 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Road to Runt roulette series. We kicked off this brand new series at the start of the week and it has been so much fun so far. This is a team that we've ended up with, we've used all of our bonus buttons of the last couple of episodes. We had Houndoom in there, we had Shuckle in there and we had Chandelure in there and we've replaced them, we've used our Legend Maker button bringing Palkia, we've used our Switcher button which brought in the Arcanine and we've used our Randomizer which has brought in Malamar. So we had really good episode yesterday, we had a really good victory to kick us off with. If you'd like to go back, check those out. I'll put a card up there for you before coming into the episode. But this is going to be the penultimate one with this team before we choose our new roulette team Monday next week. So as I mentioned in previous episodes, we have over on the community section of the channel. If you go over there, there will be a post over there asking you to nominate Pokemon for next week's roulette wheel. So I'll go over there and nominate a Pokemon. It can be any Pokemon as well. It can be anything from Caterpie, anything right through to Mewtwo X or just any Pokemon. Your favorite Pokemon, it can be your favorite Pokemon, a Pokemon that you want to see, compare every paid and just nominate and we will throw it into the wheel and hopefully it does come out and we can have that randomised team for next week. So we are seeing on a record of three wins, four losses at the minute, which isn't great, but I feel confident, like I said in the last episode, that we will finish positive. And that is the goal for this. So without further ado, let's get into this first one today. I'm going to just change screen so we can see our bottom screen as well. See what our rating is currently and finishing over 1500 is a good goal. But we want to see if we can improve on this. This is the first week doing it. It's a 14-19, man. So bad, so bad. Let's start with Elite Four. Let's go back to some old favorite music of ours. And team as always is down in the description below. As always, if you do enjoy this content, please remember to drop a like on the video to subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content and do leave your comments down below as well, because I love hearing your thoughts on the series in general, on the team, on the roulette, on anything. So make sure to get the nominations on that post in the community section, though, but if you want to leave them down below, I will grab them and throw them in. So hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent today. As always, if it does take a little bit longer than usual, I will just cut this and we'll come straight back to when we find that first opponent of the episode. And we've got our first opponent of the episode. It's not Geo. So is it Geo? Is it Giovanni Castor? Is it not? Who knows? But we'll hop straight over into Team Preview and we'll find out what they're going to be running today. OK, so our first opponent today is running a team of Gengar, which could be potentially the mega of the team. It's likely to be the mega of the team. Then you've got Alolan Marowak, not something you see so commonly on these in this format in general. So then we've got Kyogre, Primal Kyogre, probably. Then we've got Bruxish, which has that dazzling ability to prevent any priority attacks. But fortunately for us, we don't have any priority on that team. Then you've got the Duskman, the Krosma and the Alolan Persian. The Alolan Persian will provide fake out support to help set things up like the speed control, which is probably coming from the Duskman. The Krosma, if it's not alternate Krosma, it could be quite a slow team here, kind of indicated from the Marowak. And then the Gengar as well, potentially could have icy wind or something like Perish songs. So right, what are we going to do? Could Malmo be decent here? I feel like Malmo could be decent here. Let's bring Malmo up front. The knockoff could be very good. Superpile are going to be very good. What are we going to lead with it? Do we bring Superior? We're not brought Superior for ages, although it's not really doing too much here. Arcanine. I'm going to bring Palkia. I'm going to bring Arcanine and I'm going to bring Mantine as well. There's an argument for Sougalail here, but I feel like it's kind of threatened pretty hard from the Marowak, especially if the tricking goes up. The Persian puts a lot of pressure on with foul play, especially if we get the Z Splash off and we're kind of lacking a little bit of speed control. So let's see if we've got. And it is our good mate, our good friend, Giovanni Costa. He has just just tweet me now saying, and I thought my team was crazy. So I'm just going to send him a quick message just to say. Yeah, nice team. Good luck. Have fun, my friends. So we're going to see the Marowak, the Bruxish come out. Right. Malmo not in a bad spot here. And now we could get rid of what's the Bruxish going to do? Does it? I'm just going to go knock off into that slot, for sure. And I'm going to go. Do we go earth power into the Marowak? Let's just do it. Let's just be straight up with attacks. We've not really got too many options. What is this Marowak doing? It's tightening. Let's focus after it's like focus punch. What is this? Wow, we actually take it. So that works out all right. Man, after you, that is crazy. The memes are for real there. I've got to take your hat off to Geo for pulling out this sort of stuff. This is legit, legit memes. Can we get the Bruxish? Oh, we miss out. But we do, we do get rid of that choice scarf, which is good. OK, we've got to protect Malmo because we'll go down to another one of those. We'll just go for another earth power into the Marowak. It might protect here or switch out, maybe. But we still have to be careful with this after you, after you Bruxish. But we do get rid of the choice scarf, which makes it a little bit easier to deal with going forward and focus punch. What a great attack. It's so much damage as well. It's kind of neutral to Malmo, but Marowak. Marowak is a cool Pokemon, isn't it? There's a protect from the Marowak for sure. Yeah, makes sense. Let's watch this Bruxish going to do Psychic Fangs into a Parker. Doing decent damage, you know, like nothing to be scoffed at. Do we need Malmo for the rest of the game? Probably. It's probably going to be quite useful to keep around and have. I'm going to bring in Arcanine. And I'm just going to go for that earth power again. How do we go trick room at this point? Do we go trick room? Trick room could be kind of good, but we might be able to get away with a trick room. Maybe a few turns down the line, maybe, I don't know. Well, we're bringing Arcanine. We'll get the Intimidate off into this Marowak, which will help us out hugely. The nice thing about Arcanine as well is, OK, we're going to see another after you. Yeah, well, is it going to be a palky this time? Maybe, maybe, yeah, makes a lot more sense. But the Intimidate helping us out there a bunch. So we'll just get out very activated. We'll get the Marowak now with the earth power. And I think the thing that we're missing on the roulette is the memes. But hopefully next week with our new roulette selection, we'll be able to get the memes going. With a new set of Pokemon, random Pokemon. Right, the Bruxish, I think. I kind of want to say that Arcanine will outspeed it. What's this Kyogre going to do, though? It's not really threatening. I want to say that the Arcanine will probably outspeed the Kyogre as well. But off the top of my head, I don't know, Bruxish is just base speed. I'm going to be a little bit, I'm going to play it a little bit safer. I'm just going to go for a earth power into the Bruxish here. It definitely outspeeds Palkia. So we'll just protect Arcanine for now. Yeah, there's you see the after you and imagine it at speeds. Yeah, there's a water spot. So Palkia taking this like a champ, the water driving, typing. It's good. So get rid of this Bruxish, get rid of this pesky after you strategy. She's so good, though. OK, and now, now they're down to two Pokemon. Likely both these restricteds, though. I wonder what a life orb, wild charge will do. And do we outspeed the Kyogre? It's like we should outspeed the Kyogre with Arcanine. I'm just going to double up into the Kyogre. And the problem will be here is if we say protect Kyogre and trick room does mean which we're probably going to see right now. Ah, no. OK, let's see. Double the Kyogre fell straight into that one. There it is. Oh, OK. Hmm. Right, let's get Arcanine out of here. Let's bring in Mantine and let's just protect Palkia for a turn. So I imagine we're probably seeing the Cosmogor for that. Photon Geyser, if it's not Ultron or Cosmogor, it doesn't seem like it's going to be. Yeah, Photon Geyser into the Palkia. I'm going to see what it's about. Yeah, I'd imagine the Kyogre probably has Kyogre probably has Thunder. Let's see. Let's see the team make it. Maybe not, because then it does conflict with the Marowak a little bit. But I don't know. I don't know. Let's Skald and Earth Power. Then the Cosmogor. Let's see if we can get a couple of attacks off. I mean, the Earth Power into the Cosmogor would be pretty big here. Skald's not going to really do very much. Mantine's pretty safe here. I think he'd concentrate down more on the Palkia with the Photon Geyser here. Unless the Kyogre does have Thunder. No, we don't take it. Wow. That's brutal. Skald, at least we underspeed the Kyogre. It's good. I mean, if you can get a burn here, that's huge. No. And it does have Thunder. Changes things quite a bit. All right. But we do have Malmo in the back. We do have Malmo. So we can bring Malmo in pretty safely here. You can knock off that Nekrosma. We can, we can wide guard. Because how many turns of trick room you got left? Two. So this, this kind of will work out pretty perfectly. So a wide guard will go for that knockoff. I don't know if the knockoff will get the Nekrosma, though. That's the only problem. But I think Kyogre probably feels safe going for a water spout here. Send Steel Strike. Has this into the Malomar? Yeah, it will be. Hopefully this doesn't take us down. This is where the Intimidate would be very useful. Oh, God. Damn, that would be done for now, I think. Yeah, because we can't, we can't deal with the Nekrosma. And then the trick room just gets set up once again. Yeah. That's a good game, my friend. Love the team. I'm just, the Nekrosma's hitting us too hard. I think like the thing that we needed to do was get an Intimidate onto it, which gives us a little bit more leeway. But like, I just forget how hard Duskman and Nekrosma can actually hit. I mean, we can protect here. There's not really much we can do. We can't flare blitz the Nekrosma, which is the sad thing with the Rainer. So we can't really get rid of it that way. Photon Geyser, Water Spout will come out. And then it's so easy for Gia just to protect the Kyogre this next turn. And then just trick room once again. I mean, close combat is not gonna be enough to get the Nekrosma flared blitz visors out. I mean, we can go for a wild charge into the Kyogre if he doesn't protect it. Then we probably get it. But yeah, I mean, it's just this, the super safest play here to make. Oh, it's so sad it takes a losing streak down to five. So three wins, five losses. I mean, yeah, trick room. And I'm not even gonna, I'm not even gonna carry on. Good game Geo, great team, nice strategy, good memes, all good. But yeah, just not got the, not what we need in the tank. Unfortunately, which is pretty sad. Duskman Nekrosma hitting like a truck. I don't have expected Marmar to take a Sunsteel Strike from that range, but I mean, we are more specially defensive. Nevermind, nevermind. All we can do is move on. We're gonna have a brand new roulette team Monday anyway. So it's fine. I'm not gonna get too sad about it. I'm not gonna get too sad. I'm sad about our rating. I'm sad about our win record as well at the minute. Like at least though we finish positive. We've got Jack from the United States up next. So let's hop straight into team preview. See what Jack's brought. He's brought the Rayquaza, the Kyoga, Crobat, Bravery, the Ferrothorn and Tabacoco. So kind of standard looking Rayoga team apart from the Bravery, which is a nice option to kind of stop the intimidate support from our side to neuter things like that Rayquaza, which really does get hurt by it quite a lot. But I think Arcanine is still good to bring here because we will outspeed it and we will be able to nuke it with a wild charge as well. I think Mantine's generally quite good here, but the problem with Mantine is it is thrown by the Tabacoco if it has got the Z-Move, but other than that we're not too bad. We can match the Crobat to Tailwind as well. Do we bring Sogaleo here? Yeah, I think we do. And I think we bring Palkia as well and Bench the other boys. The superior to be honest, it's definitely one of those Pokemon we could have probably sacked off. We've not really used it since like the first couple of episodes this week. So it's definitely a Pokemon that we could have said we could switch out. They bring something else in. But never mind, it's all all right. It's all all right. So see if we can core a win to finish up this week. I feel like the team deserves it. So Jack's sending out the Bravery and the Rayquaza. We are gonna get the intimidate onto both targets, which is nice, so that's always good. And we will activate that defiant ability on the Bravery. Bird up, my friends. But we've got one bird of our own in man time. We'll go for the Wild Charge into that slot and we'll go for a Tailwind, Icy Wind. I'll go for an Icy Wind just because the Rayquaza could be sashed and breaking the sash is gonna be quite useful for us. If it does make a revolver, it's gonna be hitting very hard, but just breaking the sash and lowering that speed a good thing for us. And definitely after an intimidate, we'll take a Dragon Ascent from the Rayquaza. So whether or not, I don't know, I don't know. Like I worry about Earth Power into Arcanine for sure, but we should take at least an Earth Power from Rayquaza. Problem is though, the Bravery is now protected by the strong winds, which I do forget about and we do like nothing and take massive recoil damage and Arcanine not in a great place. Then we are gonna see, as we move, what if it didn't be just Super Sonic Sky Strike, brave bird, yeah, it's probably gonna be into man time. 100%, I think we lost this already. Man time, no, yeah, no way we take a plus one from, yeah, that's not good. That's not good at all. Sougalale isn't a bad option, but we're like, I mean, we're just earthquake, yeah, we're just earthquake fodder. I mean, could a close combat, would a close combat do more to Bravery? It probably would, and then an Earth Power, we're probably better off switching into Parker and then banking on the Ray going for an Earth Power into the Sougalale and the Bravery going for maybe a tail end or just attacking into the Arcanine. Crunch, okay, yeah, that's what we wanna see. Close combat, we've gotta hope this takes it down. It does, okay, we get rid of the bird. Still not over though by a long way because we've got to deal with that crunch. Although that is minus one, the Rayquaza, so it's not too bad. Now if we can get a trick room up, things are looking a little bit brighter for us, but we're so far behind right now, it's not ideal. But I've been in worse positions before with Pokemon, Bals, and we've still come back, so we can't give up. Depends what my opponent brings out. It's gonna be the Kyogre, okay. I mean, we can get, we can definitely get a trick room up. It's just, I don't think we're gonna be able to get. I don't think we'll get, as they splash off. That's the only thing. So we could wide guard, but does the Kyogre water spell arching pose? Probably, we could spatial rend into the Rayquaza, or we could just trick room. Depends on what my opponent's got really in the back. Do they have pherothone? Probably, or tapacoco? Imagine maybe tapacoco. Our bankon have been tapacoco, although you're kind of more likely to lead with it, but I'm gonna trick room with Parkia, and I'm gonna wide guard. I'm gonna hope that the Kyogre's faster than Parkia as well. There's the Earth Par, okay. Wow, the Crit Earth Par. I don't think we take that combination anyway, but the Crit just kind of rubs salt into the wound a little bit. Right, okay. So spatial rend, I mean, the Kyogre's not really putting on too much pressure at all, so it's gonna be a solvest Rayquaza, though. It hasn't revealed protect. That the Ray is such a hard matchup, I think for like this team generally. Like when I first did the wheel, the very start of the week, I think like highlighting that Rayquaza was gonna be like one of those Pokemon that's really difficult to deal with, just because of its versatility. Is that a Crit? No, okay, Ice Beam, and yeah, Dragon Ascent, minus one. Be nice if this proc'd our berry. Not even a chance. Minus one, we would have taken that 100%, put ourselves back into this game, but the RNG said no, good game, Jack, and that ends it up with this team this week, so I feel like it's not been the best in results wise, six losses, three wins. It could have been better, it could have been way better, but it could have been a lot worse as well. At least we had three wins. I mean, we're taking a real silver lining from this, but I think it's been good for one, just a learning experience about how the roulette's gonna work and what we're gonna do going into next week. So with a brand new team, I feel like it's gonna get a lot better performance wise anyway. I think one of the things that we need to really do is drill down and look for these real gimmicks. If we're using Pokemon like we're using, it's having the gimmicks and making sure that we've got stuff that worked. I think it was a bit harder this week because we didn't really have a lot of cohesiveness between the Pokemon themselves. I think we obviously got the Z Splash Togalaya working really nicely and a few times the man team did so much work as well, but I think for the kind of memes that we're looking for wasn't really that redirection. There wasn't really that after you use it. There wasn't really the gravity user that we needed to take advantage of something else. So hopefully when we go forward with this, we'll have selections where we have picks and things really kind of like just jump out at us and we can make these memes work and have a little bit more success with it. So this has been a really fun week. I hope you guys have enjoyed the episodes this week. I'm looking forward to starting with the brand new team next week and get your suggestions in right now. Remember it is over on the community post. They're on the channel. Just click on the community icon. It will take you over to the post and nominate Pokemon for that roulette wheel next week and we'll be getting under where the brand new team's starting on Monday. So thank you so much for tuning in guys. Have a great weekend. What are you up to? We'll be back with more Rotorank roulette next week. So until then, take care and bye bye.