 Hi everyone and welcome to episode number one of our brand new Road to Rank roulette series. I'm so excited to finally be here. We've been throwing the idea around on the channel for the last couple of weeks and I did ask you guys to get involved as well by nominating a single Pokemon to throw into a roulette wheel to make up a team of six Pokemon that we're going to be taking forward now for the next couple of weeks and we'll be keeping that two week cycle as we go forward. So we'll get to the selections in a minute but I just need to give each and every one of you a huge shout out for suggesting and nominating all of these Pokemon. It's been really great going through the list and adding them to the roulette wheel and just hoping maybe that one will come out so I'm hoping that you guys will be excited by the team that we've got going forward. It's going to be entertaining, it's going to be a lot of fun and we're doing this now because we're getting to the point where the VGC season, the competitive season is coming to a slow end. We've got worlds coming up in the summer but other than that not too many official events going on and we don't know the rules yet for the 2020 season so I will just say once we do get the rules for the 2020 season we will be coming full force back with our daily competitive series where we'll be hitting competitive viable teams pretty hard and exploring lots of archetypes to show you guys and help you along the way in the format so I'm guessing I don't know best guess would be maybe we get the rules carried over until November when we see Sword and Shield released and then we'll get some new rules that are kicking shortly after that but who knows the Pokemon company can throw a curveball at us and give us some brand new rules to take us up to November or Christmas whatever it is which might be very exciting and as soon as that does happen like I say we'll put a plug in this series we'll probably keep carried on but do it very sporadically and then hit the competitive side of things hard once again so getting into this series though like I say we're going to be throwing Pokemon into a roulette wheel selecting us randomly and to give us a little bit of a lifeline what I've thought of because we're not going to be building really solid teams here we're basically putting a random bunch of Pokemon together that you guys enjoy seeing or your favorite Pokemon which I am really looking forward to doing but we're going up against very competitive Pokemon teams good builds archetypes so we're a little bit of a disadvantage so to give ourselves a little bit of a lifeline here I've created some rules that we can activate they're all down in the description below but I'll briefly go over a few of them now so we've given ourselves a little bit of a helping hand with three roulette bonus buttons that we can activate throughout the two week period we cannot activate them within the first two episodes of a two week cycle so episode three starting in a two week cycle we can activate them at any point after that and we can only use each button once so the three buttons that we've got we've got button number one which is the legend maker which will allow us to select any restricted Pokemon that is allowed in the format we'll throw them into a roulette wheel we'll spin it and we'll select one but it's a double-edged sword because we have to lose the best performing member of our team at that point so it's not ideal but we do get a restricted for a one of the better performing Pokemon in our team but that does help hopefully even up the scope because we're not always going to have two restrictors we have to make rules where we have to have at least one restricted in our team and but we don't always have two Pokemon that are restricted in our team so we might be at a disadvantage that way so we've got the legend maker button then the second button is the randomizer switch up so the switch up is I can select any Pokemon from the party to take out and then we can spin the wheel from your nominations and select a brand new one to put in there and then the third one is the complete randomizer which is we select a random Pokemon from the roulette wheel from our team of six take it out and then spin again and selecting you want to bring in so there are three we can only use them once throughout a two-week cycle if you've got ideas for bonus buttons that we can use throughout this two-week cycle throughout this series do let me know I'm really open to suggestions from you guys but we are finally here thank you so much to all the nominations that we've had from you guys without further ado let's unveil the team that we're going to be playing for the next two weeks on the channel hope you enjoy so as you can see these are the team of six that we're going to be taking forward into the first week or two weeks of this series which is going to be a lot of fun so we've had suggestions as you can see the comments on your screen right now we've had will suggesting chandelier watch me twice with that chuckle then we've got the Sugileo from zed hoffman superior from div dax mega houndoom from player door and man team from nappy so it's not the most cohesive of teams but it does look a lot of fun i guess what we'll do is i can unveil it on the the actual cart now so here it is i've put the team together as always the team is down in the description below there is a roll pace the poker pace you can check it out try it out if you'd like to or throw some suggestions here to make going forward in this week because there are no rules about changing items or changing move sets on these pokemon going forward we can do that at any point we want um and it's just about changing these pokemon but thank you so much for all the suggestions keep the suggestions coming i'm going to start a new poll very soon for the next two week cycle that we'll be doing in this series so keep an eye on for that i will let you know when it goes up and do get your suggestions in and if you were unlucky not to get suggestion this time i do hope that you get selected in the next one that we do so without further ado guys let's get some music on and let's hop on to the ladder i can't believe i mean this team looks mad i mean what are our opponents gonna think what are our opponents gonna think i think we need to get into the right team the right screen here so here we are we've got our first opponent already didn't even get a chance to click in music but nevertheless let's hop over to team preview so our first opponent today is running a team of a zernius kyoga mimikyu incinero tapakoko right here we go so what are we gonna do um the zernius obviously is a big threat and one of the things we can potentially try and do is set up a trick room with chandelier we've got a little bit of breathing room around that incinero that is threatening us heavily but at the same time we can try and get a trick room up there or do we try with sogalio because sogalio we don't have trick room of course we've got the z splash with it so that's one of the things that we have to keep in mind so do we go down a trick room route first or do we not go down a trick room route and go down a tailwind route um one of the things we could potentially do is go mantine and sogalio i just feel like the trick room route is just the better route to go i'm gonna go chandelier and i'm gonna go sogalio i definitely bring a mantine to this and i think we'll go shuckle because we're gonna earn a trick room route uh superior would be very good here um especially there's no soak though so i think like on the shinninger so i think we might be all right and shuckle's got that rock slide so it will hit the shinninger for super effective damage oh what are we gonna do what is this team i'm kind of excited i'm excited and i'm scared at the same time like i just i know we're gonna be able to find some real gems doing this it's gonna be really good it's gonna be good and at the end of the day we'll see how we get on so we're gonna see kayaga we're gonna see mimikyu come out uh to lead with here um now we do have wide guard on sogalio so we can wide guard turn one and trick room um it could just still strike the mimikyu i'm a little bit worried about the kayaga getting a full power water spout off though that's the only thing um i'm gonna trick room oh do i trick room do i trick room and why god i could wide guard uh yeah because we've got mountain in the back so we've got mountain to bring in we can we can do some stuff i'm just gonna wide guard here expecting the kayaga to go for origin plus a water spout there we go okay we've got the ghost resist buried on the chandelier so if we do see oh we're gonna see okay so we'll just they're going for a trick room we're going for a trick room um they're bringing a mountain now could bring in mountain i don't think we're gonna see another water spout from the kayaga but you can never be too sure about this uh let's bring in mountain um do we go z splash that's the only thing i could go z splash right now i could just go sensual strike into the mimikyu we should be able to just nuke it if it does decide to go for that um i think the kayaga is not gonna go for that i'm gonna go sensual strike into the mimikyu or do i get am i being a bit greedy and then no we'll go for the sensual strike into the mimikyu i'm gonna say that the kayaga doesn't go for water spout ghost shadow sneak okay that's fine so this should hit through the disguise i'm pretty sure with how this move works could be saying it now no it does yeah so we get it okay we get rid of the mimikyu it's all about if we see a water spout origin plus so at least mankind gets a bit of health back we know the kayaga's only got oh we dodge as well we dodge things are going all right for us okay okay zernia's coming in this isn't the worst because we've got we've got wide guard with um with mankind so we've got double wide guard that we can go for here uh let's go z splash because we know the kayaga's got nothing it can hit us with the zernia's gonna protect okay we're gonna be able to get this working i can't believe this might be working depends if the kayaga has thunder but uh we'll we'll soon find out so z splash it's raining so here we go i give this a plus three boost there's the water spout the wide guard okay so the zernia's is pretty screwed right now the the kayaga can't really do anything because of the wide guard support we'll go wide guard again i'll just i'll just do this and steal strike into the the zernia's uh if it switches out whatever comes in is gonna take an absolute ton of damage but the kayaga might might does it have ice beam if it had thunder it would have went for it now but we do have the whacking barrier on man time we've got a little bit fortunate with that origin plus miss for sure we're gonna see in senor come in let's see how much a plus three sun steal strike does to this in senor there's the intimidate we do have to be a bit careful around the um okay the kayaga's just protecting here doesn't want to take any damage um there's obviously the fake outcome in this next turn which is a little bit awkward but i mean other than that we should be fine um we could double wide guard if we want but i don't know it's just so glare doesn't have um oh do we super power we wide guard and then we'll super power the kayaga yeah we'll do that because i think if you if you fake out man time you're getting rid of the wide guard then we'll attack the kayaga before we can attack if you attack if you fake out the man time to prevent a wide guy we're not gonna see that unless this in senor all has to move which might not be good okay we're gonna see fake out yeah okay but yeah this is the thing we're like just covering our bases because we've got the protection there so it's all right we're stopping this kayaga from doing anything now um i'm not going to go super power into the incineroar i'm gonna go some steel strike again and i'm just gonna just like wide guard there's no reason not to wide guard here because this kayaga literally it's only moves that it can touch us with or the attack that it's getting blocked by wide guard so this is why wide guard's such a good move and you've got it twice here we could maybe fall guard but it does give us a bit more flexibility i feel when when we've got both options there um man time's move set that was a really tricky one like i was thinking maybe skull could be good there um it probably is a better option than than icy wind to be honest an ice beam as well so that's something we might change up for our next one but zernia is gonna head back in now and we'll just send a steel strike to zernia so i don't want to get punished for leaving it alone and allowing it to get the geomancy set up like we've seen like we don't really need to worry about the kayaga at all so we'll just go that wide guard button once again we'll go some steel strike like the my opponent from my protect zernias and try and attack with kayaga but they do that and it's not really doing very much so we might it looks like we could pick up the first first victory of this episode with this team here there's a protect yeah why god just why god my time is a beast it's like a mini mini kayaga isn't he there's another water spot you're gonna run out of water spots soon as well so we'll be just origin pulses uh we will be able to get the zernias now but we don't want to take any damage from that kayaga our sun steel strikes are running out as well that's the other thing we need to keep an eye on that but plus three i wonder how much that'll do to kayaga it's got to do around 50 i would say i would like to think it does about 50 i mean it did a huge chunk to incineral right so let's see what my opponent is going to do might forfeit knowing that there's not really much they can do here but we will see we will see oh come on double protect at this point though my opponent is really kind of just how they're going ice beam we're going down the reed the freezing i mean you probably would have should have done this a lot earlier really to try and just chip away um yeah we'll just do the same again the zernias isn't going to get three protect now i've said it it's gonna get three but yeah i think uh there's the the forfeit ruining our first game but we do take a victory so go out just the thing so chenzo a little bit disappointed my friend we haven't even got a viable team and your forfeit oh well we will put that on the win we'll keep a little tally somewhere down here of win record so we're one zero at the minute we'll continue battling and get into our next one that dragged on way too long didn't it and we can choose some music uh let's go for enter the ultra beasts let's do that one so yes i hope you guys had a great weekend as well whatever you're up to if you were at the north american international championships or if you were viewing at home do let me know what you thought of the tournament uh i'm prerecording before final so i don't know who actually won yet i know that um the finalists but i don't know who's won just yet um but i've not really caught too much of it i would have liked to have seen a lot more but i've just not had the time to uh to watch it unfortunately but it's uh it's been the matches that i have watched have been incredibly good it looks like it's been such a fun event and uh if you weren't there weren't watching and you're up to something else at the weekend do let me know what you're up to i'd love to hear i hope you all had a great weekend though um we're just going to search for our next opponent hopefully it doesn't take too long if it does as always we'll just cut it and come straight back with some more crazy roulette action and we've got google google as our next opponent the ultimate knowledge base in all of the world let's jump into team preview okay so our next opponent is running a team of incinero tapako requiser ferrithon and crowbat so i think one of the hardest matchups for this team is requiser to be honest it is very difficult to play around but uh it's not the worst uh it's not the best though at all um what are we gonna do i think mantine and so go leo do we want to go for a late game trick room um i think i'll bring superior to this one and then mega houndoom honestly uh yeah let's do that superior is really good against kayaga in general um it's not so great against anything else but the fact that houndoom can do a lot to the likes of ferrithon and crowbat and it also has destiny bond as well to give us a little bit of an edge somewhere it can do that i am the other option we could go is trick room and shuckle but i feel like this is probably the better way to go at the minute i don't know i don't know i don't know i mean shuckle would be good i feel like we need something to help set a more solid trick room up like um shannel is our main trick room set right so yeah it can't be faked out but our partner who provides like the biggest and most important protection and the why god supporter cannot cannot avoid the fake out so we kind of need fake out of our own release contend with leads like this you know we could double wide guard because we're going to see a protect from somewhere aren't we um i just wonder where you're going to protect i like where you're going to fake out because i mean you probably fake out the sogaleo right i just don't want to take waterspout damage so early on here um it's double wide guarding the wrong thing to do i mean we'll probably wide guard before the fake out anyway it's the same priority bracket right um so we can want to go with mantine and i think we can z splash we use z splash i'm gonna go for that i'm gonna go for that and yeah we should get the wide guard up before the fake out so outside of origin pulls waterspout not we need to click we need to click in i didn't even click in i wasn't even sure myself so there's the wide guard mantine being the beast that you are fake out yay z splash and we're faster than the kayoga which is incredible okay hopefully the kayogas went for waterspout there you go splish splash sogaleo there's the waterspout excellent excellent um all right doing nuke the the the incineroar now and just wide guard again i think that's probably the best thing to do we'll just go super power super power into incineroar um whatever comes in it's taking a plus three super power it's gonna get damaged pretty badly i'd imagine like the kayoga could go for skull here if it's got access to it for sure it might protect though i think it'll probably protect more than anything else kayoga actually just switching out rather than sticking around the rain is lifted a ferrithon coming out ferrithon something else that doesn't like to take a super power we could have super powered that slot i'm going for a pretty useless wide guard here but at the same time you've got to imagine that the uh the rayquaza is in the back i think bye bye incineroar we don't really need the overkill there with the plus three but things are all right we got superior in the back remember as well to help us with that kayoga and then um also if it comes down to an end game of kayoga and ferrithon so sorry my hair fever is like terribly bad at the minute um what we'll do is well icy wind or do we do we do we do we yeah well icy wind and we'll super power into ferrithon um what do we send to your strike into the rayquaza um we're kind of tempted just to send to your striking through the rayquaza because once requires is down and the end game is that ferrithon in the kayoga then superior and how doom can win because we can worry seed the kayoga and then and then overheat kill the ferrithon although it's kind of dicey doing that really probably could have there's a dragon ascent where are you going where are you going into mantine come on mantine survive this no mantine please be live or breathe or something like this it's not too bad though we've got houndoom to come in um and at least speed ties with rayquaza it is sashed it's a pity we don't have oh there's a leech seed uh i mean there could be worse things um huh houndoom do we bring in and just go for the speed tie with the rayquaza and kind of force the kayoga to come in i don't think that's too bad an option like honestly um it's better than superior coming in right now let's mega evolve let's go dog pulse into rayquaza and go super par into ferrithon and even if the kayoga comes back in as long as we've got so go leo on the field we've got why god uh so can't really touch houndoom so it's just getting rid of this rayquaza and ferrithon and if we can catch the ferrithon okay we're gonna see the ray disappear i'm gonna get a free dog pulse onto this kayoga this ferrithon doesn't protect though it's done i wonder how much a dog pulse will do to this kayoga as well i'm really interested to see mega houndoom the coolest of all megas well not all of them but it is a pretty cool mega really let me just say that because we're using it obviously uh there's nothing but we do get the superpower into the the ferrithon we'll get rid of it so we get rid of that leech seed support there which is kind of nice um take a little bit iron bobs damage the defense drop as well you need to be a little bit careful of for sure we could destiny bond with houndoom couldn't we so i'm gonna do it i'm gonna just destiny bond yeah let's do it let's do it come on the hound of doom is gonna bring on the destiny bond we just need i think to win a speed tie because if the rig uh hmm it's kind of risky though it is risky because the thing is we can't protect with uh so below um yeah we need to get rid of the ray and i think we need to wide guard as well just in case we see a water type attack coming out i'd protect it protects it protects okay that's fine that's fine because they're expecting the wide guard to come from mankind but they're like what how much how much wide guard does this person have really origin pulse yeah i think we'll be i still think we'll be all right i think it's not gonna be like the easiest the leech seed's not really helping us out massively here um but can we win a speed tie against this requiser that's the big thing we'll just go wide guard again hopefully we see the ray attack the solar layer knowing the defensive drops and that's the thing that you want to get rid of like plus one now after the superpower attacks that we've thrown out to come on hound doom be faster than the ray you can do it you've got like bones on your back that must make you fast it's like i don't know that come on let's do this wide guard no it's gonna be into hound ah we're never taking this never in a million years okay the leech seed okay right getting closer and closer to getting knocked out now by this requiser superior you're our last hope losing a speed tie with requiser as well i wonder if leech storm's enough to get the chai auger at this point i'm gonna just leave storm and i'm gonna go sun steel strike into the ray okay rick ray protecting i wonder if we see the chai auger go for a nice beam here oh just double protect okay getting more health back it's putting that it's putting that solar layer into like dragon ascend range i'm pretty sure now so what we need to bank on and it's a big bank is the requiser attacking into soga leo knocking it out us knocking out the superior oh okay we need to knock out the chai auger really we do we need to knock out the chai auger because if they go uh it depends if they go origin pulse though they're probably gonna go origin pulse if this doesn't knock out oh it's not strong enough we need an origin pulse miss i think unless so go leo can take an origin pulse from this range maybe you clicked water spell fine if you clicked ice beam we're fine ah that's the one thing we didn't want maybe so go leo takes it nah ah so close so close damn damn damn damn damn damn good game google we got done by google it's a good title for the episode well my friends it has been very enjoyable i it was a bit of a longer start to the episode just explaining everything but i hope you've enjoyed today's episode and i really do hope you enjoy the week as it goes on please leave a comment down below let me know what your thoughts are on this series going forward what your thoughts are on the roulette bonuses if you've got your own ideas for those or if you think we should switch things up slightly with them or switch things up with the team in general because there's no rules about movesets and things like that and items so hopefully we'll come back tomorrow and have a little bit of success we are one one at the minute hopefully we can climb up the ladder a bit but i'm feeling quite good about this team at least we've got the z splash off twice today that's i mean that's a success in itself so we have to be proud of ourselves for that thank you so much for tuning in though guys i have a great rest of your day and i'll speak to you all again for another episode tomorrow so until then to get on bye bye