 Hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series I hope you all well having a great day Thank you so much for tuning in and we are gonna kick off and continue on with this team that you can see on your screen right in Front of you now we kicked off at the start of the week with this team that I played Well a variation of this team at the Bristol regionals over the past weekend and I've changed things up coming into the episodes this Week with that thunderous over the Cartana slot, which is the sixth slot on the team now We did see a little bit of thunderous yesterday it did all right, but I think it's very predictable And I think that's something we need to take into consideration when we're playing it and That's that's a thing so maybe we change things up again going into next week after we've had a few more bars with this team But generally the teams doing really well, so hopefully that continues We'll jump into it straight away today as always guys if you do enjoy this little content Please remember to drop a like on the video do subscribe to the channel So you don't miss any of our other Pokemon content that we have coming out and Do leave your comments down below and Talking about other content I'm sorry. I'm just gonna switch over to a Skull screen and bottom screen and talking about other content. So I do have guides in the works I've just been crazy crazy crazy no time recently to do it So there will be more guys coming and I'm hoping to get them done in the next couple of weeks And so do to stay tuned from that I'm gonna have more sword and shield stuff coming out very soon and obviously our streams will be starting up again So doing all that jazz and hopefully things getting back onto a more smoother track going forward. So Yes, that is that but hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent today We're just gonna search if it does guys. We'll just cut to it And we'll come straight back when we bump into our first opponent of the episode And we've got a first opponent of the S3rd We've got ice bullet from Japan, I think so hop straight into team preview This looks like a nice team Robombe, Mewtwo, Kyogak, Ditto, Cinneroar and Tapilele, full of all the techs this team. So got the Robombe It's gonna be a speed control member of this team It's got access to tailwind and pollen puff is another move that it's got access to speed swap as well that we Need to watch out for the Ditto's. Another thing that we need to be a little bit careful about Tapilele could potentially be scarfed It could be Megami too, which it probably likely is and then the Incineroar We all know what Incineroar does and I feel like Bird up, Eveltole, Tapufini is gonna be good Eveltole's gonna be incredibly good in this match, especially if we can get our terrain and the CC boosted We have to be a bit careful around the Ditto obviously switching in for the Eveltole So we need to be a little bit careful around that I do think Groudon in tailwind will be extremely good So I do want to probably bring Groudon What's the last Pokemon I want to bring? Do I want to bring Thunderous here? Thunderous could be decent I guess Metagross could also be good Incineroar could be Just good. I think the opposing Eveltole could be a little bit of a problem if the Ditto does Transform into that. That's kind of why I want to bring Thunderous It's kind of like a backup to my opponent doing that So I'm gonna I'm gonna bring the Thunderous here and not bring the Incineroar or the Metagross So we'll get straight into it Right, let's see how we get on against Ice Bullet The great user name, Ice Bullet Just like this cool bullet of ice I'm gonna, I really, guys, I'm sorry You're probably like, why do I put up? Why do I put up with this content creator? Just talk so much trash the whole time I'll try and be a bit more in point So we've got Mewtwo, we've got Kyogre I mean you might find it entertaining I hope you do This is a great lead for us really Because we're gonna get our Terana We'll get our Misty Seed We're pressuring Mewtwo We're not really scared about the Kyogre Unless it's Scarfed Which it could be Is it gonna be Scarfed? Is it the pink Scarfed Kyogre? No it's not It's just the Primal Kyogre I'm sorry there's a fly like keeping around I'm not going mad It's like, it's like buzzing around my head Go away It's like it loves me Um, alright So, I mean tailwinding here is probably a good idea We will take a big chunk of damage from this Kyogre But I mean one thing we could potentially do Is just tailwind And switch into Groudon And I feel like the Kyogre might switch out here No, the Kyogre doesn't switch out I think if anything switches out I think it's adaptive But then the Mewtwo It's gotta feel threatened from the Veltor Um, although the Kyogre could switch out Mewtwo could try and snipe the type of Finny Which wouldn't be ideal But then we do get a tailwind up I feel like I'm bottling it a little bit I'm gonna snarl and I'm gonna icy wind Yeah, let's do that Let's do it Kyogre switches we're gonna see the Lele come in Gonna see Mewtwo probably mega evolve And go for a good old PsyStrike into Taboo Finny Which it probably gets, yeah, Mewtwo Y So the snarl's kind of useful The tailwind would have been way more useful Cause now that terrain's kind of gone PsyStrike, does Finny take this? Maybe He take it Finny This is why Finny's just the best Okay There was a little part of me That was like maybe we take it We get some nice damage onto the Mewtwo The Lele won't importantly get that special attack drop To protect our good old Veltor A little bit longer and icy wind as well Which is nice Just to pressure a little bit more with that speed drop there Then our Veltor should outspeed Should Do we outspeed the Mewtwo? I don't know if we do I don't think we'll outspeed the Mewtwo We'll outspeed the Lele though So we can get a tailwind up this turn We don't really have a switching for Finny So it's probably likely we're going to have to sack it I'm going to try and get a light screener But the tailwind's going to be more important So the Lele's going to switch out Ditto coming in Here we go There we are That's what we thought Imposter Imposter Ditto PsyStrike we're probably going to take Oh maybe minus one Maybe Mewtwo's going to go for it again PsyStrike into Finny I'd be surprised if we take this Now we do get the light screen up as well Which is pretty huge for us Okay now the Mewtwo's a real sitch here I think I'll just snarl And I'm just going to nature's madness the Ditto So Mewtwo does protect So we'll probably see the Veltor The Ditto try to tailwind here I would imagine So the nature's madness into that slot Is really really important for us We know that Yveltal has got the exact same set as us Cannot really Oh come on Why why why That would have been super super useful for us Right there Because it means that they would have meant That Thunderice could have come in and done some work Okay we'll file play into the Mewtwo slot We're probably going to have to Like I say we're going to have to sack And tap a finny here to a side strike unfortunately But we'll try and get a nature's madness stuff regardless And the thing with the Ditto is Like they've got the same problem as what we've got We can't really hit them for big damage And like they can't hit us for big damage So it's kind of like just chip by chip by chip by chip Oh file play into the finny Okay we actually get the Mewtwo now So we're going to get this nature's madness off And there's when really coming in quite quite big for us there Nature's madness That's that's that's big for us there So at least we get that off And now what comes in And we've got the thing is we've got a light screen up as well So I mean we're not in the worst of positions at all It's just I've got nothing in the back I want I feel comfortable switching in right now And I'm going to snarl while I've got the opportunity to And I'm just And it just minus once again I see when sorry once again Moon Blast it'll be into our rebel tool Probably see a snarl come out potentially That's some decent damage snarl Yeah, there we go Which is now a special attack It's more important to get the special attack reduced On that Tappu Later than anything else Because it's the moon blasters that are the more Threatening thing right at this second So we do get that and get the special attack drop Which is super important for us And at this point I think we just want to preserve Groudon in the back when that Kyogre comes in We can bring in Around thunderous What we'll do we'll protect thunderous We'll tailwind ourselves We're not we're not in any danger of being knocked out I think the worst thing that could happen is a A critical hit Moon Blast into rebel tool that I'm gonna hold out that we don't We don't get hit by that right now And maybe the Ditto decides it wants to retreat Maybe it wants to go back Kyogre hit the field And maybe they want to become thunderous For the match Because it deals with the Valtel a little bit better But I'm not going to see that just yet There's a moon blast Yeah, I'm probably just seeing another snarl I mean we take that super comfortably The special attack drop There's another snarl from the Ditto Valtel avoids I think does my opponent tailwind end this turn I like screaming myself in there Yeah, so now we can get the Valtel We can get the Tapulele And what we'll do we'll just go for the A gig of old havoc just to make sure into that Valtel Because it will up It will have copied our special attack A special defense boost from the Misty Seed So that's something we need to Take into consideration Maybe a Thunderbolt's not quite enough To get the Ditto from this range So we just want to make sure we are So we're not allowing my opponent to get there Their tailwind up But they are going to actually switch out They're going to bring Kyogre And get absolutely nuked by the The Electrum Z It'll be interesting to see If we can take down this Kyogre with it The file play should take out the Lele But first of all We're going to get this This Electrum Z into the Kyogre And this will be really nice to see Like I hope we can pick up the knockout here Because then my opponent comes back in with the Valtel With the Ditto once again In the same kind of situation Because they're forced in on that So not really if we missed the Kyogre on the Lele That would be the only situation Ooh the Kyogre actually survives So we're going to Yeah we're going to see the Ditto come in Copy the Thunderbolt here But I think it's going to be alright I think we're going to be alright anyway Because we've got a tailwind up They've got no access to speed control We'll have to beat them But both our targets The Ditto like you see is going to come in And posture our Thunderous But we've got Snarl And Snarl will be enough to take down the Kyogre for sure And the Thunderbolt will be enough to take down this Ditto And we should be able to close this one up Pretty comfortably Against the Ice Bullet But Valtel again doing some nice work Thunderous doing some really nice work In this match there's the Thunderbolt It is enough to take down the Ditto We didn't even need the Snarl But we'll go for it anyway Doesn't miss Because Valtel's a good... Ooh we actually don't take down the Kyogre Skulled coming out But yeah Thunderous is going to be able to Knob in Which is nice And then we just finish up with the file player I guess we are Like what are we minus two special attacks So yeah I mean considering that Might have been a little bit better And going for a file player But never mind So we do pick up a win to kick us off today It's a very good game to my opponent And I swear for us to kick off on this Happy Thursday And we'll go into this next one And hopefully it doesn't take too long to find an opponent And if it does We've got the black screen If it does guys What we'll do is I will just come straight back to it And when we bump into our next one We've got our next opponent already So 17-22 Japanese rated player We'll go straight into team They are playing a team of Duskman, N'Krosma, Lunala The Tabalile, Incineroar, Gastrodon And the Salamence Salamence is going to be the mega of the team We're going to have probably Ultron N'Krosma Could be a trick room variant You know you've got that Gastrodon there That could perform Welland trick room The Lunala as well Going to have Tailwind Maybe trick room as well And it could potentially be Ultron N'Krosma It's a strange archetype that I've not really come across before But one that does interest me quite a lot I think it's quite nice It's quite difficult to play against The one thing I would say more than anything Is Ivalto does extremely well in this matchup And protecting it is going to be something that we need to do very well I'm going to lead off with Ivalto And I don't know if I lead with Don't know if I lead with Incineroar I think I kind of yeah Do I want to lead Incineroar? Switch Incineroar or lead Incineroar? Switch Incineroar I know I want to bring both of those two And then it's just which one last It's probably going to be Groudon I think in this match There's also like an argument for thunderous with priority taunt But I don't think it does very much outside Of maybe hidden part ice onto the Salamence to be honest I'm going to bring Finny up top Incineroar was nicer to kind of switch in For the Intimidate and Groudon hopefully Hopefully we locked the Groudon in Because we've run out of time to pay attention to a clock And hopefully we did get the Groudon If not it would be Well which Pokemon would it be Would it be Medagross Which I really don't want to bring to this game But it might be alright It may be alright I don't know I'm going to see Lunala and Tablilic come up for my opponent That's fine because I mean The nice thing here is that we are able to overwrite the Psyche Terrain Which does activate before anything else And there we go Misty Terrain We'll get our Misty Seed One of the things we could potentially do here is Just protect eval tall And bring Incineroar But I think the thing is like it would be good just to snarl And it could even just heal Palsy Veltal Just to get around the Potential Moon Blaster Comes out onto us from Tapu Lele Like do we see Azimu from Lunala into Finny I doubt it Not in front of Veltal And if they do then we kind of punish that So I'm going to go for that I do expect the Moon Blast from the Lele Okay the Lunala are going to switch out Salamence is going to come in Like I don't mind this at all It's going to get an Intimidate We're going to see Moon Blaster into the Veltal I think that's the big thing Like my opponent wants to take down the Veltal If you're doing anything else So it's going to go for it Yeah But we should be able to heal this off We'll get the nice There's a lot of damage, isn't it? Even with that boost Like yeah Snarl is really nice There's some nice damage to the Salamence Kind of indicating that it's naive Over the Hesli variant That we're seeing a lot of this season Just with that damage there We'll be able to heal off that Moon Blast damage And I think one thing we can do now Is tailwind I think that's probably what my opponent is going to try and go for We'll get Incineroar onto the field To get an Intimidate onto the Salamence Because that's the thing they could potentially double into The Veltal with Double Edge Moon Blast Lele not switching out here I would have thought it may have wanted to But it's going to just persist with these Moon Blasts here Which is fine As we'll see this Salamence go for Mega Evolution Might go for tailwind itself Just to keep up pace with things But we will have our fake out going into the next turn We are going to see another Moon Blast from this Tapu Lele about into the Finney this time And the Double Edge coming out as well But the Double Up not into the slot we expected Is going to take Incineroar down to its berry So that's fine And we get a kind of a free tailwind up here So that's really good for us And I think one of the things we will do this next turn is probably just Do we just do a foul play into the Salamence Is it going to be enough on minus one to get it? I'm not really sure if it is I could just snarl again And then just go for a U-turn into the Tapu Lele Because I want to preserve this Intimidate as well That's the thing We can maybe get Tapu Finney back onto the field But also we could get Metagross out I think Which is you know we brought Metagross not the Not the Groudon like we were trying to We've been locked in with Metagross which is fine As another Moon Blast it's not really going to be doing too much We'll probably see the Double Up now into the Veltel Imagine from the Salamence here Get the Special Attack drop which is not ideal Yeah that's a Double Up Yeah because Salamence is going to take itself down Which is fine U-turn into the Tapu Lele Well it's definitely in foul play range this next turn We could get Tapu Finney in to be honest Because then we can heal Pulsari Veltel Put ourselves back in a decent position Because I think that's the one thing like Keeping you Veltel healthy is kind of the most important thing here For us once the Lele goes down I feel like my point is Options to kind of deal with it Do fall away a little bit But we have to be careful Of course there's my point I'm going to bring in It's going to be the Nekrosma again Hmm do we see Huh do we see a Trick Room That'll be interesting wouldn't it We'll go for another Snarl Actually we won We'll go for a foul play We'll go for foul play into the Lele And I'm going to go for the heal Puls Into the Veltel Maybe you see the Nekrosma protect here Maybe it goes Trick Room Who knows we need to get rid of the Lele I can't afford to keep taking these Moon Blasts That's the big thing And just keeping your Veltel around on the field Now makes things so much easier for us What if it's going to be a Sun Seal Strike Trick Room There we are But I think it's It's going to be tough for my opponent Really now because we've got Incinero in the back That we can bring in Lunala and Duskman Strong as they are against two Dark Types I just don't feel like it's going to be It's going to be very easy at all What I'll do is protect Lunala And I'm just going to switch in Incinero For Tapu Fini And I think it will be I don't think it's Ultron or Krosma I think it is just Duskman at this point Could be wrong But the Intimidate Cycling now is like super important for us And I think an end game That we're looking at now is Remove Lunala Once we remove Lunala Then the Nekrosma becomes a bit easier Because Metagross does obviously struggle against Lunala Once that's out the way Metagross can come in And do a decent enough job against Duskman and Nekrosma Especially without the Earth Power That is potentially not got So we'll just protect Eveltul Because the Sunsteal Strike is into the Eveltul slot And we're going to be into some more of the Tapu Fini Okay, I tell when it pit us out Suncinero technically should be the slowest thing on the field I think what we could do is just snarl And just go for a fake out into the Nekrosma here The next turn what we'll probably try and do Is switch Suncinero out so we can cycle that Intimidate once again Onto the Nekrosma And knowing that it is a physical variant Just makes things a lot easier for Eveltul So Sunsteal Strike is still going to hurt Like we can't just underestimate that It is still going to do a decent amount of damage We do force the Protect here With the fake out pressure that we've got And we could have doubled up into the Lunala for sure But again like I say I don't really want to take unnecessary damage And we are actually underspeed the Lunala in Trick Room Does avoid the Snarl Which is really frustrating And we are going to actually see An Olaf pummeling Where's this into? This is a bit frustrating that our Snarl missed there Because maybe if it's into Eveltul Like it does way less damage I don't think even minus one Well, no I know from that range But it's just annoying that our Snarl misses I think well we have to bring in Tepithiny, don't we? Do we light screen? Do we Snarl? I think we probably... No, we fell No, we Snarl We Snarl And itches Madness into Unicrosma We should have fell played Sunsteal Strike At least the Wild Guard's been revealed Into Eveltul And that is blocked But we can heal Pulse Eveltul now That's the thing Yeah, we can Snarl And I think we do heal Pulse this turn Because it's the next Sunsteal Strike Won't take Eveltul down Both my Pokemon are faster than the Lunala We're not seeing a Wild Guard here We might see a Tailwind From the Lunala Which would make sense It would make sense Like the Trick Room ending Going for that But now the Unicrosma is in Fall Play Range And the Lunala will go down to Fall Play Which is the main thing I think that's being... Maybe going for the Eveltul No, and then it's going to be in range But not going to quite be enough, unfortunately As the dimensions turn back to normal I mean we just Fall Play again And just heal Pulse again There's no... There's no... Good don't mind if the Lunala goes for Tailwind And we see a Protect on the Unicrosma As long as you get a heal Pulse I mean there's not really much my opponent can do Like the Double Up is just not going to work And we're going to be able to close this one out Which we do see a forfeit So we do manage to pick up a nice second victory here To end us up today Which is really nice And very good game to my opponent And my opponent from Game 1 And guys I hope you've enjoyed today's episode It's been really good The team's performing quite well now I think we had that like little slip up At the start of the week And a second episode when we kicked off on Monday But since then we've kind of turned it around a bit We've been able to feature a lot of different Pokemon From the team A lot of how the team's set up How it operates against a lot of different archetypes Which has really been nice So I hope you have been enjoying it And do let me know down in the comment section If you would like to see me continue with this team next week Because I'm happy to play on with this team I do have a lot of fun with it And maybe we'll make some adjustments Going into next week And just play it for another week That would be a lot of fun Or if there's other calls out there That you would like to see me feature In the meantime Then we can totally change to that But I would be happy playing this next week It would be a lot of fun To kind of just make a few changes On Monday next week And then see where we can go from there And end up with a really nice team Which I do think has a lot of potential in this format So thank you so much for tuning in guys Have a great rest of your day And I will see you all for the next episode Of a VGC 19 battle series So until then guys Take care and bye bye