 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our road to rank roulette series My name is Leigh also known as Osiris and we are kicking off with this team that is on the screen right in front of you right now We can activate those bonus buttons come today, but because we've had two Amazing games this week already I really want to stick with the team and the other two games that we've lost were two and two at the minute We're very close and I feel like we could have maybe won those if maybe one or two things It just went our way in those games if you've missed those you'd like to check those out I would definitely recommend checking out the last two days Episodes because the hype is crazy in the game So you've got one hit kills all over the shop not to spoil anything But king and haxer is having a competition between themselves in this team and it's just been incredible so far So we'll give this team one more run out today We'll probably make some changes activate a few bonus buttons tomorrow if you've got a preference on which bonus button You'd like to see activated remember We've got a switch up randomize that legend maker and a patreon button and do let me know down in the comments section And we will make sure to do something with those tomorrow So without further ado, let's get into it today The music is on will select a cool track as always if you do enjoy this sort of content Please remember to drop a like on the video do subscribe to the channel for more pokey content and Leave your comments down below Let me know what your thoughts are on these episodes will kick off with the aether foundation music today Because it's a good old classic in this ultra series and And we'll wait for our next opponent. Hopefully it doesn't take too long, but the team so far I'm just loving it that I I don't know like the restricted pairing could probably be a bit stronger We are very weak to fairy types But we do have a good means of getting rid of fairies pretty quickly with that one hit kill option And we've been doing not too bad so far With it, which has been incredible. So I couldn't have really asked or wished for anything Better with how things have been going on that side of things. I'm super hyped about it It's been great, and I really hope you've been enjoying the team so far this week That is the main thing and remember as well this week We're doing a little trial on the channel where I will be putting up a more serious competitive content on an evening and bringing back our school of hard knocks Series which will be 7 p.m. UK time. So Greenwich Mean 10 plus one every night Monday to Friday this week The team we've got over there is a lot of fun. Hopefully you're enjoying it and do let me know What your thoughts are on having the double content? I'm myself probably gonna drop it next week because I need to just assess what it is like from The content perspective. I still have a full-time job that I do I still need to spend time with looking after the year Tying out the tash and doing other things outside of the content So it might be a little too much at the moment for me But I will definitely let you know how I've been coping with it But remember we will be streaming Thursday this week. We're gonna be doing some battle spot Over on twitch that'll be kicking off 8 p.m. Thursday So do come and hang out on Thursday over on twitch the links down in the description Or just follow me on Twitter. I always tweet out when I go live. That's Osiris VGC over on Twitter So you can follow me there and I'm getting a bit better active wise I do tweet and then to tweet sometimes I have busy weeks at work It means I can't really find the time to to tweet out as much as I would like to But like a lot of the time I do especially when the stuff going on I like to and I try to be more active on there going forward as well Because I'm it's it's difficult. It's difficult and I'll always say it's difficult It's difficult finding time to be really active on everywhere and and trying and stretch yourself And sometimes you do stretch yourself a bit too thin and yeah, that's it. So concentrating on different areas But yes, follow me over onto it basically and I'm just jabbering now Now it's taken a bit longer to find our first opponent and I would have liked to So what we're gonna do is cut this now and come back straight away when we find our first opponent of the episode And we got our first opponent. It is ZG and they are running a team of we'll get into team preview Very cool-looking team consisting of Greninja, Incineroar, Mewtwo, Tapulele, Gothetel and Kyogre So we've got that trap option here with the Gothetel You've got the psychic spam option here with the Probably mega Mewtwo and the scarf tapulele then supporting the Kyogre Which is the other restrictor of the team They've got Incineroar the standard on most VGC teams and then Greninja And it's interesting pick here that offers that dark type support And probably helps out a bit more against threats like Lunala And that this team might struggle against in things like Duskman and the Crosmo with its dark typing there Also benefits from the rain with its Water typing as well Right, what are we gonna do? I think Trick Room is a nice option for us to go down here. Dalg has a decent lead for sure We could go Haxorus again to try and get some one hit Kyogre action I do expect my opponent to lead off with The tabulele they may go down Gothetel Incineroar but I think the psychic spam route is a bit More optimal for my opponent to go down And we will bring Palkia and do we bring Shiftry could be decent Kingler also could be very good I'm gonna bring Kingler actually because if we can get a trick room up Kingler can do some nice work Especially with the rain up on the field. So I'm quite happy with these four. Let's get into it So Here we go against Pikachu trainer. Is this Lu in disguise using a Japanese card? I wonder Lu if you're out there watching. I know she does tend to I don't know if she watches as much these days, but if you are I'm it's just a perfect trainer for you, isn't it? I'm U2 Incineroar coming out interesting I'm not gonna see the Lele making appearance just yet. That makes a bit of sense really Um, I think we've got trick room and we got guillotine. What are we gonna guillotine now? The Incineroar or the Mewtwo could cause more problem to us probably the Mewtwo. Let's trick room. Let's go guillotine Mewtwo Come on Huxerous Kingler put you to shame in our last episode Let's let's show Kingler who the real one hit KO King is Mewtwo mega evolving Mewtwo Y will probably get faked out into one of our slots It's more likely to be the dialogue or I think to prevent the trick room going up. Um, I think that's where you would expect it But maybe into the Huxerous there we go. Come on one hit KO Ah It's that it's that tiny little Tiny little moment It can't even take it. It's just Um, let's bring in Palkia Okay Now what do we do? Oh, do you see? um I think we protect Dialga And we'll go trick room with Palkia because it feel like Aurora Sphere is probably something that you have on Mewtwo Um, and I think the double end to Dialga is more appealing at this point to go Aurora Sphere and Flair Blitz into the Dialga slot than it is into the Palkia I'm sad that yeah, there's the Aurora Sphere. I'm sad that Huxerous has went down without getting it and one hit kill We're gonna see knockoff So much damage. All right, but we do get the trick room up, which is nice. Um Do we double the Mewtwo? Or do we double the Incinerole? Uh, I don't think we double We could double the Mewtwo. It probably protects here though. That's the problem. The Incinerole is going to be probably slower um We could bring in Kingler. The knockoff's a bit annoying really. Um Although Palkia will take another knockoff, I think um Let's cover the Mewtwo. Let's go earth power into Incinerole and go for a spatial round into the Mewtwo I think the Mewtwo will protect here, but I'm just going to cover in case it doesn't Okay, it's switching out Uh Not so ideal. Not so great. Hmm At least we'll get some damage onto Incinerole here Darker's Lariat Huh Palkia takes it. It's not really going to do very much though. Uh, we get the earth power into the Incinerole Um Let's go flash cannon into the Lele. We'll not be able to pick up the knockout. I don't think we're not powerful enough You never know though. Um, and then we'll bring Kingler in on the Palkia slot It's just otherwise. We're gonna go just go down. I think Kingler is strong enough as well to come in on A darkest Lariat from that slot anyway, and then we got some more opportunities to go one hit here style Style points, but the Kyogre's lurking in the back in the problem is now the Palkia Um, yeah, we would have been better. They're going for the double into the Incinerole for sure Uh, the Palkia's it's such a low health now It's gonna struggle to to really come back against like Kyogre and stuff like that There's a darkest Lariat coming in. I'd imagine a moon blast into the Dialga here Um, but we should be able to take that Kingler taking this pretty comfortably Um, yeah, I'm picking up the knockout quite Oh, it's a z move twinkle tackle twinkle tackle Lele What? It's awesome thing I did think about back in like 17. Um, but I never really Got around to properly using it Dialga takes it pretty comfortably. We're just out of berry range, which is a little bit annoying for us Um, we'll go for that and then we'll just Crab Hammer the Incinerole We should be able to pick up the knockout onto Incinerole with Crab Hammer I mean, hopefully we underspeed it as well. I don't know if we're gonna be though. They know that's the thing I think we probably Don't underspeed the Incinerole and that's the biggest problem for us here Uh, darkest Lariat is this into Dialga? I don't know, protect him maybe there Yeah, and we're gonna get yeah, we'll get the Incinerole But we will lose Kingler and then we're just down to to Palkia Crab Hammer at least again a knockout here with Kingler Hmm Side shock. Yeah, uh, just too much for us Too much If Dialga's buried activated, it would have been a little bit better. Uh, but Palkia just not in any position now to do anything Uh, the switch into Lele from u2 as well if we hydro pumped I think doubling into the Incinerole that turn like we kind of Touched upon would have been the better way to go Uh, but these psychic teams are always difficult and Less and less people I feel are running scarf Lele now and it's to that assumption that everyone runs scarf Lele Um, it's not really much we can do special rend into the Dialga, but we're gonna get knocked out either way Uh, we just Not got the time not got the resources not got the support to deal with with this combination Uh tap Lele and I think it's highlighting areas in our team that where we are weak, you know We are weak against uh these fairies and we've got very little Um to be able to to Really come back against them. We've got to rely heavily on on Dialga a lot for our trick room Um and uh part steel typing Um, we're just not protecting Palkia well enough. I mean the Incinerole there having the random knockoff as well Taking palkia down way more damage than what we expected it to do. So I mean, it's fine Good game to my opponent. I just think a few things that we need to look at Going forward with the team and I think tomorrow is probably a day where we make some We activate some buttons. So I think we'll finish up today Hopefully we can have a really good finish like we have been doing We're on a bit of a streak at the minute where we're having kind of a mediocre game that could have definitely been winnable and then going into The second game where it's it's a lot better So I'm hoping that trend continues league title defense. Oh Now let's go on the cross my version two the epic the cross my version two music To end with an epic finish to this team because I think this is going to be the last time we actually have this Specific builder team before we activate some buttons. So it'll be nice to Give it a good send off. I guess before we go on to some different stuff Tomorrow and Friday, but the team so far this week been incredible. I've been really enjoying it. I hope you have that's the main thing Um And that'll be interesting I'm just trying to think now if we go for the switch up which pokemon it maybe take out to switch up Um, and if we go for the legend maker, I think I probably Right now Do we get rid of palkia or dalga probably I probably would get rid of Palkia, I think of the two restricteds to replace it with something else um Although I do really like palkia. That's the other thing but it's just not It's defensively bulky as I like it to be so We'll make some decisions though and that'll be in tomorrow's episode Doesn't look like we're gonna find it upon anytime soon. So I'll cut it here We'll come straight back my friends when we find our next opponent of the episode And we got our next opponent of the episode. I'm so sorry. I'm not paying attention We got oh a very similar team to what we just played. So Maybe you can make some different plays and see if we can adjust a little bit better going into this one So our next opponent is running incinero, me too, kaio ga, tapulele, crowbat and the katana. So Hmm trick room again gonna be very good. My opponent really relies heavily on tailwind from Like the crowbat or the katana and then the fast mode from the lele and the me too now I would say the team probably does have Scarf on lele in this team, you know, we've seen less and less players are running it but at the same time I think It is probably something that my opponent is going to be running here. Let's go Do we go double trip? We could go Hmm Just a taunt is definitely a thing um On the crowbat. It's just if we had a way to to nuke it early on would be nice However, we're not going to be weak to The fairy types. I mean, we could go shiftry dalga might be a nice option there Kupaxorus for the late game And I think palke we definitely need as well But salazzle could be good here just for the katana although um If the rains up it makes it very difficult for us to hit it Especially with the overheat. So maybe Or better not better off not bringing it to this match and maybe preserve it for a later episode this week so Um Katana could be tricky The crowbat is very tricky It makes me feel like mental hurt would be better on one of our trick room setters So at least we've got a way around it, especially when we see something like crowbat come out Um, and we are going to see crowbat kaiaga hit the field Now I think If you're crowbat, you definitely taunt dalga here One of the things we could potentially do is bring in parkia Uh, just so we've got a bit more offensive presence in front of the kaiaga Um at the moment, we haven't really got too much and at least with shiftry Um I mean we can worry seed it But i'm gonna fake out I know yeah, I'm gonna bring in parkia I think we can take the water type attacks better from the kaiaga as well Um, and I totally expect the the crowbats to go trick the taunt to prevent the potential trick room and then tail in the next turn So there's a fake out Uh, oh just Really we could have just went for the trick room. Are you kidding? Are you actually kidding? Okay Man that is disappointing, isn't it? That is really disappointing. Um It's got leaf blade And I don't know whether it's worth going for the trick room now I think we'll just attack because I think the taunt will come out from the crop Really really really really no taunt crowbat doesn't have taunt. Why are we thinking about overthinking this so much, aren't we? So taking down to our sash It's a bit of recoil damage And there's a nice beam. Where you going into shift tree? Really wants to get rid of that shift tree Really concerned about it special rend does hit. Let's see what the damage is like on to kaiaga It's decent. So we'll pick up a knockout next turn for sure. Uh, we're going into hiaga And i'm gonna go for the trick room I feel like we get brave birded from I'm gonna go water spout into the Hydro pump into the crobat water spout park here. Can you imagine there's another brave bird? Where are you going this time into park here? going to die Not taunt and another ice beam Okay We do connect on to the crobat And we'll be able to set up a trick room which we could have done from turn one But we're playing around expecting our opponent to have taunt which most croats do Whether that crobat had taunt or not, I do not know but kind of The victim of our own thoughts in this match, but we're sitting pretty nice at the moment me too going to come in So we're not in the worst position at all We can pick up the knockout on to kaiaga Or we can double in to the me too, which I think more inclined to do Here go for the hydro pump and the flash cannon into me to pick up the knockout there if we can The kaiaga can ice beam away all at once, but It's not picking up the knockout on to anything right now So both our dragons sitting in a pretty nice position It's just a me too that could cause us a few issues kaiaga is going to protect so I mean too good to protect. Okay, so I mean It's next turn. I'm definitely just going to go well do I because I really want to get rid of the Why should we just go after the me too? I think we just chase the me too down Their tailwind pit is out We'll chase the me too down again because I think that's the the one thing that can cause us a few issues later in this game Park here sitting so healthy at the minute doesn't really care about the kaiaga We don't need to concentrate down on that just yet. Um And if we get the knockout here with hydro pump, which we actually just miss out So it's good that we doubled in there just to make sure that the me too goes down Uh, we're probably seeing another ice beam from the kaiaga Yeah Ice beam or where we're going this time dialga We activate the berry We get froze. How many times have we been frozen this week twice? I think twice three times. I don't know Uh, dialga does freeze which is really Not ideal and if it's incineral then it's fine if it's tapulele makes it a bit more difficult cartona Uh, we could really do with We could really do with dialga not being frozen right now Uh, the earth power would be extremely useful there again. I'm going to double into the cartona hydro pump and earth power here I don't think the hydro pump will be able to get the cartona in this range Uh, it does just protect them with a kaiaga. I'm gonna actually attack I think here and could have went for that with the spatial rend You need dialga to thaw out. Come on dialga thaw out ice beam again He's not freeze this time. Um Yeah, so we've got what we got. We've got a haxaris in the back Um, I'm hoping that we can thaw out with dialga here hydro pump And earth power the cartona for the victory. Come on Let's do this Please kaiaga protecting. Okay Still not this last turn It's a hydro pump. What's the damage going to be like on this? Wow, take him down to the sash. Come on dialga thaw out. Please dialga. Come on Yes, dialga you heard our cries for help and you did it and we are going to take a victory tying up I score for the rest of the week The hype train continues through all adversity And everything else dialga pulls through thawing out Getting the knockout onto that sash cartona and making sure that we can pick up a nice Plassy win here today with our cup pocket and dialga core. So that is really good for us there's the earth part from the dialga going into the kaiaga and um Spatial rend will be enough to wrap this one up Take this primal color down and pick up a nice victory first end the episode today Which is incredible. Um, I'm gonna end today actually because we've got Now we will we'll call it a day there because I want to come back and before we have any more matches Want to change up want to activate those bonus buttons tomorrow. So we'll we'll knock it on the head now We'll be back tomorrow we will activate some bonus buttons tomorrow and Make some changes to the team and see if we can continue this run on for the rest of the week The two pokemon that I don't want to see going on their king lair and the hax race I feel like they're doing an incredible job this week although the dragons here did did really well So fair play to them. Thank you so much for tuning in though guys. I hope you've enjoyed today's episode Have a great rest of your day. Make sure you take them care yourselves and I'll see you for the next one So till then take care and bye. Bye