 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series. It is Friday So we are gonna be ending the week up sadly with this team that we've been playing for the last couple of weeks on the channel If you've missed any of the games so far and you'd like to see the progress of this team up to this point before getting to today's episode I will link a card up there for you. You can check it out Come back to this one after you've watched those episodes or if you'd just like to stick around and watch today's episode then that is Super fine. The team as always is down in the description below There's a ball paste and a poker paste for you guys to check out try out if you'd like to We've not had the best of times over the last couple of days So hopefully we can give the team a really good send-off today We've really highlighted some areas of the team that have been core that were quite weak against definitely gravity hypnosis sleep spam in Lots of respect that kind of variant of teams were very susceptible to that and that's been highlighted Those last couple of days so fingers crossed we don't bump into any of that today because we've made no changes to Adapt the team to that kind of strategy to help us overcome that but at the same time one of the things we did say when we've been playing These teams it's good to be able to highlight these issues because that's how we make the team better going forward And that's what you've got to always remember with your teams when you're practicing on the ladder and things like that these Times this practice these when you're playing on the ladder. It doesn't matter too much because this is where you're Polishing the team making it that refined article for when you go into tournaments, so It's just about not getting too down about it and just making sure that you're learning and taking the team forward It's always a positive always a positive to take out of anything But just to recap the team before getting today's episode as I said is down in the description But we've got them in there trick with the mega of the team got Lunala Z move user primal Kyogre scoffed Psychic seed Cortana, which has been probably one of the MVPs for me personally of this team I do love it a lot. I think it's been incredibly good incredibly strong We've not brought it so much but when we have it has done a really good job Majority of the time and then that Hydra going with the focus ash So without further ado, let's get into today's episode. Let's make sure that we can get some wins today I'm gonna switch over to our our records Because I know you guys appreciate seeing a record we're just above 1700 so far from 1800 Which I had these heavy heights of us doing this with the team But never mind we can try again next week with our new one We'll kick off with no cross mode version 2 today, and we've got our first opponent straight away So we'll get a straight into team preview. Oh Oh It's a rematch. It's a rematch from from Wednesday where we highlighted the initial weakness of our team So early on. Oh, this is really really really difficult for us to deal with Hmm Because one of the things this team does is that it does have that Gravity hypnosis which we are very susceptible to now. Can we overcome it in today's episode? That is gonna be the big thing. I think if we can that would be be so huge for us Now one of the things we could do is lead with both of our tailwinds set is because I think if we can get our tailwinds Set up it will make such a huge difference for us going forward in this match I think leading the Lunala and Hydra again. It's only gonna prevent our opponent from being able to They can only hypnosis one target and we can we can try and play around it And definitely get a tailwinds set up with the other one. So we will try this we will definitely try this One of the things we could potentially do is lead Tapu Lele out Go for the taunt into the drift limb to stop any potential further hypnosis try and get a tailwinds set up And then go Lunala Kyogre in the back Which I think are probably the two things and I think one of the things we did highlight On Wednesday was the need for Hydra again in that match. So we'll go with ease and we'll click into the first And we'll see how we get on against this team again today This is like the best of three, but this is one thing that I did say at the time I think it's just a strategy that we have very little to help like to deal with in our and respect to our team So it does become very hard But we'll see what we can do I think leading with double tailwind gives us a good chance to try We're not leading with it actually Yeah, maybe leading with it would have been better because one of the things you could attempt to do is where my opponent Potentially tries to gravity hypnosis I Mean if the Lele goes for the gravity, it's locked into gravity So that gives us a bit of room and we'll tailwind and we will go for do we just attack into the drift blend? That's the thing. Do we taunt it or do we attack into it? I would prefer to attack into it to be honest I'm gonna just move last into the drift blend here Because just removing it from the field, there's the gravity So we know the Lele's got to switch out the space thing if they put the Hydra into sleep That's fine. And if not, then you get the tailwind up Narciss Yeah, we're going for that one So we are gonna get this moon blast off now that the drift blend can put our Lele to sleep this next turn But it will give us a turn to potentially Set up a tailwind and we can get another moon blast into this drift No slot and we do get a special attack drop on that slot as well Which is really useful for us now what we can do because we know the Lele's got to switch out this next turn Let's go for a tailwind again with a Hydra again and we can go for a A moon blast into the Lele which will probably be the me too coming in there So we can maybe get some damage onto that which would be would you be subuseful if Hydra again can wake up this Turn this next turn. It'll be I'll be massive for us. Let's grab on coming in. Okay Gravity set up. It's gonna be pretty pretty difficult to deal with We need this tailwind. We need the tailwind more than anything. I feel now Ah Okay, okay, okay, so the moon blast not really gonna be doing too much to ground on we'll probably see Hypnosis yet into the Lele here. The spam is starting Now can we can we wake up with Hydra again? Come on Hydra again. Wake up. Come on Hydra again. We've got three heads We really don't want all these turns to sleep. So we'll have to try for the tailwind once again and Hmm one moon blast into the drift room I don't want to make any switches here because we just don't want to to be switching around too much that the problem would be the drift blame going for the tailwind now And then the press was blades coming out, which is gonna do a good chunk of damage Lele stay in asleep, of course Christmas blades It's like the worst. It's the worst Hmm Maybe double double tailwind was the way to go really here. I don't I really don't know It's just I don't feel like we've got too many ways around everything now We've got the Lunala in the back that can come in it's got wide guard. We'll lose Lele here for sure Hydra again does finally wake up It's a bit too late though. These sleep turns are really punishing. Should have all into that slot Tapeneli unfortunately doesn't wake up We needed it to just to get some extra damage then there's another press was blades from the ground on the gravity It's also not gonna miss And now we've got the Lunala onto the field as we've got wide guard. It's our only way of kind of protecting the thing is with the the drift blame it probably goes for Probably goes to the hypnosis into the hydra again, which we can't really do too much about and We can I mean we can wide guard with Lunala to get around the press was blades damage But there's not really too much getting around the the hypnosis from this Unless it goes for the Lunala Yeah, which it does. Okay This might might help us come back in this match. I don't really feel like it will It's about whether or not a dog post can then take down this this dribbling this next turn But we've got to stall out their tailwind so the gravity does disappear. Okay, we've got that going for us so And They've got one Termitelline left, so we want to protect on this one And we want to try and get our Kyle going to the field and hope that I hope that the dribbling doesn't go for The hypnosis into that Lunala slot and hope it goes for a hypnosis into the hydra again if we can get Kyle go in Impressives blades misses then we are in a decent position to go forward here because we can remove the dribbling We can do damage on whatever incomes comes in for the ground on the following turn And then we're still in we're still in tailwind so we can Switch things around still and win the weather on the end and hopefully have enough in the tank to kind of close This match up the Lunala being asleep though. There's really put Limitations on how we're gonna be able to close this match up though. So We'll get Kyle going. It's gonna be about where how much damage we take though from this this ground on but the ground on Definitely won't go five punch. No sis. Yeah, there we go and Miss miss miss miss miss miss miss. Come on miss Never misses when you want it to miss Yeah, so we are in a decent position now because we can go a dog pulse Into the drip blame and we can go waterspout And we all gonna be in tailwind and this is where we need to try and take And keep an advantage the ground on definitely switches out here Just you know, I wasn't asleep. That would be the one thing that would be super good Groudon switches out how much damage you're gonna do to the table Lele Not too sure. We should take the dribbling down with a dog pulse And we probably put the Lele into dog pulse ring maybe into dog pulse range. We don't actually oh But we get the flinch that is so huge for us that is massive because they go for the tailwind there So we do get a bit of luck. We needed that bit of luck Lele probably in dog pulse range You've got to imagine it is Groudon probably comes back in there. Oh, it's gonna be me too Okay We just waters We don't want to get trapped into this waterspout shenanigan because this is where the ground on comes in, isn't it? I'm gonna Dog pulse the Lele for sure and I'm gonna switch Kyle go out to Lunala. I I've got a funny feeling that the ground on comes back in and I think the Lele probably tries to go for the gravity I think they're trying to bait us in with this me too. I Really do I think they need the gravity up. Obviously me too. He's got attacks like focus blast, etc The me too feels very threatened now as well Because of our tailwind so you've got to think like the Lele is the one thing that can't protect So we're pretty safe targeting into that slot So we either take down the Lele or we do a good chunk to the ground on when it comes in And then we should lock the weather wall. There's not too many turns of this psychic terrain left They don't think so Once that runs out the me too becomes way less impact like way less impactful Me too does protect okay So it's just about the stop pulse. Can we take down the Lele which I'm hoping we can do Yep, okay, and then we should have one turn of tailwind left. I don't know I tailwind pit us out It's about Lunala how long how long can Lunala It's day to sleep fall. I Mean if we can get a tail wind up with Hydra again, just feel like the me too attacks into that slot Tailwind Should we try and wide guard? I think we try and wide guard here We also get the priority jump on everything so it's kind of trying to cut down asleep turns a little bit a little bit Staying asleep with Lunala. I think that's the first term. So that's that makes sense focus blast. Oh Come on Really I would done for because now the precipice blades breaks our shadow shield. The me too's got shadow ball Focus blast out of gravity Suffer straightening Question is where do you where do you kind of concentrate down on now? Do you concentrate down on the Lunala? It's asleep. Did you take a gamble and allowed to wake up and let's get a tail wind up I feel like if you're my opponent you target down the Kyogre I'm gonna try and tail wind if we can get a tail wind here Lunala can wake up and tail wind Then we're back in back in the money and the me too has to talk about the Kyogre though for this to work Now So yeah, we would have had to have scalded the ground on and then we would have had to have speeded it Which I don't think we're gonna be gonna be able to do Doesn't end just yet it's got one more turn I think And once again we lose to this call This is this is frustrating isn't it so sad? Yeah, I Mean just just highlighting Uncategorically if we didn't know already from like the last two days That Weakness to this to this kind of strategy bumping into it again So very good into my opponent once again, and it just kind of shows That we just don't have the answers to this sort of team Leading maybe with a double tail wind would have helped us out, but even then It's difficult because we lead double tail wind. Yeah, we get the wind off They've got something asleep and we can potentially get an attack of Hydra again or Lunala the next turn But one of them will be asleep Maybe that's a way to go because then the problem with that is what I'm thinking is Is I don't really want to have to be switching in Kyogre prematurely to a ground on coming in Which we would be doing if you got tail wind up and then we use the weather war instantly like they switched out the Lele So which they had to for the ground on and then when they do that We kind of lose out the weather war there and it puts us in a really detrimental position So maybe leading how we did I don't know it it's just really it's just a really difficult matchup really difficult, but I'm hoping that we can find another opponent and not have this sort of build to play this next team It would be nice. It'd be nice. We've highlighted the issue We don't need to keep reminding ourselves of it Come on and we want to we want to win to send this team off So we've got our next opponent 1675 rated player from Japan And we've not we've got another QR code team, but we'll get straight into team preview to look at this one So your very standard x-ray kind of build got an incinero there with the fake out intimidate support pivot support We got tapu finny with the terrain support icy wind support for speed control Which is going to be really the only sort of speed control You're going to see on the team got a mungus which helps out with redirection obviously a trick room check for Pausing trick room threats and then the lander is there going to be another ground immunity to the team in general Does offer ground type attacks probably holding that z move as well the tectonic rage something We need to watch out for then the requiser It could be a combination of anything from banded to sashed to salt vest and then these earliest which we know all too well, so I think we will utilize tabulele in this match for sure. It is very good against things like requiser And for showing things down with taunt as well, but whether or not we want to lead with it is another thing I always like the idea of leading Lunala Kyogre here. We've got access to tailwind. We've got access to Then switching in Atapulele for what I would expect maybe my opponent leading off with tapu finny to disrupt our terrain for sure It's whether or not we want katana in this match I do we want minetric because the intimidate support is really quite useful But I just feel in these sort of games and you look at the composition of the team The katana is just really strong So we'll get into this next one I'm hoping that we can have a victory here today A victory the last couple of days have been brutal like brutal. I think you've yeah, we lost two yesterday uh, we won one Lost one wednesday And then we've lost one which is the same one that we lost to on wednesday in today's one Not so good From where we were in a position of a really nice position of the team But it's down to what we play in and I was the holes in the team being highlighted So we've got no one to blame but ourselves But it's fine. It's fine. We're gonna see where it requires and we're gonna see tapu finny come up from my opponent We're gonna see the mist of terrain set up. We will activate our final evolution with kyogre and I wonder what we're gonna be best going for here if we do bring in Hmm So you want to bring a tapu lele, but I don't know if I want to bring them yet Because we could just tailwind I'd imagine we'll see an icy wind come up from the tapu finny. That would be my best guess Just we could side shock Are we better just going for the tailwind here? It's just if we Yeah, I think we are it's just I don't want to see the requiser I don't want to see the ray come in Go for a dragon like it go for a protect and then the tapu finny go for the icy wind and then us be Not in a great position with tapu lele the next day I think we need to try and keep that momentum with I tapu lele when we bring it onto the field to make sure that we are faster than that requiser and if There is a play where my opponent could go for Um, we protect and the icy wind just to break the shallow shield on the lunala more than the kyogre You're not really worried too much about the kyogre Um and doing this as well allows us to get kyogre in In a tailwind which puts a bit of more pressure onto that requiser in the end game So we are going to see requiser likelihood is it could drag an ascent into that kyogre slot as well Let's go for a crunch though Um Wow That's insane takes us down to warnage and imagine we sash there through shadow shield. It's banded for sure And there's a light screen Okay It's definitely banded ray What comes in for the requiser it's probably going to be incineral you've got to imagine do we keep lunala around for later? Yeah, I'm going to do that and I'm going to I'm going to bring kyogre in Do I taunt the finny? Hmm Or do I just psychic it I'm going to blast I'm just going to psychic the finny I think the ray switches out here though They don't want to keep lunala in because it's one of those things where the ray can switch out And we can see an icy wind from the tattoo finny and it will be enough to take us down We don't really want to just lose lunala just yet There's the ray switching out And munga's coming in It's a good job that we locked into psychic as well. I'm going to see psychic into the tap finny Obviously the light screen helping out the loads here. There's the icy wind that we did expect to come out And the mungus hasn't got protect. That's the thing But a psychic under terrain and a waterspout should still be enough to take it down I'd imagine and then that's exactly what I'm going to go for here Just want to chase down the mungus if I can Psychic waterspout it should be enough It should be enough. It's just whether or not the mungus has got a berry if it's got a berry It could be a little bit problematic because with the light screen it might just hang on Okay, I'm just going to switch out what's coming in Requires a don't mind this at all. I can really like a completely don't mind this Taking a psychic And even if you go for another icy wind we're still going to be at speeding And this waterspout should put it in range for another psychic then makes turn it Yeah, and he can't go for extreme speed because of our psychic terrain heel pulse Is the one thing that could put us in a little bit of an awkward position for sure Right that is awkward can we just got ice beam and can we go it is banded ray though, isn't it? That's the problem. That is the problem um Where do you chase down feel the requiser? I'm going to bring a lunala here. I feel like you chase down the lele though That's the thing I don't know if you do Do you chase down the lele or the kyogre? Probably better to get weather control. Oh, we've got to be quick. We've got to be quick Yeah, and our lele doesn't matter what we lock into It's just about I know because we we're scoffed so it doesn't matter request. I'm going to switch straight back out though. That's interesting And the moongas come back in so it's like you're locking into that slot Even if we probably lose the lele here to a nice wind Oh, we get the psychic. You don't lock into the slot that we wanted. Ah, that's a bit frustrating but That just that's just us being faffing around heal pulse into the moongas Tim and pettus out We're just gonna feel really threatened here though because we can side shock Or z move into that slot and it's just It's the light screen. It's got one more turn left Hmm I'm gonna side shock there and I'm gonna bring in Do we're bringing cartana now? Is it better to bring in cartana now? I don't know. I really don't know Or do we just tailwind it's probably better to tailwind and then bring in Cartana for lele activate our psychic. See why we've got the opportunity to get a tail wound up while we've got the opportunity to And hope we see the moongas go for a spoil maybe into the cartana slot Might seem icy wind. Yeah, we do. Okay I'm gonna spoil it imagine Yeah, but we're in a good position now we get tapu lele and um Get a terrain back up onto the field and we've still got the psychic now So we can check the finny we can go for the psychic into the moongas And as long as it's not sashed, we should take it down with the psychic We'll definitely take the finny down with the leaf blade And I think I don't think my opponent's got incineral I think they've got the zernius in the back We can get one beast boost We know the rayquaza coming in it will go down to a double target attack from both cartana and lele I just can't afford to lock into moonblast now. Obviously. We've got to use psychic The only reason why I wouldn't want to use psychic I would be if I thought incineral would be in the back It's a nice witching, but I think we would have seen it by now if it was And especially with cartana coming out into the field like it is now. I think There's a prime time for for incineral to come in so if no incineral comes in now I just think it's going to be zernius in the back Hopefully this takes us moongas down it should do Odd sash to moongas. This totally scuffers our plans completely. We are going to be able to get the finny We get a beast boost as well but Our lele is going to be put to sleep by a spore And there's not really too much we can do about it Now ray comes in it's whether or not a smart strike will be enough to take down the ray I don't know if it would be I really don't think we're going to be able to You've got to chase down the cartana though. So I think a player that we could potentially do is go psychic into the rear quasi And just detect with cartana here because I think you go dragon ascent into cart That's the one thing that you're that's kind of restricting your ability to bring in zernius right now So I feel like that's the one thing that you do chase down Unless you just want the freak here on to the lele But then that does give us a free switch to kyoga, which I don't think you want to do Far play wow, okay, we've got to go psychic in smart strike I mean we've got to go for it We've got to try and smart strike into the requiser and hopefully lele wakes up. Come on. We've had some bad rolls with these sleep turns Oh, we're going to see the rage powder. It's going to pull our psychic away So regardless if we wake up or not, which we don't unfortunately It's a bit of a shame smart strike. Is it going to be an earth it plus one? I don't know for this It's very close. It's very close indeed indeedy It's locked in Um, we might not be in the worst position Because we get kyogre in now As long as our lele wakes up this next turn But then we can't get around the uh, we can't get around the rage powder Yeah, and I think we have the ice beam Have the ice beam have the psychic. I think it's done. I think I don't I think we've got enough to deal with the Zernius now when it comes onto the field So feel like we see rage powder. Yeah pulls the psychic if we wake up We probably will then lose lele Which we just stay asleep I mean kyoga takes this Wow, we don't actually take that. That's insane Are we that must be a high roll But the game's done now. It's done. It's done. It's done And sleep again beam I downfall a pitfall and all of this which is very sad Because lele wakes up now But we do get put to sleep by the moongus sash the moongus coming in Super clutch for my opponent doing all the work that it needs to their bandit ray just showing how dominant it can be I don't know what to say other than we've got a real issue with sleep on our team and especially When you get max sleep turns like we've had a few days this week when we've been put to sleep like max turns It's never it's it just makes it even worse, doesn't it? So I'll just highlight in the fact even further that we have huge issues here dazzling gleam would be something nice on lele especially for this situation because then we could dazzle here But then doesn't really alleviate our ability to deal with the zernus. It's potentially in the back. So good game to my opponent Sad sad sad into the week with this team Monday Tuesday looked all all like everything was going super well, but then We've had just a really Bad run of teams. I think that have really hard for this team to To match up against very well and we've just been highlighted by Over and over again by how hard sleep kind of count as this team and just not having The tools necessary to deal with it. So that is something to definitely take on board going going into the future But we are going to be saying goodbye to this team. It is a little bit sad But we've got a lot of things to take forward positives to take forward with the team And we'll be back on Monday with a brand new team So In light of that guys do get your comments in down below Suggest what you'd like to see for our kind of a final kind of Standard week of play and before we move into the roulette and I'll be putting Post up on Monday to get the comments started for what you'd like to see nominated On to the road for rank roulette wheel that we'll be doing next a week a week today, I guess so Thank you so much for tuning in guys. Have an amazing weekend. What do you have here up to? Sorry that we couldn't get the winds out today. Just that's pokemon sometimes We've just got to keep our chins up and take away the positives from it and move forward because that's all you can do for Improving with things and we've highlighted those areas that we need to improve in the team And if we can do that it makes the team even stronger, doesn't it? So I'll be going back going over these episodes for sure And then as I say, I'll probably bring this team on to a stream or revamped and redone To tackle these sort of issues in the future. So until then guys, thank you so much for tuning in I'll catch you again on Monday with a brand new team and until then take care and bye. Bye