 Hi everyone I hope you're all well thank you so much for tuning into another episode of our VGC 2019 battle series I hope you're all well having a great day and ready for some more VGC content on the channel we kicked off this week with this evald on team and I think today is going to be the last time that we'll be playing this exact variant and we'll mix things up going into Thursday Friday of this week before we change to a brand new team next week which I'm really looking forward to and like I've been saying all week so far please let me know down in the comments section below what build you would like to see I put a poll up on on YouTube yesterday so do check that out vote on there or leave a comment down below let me know what you'd like to see going forward a bit more fun exact builds that you'd like restricted parents that you'd like to see that we haven't touched upon yet let me know in the comment section below and I'll try and feature as many of them as possible going forward and especially going into next week we'll have a brand new one so just to recap the team as always we've got the type of thing in the metagrossy velta hit them on top the gradon and the thunderous theory now the him on top's been doing all right I don't really I'm not really convinced about it as much as the incineroar does perform a very nice job the wide gods really useful especially in some situation we've had a couple occasions this week where it has come off pretty well but on the whole part I probably would like to see incineroar back in that slot and you know incineroar is a top tier pokemon for a reason the u-turn there is specifically good and I think stew mentioned in one of our videos earlier in the week about the eject button as an option on him on top and it's definitely something I would explore going forward with the him on top in this team especially with the restricted weathers and things like that that he did state so without further ado though let's get into today's episode and hopefully it doesn't take too long to find an opponent but like I said tomorrow I'll switch things up I did mention a little bit I think in yesterday's episode about the jump bluff may be coming in so we might change things over there have a bit more fun with the team as we end the week with it it's still a core I really like but I feel like we want to just mix things up a little bit but we've got a first opponent as always guys if you do enjoy this content make sure to leave a like on the video do subscribe to the channel and as always leave your comments down below and I will make sure to get back to you as soon as possible what will jump straight into team preview right now so first opponent today is running a team of zernius shin ninja shin ninja every time you see that pokemon we've got the incineroar the landerus the uh rick waza and the taboo kind of standard x-ray team but with the shin ninja tagged in there um and we need to be especially careful for it because there could be that suck strategy going on with the taboo finny and the shin ninja which would leave us a little bit in a bit of a bad place but we do have the thunderous to kind of fall back on and I think thunderous here is going to be something I do want to bring puts a lot of pressure onto the taboo finny can hit the landerus therian foam with the hidden power ice along with that rick waza um so it's just kind of picking apart the other pokemon and if the soak strategy does come out then it does give us a little bit of a fall back there um I think I will leave thunderous um maybe valtul here could be good but then the thing is you know we need to be a bit careful because if the zernius comes out as a lead then things would get a little bit tricky quite quickly um I'm thinking valtul hit him on top and metagross but then I'm not really sure if that's going to be the right thing to do it's just I want the dark typing for the shin ninja if we if we don't see the suck strategy um and leaving groudon is that the best call maybe let's try it I mean we'll go with it I'm still not convincing myself really I'm not I'm not but I don't know I don't know I feel like we've got to change it up a little bit for these sort of matchups because they've not gone they've not been going swimmingly well they've not been super consistent we've not been getting the results that we've wanted every time we've had some extra matches where we've we've come out okay we've had some extra matchups where we've not come out so good so it's good to experiment and I think the pokemon we've got here are justified for the reasons that we're bringing them we are going to see the landeress and the uh requires to come out as a lead for ourselves um now one of the things we could do here is potentially just switch thunderous out to hitman top it's unlikely that we're going to see a dragnocent into that slot because we are resisted and I feel like the valto is probably the one thing that you would want to target down here more than anything else um so hitman top coming in gives us a little bit of breathing room with that fake out the next turn and we can just protect the valto here there's no threat of speed control on my opponent side of the field I mean they could see a dragon dance it's very very rare that we'll see that but I would imagine the requiser and the landeress probably both gonna want to attack here and getting this intimidate off onto both these physical type attackers it's pretty huge for us here so we'll try this going into this turn one as we see the requiser mega vault shed its skin and turn into this ultimate dragon that it is um I think double into the valto here I think like a rock slide and a dragnocent makes a lot of sense for my opponent here we'll just protect them with our valto avoid any damage going into this turn so do see the dragnocent into that valto and the landeress go for u-turn and then there's going to be into the hitman top they're going to be able to reposition a bit going into this next turn um interesting to see what comes in maybe the incinero but maybe the zonius as well if it is the zonius it does yeah put us in a little bit of an awkward position because we are going to need to try and maneuver our metagross onto the field and it's looking less and less likely that my opponent's got the type of finny in the back which we're kind of hoping that was there to activate a misty seed by us not bringing it ourselves the thing is if we don't fake out the um the zonius here it sets up geomancy and the problem is doing this with our requiser leaving the requiser unchecked it has got a free dragnocent into hitman top um now do we switch in metagross or do we switch in thunderous if we switch in thunderous we've got a quick taunt onto the zonius to shut down the next turn which might be a little bit better um but the metagross puts on a lot more offensive pressure so i i've been a bit more inclined to get the metagross in and it can take a dragnocent a little bit better than what thunderous can we are just going to see with drawn we're going to see the uh the strong winds disappear here as the type of finny now hits the field so we know that's around which is perfect but not so perfect because we are going to actually switch out aryveltal after getting the misty sea boost which is kind of backfiring on us a little bit where we could have stayed in and just snald and faked out the zonius which would have probably seen us in a bit of a better shape going into this next turn but we're not not too worried i mean we're not losing a pokemon so we've got that on our side we do get the fake out into the zonius flinch it we are probably putting a bit of pressure onto the zonius right now um i think it's probably a good time to bring in thunderous i don't know if i want a mega evolve to avoid the intimidate drop here but i would imagine probably going to see i just don't want to leave the zonius unchecked that's the problem so we could mega evolve it's so easy for the zonius just to protect here though um and i could i'm kind of tempted to ironhead the type of finny because you could see nitch is madness into that slot but i'm going to mega evolve just cover the zonius with an iron head here and switch into thunderous now which puts on a lot of pressure on that type of finny going into next turn and if the zonius does stick around and protect at least we've got the taunt going into that slot the following turn so here we go make mega metagross hitting the field it's whether or not our opponent plays a bit recklessly here yeah we are going to see the protector i'd say maybe a nitch is madness or a nice wind potentially from the type of finny here it's always tempting to go for that but leaving zonius unchecked is is risky it is very risky we are going to see that nitch is madness here into the metagross uh i imagine the next turn we probably do see the zonius switch out i'm going to go for the giga world havoc into the the type of finny or do we do we see the type of finny switch out into the landerous for the intimidate i could imagine that being a thing as well um so it's kind of like i want to taunt into taunt into the zonius and iron head into it at the same time but when you look at like look at the the bold position my opponent's got i think the one thing that you've got at the minute is the zonius is definitely threatened it's definitely shut down so i'd say you probably want to switch that slot out more than anything else which would make me want to go for the giga world havoc into the type of finny and just cover that slot on the zonius side with an iron head and i think we cover things a little bit better that way but when i'm going to see that we're going to see the landerous come in and we're going to waste as in and we could have taunted as well which is biggest annoying unless we see the zonius switch out now i mean a flinch here would be huge for us flinch flinch flinch squad come on flinch squad it's annoying that we're wasting as a move and we talked about we weighed up what my opponent might do here um we do get the flinch which is pretty huge for us um hidden part eyes probably take down the landerous here um and an iron head would definitely like we could double up into the landerous for sure uh the zonius is definitely pressured now i feel like an iron head into that slot would be a little bit waste for whereas doubling up into the landerous would probably be the better thing but then we've got to think do what do we do if the zonius gets set up now like do we do we get away with it i don't know if we do um if we let the zonius get boosted up which it quite possibly could i just think the the pressure that we've got here is just too much to allow it to not do anything so i want to ice punch hidden part eyes into the landerous here if we see the germansi go up i mean fair play to my opponent that's fine but we are going to see it actually protect this turn so we are going to be able to be able to remove this landerous from the field it's just whether or not that thunderous is faster it is so could have been a bit dicey but we do get rid of the landerous which is nice um and we'll probably see the requiser come in now but we've got the turn where we can switch in top for thunderous um get intimidate and as long as the the requiser doesn't have earth power i mean we could potentially just taunt the zonius stop it going for the germansi here and then preserve our metagross which might be a little bit better and go into him on top this way around which might be i think probably the smartest thing to do to be honest um because metagross is so important to us in this matchup we can't lose it and i think like earth power coming out here could really be detrimental to us so we do get the taunt into the zonius we're going to be able to shut down this germansi and i think that's the biggest thing for us right now oh crunch or that's the other thing you know at least him on top comes in takes that pretty nicely does get the defensive drop um and the moon blast coming out detecting that taunt um into the top but i mean i think it gives us a free switch into metagross now and i think we'll probably take a minus one crunch from a requiser so we've got that going for us the the zonius can't protect this next turn um so we can definitely bring in bring in land metagross and pressure the iron head onto that slot and we kind of are forcing a switch out there um so i feel like what we want to do is kind of stay on top of things and probably just hit in part ice i mean what we could do is just go thunderbolt into the zonius catch the finny on the switching and bring in ai velta because i feel like the zonius actually switches here to get rid of the um get rid of the taunt for a late game sweep potentially and the finny comes in in that slot we've got to see no switch no okay well i mean we're still going to be able to and the thing is like what we notice here is that um thunder is actually at speeds the zonius and the requiser which is nice we're going to see it doesn't mean it's not going to be so great for evelta but at the same time we can thunderbolt we kind of got our opponent pinned with the zonius here um and we know if a thunderous at speeds the requiser we know that i metagross at speeds the requiser so that's a big bit of information for us so we can try and get a foul play into this requiser now um and if we can we should be able to remove the zonius the zonius to switch out though the type of finny you're going to hit the field two thunderbolts should get this finny though um just about if we can kind of withstand what the the the requiser checks out at us so there's a thunderbolt yeah more more of those they'll do the job there's a crunch into the thunderous now doc or we should probably will take us down yeah but we'll get a foul play into this requiser and now we're setting ourselves up pretty nicely to to close this game out yeah um and metagross coming in so ice punch the requiser we'll be able to get it's just the finny what is that going to be able to do if an icy winds does put itself in a little bit of a better position um one of the things we could potentially do is just um ice punch the ray and tailwind do we want a tailwind it's just to kind of get around the icy wind that's what i'm thinking um at this point that's probably my opponent's best way to get around everything strong winds will weaken the ice punch but we still should have enough to pick up the knock out here um and if we do see an icy wind then it puts us in a decent position going into this next turn um because the one the drop that we'll get still puts us a little bit faster than the zonius there's the icy wind yeah of both of them but yeah eveltos on its last legs for sure now i'd imagine the zonius to come in protect and another icy wind fired off but then that still just resets so we can we can afford to go i think uh iron head into the zonius and probably protect the valto here um because even another icy wind my opponent needs two icy winds to really get the get the jump on metagross um so we will just go for an iron head into the zonius here um hmm did we just snarl or do we do we foul play the finny just to put it in range i think foul play it shouldn't proc the berry and then put it in iron hand rage i think that'll probably be the better thing to do rather than protect the valto which we could do preserve it for another turn um but i think at this point we've got our opponent pinned so we should be able to close this one out and they've accepted that and very good game and a nice way for us to kick off today and a bit of an unorthodox kind of selection for us to kind of go into that first one but like i said at the start going into that battle it did make a lot of sense for us to pick those pokemon and it turned out that they they did make the most sense and they did the job for us so a lot of the time um sometimes it doesn't work out like that but sometimes when you can like theory that sort of thing it does come into it so it's good just taking a little bit of time before clicking in to select the right pokemon for yourself but we'll skip over to our our rating screen and we'll get back on the hunt for our next opponent and hopefully it doesn't take too long but uh that's a nice one for us to kick off with today it would be really nice for us to finish with a victory in our next one just to say ta-da a nice send off for this team that we're playing at the minute because like i've been saying and repeating it's probably getting like a broken record but i do like this call a lot um but i do at the same time want to have a bit more fun with this this eval don kind of call before we finish up with it and go on to something else next week um we'll stick with trainer version one because we very rarely have that unless i forget to set the music and then we we do have it but uh it's always a nice one to have reminiscent of tournament settings as well and um it's a little bit sad i don't have any tournaments for the rest of the season now i'm just a spectator but i'll be doing lots of content on the channel kind of i think that's one of the pluses well like i'm not playing for worlds this year because of of thea coming along and stuff like that so it does mean that i can concentrate a little bit more on content so it's it's good for you guys i guess as well that do enjoy this but we've got our next opponent so we'll jump straight into to improve you okay the next team that we're facing today is tapu lele incinero groudon mutu crobat bronzon so we've got mutu groudon here we've got a bit of a psychic spam team which is uh straight away screams to me like we're gonna see gravity hypnosis uh gravity on the scoff tapu lele hypnosis on the crobat for sure uh the gravity would also support the groudon and then you've got the trick room switch there the mutu obviously thrives under a psychic terrain as well so we need to be very careful of that yveltal does extremely well here but i mean one thing we have to be a bit careful of is the uh the fact that yveltal isn't on the floor um but if we do see gravity does help us out quite a lot doesn't it um okay do we just bite the bullet i mean i mean one thing we could do is go thunderous here i just i just i would prefer yveltal over everything else i don't want to lead tapu finny because i want tapu finny to be a switch in i think meagross isn't bad here as well um but hitmontop with with wide guard could be extremely useful so i think although the the psychic spam is pretty nasty here i think i've probably got tapu finny groudon hitmontop yveltal um and go that route with everything and we'll click in and we'll get into this first one today well the second one the second one because it's the second game isn't it brain brain fog next week it's not going to be an excuse next week i should have caught up with sleep i actually started a new job next week which is like another thing i was meant to start this week but i put a back week because i think with everything that went on pregnancy and everything they are just into life and stuff like that probably would have been a little bit too much for me so it's good as well it means i can get caught up with this sort of stuff relax at home get used to everything and then and then start a new job next week which would be very exciting i've got a little bit more of a commute though now so i'll be cycling to work should set up my phone so i can video video conference chat to you guys on my way to work in the mornings right we're gonna say tapu lele and me too lee for my opponent um so we've got a pretty nice switching to tapu finny here and just a tailwind or a snarl here to give us a speed advantage going into the next turn i think i will just tailwind here and switch into tapu finny with him on top we'll probably see them you too mega revolver and one of the things we need to watch out for is the um miracle eye psychic attack into evelfo because that is something that players have been doing recently and i've never actually come across it yet on battle spot but it is something to just be a little aware of but i think with the misty seed boost uh here on outside of the field we should be all right i feel um so we'll see him on top as we said we are going to switch it out bring tapu finny and get rid of the psychic turn which is like one of the big things uh that my opponent will want to try and get back um later in this match but evelto in this matchup does extremely well aside from the miracle eye but we'll see what my opponent goes for here as the mutu is going to reveal that it is mega mutu why bursting out of its pod and becoming that crazy strong mega mutu variation here we are going to just see a moon blast into evelto this will be a decent chunk of damage but because of the misty seed we do take that a little bit better here and we are going to see a gravity now which helps us out immensely if we do see any sort of hypnosis spam coming in for the rest of this game we do get the tailwind up now and we do have the option to go for that snarl heel pulse if we'd like to which kind of puts evelto in such a perfect position going into the rest of this game um we could go light screen as well that is an option because snarl has hiccups along the way but i feel like i'd probably be better going for the snarl and the heel pulse here just to keep us alive and kicking rather than take another moon blast um i'm not going to say that snarl is going to do this the thing that i was going to say that snarl does do because if i say it would miss the tabulele we just don't want that to happen so we do hit thankfully um tepifini will still outspeed both of these pokemon so we should get the heel pulse off oh it doesn't actually outspeed tabulele so it's a good job we dig over the heel pulse here because we are on wow we are lucky i really thought that was going to take us down there i really did um but we get the heel pulse off which is nice um so we'll just go for another snarl and we will go for another heel pulse and now we should be in a fine position now i didn't expect tabulele and mutu to outspeed tabufini and tailwind and this is maybe one thing that we look at for the team in future you know you want that tabufini to be outspeeding both and tailwind um and it wouldn't take much to do to actually feasibly do that and i think it puts you in a much better position where you're not on tender hooks going into that turn thinking oh we need to survive that auroras pier but we managed to kind of get through this snarl coming in quite useful there for us um i thought the auroras would definitely do a little bit more damage we are going to see the tabulele with retreat now ground i'm going to hit the field um this is all right this is fine because me too is not really going to be doing too much to us you know my opponent probably going to try and maneuver the tabulele back onto the field at some point but what i'm going to try and do next turn is get our tabufini out of here so we've got that terrain to switch back into disrupt that psychotrim when it comes back on we also get him on top onto the field as well it's got the um the why god support that really helps us against the ground on more than anything else because that's likely what's going to happen going into this next turn uh as we do get a snarl off into the the bronze on and the ground on we'll probably see a trick room set up as well from the the ground on but uh from the bronze on support that ground on but i mean i don't mind that too much because if we can get rid of both of these targets before the trick room runs out then we're not in a bad position at all i'm just going to actually protect do i protect or do i actually go for a foul play into the ground on i just don't want to take unnecessary damage here and i think i'd rather utilize a turn with fake out the next turn and have a full full healthy valto rather than having a half health from repressive blades and then have the why god support going into the next end here and the hit on top's one of those pokemon we can quite happily bring in it's going to be able to soak up the damage from repressive blades or a fire punch in this this case it's not likely we'll see that but we are going to see the bronze on switch straight out for that tapulele here um get the psychic turn back up onto the field and that does put a bit more pressure onto our hit on top going into this next turn as we do protect our evelto maybe going for this and all that would have been a little bit better but as we do see a sword stance come out from this ground on not so great not so great um now it's here when it does pitter out now we're not in the best of positions here because we can go for i mean i think we go foul play and for sure because the ground on is not going to be it could be faster than eveltole i wouldn't have thought it would be um i think we will go there and i'm going to just switch back in to tapulele here and get rid of the psychic turn because the foul play should take down that ground on it's just whether or not eveltole out speeds it but in this sort of team where you're seeing a ground on with a bronze on you've got to imagine that it's probably a slow variation of ground on the other thing that you've got to worry about is a protect on the ground on in the moon blast but we're not going to see that we're just going to see the moon blast here it's all about whether eveltole can out speed the ground on or not which yeah we do and i mean plus plus two plus one oh it's not quite enough but the precipice blades actually comes off and we lose eveltole that's pretty bad for us gravity does turn to normal hmm okay it's not the worst we've got our own ground on to come in um gravity's gone back to normal but we can i think we've been in eruption here and we're going to be in the safe position probably i see wind as well because the moon blast's not really going to be doing too much to us eruption will be enough to get both these targets even after a moon blast and what we could do is set up a light screen maybe um just for when the me too comes in but i don't expect me to to really be able to do too much damage it's got side shock so it's not really causing us too many issues here but at the end of the day the light screen is probably going to do this more good than not i go into those these latter turns of this game um we'll see what my opponent does yeah groudon gonna withdraw gonna see me too bronze on okay once i'm come out eruption i'll take down both these now moon blast it might be into the lele you know uh the finish sorry yeah makes more sense that's fine i think groudon now can close this game up because we're gonna have our misty terrain up on the field and we know our groudon's gonna outspeed the opposing groudon because of the the eveltole outspeeding it there and the me too is going to be prone to a fake out this next turn from from our him on top so i think we've got enough in the tank to kind of close this one out so a little bit hairy for a minute and um i really thought the file player would take down the groudon maybe the intimidate there wasn't the best thing from my him on top but at the time we didn't know that's what groudon was going to be going for and i think eveltole to have a fin kind of showed that it's it's got enough to deal with that kind of psychic spam team that kind of comes out we've still got to be a bit wary about the me too obviously we've got the intimidate onto the groudon and the me too here but we can just fake out eruption here we might say double protect and this is where feint would be really good on hit my top as well a really nice option here so we'll just go for that eruption and we'll go for the fake out into the me too hopefully the me too decides not to protect here and try and deal with this groudon um and that would be the best case scenario for us we're not going to see any fake outs we do get the fake out into the me too here me too just flinch and there's your option it will be enough to take down the poison groudon and the me too so two nice wins for us today to say goodbye to this team and that is brilliant because like i said at the start of the episode i'm going to switch things up tomorrow i'm going to have a little bit more fun with the evelbon core and see what we can do with it and introduce some nice things and if you've got any desperate desires that you'd like to see played on friday's episode let me know and i'll make sure that we do feature them in friday's episode i'll put my own twist on something fun tomorrow but if you've got um options that you'd like to see played on friday with this team pokemon certain pokemon that you'd like to see do shout out leave a comment down below and i will make sure to try and feature them if i can obviously if we've got a bunch of them i'll just pick the best ones most interesting ones going into friday's episode and we'll feature that before we say goodbye to evelton and groudon at the end of the week before we get that new team so do keep your comments coming down below though about what cause you'd like to see restricted combinations or just general pokemon you'd like to see featured next week and i will make sure to do my best to feature them going forward but thank you so much for tuning in guys i hope you have a great rest of your day and i will see you all for the next one very soon so until then take care and bye bye