 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Road to Ranked roulette series. We are into week three of this new series. We've had two weeks prior to now. If you've missed any of those and you'd like to go back and check out the craziness from the last couple of weeks on the channel, then click up here. I'll put a card up. You can check those out and then come back to this one today to continue the entertainment. So I hope you guys have been enjoying the series so far. It has been really good. We had a great couple of suggestions last week on the channel from you guys to change things up as we're going forward. Just to give ourselves a little bit more of an advantage going into battles because we aren't putting together really cohesive teams. We're at the end of a format where everyone seems to have a really solid team. So we're even bigger disadvantage. So to give ourselves a little bit of a leg up here, what we're going to do great suggestions last week from the guys. So thank you so much for all those suggestions was to select four Pokémon from the wheel, non restricted Pokémon and then go over to a restricted wheel and then pick our two restricted Pokémon based on that team. But I'm not quite going to do that. I'm not going to make it that easy for myself. I'm just going to make sure that we do have two restricted Pokémon going into this week. Now, if it doesn't work out this week, we can make sure to pick our restricted Pokémon next week. But let me know down in the comment section what you think about that. So we'll get into the team selection for this week very soon. Just a big shout out to all of you for all of the nominations that we've had for Pokémon going into the wheel this week. I'm very excited about this week's team. It should be quite good. And just on the back of that as well, one of the things that I wanted to do before we get into the episode today was to just say a huge thank you to each and every one of you for all of the support that I've had, especially over the last month and a half since Theo was born. It's been really difficult on my side of things, making sure that content is being kept up on the channel and you guys have been absolutely incredible. So just a little thank you. This is not very much, but it's just what I can do at the minute. Just a little thank you to all of you guys. I'm going to have a little giveaway this week on the channel for one of these lovely, brand new, with tags on, Flinch Squad hats. So it's an iHeartFlinch hat. It's pretty cool. I'll obviously not send this one because you guys probably don't want a pre-worn hat. But I'm giving this away to one of you lucky people this week. If I had the money to give each and every one of you a hat away, I would do it. 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We've got a legend maker, a switcher, but a randomizer. We're going to throw in a new Patreon button so we can add that into the mix as well. So after day two of our one week cycle, we can activate any of these buttons. And the Patreon button is one that I've put a post up on the Patreon site asking those guys specifically what Pokemon they'd like to see in the team. And if we feel like we need to have just a little bit of an extra leg up, we can activate that button as well. So we've got that to look forward to. But without further ado, my friends, thank you again for all of the nominations. Let's head over to the wheel to draw our four non-restricted Pokemon for this week's team. So we'll be right back. This is incredible. We've actually got, I feel like we've got a really good basis for a good team this week. So we're relying heavily on these restricted Pokemon. We've got the Perugly Defiant Puts off those intimidators, which is massively helpful. Fast fake out as well. Something we've always wanted. Oranguru, Mega Binette and Garchomp. Garchomp, my favorite dragon. So and a Grand Type as well. So without further ado, let's see what our restricted Pokemon pairing is going to be this week. I'm praying. I'm hoping guys. So let's head over to the wheel. Let's see what we get drawn out. It's a restricted pairing this week. We've got an incredible restricted pairing. We've got Xerneus and we've got Yveltal, the XY combination. I literally cannot believe this. Now guys, I do, I do do a draw on a really crummy online wheel because I can't fit all of the selections into the wheels that I have animation wise. So I do it separately. I record it. I've got the raw footage there. It's not a setup. This is not a setup. This is all genuine. If you want that recorded video, let me know. I'll post it up. It'll be the most boring video ever, but you will see a fancy wheel. It's online. So it might be a cup of tea, but I've got an incredible team. Thank you to all the nominations. Obviously, we had Black Dragon who suggested the pro ugly. We had Derek Z with the orangaroo. Kevin with mega Benet. Jeremy with that garchomp. We had Eugenia actually suggesting the Yveltal and then command blocked with Xerneus. So the two suggestions and we had more restricted selections suggested, but they were suggested. So they did come out. There must have been some magic in the air, but we've got an absolutely fantastic team this week. I feel really good about this. I feel good that we can climb eventually above 1500. We've got a team to do it. So here is the team. As always, the team is down in the description below. There is a roll pace, poker pace. If you want to check out the details, I'll quickly go over everything before getting to it today. So the pro ugly, we've got a focus session there just to keep it around a bit longer. Torn faker, giga impact and fake tears to help out with that Xerneus. We've got the orangaroo. So I have one for trick room. I don't feel like this team needs trick room, but we can do that later in the week if you want to. Got ally switch. It really helps support that mega binette as well, especially with that ghost resistance that the orangaroo has and how prominent things like Lunala and mega Gengar are. It does give mega binette an opportunity to get the phantom force off, which is really quite a strong attack. The orangaroo also has ally switch, the instruct to get double attacks off with things like guard chomp and the rest of the team and then protect inside shock. Then we've got the mega binette. Incredible use of prankster with things like disable, destiny bond, protect phantom force there. We've got the guard chomp. We've put a scarf on it this week because I was originally going to go Z move there, but I've went for the Z move on Xerneus. We went for the pharynium Z because it's something I've wanted to use all season and I have never got round to using so we can get the double Geomancy boost if we play our cards right and that is going to be something incredible and then running off with an assault vessel. Now, as I say always, we can change up the sets. We can change anything up with this team as we go further on into the week. We've got options of trick room here. Got some options of tailwind. Obviously with the vessel and we've got our buttons that we can activate come Wednesday. So I'm going to say it without further ado. Let's get some music on my friends. I'm still very hay fevery. I'm going to sympathize. I hope none of you out there suffer with hay fever because it's terrible at this time of the year. Being allergic to plants is a weird thing. But yes, let's get some music on. I need to get the right screen. Let's see our rating. Oh, 1582. Oh, okay. I don't know if we can even get out of 1500. If we win every match this weekend, I'm guessing we probably could. It's not going to be easy, but we've got a good chance to do it this week. So as always, guys, if you do enjoy this content, remember to drop a like on the video. Do subscribe to the channel as always for more Pokemon content. It will be coming out very soon and leave your comments to make sure you can enter the draw. Nothing else for this lovely hat. And so let's get into team preview against that first opponent. I believe they might be a road to ranked roulette player as well because they don't have any restrictive Pokemon and we've got a team of Greninja, Gastrodon, Toxicroak, Whimsicott, Incineroa, and Lucario. So Lucario could potentially be a mega here. And double water, lots of stuff that does well against Kyoga really set up against Kyoga really well. Can we get around this team? Now there's lots of like Trixie Pokemon that are going to be difficult to deal with the course of Whimsicott with its speed control, Toxicroak with its fake out, Incineroa there. Again, the fake out, Intimidate, and the Greninja as well. I'm going to leave with Perugly. It's kind of solid here. I wonder if we could go Perugly Xerneus. They've got to have a way to really shut down Xerneus so that's the thing. So I feel like maybe we keep the Xerneus in the back for later. We could. Now we'll go Xerneus. I'm going to do that. And then I'm going to bring Garchomp for sure because the scarf will just be generally good. And yeah, let's go, you beltle. Bring a restricted pairing. We could have brought Burnet. Burnet probably would have done quite well here. Just worry about the Whimsicott with taunt. That's the only thing. But ah, ah, after so many weeks of and I'm not saying the teams that we've been playing are bad because they've been really fun and all the Pokemon made up within those teams have been incredible. But to finally have a team that I feel like this could win matches. Makes everything feel so much better. So see what we can do. It's a little bit away from the norm, but still still going to be good. Okay. So Greninja and Incinero. We're going to probably see the Greninja with gunk shot. I would imagine it's going to be what it has. Isn't it? Did we just trade fake arts here? I mean, we could fake out and go for just we could just dazzling gleam. I do suspect that the Incinero could have roll. Um, I definitely do. But we could also try and go for the Z GMC here as well. Let's just do it. Let's just try it. We get it. We get it. We don't, we don't fake out. Man, just crazy damage fake out. Yeah, just trading those there. I don't mind this too much because this gives us the opportunity now to get rid of this Greninja with a Giga imbept. So we'll, we'll do that. It feels a bit overkill, but getting rid of that Pokemon is going to be quite useful first because I do feel like the Greninja probably does have gunk shot or potentially something like the Poisoning MZ and we can't at speed Greninja. So it'd be a good way just to get rid of, get rid of. There's the gunk shot. Turn into that Poison type. Protein is such a good ability, isn't it? It really is. Uh, Greninja. Oh, kidding. We'll have to go for it again. Um, uh, I'm bringing Garchomp. Let's bring in the Garchomp and then we've got the scarf there and then we can potentially switch out Perugly the next turn and just Earthquake and hopefully that'll be enough to get the Greninja. Extreme speed. Okay. And another gunk shot. Yeah. I didn't realize a giga impact could miss. I need to check out its accuracy. That does quite a lot of damage to Garchomp. Who resists that? Um, just shows how strong Greninja is really. There we go. There we go. We get it this time. Good job, Perugly. We can't obviously switch Perugly out this next turn, but it's kind of, it's going to be alright, isn't it? Probably seeing Cynar all come back in now. Um, which I don't mind we get another Defined Boost. Of course, it's going to be Gastrodon. Gastrodon. Alright, uh, we have to... Um, do we actually stay in with Garchomp? Probably not. I'm going to just switch out into Evelto here. That's probably not the best idea, but I think that the Gastrodon probably goes Ice Beam into the Garchomp and I'd rather keep Garchomp like to Leleka and that's always kind of the best way with the scarf user, isn't it? I'm going to be keeping it round just to pick things off at the very end. I'm going to see Lucario. Mega Evolve. Now I think Mega Lucario and Perugly actually speed time. We do speed time. There's Dream Punch. It won't take us down. It'll take us down to a sash. We've got all that juicy health for Lucario. Um, but I wonder if we can... If they don't double up. Oh yeah, there's Ice Beam. Okay, that's, that's alright, isn't it? It's fine. Giga Impact into the Gastrodon and let's go for an Oblivion Wing into Lucario. Extreme speed. Poor Perugly. Doing all the work there. Let's see how much this does. It'll be interesting. It's neutral. Ah, it's decent. It's decent, isn't it? I think we have to worry about, like, the close combat from the Lucario. It might be an idea this next turn to bring in Garchomp now, just to erb quick. And then potentially snarl. The Gastrodon. We do have to watch out for clear smog on the Gastrodon, of course, as well, because it's a really, actually decent Zonius check. But one of the things we could potentially do, we don't have to GM ANSI with the, the Ferenium either. We can... We can go for... Let's just snarl. Yeah, we can go for the, the Z Moonblast as well, which is about the same power as what you would get from GM ANSI Moonblast. Roughly. Along the same lines. So, yeah. It's like a Moonblast without having a GM ANSI. And you can still 2-turn GM ANSI if you want afterwards. Obviously, we, we don't have the ability to go for erm... 1-turn GM ANSI without the power herb, but I don't mind that too much. Garchomp on in the work, getting rid of the Lucario. Gastrodon and Incineroar left against our restricted pairing. I think we're gonna be probably alright, to be honest. As we can just dazzle and snarl. And then we've got the Incineroar, which I'm hoping we can take down with Azernius, Z Moon. Twinkle Tackle. It's probably the most powerful fairy Z Moon in the game, I think. I would imagine. With the, the, the fairy or our boost. Yeah, it's gotta be. It's gotta be! Erm, let's dazzle and go for a Oblivion Wing into the Gastrodon. They can only fake out one target, so. Ah, now fake out. Just, yeah, we're gonna get rid of the, the Gastrodon. Zernius doing its work. This feels good. Good getting to an end of the game where I feel like nothing can go wrong. There's the Incineroar taking a bit of damage. What are we gonna see Incineroar do? Drain Punch. Drain Punch Incineroar! Nice! Okay. I like that. Haha. That's something you see every day. It's definitely not. This guy could be the roulette man as well. From Japan. Er, right. Let's go for it. Let's go for Overkill. Twinkle Tackle. Moon Blast. Erm, and, yeah, you, you do whatever. You Velto. But this should be enough. Ah, I felt fit. He didn't let us get the win. But very good game to my opponent. And a nice, nice way for us to kick off the day. Easy listen to it with the new team and we get a win. So, records at the ready. Get the pen. The winning pen. Win percentage. Losing percentage. We've got one win. So, 100% win record right at the minute. So, things looking pretty good. Heating up nicely. So, let's continue on. Er, we'll hop over to our screen. Let's see if I... Rating has improved a little bit. A little bit. Yeah. Erm, I tell you what. No, let's go Gladiant. Because Gladiant music is pretty cool. We haven't had this for a long time on the channel. Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find opponent. You know what? I'm looking at this, this record right here. 13 wins, 23 losses. I'm hoping we can tie that up over the next couple of weeks. That would be really nice. It would be really nice. But we're nearly back to 1400. So, we just need 100 points. We can totally get about 1500 by the end of the week. Like, we get total... I'm just a bit, hmm, can we do it? Have we got enough games to do this? We've got enough games to do it. If we're getting that many points off that kind of opponent that we just played who's similar points to us, then I think we can do it. We've got Rider up next. So, very cool username. And let's get into Team Preview. Okay, so Rider running a team of Tapa Coco requires Azernius, Amungus, Incineroar and Suicune. So, we've got Speed Control looking like it's coming from the Suicune primarily. You could have ElectroWeb on the Coco. You've got Support, Mons in the Amungus and Incineroar there, Fakeout Support, Intimidate Support, then then the Redirection from the Amungus. And then the two Restrictors. Obviously, going to be that x-ray combination, which are very strong. So, we need to be a little bit careful around that. Could this be a good game for Banette, maybe? I just like the Z Destiny Bond that it does have access to. It might be something we could keep in the back, potentially, to utilize. Perugly seems very good. Garchomp also seems like something I would like to bring. The scarf here just acts so nicely. Let's go Perugly. Let's go Azernius. Let's go Banette. And do we go Garchomp in the back as well? Yeah, let's try this. Yeah, let's lock in. Good luck to Rider. Let's see if we can do this. Come on, come on. We can do it, we can do it, we can do it. I feel good about it. I feel like we can get two wins. We haven't... When was the last time we had two wins? Like, have we even done that yet? On this series? I don't think we have. Okay, so there's Perugly. And Azernius for ourselves. And Senor Azernius. So, we've actually got taunt as well on our Perugly, so we can actually shut down that Zernius. So I don't mind trading fakeouts to turn one, for sure. And then we can potentially get... I wonder if a boosted giga impact will get an Incineroar as well. This could work out pretty nicely if we can work this. So let's go Fakeout. Let's go Zeo. Geomancy. Yeah, let's try it. Be nice if the Incineroar decided I am not going to fake out here. I'm going to pivot out and bring Amunus in. We'll probably just trade fakeouts here. So much damage boosted. Stab as well, I guess, yeah. So, right, now we go for the Z... The Zgeomancy. Let's go for the taunt into the Zernius. Let's see if we can do it this time. I'm determined to get this working. We've obviously got to spend a turn where we can't... Where we can't attack. So we get the Z move here for the initial boosts. There's the Geomancy, so here we go. I've not done this all season. I've seen players do it. It's something I thought about at the very start of this format. Well, in the Moon series, primarily, when we got access to the Z moves, first of all. We're absorbing light, so we get the... Those boosts. Hopefully, we don't see raw on Incineroar. That would be terrible. That's it. Yeah, okay. So Incineroar coming out. Um... Amungus, I'm guessing. Probably comes in, but we've got the taunt. The problem is that... Actually, maybe a plus one gig of impact could get an Amungus. If it does, that's probably better. Yeah. Because it's going to have clear smog. And that would totally ruin us. Can we do this? Come on, Perugly. Please. If we get this, I think we win the match. I think if we get the Amungus, as long as it's not sashed, that could be a sticking point for us, of course. But Perugly faster than the Zernius is taunted. He can't do very much the Amungus. Has to really go for this clear smog here, because we get the Z, the Z boosts. But if this gig of impact, this Perugly, this little kitty, plus one, can pick up the knockout on the Amungus, then we are in a great position. It's all about this Amungus knockout. Come on, Perugly. Let's do this. We hit. We hit. Come on. Not strong enough at all. It's so weak. It's so weak. Clear smog incoming. This is why the power hub would be better. All that work. All that work. Now, what do we do? We could bring Garchomp in, but... Do we go Garchomp? Rock slide. Geomancy again. Get some flinches. Let's try a Geomancy again. I think we need the Geomancy to beat the Rayquaza when it comes in at the end. Hopefully we can get some flinches. Like, if we don't, we could potentially use Garchomp here, too. Whatever, Xernius really throws out at us. Two rock slides though. If we get... If we get... If we get a flinch here on the Xernius, then we're in a good position to get our Geomancy up. And Garchomp actually survives. So, okay. We need to win the speedtie, though, with the opposing Xernius. And we still need to flinch it, I think, as well. That's the thing. So, we'll have to go for that rock slide again. We'll try this. We're getting greedy, though. But if we can force this, this might be... This might be the way to do it. I don't know. I don't know. Let's see. I really want to get two wins on the run. I feel like we could do this. It's gonna be incineral. Yeah. That's fine. That's fine. That's fine. That's fine. Come on. Just flinch. Garchomp. Come on. Flinch squad. Let's do this. Garchomp. This is why you're here. You are the flinch machine. Believe it. Believe it, Garchomp. Come on. Come on. Yes! So, we get it. Come on. Zernius, let's do this. Let's do this. Camera focus. Focus, camera. Okay. So, now, where do you fake out? Do you fake out at Garchomp? Or do you fake out at Zernius? Because we could potentially just earthquake here. Now, we can't earthquake. We've got a rock slide. I think the opposing Zernius is torn. It's war off. Yeah, it has. It has the opportunity to go for... I mean, the other thing is we could just go for the rock slide again and just go for a dazzling gleam here. And just... You can only fake out one thing and maybe go for the Garchomp. Now, you go for the Zernius. So, we can double flinch. Double... Well, we can get another flinch onto the Zernius. Come on, Garchomp. Believe that you are the flinch master. Come on. A little bit sad. We need to win a speed tie then. We need to win a speed tie. We can do it. We can win a speed tie. We haven't won one speed tie against the Zernius actually, which is a little bit sad. So, we're going to win one. It's going to be this one here right now, right now, right now. Dazzling gleam should get the Zernius. And... Yeah, we probably get both with Dazzling gleam rock slide. So, let's just win the speed tie and it will all be fine. Come on, Zern. You can do it. You can do it, my boy. Blue. You're my boy. Anyone seen old school? It's a cracking movie. I know Mr. Krim has. He's mentioned that before. But we've got to do this. Come on. Let's get this. Dazzling gleam. Let's fault it. Otherwise, it's all down to Banette. And I don't know if Banette can do it. I don't know if you can do it. It might be a bit too, too much for Banette to do. Okay. We might be able to do this then. Dazzling gleam. Is this enough to get the Incineroar? Hopefully, it is not. But it's not. It's not. Come on, hit. We're going to see the... We're going to see Brickwaza come in now, I think. With extreme speed. Make a lot of sense. I can hear a baby crying. I can hear a baby crying. There we go. Yeah, that's the problem. The ray. But we've got a way to do this. We sack. We sack Garchomp. I think we need a double protector. That's the only thing. I don't think I can... I don't think I can switch in Banette in this situation. Because it probably will just go down. This is... Yeah, we'll need a double protector, I think. And there's no way I can get around not protecting here. Because we'll just go down to an extreme speed. The Brickwaza will mega-evolve. Yeah, we're going to need a double protector with Zernius. And then we have to decide what we go for. Do we go for disable on two requests? We can't do that, though. Yeah, we need to... I mean, we can do that. Because if we get a double protector, we definitely can. We're going to lose Garchomp here, though. So, I'm sorry if you can hear baby crying in the background. Thea's sounding like she's really upset with this situation that's going on right now. Moonblast into Garchomp. We're not even... Did we see an extreme speed? All right, we must have done. Okay. Banette, this is your time to shine, my friend. If you've ever had a time to shine, this is it. So, we've got a lot... We need to fall into place right now. And then we still need to beat... We still need to beat an Amungus as well. Which is going to be pretty difficult, I think. Because we lose Banette here, I'm pretty sure. Let's go disable into the Brickwaza. And let's go for that double protector again. If we can get this, we can lock that Brickwaza out of that extreme speed. I don't think we take... Well, maybe we take a plus two dozen gleam. I don't know, though. I'm not 100% sure that we're going to be able to do this. We get it! Okay, we can maybe, maybe do this. Okay. Disable. Better beam, better boom. Banette, you are the king. Moonblast. If that was into Xernius, that would be incredible. Yeah, we're not going to take that, no way. Okay, but Banette doing that. So giving us a lifeline here, I guess. The problem is, if the Brickwaza is sashed and we lose a speed tie, we're done for. But I feel like everything's falling into place now for us to actually... It not be sashed as win the speed tie, clear the field now and then Moonblast that Amungus and win the game. It's all going to pan out like that. That I can see it, I can visualize it. Let's visualize the win. Come on guys, let's do this. Let's see, come on. My Ryder is having a tough time now. He's like, God damn it, double protect and I don't blame him. So I'm not the biggest. Ryder wins the speed tie, the coin flip falls in his favor and we go down, which is very sad but a very enjoyable game and we couldn't get the two wins. But not to worry my friends, we'll be back tomorrow in our next episode and we will give it a go again with this team. It feels a lot more solid. It feels like we're going to be able to do a lot more with this team. The Amungus there really, you know, I think like the Gigate Impact knowing that the Gigate Impact wasn't going to be enough. Like if we knew that, we wouldn't have went for that in the first place. So that's good information for us going forward in similar situations. We need, we needed to keep Zonius till the end fresh and just utilize that other Pokemon to maybe chip away at these Pokemon first and then bring Zonius in the end. That would have been a better game plan, 100%. The Amungus, I expected the Gigate Impact to do a lot more damage and be very close to that knockout, but it didn't unfortunately. And that's kind of our downfall in that match. We managed to get a Geomancy off and we dragged it out as much as we could. So we didn't do too badly, but we didn't get the win. But two great games today. I hope you've enjoyed the kickoff with our roulette team this week. It's going to be a lot of fun. I can tell already. Remember, we've got four buttons. We can activate as well going into the rest of those weeks. So and also don't don't forget to leave a comment. Leave a like to enter the draw for this lovely flinch squad. I have flinch hats that you guys get your hands on. So thanks so much for tuning in guys. Have a great rest of your day and I will catch up with you again very soon. We'll see you again tomorrow for another episode of our Rotorank roulette. See you soon to learn to care and bye bye.