 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series I hope you're all doing well And we are kicking into this week with a brand new team as we started off on Monday As you can see on your screen right now If you've missed any episodes so far this week and you'd like to go back and check out the team's progress up to now Pop a card up here for you can go back check those out and then come into today's episode We'll have even more fun Fantastic matches to go ahead with with this team just to recap We've got the mega-monetrick, got the Lunar, the Kyoga, Tapulele, Cartana and Hydrigan As always the team is down in the description below There is a raw piss and a poker piss help yourselves go try it out or just take a look over and let me know What you think of it and hopefully if you do try it out you'll have a lot of fun It is a very fun team to play around with but without further ado guys Let's get ourselves into today's game the music is on everything looks set up So are ready to go as always if you do enjoy this sort of content Please remember to leave a like on the video do subscribe to the channel and leave your comments down below Let me know what your thoughts are on the team And everything else in general so let's kick off with a bit of Cyrus today We have some news coming I think today if it's not already dropped it will be dropping soon We've got a Pokemon direct today, so it's gonna be very exciting And I will do some content on the direct looking at the new sword and shield Details so I'll keep an eye out for that It's gonna be very exciting because I do want to do a lot more coverage on sword and shield as we are in The run-up to that release later this year, but we've got a first opponent Ken one and we'll jump straight into team preview So we've got a little bit of a mirror match here going on with Ken So he is running Kyogre, Lunala, Tabulele, Cortana all things we've got and then the differences are gonna be that mega Medecross and that Smigel so the Smigel gonna be a bit of an issue for us to deal with for sure Makes things a little bit tricky Definitely, but we do have Well, we need to check it pretty hard And I think Minetric and Tabulele for ourselves is decent What do we want to do? Lunala is pretty good here once we can check Like Lunala is good against the majority of stuff It's just the opposing Lunala and the Smigel combination that scares me a little bit The snarl and the fast Tabulele gives us a way to deal with Smigel for sure. There's no other terrain control It kind of hinders us. So I think I will bring Lunala and do I bring Cortana or do I bring Kyogre? Kind of tempted to bring Cortana here over anything else And I think it will do that to be honest I don't feel like Kyogre is gonna be that great where Cortana can be amazing So I'll let go of these four and we'll get into our first one today against Ken one looking all cool with that cool hair I want my head to look like that swoop that swoop would be good. Come on white screen. Don't do this to us. Let's load Let's not do it. Come on. There we go. There we go kicking in DS Gears or grinding it's gonna be so cool when you think about Sword and Shield going on to the switch playing Pokemon on the switch is gonna be incredible I can't literally cannot wait for it. I'm really looking forward to the direct as well and seeing all the news If you're watching this after the direct obviously And it'll be good to discuss it in the next video. So do leave some comments and let me know Right, we're gonna see Lunala as me will come out from my opponent kind of what we expected to see So I'm gonna just make a roll. I'm gonna snarl and I'm gonna just Target into the smiggle and go for a psychic there So the snarl psychic should be enough to take it down if it does go for the follow me We should be able to break the shadow shield on the Lunala and reduce its Special attack by one stage and specifically the monetrick is ev to take The Lunala as he move on a minus one After we snarled it. So that was one of the cucks there if you guys were wondering We are gonna just see a follow me from the smiggle. We're gonna be able to remove it now What the trade will be here is I don't know whether they go for The top of Lele to remove it or the monetrick. I'm kind of hoping they go for I don't know. I kind of would prefer to keep both of them if I'm completely honest But we are able to remove that smiggle here So and reduce the special attack and break the shadow shield on that Lunala. I'm gonna say trick room now Wow, okay, did not expect to see that We've been caught with our pants down. It's not so good. This makes things a little bit more tricky for us This is why Katana is gonna be really good and why Kyogre would have been extremely useful in this match to bring in just to soak up these water type attacks Cause now We're in a bit of trouble. We're in a lot of trouble to be honest. We're in a big boatload of trouble I think we're gonna have to try and Try try we'll protect monetrick. We're gonna have to sack Lele I don't feel like I've got anything I want to bring in in the back like we've got our own Lunala But they're probably running a slow Lunala. So I don't think we're gonna Be that great against it and we don't want to switch it in break its shadow shield It kind of defeats the the object of having it. So Can Lele take this water spot? I doubt it. I doubt it, but we'll see if it can No way, no chance And we've got to be okay So Lunala, Lunala might Katana Katana could be the one that we bring in here Hmm be able to take a water spot. It's not gonna be able to take a double attack though from either of these two pokemon Like Lunala will be able to take Hmm I don't think there's any way for us to come back from this one I think we've got ourselves into a hole that trick rooms really caught us out here and Why god could be really good like why god would be extremely good, but we don't have it Um, let's try and bring Lunala in. We want to go We want we we have to attack the Kyogre. You have to attack the Kyogre. We could go for a double protect the monetrick um Yeah, we'll go for that because I think No, you definitely go for you definitely just water spot and attack into Lunala for sure I'm gonna try and Z move into the Kyogre and get some damage off onto it I just don't see us being able to take Unless they're running max speed Lunala with trick room, which could be a thing, but I doubt And we'll be able to take the water spout. This is where the wide guard would have been incredible We've said this so many times this week It's maybe something that we look at So you've not really been utilising the roll as much as I kind of expected in testing He used the roll quite a lot on zonius, but we're just not finding That useful now And we do lose the Lunala and we're we're in real We're in a real pickle now where we can get Cartana in but I mean the double up into Cartana is It's just so So obvious and we've got no way to really hit this Lunala. We need a triple protect with monetrick And then another one Because the water spout comes out takes down monetrick for sure I mean, yeah, we're we're done. Ken has set this up really well caught us Completely off-guard. We'll go for a leaf blade into the Kyogre, but I just don't see it Don't see us even surviving it with the um, yeah, the kyogre is just In this bold position that he set up here is like the bold position that we just want to avoid at all costs Um, and I think we could deal with tailwind, but We can't deal with with that. So that's been a very quick And this is the thing like if you underestimate this this combination and you guess wrong and etc It's so devastating Probably in hindsight a better thing to do here Just to stop the potential tricking going up from this pausing Lunala But then the smigo did create a lot of pressure And made us pick that the lead that we did for a reason. So very good game to ken pleasure playing And a very good team and like I say, we just get completely off-guard by the trick room that turn one but Something to think about if we come up against a similar core in the future Not the best of starts today, but we are not going to let it dampen aspirates my friends. We are going to continue on And hopefully we can redeem ourselves And then we'll hop over to our other screen and we'll see what our rating is after that one Taking a bit of a chunk. I think we're doing all right as well creeping back up to that 1700 mark But oh falling right the way down Um, okay, let's pick some good music get ourselves into a better spirit Team rainbow rocket. It's a bit old school, but it's a cool track. So we'll we'll play that one Go on into our next one. Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our next opponent If it does guys, then I will come straight back. We'll just cut to it. So I'll see you in one moment And we've got our next opponent of the episode. So we're going straight into a russian opponent I don't believe if we had anyone from russia. So this is exciting to play So greetings to this channel my russian friend and good luck and we'll hop straight into team preview So we're going up against a x-ray team. It's very standard with the lander. It's there It's probably got the z move then the zernius the incinerole the moongest there with the redirection and the Dual intimidate support there from that incinerole and the lander is as fake out support from the incinerole as well You've got the Rayquaza Likely to be sash content or estimate that it could be banded or it could be a salt vest as well And then the type of finny there to wrap things up for my opponent I think we will need to be able to shut down the the potential zernius um Set up here. So we want lunala. I think to lead out. Um And probably monetrick as well. Um, or do we Do we go kyogre? Like we did in a previous game where we can have the lele in the back to switch in And do we want cartana or do we want monetrick? The thing is with monetrick when when I do bring it I want to really lead it because I want to be able to proc the intimidate as soon as possible. Um Let's see and yeah, the intimidates really useful if we do see Incinerole come out Next like as a lead. So i'm gonna have kyogre lele in the back cartana would be very good here, but We're just gonna have to rely a little bit more Monetrick to do a good job against things like type of finny here Um, so we'll see how we can get into this one. Hopefully we can redeem ourselves after that last match Um, not taking anything away from ken now, but uh, you know, you always want to try and and try and progress and do Really well and not kind of get caught out like you're doing those matches So let's see if we can do a little bit better in this one I'm sure we can so we'll lead off with monetrick and lunala I'm gonna see my opponent lead off with type of finny and zernius. So we can Potentially go for fall twitch into the tap of finny and roll into that Zernius because I expect I expect it to gmancy here. I think that's why I would I would expect to see that So i'm gonna just roll it out And I'll do a snarl. I could snarl Could snarl just in case it doesn't go for the gmancy. Um But I kind I kind of am wasting it. So I'm gonna vault switch out onto the finny might see the lander switch in on that slot I don't know if I mega evolved which is gonna be I hope I have I hope I click the mega robot button too busy chatting Then we're gonna see yeah finny landers come in. Okay. That makes a lot of sense But if we see gmancy then I don't mind too much Vault switch. Yeah, we didn't mega evolve Uh, decently It's a little bit annoying a little bit annoying, but we'll get the roar out onto the zernius here We revealed that as well. So my opponent knows about that Um, we've got a free vault switch into this slot or this next turn and we can go for a tailwind here So it kind of sets us up Not a bad position. Um, so we will Tailwind with leanala. We will this turn mega evolve My opponent really doesn't have a way to get around this vault switch now Uh, we'll get the intimidate onto landers, which should hopefully allow leanala to take the z move from the landers Potentially minus one you would hope it does Then you're gonna switch what we're gonna see and sooner or coming. Okay. That's fine I mean, we're not going to see an earthquake. I don't think here. I think it's going to be the z move from the landers Um, and we know now my opponent doesn't have very quasi So it means kairoga has a way better time if you can get it in a tailwind with that What's about just going bush bush bush because what we can do this next turn is if we can get kairoga in Decent shape and it's not damaged too much. Um As you can switch in the lele for the leanala Landers protecting. This is ideal. This is perfect. I mean, we're setting this game up for us now Um, we'll get the vault switch into the incinero. We'll get kairoga into the field And then like I said the next time what we'll do is we'll switch in lele for lunala And then we're in such a dominating position. Even if that's in it comes in We're going to be able to walk about cycling it and my opponent doesn't have any way to utilize their fake out support now So we should be able to close this one up pretty quickly, but I say that We've still got a long way to go. My opponent still has awful populans. So we can't take eye off the ball But just looking ahead and that's what I think trying to get across to especially newer pairs when you're coming into the vgc scene When you're setting yourself up board positions, you're trying to look ahead so many turns where you're in a position where You can't really lose from the position that you're in and you look at different options that your opponent can do To try and shut down what you're trying to do and you could look around Well, maybe if they do this then we'll make this play and it covers everything And if you can do that most of the time, it's it's ideal, but It's easier said than done. I can sit here and easily say that but then predicting what your opponent's going to do sometimes isn't that easy Um, but we're in a nice position now. We've got the tail end up with kyle guy. We've got it on the field Got the rain up. We know there's no requiser in the back. We've seen all four pokemon from my opponent So like I say, my opponent probably thinks they're going to be able to utilize his fake out here We've got the top of lele to come in to disrupt this terrain here The only thing that could happen is if the lander switches out to the finny now And then you will get there the fake out here support, which would be a very smart play from my opponent Yeah, I'm making that play. So they will be able to utilize this fake out now So they're doing what they can and this is what I mean, you know, like we've kind of put oh, we're not going to say a fake out that's interesting I would have thought you would have maybe gone for a fake out there with incineral Like knowing that you get the switch into the finny Maybe a misclick. Maybe a time out. You don't know. You really don't know Yeah, one of the things we can do now though is go for the magic room water spout Magic room water spout I don't really feel like because we've not got caught on her in the back We're not really relying on any items on our side of the field at the minute except from the scarf from the lele But that's fine because we've got a tail wind up. So If we can get this off, this would be nice. It stops the j-mancy boost It takes away the berry from the tap of finny as well, which is also Very nice very nice indeed. So we'll go for that magic room Then it means tabalelic and actually take advantage of the The the tail wind while we've still got it in effect so we can potentially go for a psychic the next turn We're gonna know the water spout off into this finny There's a magic room. So no more items for you either of your we'll probably see an edge of madness into the kayak to be honest um Or an icy wind But psychic water spout should take that down now. I'm going to see light screen That's a nice option there for my opponent, but they can't go for the j-mancy And we can get rid of the tap of finny this next turn Which is exactly what we're going to do because we're not worried about the potential Zonius boosting up now. We can just draw a water spout get that type of finny It's berries not going to proc the lander has comes in on that slot that would take that down So whatever happens, we're gonna get a bunch of damage off onto the zonius. Um, we'll get the finny or we'll get the lander Um, and this zonius cannot Jmancy one turn boost anyway, so if it goes for it, then it's locked into a turn. It gives us a little bit of Movement around trying to deal with it. It's still not going to be easy to deal with This is why we need to get big damage onto it if we can And our tail wind is slowly well quickly running out. So we need to keep that in mind as well going forward All right psychic, there we go And the water spout should be enough to get the Yeah, the finny now and do a good chunk to this zonius. It has got the light screen up. Obviously, so it will be able to That's doing nice damage. That is nice damage that zonius. It's not bulky at all. Um, there's a moonblast way down into kairoga Imagine that's where we'll go. Yeah, you can see that pretty comfortably. So rain does run out and the lander is coming in Did we just sacrifice monetrick at this point to get the intimidate onto lander us because it's definitely got the z move, I'd imagine um It's definitely got the z move I just kind of prefer kairoga in this situation than anything else and I feel like monetrick It's not really doing too much in this match right now. Um, if we can get it in for free, that would be amazing. Um But we want to try and weaken this lander us which has definitely got a z move It's still got access to that obviously because the magic room can't take away z crystals um, but if we can get psychic into The zonius that would be amazing But this intimidates so important onto this lander us We've definitely got z move there's a moonblast be into monetrick Onto lele so we'll take that We should get Especially attack falls. That's really annoying. So rocks like this might take down lele. No, we actually take that So that's pretty good. Uh psychic. Yeah, and now we can snarl Just sack what we've got out in the field. I think now. Um Yeah, we'll just snarl Because I feel like lunala's in a good position to come in kind of deal with the lander us I wonder if it's not the scoff lander us. Is it probably just gonna see an earthquake now Which will clear the field But at the same time, I don't really want to bring anything in uh, like Yeah, lunala can come in now. Um And z move the lander us pick up the knockout will definitely have to be the lander us The z move should pick up the knockout because the light screen should be ending this turn should be Oh, it's got one more turn. Hmm It makes things a little bit more tricky For sure because we kind of need the light screen to be gone unless it's already run out. I've missed it I don't think it has let's see. Let's have a look when the screen loads up We've got that z move to contend with though. That's the that's the big thing. So Um magic room ends in warm tone. Night screen ends in warm tone. Hmm Could be tailwind Or is it risky? Is it risky? Tailwind and protect kai yoga We could just get rid of the zonius Because there's a Now we'll tailwind and we'll protect kai yoga We'll do it. We're locking Living died by the sword. That's what I'm saying right now. It could all fall apart My opponents don't really well if they are able to do it. Wow. Okay. They're done for the two-turned gmancy They're gonna spend another turn wrong for it He did get the tailwind up as the z move It's whether or not we take it on minus one because if it's into the lunala I feel like we might be able to Maybe come on lunala. Let's do this do this minus one take it, please Oh, we take it the light screen wears off the magic room but Okay, so we can Uh tailwind, uh, we need to attack. We need to attack the zonius here. So we'll z move it Just for the giggles because we're going out speeding it and we'll go for a nice beam into the landers And that should lock the game up My opponents done so well from the position where we're in that position with the tail wind up with the kai ogre out We're like we've locked this but They made all the right players From that point and brought this match to back to the point of nearly actually being able to win it Very close the lunala went down there. I think we just lose instantly. Um, and maybe So we are hitting into the zonius We're going to be able to pick up the knocker there before it does get the gmancy off And we should be able to wrap this one up pretty quickly with a knockout on to the landers here as the ice beam And we are going to pick that one up some very good games to my opponent Like I say, they've done so well To um come back and make it this close at the very end pleasure to play and uh, we'll wrap things up there guys So thank you so much for tuning in to today's episode. Remember, leave your comments down below Let me know what you think of today's games and I look forward to seeing you on the next one So until then take care and bye bye