 Hello friends and welcome back to another showdown special on the channel. My name is Leo So no, no, so Cyrus and we're gonna be continuing on with this a rick waza Zornia's team that we've been playing the last couple of days as always the team is down in the description below We haven't made any tweaks since our last episode, but we'll continue on today See if there's anything else that we would like to tweak going forward I'm still thinking about possibly putting something like low kick all on the incineroar high jump kick on this arena Maybe going back to bury on the incineroar and Would you believe it? I think this is a similar team to what we played in our Previous episode so the fling whimsicot Sorry fling we vile. Why am I talking whimsicot here? Which is a little bit awkward to get around so How are we gonna deal with it? Incineroar is quite nice here because we saw how useful it was just throwing the snarls up constantly on our opponent in the last game and Do I want to go my own zernius? I think zernius is quite nice in general to have here We definitely want ray and do I want because there's so much Emphasis around fake out support on this my opponent's team. It might be nice to have the the serena here as well Yeah, and I think I'll lock in with that and we'll go with this I think we've got enough to kind of tackle What my opponent's got the question is like whether or not we want Gastrodon in for the clear smog like and I keep coming back to thinking how useful Gastrodon could be in this corn We've seen it perform so well in these x-ray teams previously But I don't know. I don't know like it's so conflicting with serena And it serena is not really a slot right now that I feel like I want to give up for a moongus The Queen of Majesty ability is just too good in my opinion. Anyway, just to kind of give up so freely So we'll stick with it at the minute Keep tweaking away with this team as well because I think like I originally started with cocoa on the team Then I switched out cocoa I put tapafin in there and it was nice, but it was really passive Weathers the cocoa gives you that really good pressure against things like mega salamence ultra necrosis Opposing Rayquaza's as well and we do we do see the the weevil is only as come out for my opponent So I mean we've got the trading fake out situation here, which we can go for so I will just go for the fake out here and I just go for the Geomancy as well without Xerneas Be interested to see what the weevil goes for here. We know it's probably got Fake out fling. We know it's got knockoff as well. Actually knockoff is a bit of a problem for us to deal with um Which makes things a little bit more awkward for us Because I don't really want to lock into the Geomancy and then have a two-tone Geomancy if my opponent's able to get theirs Off the next turn although they have to kind of expend your turn doing that. We'll go for it Anyway, because if they go for the knockoff here Then we've get the fake out onto their Xerneas, so they have to go for their Geomancy the next turn I'd imagine they'll probably go for the knockoff now, which is the big thing So this is where I want to snarl and just dazzle I think rather than get caught out with trying to get a Geomancy boost up of our on and losing out to a knockoff weevil We're not actually going to see that which is a little bit frustrating But at the same time we're gonna get some damage off. There's a Geomancy Okay, and I think what we could potentially do this next turn is preserve our Xerneas switch into We now go for another snarl. The Incineroar is definitely going to go for a fake out here to try and support the Xerneas I don't expect the Xerneas to protect this turn because of the fake out So it does give us the opportunity to go for another snarl here, which is nice And really just neuter that Xerneas' ability to do anything. We go for another snarl and go for a U-turn potentially U-turn on the Incineroar, yeah Okay, so we'll take that with both Nice should get a U-turn off and this opens the door for us to get re-quazering and we can go for potentially Well, I say that the weevil is going to come in now for my opponent, but the Xerneas is pretty weak Okay, the Lunala are coming in. That's fine. I really don't mind that and I probably don't want to go for the extreme speed just yet I probably want to go for another snarl and switch Re-into Serena again, I think Just because Serena's Kind of like the fodder I can afford to get rid of right now. We're gonna see the Incineroar come back in my opponent Moonblast that's fine. I mean Serena takes out like a champ, doesn't it? And the Xerneas is pretty useless right now We can go for I think a U-turn into the Incineroar. I'm possibly W-turn there. I'm gonna see another That's all come out. Procaberry, I'm just Incineroar, which is fine. We'll get re-in now The idea is going to be to get Potentially Serena onto the field And if the weevile comes in which I'd imagine it probably is going to be the weevile now Could be the Lunala, weevile. U-turn there's going to be nice damage They're bringing Xerneas now and go for our own GM ANSI. The problem is doing that Yeah, I don't really want to do that. I'll bring in Serena. It's just that knock-off threat. I do worry about quite a bit Alright, let's go for a helping hand Mega Evolve Extreme speed into Xerneas. We should take whatever the weevile's gonna throw at us. They can't fake us out There we go. Bye-bye Xerne. So Excellent. Fling comes out now and we do win so Good games, sir. We take this one. We take those. So that's a nice start for us today We get back around. Incineroar really coming in Really important for us in that one and I think just starting with it and getting those Snarls off from the start just shows how useful it is against opposing Xerneas. So we've got a reindeer coat coming up next And a support cast of Salamence are double-intimidated there with the Incineroar and then double tapoos as well Um Gastrodon gonna be quite useful here. I think our on top of coke. We're gonna be quite useful as well Gotta worry about a pros and Xerneas though. I mean our own Xerneas isn't too bad if we go Xerneas Incineroar Serena we could go Serena here But then we're not bringing Gastrodon and I think we could probably do with we don't need Gastrodon. We can go Ray I think yeah Let's do this Um I mean do we just Geomancy and fake out that the opposing Xerneas here? I mean there's no reason not to I mean there's Xerneas and my opponents then could Protect I guess but I mean we get a free Geomancy off and I don't really mind that they get a tail wind up at all here. Um Because now We just dazzle and snarl I think Yeah, and they they're probably gonna go for oh, they're not Okay, I mean this is like super fine as long as our snarl hits the opposing Xerneas Yeah Xerneas walls begin Um, and then we just go dazzle and switch in Serena because the Incineroar is undoubtedly gonna go for that fake out This is why Serena's so good at just limit your opponent It's options to try and disrupt your side of the field and now you gotta dazzle off get rid of the Xerneas chunk that Incineroar nicely and they've got one turn Tail wind left the Kyogre gonna come in. Um but like Still super fine, isn't it really we could uh help and dazzle As well as speedball Yeah, and we'll probably just do that Switching out Incineroar to the men's gonna lose that Kyogre taking a big chunk and just the yeah What's about which we eat up for breakfast and a big game Good game, sir. Okay, we'll be we'll carry on Uh under ultra ultra ladder man is a username. Um, so we've got our next opponent Duskman and Kyogre always a core. I really like and one geo was running I think earlier in the season whenever I played him and I really did like this core Kyogre obviously gives the duskman a lot of protection Paired up here with the garrados for the intimidate support, which is an interesting choice could be potentially mega Um, this podcast to follow me on rage powder users redirection pokemon toga kiss and mungus You've got tail and support there from the toga kiss potentially the cart owner as well um, but I do like koko here It does a lot of work against majority of this team except that a mungus koko and requires that i'm gonna lead with and I think in the back I'm sorry if you can hear shouting in the background tasha just come back with my keys and all that so Um, what we're gonna have in the back. I think we will have um zernius and Let's see In cinema, I can't think I can even hear fear in the background crying. This is probably gonna go This is all gonna go wrong. Um, right. Let's go volt switch and let's go. Oh, we could go Could we go earthquake? Oh, we got what we got. No, we can't go earthquake Um, let's go volt switch into the toga kiss. Uh, we could go dragon ascent as well And we could go crunch into the dusk min It's just it's I don't think you follow me here. I'm gonna go crunch. Actually. Yeah See if we can do this don't protect Okay, okay. We're probably gonna see a trick room. I think we'll bring an incinero anyway, so that'll help us out Massively crunch Ah, it's pretty wiffy really and a weakness policy activated. There's a trick room. Okay. Um The attack boost isn't really ideal for us here. What do we do? I'm gonna have to u-turn. I think out sacrifice something I don't want to keep around probably cocoa more than anything. So I'm gonna bring in zernius here Uh, we'll go for u-turn out on to the Amungus and we'll bring in zernius here. Like I say, I want to preserve cocoa later in this match Um, okay, we're gonna see then the cosmos just go full. Um, okay, the amungus gone for a spore here It's not gonna work my friend. Okay, cocoa in Um, and we'll protect cocoa bring in incinero again We've got to just kind of maneuver around the board as best we can at the minute get rid of this weakness Policy boost and listen across. I'm gonna worry about earth power as well on it because potentially has got access to that Uh, since you'll strike into the I'm not gonna do too much here. So the sludge bomb is a bit of an issue But we can bring red back in here and go for a faker into that Cross man just to shut it down. We're just trying to stall out these tailwind turns here Kyogre gonna hit the field It's fine. We could have went for a flare pit but unfortunately not gone for that. Um, that's fine I think we will go for a One turn of trick room left. We've done pretty well to get through this so far We could just extreme speed and snarl. Um, it might be nice just to really start damaging my opponent's side of the field We'll get this snarl off weak in the kyogre as in seal strike I'm not gonna do as much as we kind of expected to origin pulse. We do survive. So we're in a really Decent position here. Um, it's just about stopping this trick room now We can extreme speed the kyogre flare blitz into the necrosma There is the risk of the emugus or the toga kiss coming in on kyogre slot for sure But we'll put enough pressure on this kyogre now to protect our incineroar And the flare blitz should be enough. Yeah, we actually yeah, okay, that's fine. Um, yeah nice damage there Um But we're not going to be able to really deny my opponent getting another trick room up. That's the problem So we're probably better off. Oh, okay The moon is coming out. I think I'll switch into coco here. Um, and I'm going to pivot out Into I'm going to pivot you could see a tail wind potentially I want to get the terrain back up on the field and depending on Um Well, it might be better off getting zernius in now Just to get some damage on this toga kiss But we want to protect our air for later on. We're just going to see a rage powder There's a tail wind that's interesting because both these pokemon are going to be slower than Really Yeah, we'll bring it rain Because we've got the extreme speed that we can go for um But the moongus is the issue here, of course And let's bring in incineroar for coco How do we bring in it for coco? We'll just fold switch fold switch on the Togekiss and bring in the incineroar here. They think that would be a better play in general Slash Do just survive. We get rid of the togekiss, which is nice. The moongus what you're going to do We'll bring in zernius just because of that small threat there Sludge bomb coming out does a nice chunk. Um Tail wind a little bit of an issue But we do have fake out going into this turn. So we could potentially go for a geomancy here Um, and it might be the best thing to do with this access to fake out I don't think a sludge bomb will get zernius after the geomancy. I think we'll be all right Um, we should add speed. Let's see Is the moongus how fast is that? Okay, rage powder. That's fine. Um, yep geomancy And this should be all right because we can just flare blitz and my opponent just for fitting so Yeah, very good game and I will be right back my friends because I'm just going to pop downstairs and see I actually get my wallet in my case. So we'll be right back in a moment. So I'll see you in a second Right friends. We are back. So we'll get straight back into it now I have no idea about that last game even though it will seem like just a second ago you guys I'm coming back to it now. So I'll jump back into it I'm wondering whether or not to change up a team for the rest of the week But maybe it's good just to stick with it to see how far we can actually push it on the ladder That'll be quite good. Next. We've got ray ogre with sponkast incinero or tapu lele crobat and ferrithon um The lele causes quite a few issues for us, but I mean cocos still all right here kind of it will Determine whether or not lele is scoffed or not, whichever it's expected probably is um Serena's decent as well here The gastrodon is actually really good. The ferrithon causes a lot of issues of course um But I do like gastrodon a lot. I really do actually not yet. It's actually really quite good Um, I might bring incinero or cocos Um, I don't think I'm going to bring zonius here Gastrodon and ray I think are going to be the ones I think yeah, so we'll lock in with those We'll see where we go with it scoff lele is always one of those pokemon that always causes me so many issues Um When I'm building teams or something I kind of forget about the team building It's such an important pokemon to really incorporate within your building. I think you can put so much pressure on It is really frustrating to deal with right now. What do we do do go for a feak out and Just bolt switch into the crobat and the thing is though, we'll probably see the mega requiser Um, they probably will mega revolve. It could be Sulfes as well. I'm going to go for the twinkle tackle into it and I'm just going to go for you turn into the crobat here I want to keep incinero on the back get this intimidate back in on this ray in case it is a physical variant Here so it does mega revolve. We get the spew time we win. It is a sulfes ray So that's nice information for us. We are going to lose cocos unfortunately but it does give us the opportunity to Get our own ray in and get incinero back on to the field as well I'm in a nice position to go for an extreme speed into the ray coazer Although I feel like the ray coazer probably switches out here Um, we might be better going for a small mega revolve and dragon ascent into the Crobat The only problem here. I think would be super fine dragon ascent from the opposing ray Um, but it's quite risky going for that known that we can fake out The opposing ray anyway tap a lele going to come in That's fine taunt what Okay, I don't really understand why you would taunt the ray coazer, but there's snarl coming in So useful for us there problem is when ray comes back in now. Yeah, it's It's a little trickier. I will go for you to into the lele. We're switching gastrodome We'll preserve our ray. Our ray is going to be like the big kind of big gun for us here We need to make sure that we're making the most out of ray coazer going into these ladder turns to deal with everything That's part coming out doing some decent damage there and a z move into gastrodome. Do we take it? We do Wish we had a berry there and we're going to be able to get ray back in Um, I think I think I think we'll go for an extreme speed into ray coazer We'll bring in incinerole for gastrodome here Um, what do we do we? Oh, yeah, I mean, yeah, it works out better now actually doing this Okay, there's extreme speed in the ray. We'll get rid of it. We're all locked into We know that the the lele's Not scarred either. So I think that's quite a nice Into half we can just play but it's the ferrithon I don't probably see a moon blast from the lele But I want to Oh, could we just go for an extreme speed Into the lele is that going to be enough with the fly blitz probably it's probably a better player to be honest The extreme speed should get a lele from this range unless it's like super bulky And then the play that we were making where we're going to get ray out of here Is definitely a better player, but I'm I'm confident that we get the lele Uh, no, we don't because yeah the psychic turns up. We don't want to be foolish about this We go for the fly blitz we switch out Man, what are we thinking? Forgetting about it's because yeah, it's because of the um, yeah You can't really see the terrain where the delta streams are. I'm blaming that. Um, here we get the ferrithon That's nice and then you get raybacking and dragon descent and Snarl. I don't just pick up the wing here. Just click on anything we can see around this point There's no tail end and we aren't going to be able to pick up the victory But we're not typed just yet On our opponent Come on guy Click in click in My time has stopped it feels like my internet's went again, which would be horrendous if it has now there we go 30 seconds to go. It's just wasting our time really But some players don't like doing this. I guess we'll do we'll just start adding new game I'll wait for oh, there we go. Okay, so yeah get the win good game And we'll get rid of this one and we'll go into the next one. So uh, how all requires a really nice interesting combination here for my opponent um Trick room tailwind Gastronon as well. Gastronon could be really quite useful for us. Although it's not really going to be able to hit The whole very good damage. That's the problem Intimidate going to be really important for us both physical type attackers unless it is a salt vest Which it might be but then you're looking at the stack attack of the Incinero That are also physical so that kind of helps us a lot there um I do want to need Incinero actually I think I'm going to go with that rude Coco's not really that great here other than the whole The ray to the two restricted. So it's arguably a decent enough option to bring up top I don't really feel like Xernius is going to be the answer here, but then Gastronon and Ray are probably the other better options for us to be honest. Um Do we just fake out The cocoa and allow my opponent to get just ball switching to the stacker and allow them to get a trick room off if they want. Yeah Okay, double protect. That's fine I probably do want to use it and I probably do want to ball switch again I'm just going to double pivot out onto the stacker Yeah See what this cocoa goes for and bring Gastronon in on this cocoa slot We do deny that. This is good if a trick room goes up here Um, yeah, I'm going to bring cocoa back in and then we can switch to Incinero back in for cocoa And then we go. Yeah, so we're putting a lot of pressure on both Pokemon here. Um now Do we go for a twinkle tackle into the opposing cocoa expecting maybe something like Requires it to come in there. I just don't see it happening now Maybe better off keeping that for later on. We'll bring in Incinero. We'll go for an earth power into the stacks Okay Uh, we should have went for good girl. Okay, we're gonna see the z move twinkle. Yeah I mean we take that pretty comfortably now. We can go for fake out into stacks It's the pressure though. That's the thing We've got the pressure Like we can go for an earth power. I think without really worrying and a flare blitz into the cocoa Okay, we're gonna see. Yeah, we could have went ice beam there and we would have been better going for a u-turn for sure Never mind. I will go for the u-turn now into the whole and we will go for an ice beam into the ring Ah At least the z moves been burnt on my opponent's end. We are going to see the delta stream Yeah, don't do too much damage to it. We'll bring in cocoa I'm gonna take attacks better unless we see an earth power into that slot We'll probably see a dragon ascent. Yeah, we can bring in Incinero. Let's get that and intimidate Uh, probably protect cocoa here What do we It's just the earth power that I worry about a little bit from the ray U-turn out onto the whole Because then we get our requiser Just if we see a sacred fire into that slot Okay into the cocoa and then an earth power as well. So that's fine. And now we're in a really nice position So we just twinkle tackle the ray. We should be able to get it and then we can dragon ascent the whole Yeah, I don't feel like Do die a position here. Uh, okay twinkle tackle into the cocoa. I don't mind that And uh, dragon ascent into the stack attackers. All right, actually Um, they should do a decent amount to the cocoa She picks up the knockout, which is nice. I think it's a roll on the most cocos Dragon ascent not doing too much to the stacker there, which is a little bit underwhelming to be honest Um, and they are going to be able to get the trick room up again Because I well a thunderbolt and a dragon ascent should get the stacker So if the whole comes in here, then we do have that play that we can take advantage of Um If it's the ray Don't worry about extreme speed, I guess and whether or not it's banded, but I doubt it's banded from Previous Have you just got a vault switch It's just if we keep pivoting it's not really doing as any favors. I kind of want to prevent Trick room going up Well, the thunderbolt gets stacker from here. I don't know if it will, but we'll bring it into the roll Oh, the crit. Are you kidding? Oh come on. That's that's that's unfortunate Um Point is looking into we're gonna have to dragon ascent the opposing The quasi will have to fake out stacks as well Oh that critical hit. Okay. Well, this should get the whole Maybe it's band Rayquaza Let's not it's assault vest. It's definitely assault vest. We've seen we should be able to get the dragon ascent kill on to onto the ray here Um, and then it's stacks versus It's in a roll So I think we might be able to kind of Still pick up a win here Still frustrated about that crit on coco or the extreme speed, but it always happens like that You can't really complain too much about things like this Stream speed we do take uh dragon ascent pick up the knockout. So that's good Clevelets Jerobo and we are going to be able to pick up the win. So that is excellent for us So I tell you what we're sitting on rating of 13 27 not too bad not too shabby Um, we'll call it a day there my friends and then we'll come back and we'll continue this on tomorrow I'll have a think about Between now and then any changes that I'd like to make But I think we'll probably just continue on with this for the rest of the week Do let me know in the comment section what you thought are on the team and Little additions that you'd like to see maybe made in the future when we come back to this series But I will call it a day there. Have a great rest of your day Whatever time of day it is where you're watching and I'll see you all for the next one. So until then take care and bye. Bye