faint extreme speed into it if we'd like to which might be a better option the thing is it could switch into Groudon which is a big problem here but with the boosts is it wanting to do that okay no we're gonna see that in faint going after so it wouldn't have worked anyway okay the trick room going up this is fine because I mean we've got um got gas around the back to come in um if we can get some damage off into the stack attack and now be really nice and do you imagine the Groudon going press those blades eruption maybe eruption you know uh it could go firepunch as well so we're gonna take a lot of damage from a rock slide and it's probably better off if we preserve yeah i'm gonna switch and gas it on here gravity oh okay it's not that not ideal and the Groudon's actually slower than that uh hmm we can help behind earth power and that probably puts the groudon in range for an extreme speed that's desirable it's fine it gets a very gastrodon coming through with that expert belt man what a beast okay well that solves that that was surprising okay uh good game to our opponent I didn't expect us to kind of get through that one like it did but gastrodon it completely surprised me there gastron's so good I'm just saying that now obviously I love that like you I'm so reactive like as soon as I get one good knockout it's like it's the best pokemon ever we never want to deviate from this pokemon ever again okay we've got uh x-ray the mirror but we've got empoleon crobat and cocoa and then cineral here um zernius kind of scares me a little bit and bringing my own zernius is not really a great idea against like crobat and empoleon which I can't really do too much against um probably better off with cocoa here um and I do want gastrodon just for the fact that if the zernius does get boosted up at least we've got clear smoke to try and get rid get around it that way um should we go cocoa do I want incineral here I'm not sure if I do really do need it uh it could be it could be decent at the same time I don't want to really proc the defiant ability might go serena gastrodon and ray yeah let's see okay well this isn't the worst because we can faint twinkle tackle the ray quasi might be nice way of just getting rid of that straight away um the crobat like it's going for the speed type the whole time you saw that last match if cocoa doesn't win it it's going to get it's going to end up anyway so I'm not really too worried about the offensive pressure the crobat generally puts on teams as well isn't okay that's a little bit annoying that we're not going to get the ray we'll get some decent damage on to the incineral we do win the speed type here of course and there's the tail end incineral still shouldn't add speed at cocoa so we will be fine uh gone for just I don't mind about the serena taking the flare blitz here just being able to get rid of the crobat might be nice uh oh we don't actually get rid of it okay so we'll bring in ray of our own because then we got the band extreme speed that we can make use of there's a flare blitz um incineral yeah okay and we'll bring in cocoa again because we can both switch out on the incineral go for the extreme speed into the crobat there and then get gassered on onto the field and it's a nice time to get rid of the tailwind um on my opponent's end but you like denying the crobat another tailwind it's kind of what we want to be doing uh the problem is that the zernius is going to be in the back for my opponent I would imagine you brought zernius this match I don't know why you wouldn't bring zernius against this team of ours that's always going to be a threat to deal with okay Rayquaza coming in don't mind this at all because it gives us a free extreme speed onto it and two extreme speeds should be enough to pick up the knockout there we're gonna oh are you kidding we don't get the incineral is that a salt vest it must be i'm gonna say snarl it's not the worst um because we can just extreme speed again and just switch back into cocoa yeah I think go back into cocoa now does the ray mega evolve in team speed it's trying to maybe but you know so you turn gonna come out we'll see what comes in to zernius this time around yeah zernius and incineral so my opponent set this up pretty nicely that's the thing like uh here it's a little bit awkward we'll get gastrodon in um and we'll go for a probably better just getting damage off onto the zernius here if we can yeah there's a fake out uh we can't deny the the jmancy here no matter what we do so there's the jmancy um now we can go extreme speed in clear smog clear smog um extreme speed and in extreme speed if we get a clear smog as well um because gastrodon should take okay we're gonna see snarl that's fine should still take the dazzle maybe not though maybe gastrodon gets moonblasted but you moonblaster gastrodon you leave us up in front of their extreme speed on ray and two extreme speeds against zernius and then we can really close this one up pretty easily from there so oh it's so close dazzle oh we get taken down we need a bulkier gastrodon we need bulkier gastrodon 100% now we've got koko to come in and this is the first loss i think we've had with the team since we kicked off with it so um my opponent played it well they got that position that bold position up which we really want to try and avoid uh in these situations sorry about that someone outside my house honking that horn um yeah and there we go good game to my opponent yeah i think one of the things it might be nice to look at now is if we go over to damage calculator uh can i pull it up now we'll go over to mr jake white thank you sir for this as always um gastrodon um and let's have a look at what we can do this is what i kind of like to do i know we're cutting away from actually playing but i feel like this sort of thing is quite valuable sometimes i'll just go with the standard zernius to get these calcs dazzling gleam i mean we should have been pretty close but that's on this set and i'm gonna have to go because my doll's going so um i will be right back my friends okay friends i'm back that was awkward tash has actually went out the house today she's taking my wallet and my keys with with her so i'm actually locked in the house so i had to get the mail through the window which is a little bit awkward but yeah getting back to um to this so i mean one of the things i really liked in our last episode was the the ability with the expert belt with a helping hand boost to get kind of the ground on uh which we need earth powerful come on so okay we can we can totally do this um okay 108 that's not bad um bold what are we taking i think we probably take some out of the the uh here one of six and then we'll go back to this series i don't think we're ever going to be able to without a massive amount of investment to take the moonblast but it's this dazzling gleam that i do like and i like the fact that we can we can take it quite comfortably like if we have this investment in our last game we would have been able to to take that so i think what we'll do we'll change that so uh two four four sixty eight was it sixty eight or am i just being two four four sixty eight yeah one eight eight four one eight eight right well yeah we'll try that one and we'll see how we can get on going forward so we've made a little tweak there we'll get straight back into it um again as always the team's down in the description i'll put the the final team that we kind of finish up playing with today in the description so you can you've got that if you want to try this team out we've got our next team in lunala and requiser supporting cast in in fernip katana madibus and tapu finny so tapu koko really good here um the only thing is that we can't get a terrain up and as soon as we want to um because of the tapu finny uh there is no intimidate from my opponent so it kind of makes me want to bring that requires a serene lead so we can help and how to get rid of whatever we want to in one really um do we want in the back though i think incinero is going to be useful here uh just for the the lunala katana and the intimidate for the other physical attackers on the team and then um maybe if we're bringing incinero we want to bring zernius as well although like i say tapu koko could be quite useful here um nah we'll go zern go zern get the timer on um all right i wonder well i'll help in hand dragging this in we'll definitely get the madibus no matter what no matter what and the in the infinite can attack a serene and get rid of it but it gives us a free switch into setting all the next and if it wants to go down that route but it's got to feel pretty threatened right now and you'd imagine maybe the infinite goes out to finny but we're not going to see that uh oh it just goes for a protect so even better bye bye madibus there's one down can we get all four pokemon with um with reqaza be nice if we could wouldn't it let's see what's going to come in now maybe ray did we just go dragon ascent faint the problem is here like one of the things that i do think is probably better to do is preserve our ray for an end game i do worry about assault stands being set up but i mean same time are you gonna go for that i could switch into incinero here and um um pull in zirnius double switch and then we got the fake out geo the next turn which might be nice to go for because i think you target down our reqaza with your ray oh you just protect huh and flablets all right well this is this is pretty free now because we can just fake out the rain geo man see the infinite uh can flablets again but it's not really doing very much i mean there's the yeah i don't know why you protect in front of us doing this but that's by the bye we'll go for uter and then doesn't leave and that should clear both and then you've got the the lunala to come in but if we pivot out we can potentially get ray back in i don't know if we'll be able to get the uter enough to be honest though we should be able to remove everything from the field now and it looks like it's going to be a gg once again which should be good back on track come on guy let's go okay there we go what's cartana um we did get the uter which is nice but i mean it's not really helping my opponent out at all because unless the cartana is scarfed and even then it's not at speed nizernius is it so it's pretty much it's pretty much done now we've locked it locked and looted we've got for an extreme speed into the ray and get this dazzle off and that should be game and my opponent left but we'll even see good game just to be a sport man about it and we'll go into our next one see how we get on i really want to come up against that zernius kind of build again um and i guess a little ladder at the minute is pretty good you might get a wish here uh just to see how the gastronome can perform against that i wonder if we've got like a psych up variant here we do have we vile incinero as supporting cast i think this is a pretty good matchup where we can potentially go for a zernius geomancy uh switching to serena here um although we've got to be careful because lunala probably has roll probably has psych up the moongus with its rage powder as well can be a bit problematic um so all in all actually koko may be better the only problem with bringing koko up top is the moongus but we can get around that with ray bring serena because it seems like it could be very important here um and do we go gastrodon just for the clear smog onto the boosting pokemon that we're going to probably see come out this is why i want to bring zernius more than anything just so i can kind of go toe to toe with my opponent a little bit um we just bring zernius in the back or not could we bring incinero might be better and then we've got snarl that we can utilize and it then hits him in this a little bit harder so yeah maybe go that root let's see how we get on here so we've out let's go let's go for the switch into serena mega revolve and dragon is sent than zernius we should take an attack from the weevil and it's likely that it's going to go for a faker here rather than anything else anyway it's whether or not the zernius goes for its geomancy fling no oh no oh we're screwed we're screwed the fling the fling is totally ah my opponent saw through it read us like a book helping hand we're gonna have to extreme speed i think just to get some damage or attempt to it's not going to be doing as much with this oh this is terrible get get our incinero in um i mean we can go for a snarl faint into the zernius expecting it to maybe protect and weevil come in on the incinero slot potentially they can't fake us out here but they can just go yeah so we might catch them out a little bit might i still feel like this is far too like too much for us to come back from here uh that fling play completely course off god will bring cocoa and will protect um and will go for another snarl i do feel like the weevil probably comes back in now though and then with access to fake out it can pretty much shut us down and this is the problem where there's fake me out in this turn i think it's not really ideal but we'll see how we go on um we can maybe win this game i don't know i don't know it depends what my opponent goes for here uh there's the dazzle so you turn what's coming in it's going to be the weevil guarantee it weevil yeah it's going to have access to that figure the next turn but i think cocoa should get through this next turn now it's not the end of the world um so i'm going to go for the twinkle tackle and i'm going to go for a flare blitz into the zernius here we aren't intimidated so i'd imagine a flare blitz will get the zernius we could just dazzling glean it in case you want to go for yeah dazzle is probably better with cocoa let me get the weevil get some chip onto the zernius hence where you want to fake out yeah so um we'll last we take still in this the special attack drop there is horrendous though um it's pretty obvious what we're going to do now though flare blitz into the zernius imagine the weevil it could have low kick as well we've had a cool pokemon moonblast knock off that's fine these are assault vests but we get rid of the zernius the problem is now that we've got the incinerator to come back in with its fake out uh the special attack drop as well on our cocoa is not ideal um we can go for the double protect go for flare blitz into the weevil here now we don't get it so that's game okay good game to my pony let's have one more before we finish up today see if we can get back on track with things uh okay dusk main and zernius then we've got kangus concineral hmm this could be actually a good one for zernius incineral serena and then ray yeah ray ray let's go ray in our last slot yes we'll go with these four and see how we get on oh a bit disappointed with that last one to be honest i think um it just shows that weevil weevil is a weird pokemon as well like it's it's still very good utility like and that fling with the uh king's rock or resa claw or whatever is uh is really powerful gets around any sort of serena shenanigans or what i'd like to say uh okay the type of finny here changes a lot so i'm not actually gonna go for the geo i'm gonna just go for you turn into the finny and i think we'll go for a dazzling game i'm not gonna go for the geomancy here um it's too risky going for it in front of it a finny that has potentially haze and then you've got pokemon in the back like mungus uh with clear smog and you've still got the dusk main as well which hasn't mega evolved yet so we're just gonna see pika magus madness it's a bit of a bad turn on our end to be honest uh but we're bringing ray because now we've got the opportunity to go for the dragon ascent uh there's no threat of intimidate and we can go for this geomancy here um so we should be able to remove the finny from the field with the dragon ascent the the previous turn we would have been better just protecting zhenius we would have been in a much better position we should still take a flare blitz from the incineroar but we're kind of kicking ourselves for putting ourselves in this position anyway so we'll get this dragon ascent off like i said bandage should get the type of finny from here don't think the critical hit mattered at all we are gonna see uh ourselves be able to get this geomancy off i'd imagine incineroar comes back in now for that fake out support but uh we do have serena in the back that you can switch in i'm pretty sure um to get around this and just go for a new blast into that zhenius and that should pick it up before it's able to get the geomancy off and it kind of shuts down my opponent's kind of get any traction in this game oh i'm not seeing the geomancy here uh okay helping hand dazzling gleam and i wonder what my point well it's got to be the dusk main hasn't it in the back that's what my best guess would be but we're just sitting pretty good at the moment so we'll see those zhenius protect here uh incineroar salt vest i'd imagine does take us down that i mean at this point it's kind of fine isn't it um because we've got our rate to come in uh we can probably better off going for a faint into zhenius picking up the knockout there and going for the dragon ascent the faint should get the zhenius from this range i'm only going for it i don't expect it to protect just going for it because of the priority there we're going to see the dusk main coming um we'll lock in get the incineroar which is fine um and to be honest whatever happens now we're fine we can go for the faint dragon ascent into zhenius if we like um and we've got incineroar on the back to come in and deal with this ultranocrosmata or dusk main whichever one it is so i think we'll be all right whatever happens especially with the assault vest we do see the protect there on the zhenius the faint coming out is enough so we will right last turn get the man that does a lot of damage doesn't it uh yeah and photon guys are coming out into serena wrong play my friend um but not really as well at the same time um i could go for the help and hand dragon ascent here but it could ultra burst and attack our ring and take us down which it is gonna do yeah so we'll just go for that u-turn now which is the better play gets us that incineroar in and a serena in and uh we're sitting pretty nice now to just snarl faint and uh that should pick up the victory for us um and serena coming out on top excellent good game to my opponent and we're over to 1200 so uh yeah we'll finish it up there i hope you guys have enjoyed the little tweaks today um and we'll come back tomorrow we'll see if there's anything else we can maybe change up and see if we can progress along be nice to get to like 1500 by the end of the week we're not going to have that many games to like push much higher but uh if this is a popular series with you guys and something you'd like to see um going forward obviously we'll be back with our school of hard knocks series um next week so that'll be on the battle spot ladder but if the showdown ladder is something that you'd like to see just outside as an additional kind of bit of content because we'll get through a lot more matches here and we can get through teams a bit quicker and test things a bit easier on here then do let me know down the comment section obviously leave a like on the video uh it does let me know and indicate that this is the sort of content that you'd like to see going forward and i'm totally happy to do this as well it's uh it's pretty easy for me to sit down and just to start recording chatting rubbish at you guys so uh thanks for tuning in let me know about if you want to see this continued when i come back and uh i'll see you all for the next one until then take care bye bye