 Hi everyone and welcome to a showdown special here on the channel so I'm away on holiday at the minute but I did want to put some content of while I was away and this is a team that I've been playing around with recently just getting back into the ultra series a bit more seriously so I thought it might be nice just to do some showdown stuff while I'm away before we come back and do some serious get our normal battle series underway so this is a team you can see it is all based around choice band requires a I think it's pretty nice and I'm not really sure about the waterfall maybe earthquake there would be quite nice but it doesn't really have that much synergy with the rest of the team so sticking with the waterfall of the minute just to get rid of grout on and things like that that can be pretty problematic for the rest of the team then Serena is the other partner in crime that Queenie Majesty ability just amazing helping hand there's the spreads and stuff there'll be a roll paste down in the description below if you want to try it out scissors something else I'd like to try out with a sash there standard zernius uh salt vest incinero and then we've got the z move on tab at a go-go so that's the team that we're going to be playing around with today and we'll just hop straight in this is a new user uh tag that I've got that I'm running so a ladder ranking is going to be pretty low but we'll get into it and we'll just see how many games you can get through and hopefully it'll be a lot of fun so what we've got incinero aerodactyl match amp uh x-ray as well madness okay um obviously the thunderous theory is going to be a bit of an issue uh I feel like we can probably get away with going for uh the zernius boosting here though uh will lead incinero zernius Serena and what else do we need uh ray yeah let's just bring ray let's do that don't feel like there's anything else that we need to do um and we'll just see like low ladder is always going to be a bit easier than then it will be we get a bit higher but hopefully it doesn't take too long to get a bit higher on the ladder and we can start getting some proper competitive competitive teams um because my champ is definitely something that I haven't seen really run this yet it's interesting pokemon of course especially in detail and watching you probably guessing this team's going to go for with the aerodactyl here uh zernius incinero for my opponent that's fine um I guess the only thing we need to worry about is potentially raw on the uh the old incinero on the other end but I think I'll probably try faker this turn and there we go yeah geo geo we'll just trade geos but the thing is I don't mind this because we've got help in hand um boosted zernius here where we can really take advantage of uh help in hand yeah so we can start doing some nice damage here and just cut through this team and hopefully this is kind of like the main idea with this team you know you get yourself set up in zernius against against favorable matchups and matchups you can't bring zernius obviously to lead with but uh you cut through and then banded very kind of in the end comes back I'm gonna say we're gonna see see a roll maybe there but unfortunately can't survive the help in hand dazzle um so match up coming in interesting uh we'll just go for the help in hand dazzle once again um unless we see wide guard which could be a problem uh I do suspect maybe wide guard here from the match up potentially so let's go help in our moonblast there it is we called it uh we'll get some nice damage there moonblast moonblast um and we'll go dazzle we'll go faint this time because we could have went for that last time it's just nice getting that big damage on to the opposing zernius obviously that's the the big thing here with the fastest zernius as well so the wide guard goes up again oh I don't know if it will and even if not the matchup could be sashed I guess it's the sort of pokemon you think would be sashed in this sort of format with salamence rickwaza and fairies and psychic types all floating around giving matchup a really hard time so we'll see what my opponent hopefully hurries up and we can get this first one underway there's a as uh we went for the wrong the wrong thing but never mind we get the match up anyway it was trying to go for something maybe suspecting that we would go for the moonblast again to the zernius but we can just wrap things up now with a nice faint and dazzle and you can see kind of how powerful this combination is it's something that I've loved all season and do really like a lot and it's probably something I will take to tournaments in the future I think it does need refining but um I think the combination between the twos is still very strong electro web nice nice nice we still had speed though and then we can just go for that faint dazzle again that's a bulky thunderous as well isn't it more of a support variant interesting interesting variant um but they should wrap it up now and there we go very good game to my opponent and we'll get straight into this next one I need to really get a nice background for my showdown I'm kind of stuck with the generic ones at the minute it'd be nice to get some some nice backgrounds if any of you guys know any nice backgrounds that I can use then just throw me a line drop me a comment below and well if you've got any that I can use that'll be even better so we've got uh duskman lunala um medichamp vocal rona it's going to be a bit of an issue especially if we are bringing um zernius going for that side of things uh I might got rea here there's no intimidate on my opponent's side of the field so i'll rea can be good with serena we can really show that off um we definitely need incinero I think and do we want zernius here or top of coco I feel like coco could be better really in this in this matchup so we're going to see ocarona and top of finny I will go mega evolve I'm not really worried about the vocal rona here we want to just get rid of this top of finny here we'll go for help in hand dragon ascent just to make sure that we get rid of the even the bulk the bulkiest of finnies although the finny could have protect you saw it was quite it was a bit of a trend in uh world it makes a lot of sense it gives you a bit of room to kind of maneuver around the field a bit more and preserve the support option there and finny but just having the ability to remove finny so easily is that's one of the the big appeals I think with the bind it really is super nice here uh we'll go for a finned dragon ascent into this vocal rona we could end up burning ourselves pretty sure finned is a contact move pretty sure so we could end up burning ourselves twice yeah uh or we could lose rea to um uh alternate cross matt oh we do survive though it's so weak so weak and we get rid of the bulk rona and rea not burned which is excellent and uh we're sitting in a nice position now we switch in the serena we go for the twinkle twackle twinkle tackle into the uh alternate cross matt and then the medicamp will probably mega evolve go for a fake out but it's not going to work um that's not even going to go for it we'll just get rid of this alternate cross matt and um yeah poor little medicamp going for the poison jab paves the way for rea to come back in and we can just feint dragon ascent and there we go very good game to my opponent I should do this every time shouldn't I but I'm I'm kind of just I'm really impatient when I play showdown I just want to get through games and test teams and things like that it's such a it's one of those things where like if I'm on battle spot it's a lot more relaxed but here I feel really fidgety and I just want to just constantly just click click click click away and I hope I'm not being too annoying with this commentary as well so we got um okay groudon donwings um support I like suikun you know suikun's a pokemon I don't think we see enough in this format suikun gastrodon uh salamence tap coco uh tap coco is decent here we've got to watch out for that gastrodon of course but tap coco is not bad um I'm gonna go coco I'm gonna go rea I'll do I do I go coco rea there we go serena rea might be nice just don't worry about the opposing type of coco that's the other thing um so indecisive let's see let's go coco for sure um it's going sineral actually just for the intimidating support it's quite nice then having fake out as well just to support us because my opponent's not really got any fake out there um zernius is gonna be good and I think we'll bring rea as well in the back uh okay so suikun is my opponent gonna go I'm gonna go very rarely see protect on suikun so I'm gonna go volt switch into that slot I'm just gonna go for a snore as well okay so it's a nice damage on preserve coco for later in the game we'll bring in zernius oh come on nice okay don't mind that miracle it feels um I don't really want to go for the geomancy here because this weekend's definitely got roll like 100 percent let's just click dazzle and let's go for another snore you could see a tail wind here I guess you know yeah so we could have went for the geo um but it's still still fine um I think we just go for it again the same again I'm not really worried about zernius in this matchup it's not really the like the key part to this matchup um I think rea is more important and is like alongside the rea obviously type of coco for us we're gonna see the z move um wow neutral gets us okay it's interesting uh obviously the tail wind's still up can bring in rea though now um we're probably gonna have to lose incinero but we can go for that waterfall into the groudon and we'll try a snore as well come on can we get the groudon this would be magical oh groudon why are you doing this to us we can get that snore into the sweetcoon and we're gonna see the groudon switch up for sure now so we'll switch into type of coco and we'll go for you turn into the groudon slot I think yeah um there's a tail wind to put her out now I can pivot back in with uh oh we're not gonna actually see that this is bad for us okay coco hanging on by the skin of its teeth um but I guess at the same time it's good that we did pivot out there so we're not locked in um you might want to switch into incinero with coco and go for a dragon ascent into gastrodon I don't know if a banded dragon ascent will get gastrodon to be honest yep it does okay that's excellent precipice yeah incin takes it like a boss actually I like the salt vest variant as well I think with the amount of um earth power pokemon that you've got kicking around at the minute it does make a bit more sense we'll go for a snore and a dragon ascent into the sweetcoon we can pretty much clean up from here I feel um dragon ascent should be enough to kind of clear everything out like the dawn wings will come in we'll be able to get this with the band as well um and we'll go for a snore dragon ascent we're gonna be like so weak though like like uh the groudon can still do some decent damage to us because of all the drops we've had hopefully Rick can just take it okay we're just gonna see where some splits that's fine and then coco coming in uh twinkle tackle dragon ascent it should be enough and um we can hopefully pick up another win here it still does decent damage that doesn't it like it really does uh it surprises me how much twinkle tackle does okay there we go good game to my opponent did it again it didn't say good game but never mind uh they know on their heart what I really meant um we've got Kyoga and Lunala up next so we've got right trick room tailwind what's our best option gonna be here um I'm kind of scared about the the stack attack more than anything here to be honest do you want to agree it's really important I need to try and be like coco is quite good here at preventing the tailwind at least it's the trick room element that I'm a little bit more wary about um we could go rare I guess we're probably gonna see Incineroa come out Serena's always kind of good in these matchups as well just where this fake out and it's not bad against Stacker and it does a decent job against Kyoga so there's there's that um and it's what we want to bring in the last place probably Zernius there's the stacks okay this is where earthquake would be good or I'm ready to be honest um because we could just vault switch out on the stack attack on water fallout although I don't think that's going to be enough to get it if I'm completely honest we could vault switch out on Lunala and crunch it but then it's so obvious that it probably protects but we'll try it like Lunala is going to be a bit more of a pain for us to deal with than the stack attack I feel or maybe not let's see there's a vault switch okay we're going to be able to get rid of the Lunala um we'll pivot in Serena this is where Incineroa would have really been probably better than Zernius in the back because there's a trick room in now Kyogra coming in um but I mean this is the nice thing about Serena and running a slow one we've got that nice power whip we can just launch onto that slot um do we keep raiding or do we just take raout uh let's bring cocoa in because the power whip should get the Kyogra should get pretty close to it unless we see okay we're gonna see Incineroa I mean that's fine um rock slide you know I can't fake us out but we can go for um we just need to get through these trick room turns and get some damage onto this stack attack to be honest uh I feel like we're not going to get an attack off with cocoa here so I might just protect a couple power whip as you see Fleblitz from what's going on you too okay yeah I think this one might be a bit too far gone for us now because we lose okay I mean we get raiding so it's not the end of the world um I'm not really worried about the Kyogra it's just I don't want to leave it unchecked that's the that's the only thing um I just want to get rid of the stack attack uh um is the Kyogra gonna uh the Kyogra yeah yeah I think gonna go for that and then bring Incineroa so thank you for the situation yeah okay well that works out better for us so we go for the stack attacker that's fine yeah as long as you don't flinch no flinch which is good but ah we're still so far away from actually really being able to get it um okay we'll bring in because Ray's gonna get faked out I would imagine I think fake out rock slide as well what you kind of go for probably um bringing cocoa will protect Ternius the problem is like the next turn if we still got cocoa around we're not really putting enough pressure on that stack it's like I mean we've got the rock slide but okay that's that's why actually because we can terrain going is not super helpful for us um I don't know if a thunderbolt and a moonblast will get stacker we've got to try though nah oh it does excellent okay we're back in this um with Ray in the back we should be all right I think we just need to get some damage on to the Kyogra so we'll just go thunderbolt and protect Ternius and imagine the Kyogre might protect you but then again when we get Ray onto the field we can just dazzle dragon ascent the Kyogre if it does protect this turn we should be able to win so um stack attack improving a little bit of an issue for this this build as you would imagine it would anyway um maybe we're thinking about possibly putting something like oh we get the paralysis as well what's about coming out we'll get the cocoa um and there's a U-turn but I guess they're now Ray's in a such a good position to just get rid of the Kyogre and we can just go dazzle um yeah might be worth putting like high jump kick on Serena just so we've got an option to hit the the stack attack outside of everything else the other option is obviously going for low kick on Ironson roll but I always feel like that's quite wiffy like you're never doing as much damage as you want to be doing on it um we'll just leave the incineroar and we'll get the dragon ascent so that's excellent I think what we'll do my friends I hope you've enjoyed today we'll be back we'll be back very soon um just showing the team off getting used to it today um we've had some good battles with it as I say the team is down in the description below we'll leave it here and uh we'll come back for another episode and see how far we can push this team it'd be nice to see how far we could get up the ladder see how high we can get up there with this team we'll make tweaks along the way and I think if we do we'll discuss them but uh thanks for tuning in have a great rest of your day and I'll see you for the next one so until then take care bye bye