 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Road to Rank roulette series we kicked off in our first episode yesterday if you've missed that I would like to go back and check that out do click up here check out the matches then come back into this one we've got a crazy team selection that was nominated by you guys selected by the roulette and you can see it on your screen in front of you now as always the team is down in the description below there is a raw paste poker paste and we're doing this to have a little bit of fun remember tomorrow's episode we can activate these roulette bonus buttons if we would like to going forward but we're going to hold off for the time being and we'll just recap the team before we get into today's episode so we've got the chandelier we've got the mantine the houndu the superior sogléa and shuckle a bunch of pokemon I'm not used to seeing in a team but nonetheless it's gonna be a lot of fun and I'm really kind of getting fond of this team already it feels really good I think the one thing that we do like massively more than anything else is some sort of redirection to help that chandelier set the trick room up if we could get something like that then that'd be great so maybe we do do a switch up at some point we'll go with aether foundation to kick us off today that would be good some fake out support would be very good as well it is awkward playing around nearly every team that does have fake out primarily incineral obviously we've got some issues with incineral we've got sogléa that can deal with it pretty hardly but if we come up against combinations of things that are pretty difficult then things get a little bit tricky but we've got our first opponent of the episodes that will hop straight into team preview and see how we get on in this one today okay so first opponent today is running a team of guard awards probably the mega on the team and you've got incineral bronzong then the tapu finny the kayoga and the dusk main necrosma it could be ultra necrosma but may just be regular old dusk main necrosma now I do feel like shuckle could be a pokemon that is going to be quite good here my opponent probably does want to go for that trick room at some point to support things like the kayoga maybe the dusk main necrosma so I do feel like that is something I would like to go for um um I'm gonna lead superior I think superior here does really well against kayoga does really well against the tapu finny we've got taunt as well that shut things down if we so choose to um I think chandeliers not bad as well actually it does help against the guard of war obviously the the bronzong and not so much the incineral mantines are nice switching there and then do we leave sogaleo at home I can't believe I'm saying this I really I'm not too sure but if we go trick room we need maybe we don't bring superior up top maybe we bring mantine chandelier and then we go shuckle and then sogaleo is our last one and then we lock in with us yeah we'll do that we'll do that we'll see how I just I'd love I'd love to be able to capture what my opponent faces like when they when they see team preview and they're like what what is this what is the same plan what is this what is this combination what is this team trying to do well we don't really know what this team is trying to do but I don't mind this lead too much because we can probably get in our shuckle pretty safely free here by wide guarding wide guard wide guard and let them set the trick room up maybe um oh we could potentially just get some damage on to the bronzong and see if they do set the trick room up um I think that's what we'll do we'll go for the shadow ball into the bronzong and we will go for a wide guard of our own just to protect against this Kyle guys waterspots origin pulses things that are going to really not be great oh thunder that wackenberry coming in super handy right now we will be able to take this it takes about 60 70 percent damage but mine's not going to be able to stick around for at least another 10 that was a critical hit that's crazy chandelier putting some damage onto the field now with the bronzong going to take it down to just about 50 health trick room we're in the money my friends we're in the money so here we go right um probably gonna see another thunder here do we switch in shuckle chuckle shuckle the chuckle so we'll switch in shuckle we'll wide guard again we'll probably lose my time here but getting shuckle on the field in a trick room is what we want this is this is exactly what it's all about bronzong i'm gonna switch out i'm gonna see guard of war hit the field hmm okay we'll keep chandelier around for a little bit later if we do see man time go down to another then here we're gonna see flash fire oh okay tracing that shuckle hitting the field do we see another thunder how do we see go for a water type attack potentially origin pulse okay so we get away with that one i'm gonna get man time on sticking around on the field for another turn it means we are going to get this power trick off with our shuckle and we will go for another another wide guard just to get around this kayoga it's got origin pulse it hasn't got skull so as long as we can keep the pressure on with these these white guards and that's great guard of war known for having hyper voice i think it probably goes psychic here maybe where it goes for the psychic is another thing though and i wonder if it underspeeds kayoga power trick though here we go a little shuckle just get through this turn shuckle that's all we need you to do that's all we need you to do gotta wash that side shock okay that's perfect yes come on please be origin pulse please be origin pulse shuckle won't set you up we've done it okay um do we bring chandelier onto the field and just wide guard we put a bit of pressure onto that guard of war as well uh rock slide's gonna do chunk of damage to everything and we will just go for that rock slide now and uh wide guard just for just to be safe just to be safe we'll go for wide guard right now definitely so right god we're gonna retreat because it's threatened by the sogalea bronze aren't gonna come out bronze aren't still gonna take a chunk from this these uh these rocks like oh we're gonna see kayoga just protect now that's fine don't mind that so we'll just waste a wide guard here and i mean one of the things about like stalling out these trick room turns is it's it's all right sorry if you can hear baby in the background i think althea's a little bit upset and and tash has left my my studio door open so we can hear full force we're gonna go for a rock slide again um we'll continue going for wide guard i think we could probably catch my opponent off guard here and maybe get an attack off it is the last turn of trick room so i'm i'm gonna go for the z splash here and yeah we should be in a really good position if we don't see my opponent go for an origin pulse here oh it's not doing as much damage as i kind of expected it to do but it's doing enough okay there's the thunder that's what we've kind of expected where's it gonna be into chuckle okay we take that like a champ and then we get the z yes we get the z splash off this team is ridiculous okay so we're gonna get this off this is gonna be good we're plus three now so glare on a real nice position to get that um that kayoga the next turn dimension send back to normal i mean we kind of would prefer the dimensions to go twisted again but it's fine we'll super part into the kayoga we'll get rid of it there uh oh a nice switch that's so good that's so good super power we'll get rid of the bronze on uh that's the one thing you didn't think of do you shuckle here oh i don't want to lose shuckle origin pulse yeah i'm gonna lose shuckle i think hmm i'm gonna take a chunk on so go now uh origin pulse not kind we've got chandeliers our last one so oh necrosma it's gonna be ultra necrosma for sure now we do have wide guard hmm do we shed a ball i think we just shed a ball i think we just super power uh the the allies which totally screwed us there uh we could have just we should have wide guarded in in rocks lid i'm not too upset because i mean we've got the the basics we've got like majority of things off this game they just haven't been executed it's just because we haven't got the right the the the best support options around us earth power coming out yeah and that's gonna be you could have wide guarded there um but it might not have been ultra necrosma there's origin pulse and this will be enough to take down shandy i would imagine and that's game over like that so quickly these pokemon fall so frail but they did their best we cannot be sad about them good game to my opponent it's all good though i feel like this week is the testing week where we we put our ideas together we formulate ideas to take into next week because like i've said already one of the things about uh the rules with this this series is we can't change pokemon without activating a button or a special condition but we can change sets and we can change items at any point that we want to really my friend how we'll go with that music to kick us off here uh we've got our next opponent so straight into it and we'll get into team another trick room team this time consisting of rick waza tapu finny stack attack a groudon incinero and mega slow well could be mega slow bro it's probably just regular old slow bro uh two trick room pokemon here with the stack attack a slow bro so you're gonna see probably a lot of trick room here which we don't mind again kind of wants me to bring this shuckle and really does i really want to bring this shuckle um i think we need so go loud just to deal with the rick waza if i'm like i'm like completely honest with you i just otherwise it just gets so difficult um now do we got man time or do we go houndoom like houndoom is really good um against the majority of stuff except the rick waza i'm gonna go houndoom is a lead though um we'll go shuckle in the back and i guess we need some alleviation from stuff so man time's not the worst pokemon here chandelier could be all right as well but i think the additional wide guard could be better than anything else so we'll go with that and we'll see how we can get on with this one yes like i was saying i think we're formulating like how the team is playing this week and then we can take on board my ideas any suggestions from you guys as well and make changes going into next week maybe activate a couple of buttons could do tomorrow couldn't we or maybe later in the week save it for later in the week and see what we can do i definitely feel like we need another restricted in the team for sure i feel like we're a little bit short at the minute relying heavily on on sobo lao um do i bring in shuckle because i feel like the trick room's gonna get set up i could just um could pull a double switch to be honest like bringing man time and then bring in shuckle or i could just super part no do yeah i feel like you're gonna you're gonna fake out the silver lao slot so i'll bring in shuckle and i will go for should i get some damage onto the stacks as well with just overheat so we'll mega evolve and overheat the stack attack just get some damage onto it it's going to be neutral obviously the rock kind of helping out with that steel weakness there but if you get some damage onto the stack attacker it'll be nice like overheats never going to pick up the knockout but i don't see a faker coming into that slot because the sobo lao just threatens the stack attacker so hard with super par so you have to fake out that slot really there it is overheat i'll get some damage and then hopefully we see um wow oh that was a crit okay uh the trick room set up yeah there we go okay now we're in the money okay we can power trip with shuckle um or we could just earthquake or we could just protect and get man time onto the field because then we have why god support which would be probably a little bit better um i'm gonna do that i'm gonna bring man time on into it into the scene i know we'll probably take a rock slide from the stack attacker right now with man time but it shouldn't take us down and i want to be in a position with shuckle where i can power trick and start doing some decent damage we're gonna see a gravity gravity you turn i reckon from the incinerole yeah it's into the shuckle so we're denying that uh ground on coming onto the field just just right now so we'll power trick now we will go for a wide guard which kind of makes stack attackers only viable attack gyro ball which is not going to be hitting shuckle very hard because we're so slow anyway and we resist it with man time so we're not in the worst positions if we can pull out a victory in this one i will be so happy i'll be so happy with how like we can do stuff so why god well we just need the incinerole go for the u-turn power trick here we go and we've got earthquake with shuckle so um there's the gyro ball yeah expecting maybe the white god doing decent damage u-turn okay perfect are you kidding are you actually kidding oh this is all went so badly wrong shuckle went down to a u-turn i literally thought we'll take heavy damage the power trick's not the greatest there but we should at least we should at least be able to uh to deal with it no way let's get houndooming um with the wide guard we're pretty safe against groudon's precipice blades and we don't really care about gyro ball either solar powers in effect now as well so doppel should be doing a nice chunk to that groudon man shuckle you are so bad you are so weak i can't believe it u-turn it's not even a stab attack gyro ball man time yeah what we're gonna see fire punch man time now he probably thinks oh why god's gone it's not doing enough it's not doing enough really is it um we're gonna have to why god all the heat i think and hope that we don't see a fire punch and like i hope my opponent doesn't think they're like well we you've you've revealed why god somewhere so it's gone now you're not gonna have why god somewhere else but we do because we're just we have to so we're just team wide guard right now can we gyro ball not going for that not uh we're gonna see a fire punch again are we no the blades come on overheat can we get rid of the groudon come on come on come on come on houndoom yes houndoom bringing the party back to life good man excellent right sunlight fades dimensions turn back to normal we're in business we're in business it's business time okay in cinderella um but there is like there's still a lot to do there is still a lot to do you still got fake out to contend with another trick room and requires a potentially in the back uh i don't know if the superpower will get the incinero that's the thing i feel like it will i don't feel like we go z splash just yet i just think we try and get the superpower care onto incinero no fake out coming out so well oh man that does nothing everything's so weak how does houndoom what throw chop okay i don't know if that would have cared otherwise you know oh it's because we took the drop the overheat drop uh there's no way we do anything now we can't we can't do anything but we the only thing we can do is do destiny born and take something down with us it was looking so good at times it points it was looking so good but we're struggling we are struggling we might come back and activate a button tomorrow throw a chop yeah and then at least we'll take the jack the the stack attack it down with us good game to my opponent things are not looking so good for us right now taking two we've been in good positions in both games just not being able to execute it i mean shuckle going down the way it did in today's game terrible terrible that's all i can say it's terrible but we're not going to get our hopes down too much just yet we're only on episode two we're only on day two with this team we've got to give it a chance we've got to find our rhythm with it we might change some of the move setup coming into tomorrow's episode now i'm going to just take on bold any comments that we've had now and take changes into it we'll see where we can go with it coming into tomorrow's episode so we don't have to activate those buttons just yet but we might activate the buttons tomorrow or at least one of them we'll wait and see thanks so much for tuning in guys i hope you've enjoyed today's episode as always remember to drop a like on the video do subscribe to the channel and i will see you all for the next one so until then take care and bye bye