 Hi everyone and welcome back to another Pokemon VGC 2019 Ultra Series Guide. We kicked off on our last guide yesterday with an introduction to the Ultra Series. Now we've already played through the Sun Series, through the Moon Series and now we're entering into the Ultra Series and unlike going into the Moon Series where you just had that transition with the Z moves, there are a lot of new mechanics, new Pokemon available to us going into this. So in the introduction guide that I did yesterday, it just recaps everything about the Ultra Series, giving you that kind of basic knowledge that you need going into the Ultra Series. Some ideas, there's some sample teams in there for you to try out to get you started. So just to really encapsulate everything that you need to know going into the Ultra Series, so you have a really good time, a successful time and it gets you off the ground running. So hopefully you enjoyed it. If you did miss it and you'd like to go and check that out, make sure you do hop up, I'll get it right, it's up here. There'll be a card there, it'll link you back to the introductory guide and you can check that out, make sure that you haven't missed anything there. But getting on to today's guide, this is episode two of five. Like I mentioned in yesterday's guide, the schedule for when the guides will be coming out will be detailed at the end of the video. But today's guide number two, we're looking at Primal Kyoga, getting right into the depth of the Pokemon themselves and what better place to start than with Primal Kyoga. So before we get into anything, as always, if you enjoy this sort of content, please remember to drop a like on the video. Make sure you do subscribe to the channel so you don't miss when these guides do drop as well as our daily battle series, our flinch squad circuit stuff and restream things as well. Everything on the channel VGC related. Make sure that you leave a comment down below because I love hearing from you guys any thoughts on the guides themselves, anything you'd like to see in the future and just generally what your thoughts are going into the Ultra series, what you're most looking forward to about the whole series. So without further ado guys, let's hop into it. So starting off with a Pokemon overview, as we normally do, we've got Primal Kyoga. When it Primal reverts from Kyoga, when it hits the field, it is gotta be holding that blue orb, it will revert into Primal Kyoga. Now it gets a buff in its base stats and it also gets a brand new ability called Primordial Sea. Now this is one of the things that is the draw to Primal Kyoga, making it very strong. So unlike normal rain, we mentioned it in the introduction guide, Primordial Sea activates when Kyoga is brought onto the field and does not leave the field until Kyoga is either fainted, it switches out or another Primal Weather switches into a variety being Desolate Land or Delta Stream. One of the bonuses that you get with Primordial Sea is whenever it's active on the field, all fire damage dealing moves will fail. So they will not hit anything on any side of the field as long as Primordial Sea is in effect, it still gets the added bonuses of Swift Swim, all of the other things like dry skin that really normal rain has the secondary effects of and also giving water type attacks that 50% boost. So it is affected of course by airlock and cloud nine, so you need to be a little bit careful about that, but all of the other weather that you normally see, sunny day, rain dance, hail and sandstorm, if they come onto the field or if they are used by a Pokemon to try and override it, they will fail. Now Primal Kyoga keeps its base speed of 90 but does have an overall of 100 HP, 150 attack, which is just phenomenal. 90 defense, 180 special attack, 160 special defense and 90 speed as we've already mentioned, giving it a base that total of 770, which is just phenomenal, making this thing incredibly strong. You've got the obvious weaknesses and resists here, grass and electric are going to be its big weaknesses, immune to nothing unfortunately because of that water typing and then it does resist steel, fire, water and ice, so just to recap those. So that is just a brief overview of Primal Kyoga, now let's get into the nitty gritty, the stuff that you're here to see, we're going to start off with some example spreads and partnering Pokemon. So the first sample set I'm going to give you in this guide is a fast offensive Primal Kyoga. Now this one runs a modest nature, runs a speed stat of 142, maxing out that speed stat on a neutral nature, EV spread of 28 HP, 12 defense, 212 special attack, 4 special defense and 252 speed. The moves set you're predominantly going to see in this sort of Kyoga is going to be water spout, ice beam, origin pulse, thunder, a mix between those, so you're either going to have water spout, origin pulse as the option there with the coverage being ice beam and thunder and then protect as a mainstay on the set. Then just to give you an example of how powerful this Primal Kyoga is in the rain, a 212 special attack Primal Kyoga, water spout versus a 4 HP, no special defense, zonius and heavy rain is a guaranteed one hit kill, which I'm sure you all knew anyway, but it's pretty powerful. Defensive calculation without very much defensive investment here, you can see a plus two special attack. 252 very aura boosted zonius moon blast against this Primal Kyoga is a guaranteed two hit cause, so you can always always know with even the tiniest amount of investment this Primal Kyoga is going to be taking those plus two moon blasts from a timid zonius. Now we're going to look at some restricted partners that you're going to see commonly as we go into the ultra series. We'll go through a lot of them as we go through this guide, but some to start us off. You're going to see Evelto, a very nice partner for this kind of Kyoga build, Lunala as well, both have access to that tailwind and then zonius also going to be another nice partner in the restricted section. Some non-restricted partners that are going to be very good and you're going to see commonly paired with Kyoga, you're going to see mega salamence, it brings that intimate, it has a ground immunity, it has a dragon typing as well. It's very complementary to Kyoga because you can switch Kyoga out when it's facedown in front of a ground on, when desolate land's active and switch that salamence thing, get an intimidate off the immune to those ground type attacks. So they work quite nicely in conjunction together. You're going to have something like Incineroar. We've already seen how strong Incineroar is throughout this series with Kyoga and just generally in this format with its fake out support, pivot support, intimidate support, and fire and dark typing, which is extremely strong. And then another little addition there, we're going to see something like Smeagol as well that does cover and protect that Kyoga, especially when paired with Zernius as well. Some Pokemon checks against Primal Kyoga. Now, a big one is always going to be the Primal Groudon. If you switch Primal Groudon in when you've got your Primal Kyoga out, then desolate land will override the Primal Audio C and you will not be able to use your powerful water type attacks. Groudon being a ground and fire type, it is going to be immune to the electric types and it's only getting hit neutrally from those ice beams. So you do not want your Kyoga being locked into desolate land on the field against the Groudon. It is going to be very difficult and you are going to take a lot of damage from those powerful precipice blades from the opposing Groudon. Another check is now going to be Cortana. Now, unlike previous formats where you've had Kyoga potentially threatening things like Cortana and things like Tabakoko, with that choice scarf, you no longer have that. So Kyoga doesn't have that automatic speed boost that it would normally get from something like a choice scarf. These Pokemon like Cortana and Tabakoko are naturally going to outspeed Kyoga and can do phenomenal damage if you are not supporting your Kyoga properly or checking these Pokemon adequately. So they're just to name a few. We're going to name a lot more as we go through these guides, but this is the first set. This is the fast defensive Kyoga set and it also works nice with things like Rekwaza because Rekwaza obviously with that airlock it can switch in even if Groudon's out on the field, get rid of that desolate land and then you can fire off those water type attacks to get rid of things like Groudon that are causing a bit of a pain at the time. So we will move on to our next sample set which is going to be a trick room or tailwind set. So it's kind of one of those middling speed Kyogas. It's very bulky, going to be able to take an onslaught of attacks but it can act well in trick room and well in tailwind. So this is the idea of this Kyoga. It's not going too fast, it's not going too slow, kind of you dictate the pace depending on what you're playing and this is the type of Kyoga I personally like to play. It's very flexible and when you can kind of scout out what your opponent's trying to do you can flip the speed around to suit you and really kind of hinder their ability to operate as well as they would like to. So it does mean having trick room and tailwind in your team but I mean you can easily squeeze that into a six Pokemon team. Now partnering Pokemon before you get into EVs, natures or damage calculations you're going to see commonly Rayquaza is again going to be something that you're going to see always commonly paired with Kyoga because of that airlock ability because of the delta stream as well that it has access to. Giving Rayquaza double chances to always overwrite the desolate land which is the one thing that Kyoga really does fear and shuts it down hard. Rayquaza really alleviates that and just makes Kyoga even more threatening. So Rayquaza does have access to tailwind, whether or not you can fit that on your set is another thing but it can support Kyoga in that regard as well. Gonna have something like Sogallia does partner nicely with the Kyoga. Kyoga is a decent check to something like Prima Groudon which would normally threaten Sogallia pretty hard but Sogallia really enjoys the rain especially when that rains up it cannot be hit by any fire type attacks so it doesn't have that to worry about. So as long as you've got your ground checks in place you can build a really nice call between Sogallia and Kyoga. So that's those two and another one just to mention is going to be Hoho. If we ever do get regenerated this pairing would be ridiculous even without it even with that pressure ability Hoho is still a very strong Pokemon in this format especially if Groudon isn't carrying any rock type attacks and Hoho has a really nice time against it because he cannot be hit by those precipice blades you can still throw out brave birds at it obviously sacred fire is not going to be as effective now with its power fire typing but it does again act a little bit like that salamence that mega salamence gives the alleviation for Kyoga to switch out pretty safely and then allow something to come back in for it as well then non-restricted partners are going to have a look at things like mega which has that lightning and rotability before mega evolve so you can pick your time perfectly when you want to mega evolve. Minetric to protect Kyoga from potential electric type attacks from sick type of cocoa and then when the moment is right you can mega evolve with Minetric get that intimidate support which is really going to help out Kyoga as well because it is weaker on its defensive side and then pivot out with a quick vault switch and reposition your board maybe get requires around this situation and you could grow out on so all the possibilities are there and Minetric mega Minetric is a very good partner in Pokemon for Kyoga. I'm going to see another non-restricted partner very commonly played with Kyoga it's going to be Bronzong it's very slow nice steel typing good against Xerneas has levitate skill swap and trick room very good support options for Kyoga and allows you to set up a trick room get under that trick room where you've got the speed advantage maybe skill swap to prevent the ground on taking advantage with its desolate land ability or a requiser with its delta stream and then nuke them with an ice beam or a water type attack respectively and then other partners are going to be something like ludicolor it's going to take full advantages we've seen in past format with that swift swim ability it's got the fake out support there and as long as that primordial C is active it is two times faster than it would normally be and going to outspeed most things in the format and it still has access to that Z move so it can be a big threaten something you need to really keep in mind and be aware of now pokemon checks again you're going to see something like Zekrom Zekrom is going to be as it is a dragging type resisting those water type attacks the ice type attacks it will be weak against but it's going to be able to take at least an ice beam and then throw back a big powerful electric type attack which can potentially pick up a knockout onto the Kyoga now Zekrom is another pokemon that can carry a Z crystal so you need to be careful with that it commonly runs choice scarf as well so that's something else that you need to kind of keep in mind when you are playing possibly against one i don't know how popular Zekrom will be in this format but you never know at the start of a format how things are going to pan out you can probably pretty safely say that you're not going to run into too many Zekroms though with primordial Groudon really predominantly keeping them at bit alongside that Zernius another pokemon check is going to be Toxicroak again as we saw in the Sun and the Moon series Toxicroak going to be a pokemon that just can sit in front of primordial Kyoga all day long especially without assault vest with its dry skin ability not take any damage from those powerful water type attacks and start really chipping away at Kyoga or any partnering pokemon Toxicroak does have a much more difficult time in the ultra series though this is one thing to just point out because of the presence of mega requiser for one with those flying type attacks that are so threatening and something like ultra necrosma as well as the primordial Groudon with its desolate land ability and another pokemon check just to throw in here is going to be Gastrodon it will have a great time against primordial Kyoga it can throw out all of the attacks at once it's not really going to be able to touch Gastrodon and Gastrodon is one of those pokemon that can sit in front of primordial Kyoga and it does really threaten primordial Groudon as well because of its new fire typing it has that ground resistance so it can do a pretty decent job against both of those primers so if you can fit it into your team and make it work then it got a lot of potential to maybe do something in this format now getting on to the interesting bits we've got a bold nature on this primordial Kyoga we went for a maximum defense we went for an EV spread of 204 hp 228 defense 44 special attack four special defense and 28 speed that speed stat like we mentioned earlier gives you that raw speed stat of 114 which also allows you to utilize Kyoga in and with icy wind or electro web so they're two things you can take advantage of with that 114 raw speed stat after one icy wind you'll be out speeding all base 100 pokemon which is pretty nice now an offensive calc from this spread and set a 44 special attack primordial Kyoga scald if you decide to go down the skull root with it against a 252 hp no special defense primordial Groudon as long as the delta stream is active or airlock is active is a guaranteed one hit kill so you do not worry about that at all and then the defensive calc is a 252 plus nature attack primordial Groudon precipice blades versus this Kyoga is always a guaranteed three hit kill and that is unintimidated so that's pretty nice so you can get yourself into a position where you've got the delta stream up or the airlock you know for a fact whatever the groudon's doing in front of you you're going to be able to take three precipice blades from the primordial garden and kind of guarantee that you'll be able to be at easily one on one as long as that desolate land isn't active so that is the more bulky kind of middle tier speed trick room tailwind set and we'll move on to our third example set of this guide which is the slow and bulky kyoga so we'll be running minimum speed kyoga for this one 85 raw speed stat we're going to run with a quiet nature zero speed i v we're going to go with an ev spread of 204 hp 236 defense 44 special attack and 20 special defense now again move sets here you can choose anything from water spout probably not wanting to go more water spout here more origin pulse on this set then ice beam skull thunder protect it's up to you what you want i always prefer the coverage of having origin pulse ice beam and thunder it gives you all the things that you need origin pulse isn't the most reliable attack but you can get around that with gravity and and other options to help support kyoga there now an offensive calculation from this specific primal kyoga you're going to see a 44 plus special attack primal kyoga water spout versus a 236 hp 236 special defense incinero in heavy rain is a guaranteed one hit chaos so against that standard bulky incinero as long as your heavy rain is up that water spout is going to absolutely destroy it and incinero is one of those pokemon that is not going away so you're going to have a really good time against the incinero as long as your primordial sea is active now a defensive calc just to let you know one of the things that does partner primal kyoga really well it does threaten it as well is that mega requiser with its dragon ascent and you're going to see that commonly run things like sword stance so you've got to kind of try and keep it checked with intimidates and even though you have intimidate you're probably going to only be able to get a back down to plus one so this calculation here is key to being able to at least deal or try to deal with requiser without just instantly losing and that is a plus one two five two attack mega requiser dragon ascent so jolly mega requisers dragon ascent on plus one against this primal kyoga is a guarantee to hit cause so if you're full health you know you'll always be able to take that plus one dragon ascent from mega requiser and that might be enough to give you a room to kind of steal the game away so that is the ev spread the nature and just a few of the calculations now just stick to partners again you're going to see with this bulkier version or things like primal groud on it's going to be a very good partner for it you've got the dual primals it did so well in 2016 and i can see doing well again into this format so you've got both weathers on the team and you can really choose and pick which one you want to go for normally the kyoga in these teams is quite slow along with that groud on so you're looking at more predominantly a trick room setup here going to have partners again mega requiser is going to be another nice one to have and i've just tagged on their dial go as well something to think about going into this format even though it does make life a little bit harder against something like primal groud on non-restricted partners a big one that we can see on our screen right now is going to be that mega gengar it's going to have the ability to trap opposing pokemon in on the field and you're going to be able to really utilize that weather support with your primal and that would be that weather support with primal kyoga making sure that you're not losing control there i see wind support even trick room support from mega gengar options there you're going to see the bronze on again we've went through the reasons why it's so good support wise with these primals and then kanto raichu as well is going to be another option with that line and rod faker support nuzzle and all of the other supporting options it has available to it some pokemon check definitely and i don't know how often we're going to see it but parkia will wall primal kyoga pretty much all day long with its dragon and water typing you're going to have things like ferrathorn especially if you're going to slaw bulky kyoga is going to be under speeding you and really threatening you with those grass type attacks and because it's so bulky it's going to be able to just eat those water type attacks up all day long and then obviously again is ludicolor we mentioned it was a good partner in the previous slide but this one again it's going to be something that you need to be very careful of and have some nice checks against to help out primal kyoga but it does suffer a bit like the toxa croak with the inclusion and popularity of mega requiser because that ludicolor loses its swift swim as long as the airlock or the delta streams out in the field and requiser can deal quite handily with ludicolor so whether its popularity stays or it probably does decrease as the format goes on but it's something to just be aware of if you are playing kyoga so we will move on to a few sample teams that i put together for you guys going forward if you want to try kyoga out in this format i've put some sample teams in the description below so you can see those sample teams on the screen in front of you you've got the top one the second one and the third one there's some interesting themes to try out but like i say the poker piss and roll piss are all in the description below so if you do try them out let me know what you think of them and i hope it's a useful tool for you to have to get started within the ultra series and that's one of the things that i want to do with these guides so they are the sample teams as i say they're down in the description and do with them as you please my friends and we will just end up with a counters and summary of primal kyoga so as we said it is a water type it's got the ability primordialcy we hopefully all know what that is about now we can see that kyoga with that blue old bean primal kyoga can only have a maximum speed of 156 a minimum speed of 85 and i'd say probably at the beginning of the format you're going to see that common speed of 142 run on primal kyoga but you know the benchmarks you know it's maximum speed there's nothing to hide it can't have a choice golf there is nothing to hide so you know if you have something faster than 156 you will be out speeding it if you have something slower than 85 and you're in a trick room you will be out speeding it this is what i mean about knowing the speeds these items are making these pokemon quite linear to approach to deal with so it makes it a little bit easier they're very strong don't get me wrong you cannot take them for granted but you know what you need to do to get around them have something faster something they can hit it very hard supported by a partnering pokemon the things that kyoga needs to protect it and then you can really deal with it very effectively so things that you're going to need to support kyoga in your team building you're going to need speed control it's not the fastest pokemon as you can see here it's not the slowest pokemon either so you're gonna need some sort of speed control to help it get into positions where it can really start ripping through your opponent's team with those big powerful water type attacks intimidate support is another thing to tick off the list it is very strong special defensively but defensively it is a lot weaker so you need to protect it from that angle and intimidate support is very useful with primal kyoga grass and electric checks so they're very important things to have a lightning rod user would be very useful to have with kyoga to really neutralize any sort of electric type threats especially some something like type of cocoa mega magnetic or just a ground type in there as well to help alleviate those weaknesses grass types you've got mega requiser flying types in general are going to be great checks for all of those grass types that do threaten it as well redirections very nice something like lefairy toga kiss and moongus all things smiggle as well they will be beneficial to kyoga help keep it around on the field as long as possible because the longer it's around on the field the more damage it will be doing and making it very difficult for your opponent to actually take the win in that match and the last thing that i'm going to mention that you really need to have when playing one of these primals specifically kyoga is pivot support so you want something like type of cocoa mega magnetic with that quick fast vault switch so you can vault switch out switch kyoga out on the opposite side when you're doing this so you vault switch into the kyoga get your weather back up and get back into a really strong position going into the next turn now you've got slow pivot options as well like incineral if you've seen do so well in this format landeris is another option but there are lots of options there but it is a very strong thing to have alongside your primal weathers and we'll support it a lot better than not having it in your team at all pokemon threats we've went through a lot of them in the sample spreads and sets but just to reiterate those they're going to be primal ground on katana type of cocoa requiser zekrom mega magnetic all things that give it a very hard time pokemon walls you're going to see things like park here ferrithon ludicolor toxa croc gastrodon and dial gas so it's good just to have answers against those specific pokemon so you have ways to deal with them to alleviate kyoga's ability to just sweep through teams and do the job that you want it to so that pretty much oh there we go skipping slides again but that pretty much wraps up all of the kyoga guides so i hope you've enjoyed it guys it's been a lot of fun covering it and we've covered quite a lot of information within it so if you'd like to go back if you've got any questions or anything like that go back through the video i'll have a lot of pauses just takes some time but if there's anything you've got questions about from the entire video do leave them in the comment section below and i will get back to you as soon as possible but i hope it's been a beneficial guide for you to get you started within this ultra series get a bit of an understanding of how primal kyoga can be played and how to play against it what support options you need what support options your opponent needs to protect it and what you can really do to both support it and when you're playing against it exploit it as well to overcome it because it is a very powerful and strong pokemon so that is that and we'll be back with another guide tomorrow and tomorrow's guide we're going to be looking at primal groudon it's going to be a lot of fun primal groudon is extremely good in this format we're with but we'll leave that for that guide so do tune in tomorrow i really hope you have enjoyed this one thank you so much for tuning in and i will catch you all very soon so until the next time guys take care of yourselves and bye