 Hi everyone, I hope you're all well. Welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series We kicked off in our last episode with this team on the screen in front of you right now If you'd like to go back and check out yesterday's episode to see how we kicked off with the team you can click back up here I put a card in for you to check that episode out. It was a lot of fun yesterday So I would recommend going to seeing that and then coming back into this one See where we can take the team today as always team is down in the description below with a paste and a Poker paste raw paste as well for you guys to check out on your own time and try if you'd like to as well It's a lot of fun. Trust me. You won't regret it, but we'll dive straight into it today and carry on So I'll just crank some music up for us and we'll jump straight into it as always guys If you enjoy this sort of content, please make sure to leave a like on the video Do make sure that you subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content and leave your comments down below Because I love nothing more than hearing from you all, but I hope you're all having a great day It is Bright and sunny outside. We've got our first opponent. So let's hop straight into team preview Okay, so the first team that we're going up against today is going to be that zernius groudon team And it's picking up a lot of popularity recently We've got the salamence tapulele incinero and a munga. So a little bit different from the variant that we played yesterday um Now when we played this team the last time we led with zernius kangis con and we went for the bite shenanigans I don't know if we're going to be able to utilize that as well today the mungus throws up a few issues here Especially with setting up as zernius because of the clear smog the potential put us to sleep And the terrain does cause us some issues as well It's kind of like I really want tornadoes here even though the prankster ability will be nerfed by the tapulele Um, having access to the hurricane is super nice and putna kayaga and like just getting it until when Gives us a lot of room to kind of tackle this team although Hmm It's difficult, isn't it? Hmm. What are we gonna do? I think we got tornadoes. I think we got kayaga Um Maybe toga tomorrow here, and then I think we do need the zernius Okay, we'll lock him. I'll try this one and see if we can Get on all right with this this combination in this one Uh, it's still all a learning curve because as I say, I've only had like the two games yesterday with the team One game before that before I brought it uh into recording So it's going to be a little bit of a learning curve for us like myself and for you guys But it's nice to do this together because I feel like this is a good way for us to kind of show How we play test things and then how we can tweak things to overcome stuff already I'm noticing that uh psychic terrain can be a little bit oppressive for us to deal with so it's something that we need to To just keep in mind Going forward because we can't taunt the amougas. We can Hurricane it and we can origin pulse Um, because once the thing is once we get rid of the amougas A match it becomes a lot easier. The one thing that we have to worry about here, of course is Spawn from amougas, obviously the tabulae can do big damage to our kyoga And the groudon can switch in which is not good. Um And I'm not really sure on the mechanics if we're all players actually blocked onto our own kyoga If we use it because of the psychic terrain I would imagine it would make sense if it was Now one of the things I'm probably going to just do here is just hurricane The amougas and do I ice beam it or do I origin pulse it? Or do I just protect? I just feel like the groudon comes in. I'm going to ice beam it If we can get rid of the amougas, okay, we're not going to see any switches. Okay, there's a side shock Hopefully we can take this it will do a big chunk of damage. There's a hurricane Okay, see where this goes could have origin pulsed. Like I said, that was pretty risky We just want to make sure that we get rid of this amougas before anything else So we do manage to get rid of it and one of the things that would say be aware of with amougas is like it's still It's still a bit risky doubling into that slot because amougas now Unlike the previous two formats that we've had or tending to carry Um Protect so we could have really got caught out there now kyoga is in a terrible position right now um Because we're going to get side shocked for sure we can tailwind and I'm going to switch in Do I switch in toga tomorrow? Yeah, it's probably our best bet to be honest um Yeah, let's switch in toga tomorrow I think we need to preserve our kyoga. We're going to see the tapulele switch out It means that our toga tomorrow still has his sash intact, which is the big thing here for us Um, okay ground on hitting the field Oh, it's gonna be it's gonna be difficult dealing with the Zernius, but we do have the endeavor we can fall back on I'd imagine the zernius here to go for the geomancy We will get the tail wind up and that's not blocked by the psychic terrain There's a geo Jool, jool, jool, okay Now we need to nuzzle that zernius for sure It's just whether we can do it And then get an endeavor off Because I really want to be able to endeavor it More than anything, um Not really got to switch in the back at the moment. We've got our zernius of our own in here Hmm What could we do? What could we do? What could we do? It depends on the speed of the zernius as well, you know, because if we could I would imagine we see a dazzling gleam come out from the zernius and then a precipice blades And that would be pretty bad for us um I could hurricane But we're blind we're blind at this point, aren't we and it's not really going to do too much I mean we could potentially just go Into the ground on And then go for that nuzzle into the zernius. Let's try it Let's try uh goes for the protect. Okay You know the one thing I do think if uh tommorow is actually if that is not max speed zernius And we do avoid so we're going to see the precipice blades. Okay, it does infect tornadoes um We could get the endeavor off this next turn And that would put us right back into the game because tornadoes should be able to take a dazzle And if we can do this then with the tail wind up we can get chile growing and we can actually win this game So let's see if tommorow speeds the zernius, which i'm hoping because a lot of zernius on max speed There's format a lot of players. Yeah, we are so we get the endeavor. There we go This is the the beauty about this move all we need is tornadoes to actually survive this Yep, proc the berry and can we take a fire punch. I'm hoping that we can we are quite bulky It's all about whether or not we hit the hurricane now. I mean we hit the hurricane We're golden tornadoes Still got it still got it my friend Okay, we get rid of the zernius that that works out pretty nice fire punch Okay, can we take this? Groudon too strong, but we got chile coming in tabulele is choice locked So we've got access to origin pulse and we've got around zernius as well So we should be able to just double up into the lele now with a moonblast origin pulse get rid of the lele We still got one turn of tailwind and the groudon if it's not well, it could be jolly So we still need to be super careful, but we've got the rain up, which is nice It's just about whether our engine pulse hits or not So come on origin pulse, I believe you can hit so that's all we need just a bit of belief Believe in origin pulse And you can keep this streak going um I could geomancy here But I just want to get rid of the lele because I know it's scarfed So moonblasting origin pulse just seems like the better move the groudon is likely to protect to stall out the tailwind And give itself a better opportunity going into the next turn I just don't think a water spout from this hp range is going to be strong enough To get the chip onto the lele for us to get with moonblast That's why I need the the origin pulse, which will be more than enough So let's see can we get it origin pulse? No, uh, we did it. We get the groudon. Okay. That's fine. That's fine Okay, the groudon of protecting is all right. That would have been the worst case scenario if the groudon protects there Because now zonius like the lele can only Really target one thing and if it locks into dazzling gleam, then we get it. Okay side shock Yeah, now you've locked into that. That's fine. You can only target one thing and we still win Potentially we need origin pulse to hit obviously, but the psychic terrain leaving the field as well does help us out a lot Man, you know it. We always do it. We say it and it happens. I mean, I'm pretty pleased. I'd rather missed Um The lele than the groudon there though side shock. We will be able to take this um and origin pulse redeeming yourself Kyoga, I see uh, we are able to pick up another victory So very good game to my opponent and uh, nice to see the team performing so well, so this is um Um It was a close one all about toga tomorrow there the endeavor. I love endeavor toga tomorrow with the sash It's so good. There's always that cheeky little opportunity there where you can play maybe sturdy bluff the lightning rod but I feel with tonedis and kyoga and this team lightning rod is kind of needed and um, you can do it I think in best of one but best of three Probably not going to get away with it once it's revealed because and you haven't got the ability to then switch in Toggle tomorrow from the back to take those electric type attacks So you do miss that a little bit, but it does free up an option An item option there on it if you do decide to be a bit cheeky and go for that sturdy. So um, we'll switch over to uh Top screen. Let's go with jotto legend here. Why not? So we're creeping back up to 1700 Which is nice. So on the on the right road at the minute Um, hopefully we've done take too long to find the next opponent If it does as always guys, we'll just cut to it and we'll come straight back When we bump into our next opponent And we've got our next opponent of the episode. We've got oliver from japan. He is running a team of we'll jump straight into team preview This one is an interesting one So oliver is running a team of gother tell incinero groudon requires that We've got the tapafini and the kangaskorn. So, hmm. What do we do here? There's obviously trick room for my opponent side of the field. That's probably their predominant kind of speed control here Um, we're gonna have the groudon set up in there. You've probably got heal posts on the gother tell as well Now tornadoes can do super well at just Really disrupting that um, my opponent side of the field. One thing we could potentially do is Go tornadoes and the requiser makes things a little bit tricky. So we definitely need Some fake out support of our own here to prevent that. Um, let's go kayoga in the back and Zenius Zenius or toga tomorrow I think zenius. Yeah Yeah, because once you get it if we can deny that the trick room, then it's it's all gonna be fine So let's get into this one see if we can overcome this one and keep the this hot street going That's what we want to see the hot street going But it's not gonna be easy It's not gonna be easy And the gother tell could have something like z trick room It could have mental herb as well to prevent a trick room But I think having a fast fake out next to us here does alleviate that to somewhat to some extent I kind of feel like I want to bring serena here as well. It does help us out a little bit. We're gonna see um, the incinero Come out with the gother tell and we'll leave with kang um I think i'm just gonna fake out into the incinero here and just taunt the gother tell although It does leave us a little bit wide open to mental herb It would be better just preventing the u-turn from the incinero fake out in I don't know. I do we just trade fake outs here um Just go taunt and uh make a revolve Fake out into goth. I think that's maybe a little bit better Because i'm in prerogative prerogative right now if I can spook Is to stop this trick room the trick room goes up things get very very Very very bad very quickly. So let's fake out from kenga Stop this gother tell fake out So the one reason why I did this is because if it does have mental herb We can bite into that slot now and we can taunt Um, so at least if it's got mental herb, we've got the bite to kind of fall back on to hopefully flinch it If a mental herb does activate now I'm undoubtedly we'll see the incinero u-turn out here. Could see move And I got the tell could protect but Let's hope none of those things happen. There's a protect. Yeah, we see it. We see it happening. There we go. Okay Okay There's the taunt Unless the incinero has got a z move then I'm not really too worried about. Okay. So U-turn now what comes in does kangaskon come in for my opponent? They had a kangaskon right? I'm pretty sure they did Who knows? I can't check. No, it's rikwaza. Okay Ray Ray I'm gonna be faster than both of my Pokemon But I can't afford not to uh, you see I want taunt. I've got a taunt Hmm, but I want a tail wind because that puts us in a great position going But if a tail wind in the trick room and the bite doesn't Yeah, I've got to just go for the the goth to tell we can't switch out with kang here, but we can um We can return the rikwaza And if taune this can stick around for a turn that'll be amazing All right is it's gonna mega evolve. Thanks to prankster though We will be able to get a taunt off onto the goth hotel It's just now if it's got the mental hope and this is like banded ray. I think get a bit dicey for us There's a taunt. Do we see the mental hope? Ah It's there and we actually out speed the rikwaza which kind of it indicates that it's maybe an assault vest Return not doing that much damage. We could have went for the bite as well I fear that we're gonna lose something here. It's probably yeah, it's gonna be our taune this And we're gonna see a trick room Okay Not so good. Okay. Well Mental hope makes sense especially in the best of one kind of situation. What do we bring in now? kayoga No, I don't think we bring in kayoga. I think we've got to try and stall out There's no point of biting with kangaskhan Ah, this rikwaza. I feel like it's just gonna rip us apart now Because it's obviously gonna be super slow We don't want to we don't want a geomancy here. I think we just Hmm, did we just dazzle dazzle? Yeah razzle dazzle and go for Return into goth hotel Hmm Yeah, this is gonna be tricky. We've got ourselves into a position where Oh Okay Helping hand dragging the scent where you go on this turn My little rikwaza into our poor kangaskhan. Okay We'll be able to get rid of the ray but I mean It's gonna be very difficult from here because the groudon is going to be in the back um If my point brings in the groudon now will mean And we do get our weather up, but they're probably smarter than that And want to bring in incinero I think so But we are the slowest thing on the field. I would imagine we'll be slower than this groudon yet But the goth hotel. Okay. It's got trick room. It's got protect But helping hand it's got to have an attacking move. I think Unless it has no attacking move and it's just got skill swap and then it cannot do anything Ah Let's see the helping hand precipice blades is going to be pretty nasty though. That's the thing I like hi August should take it, right? I think we take a helping hand precipice blades I'm going to say we do and I'm going to cheer man see At this point because how many turns of trick room we got left three? Oh, man We could double protect here, but it does give my opponent a bit of an opportunity to switch their board around Okay, let's just let's just geo and origin pulse Let's see what my opponent goes for here Groudon switching out. Okay like to see this goth hotel maybe protects It doesn't really help us out at all because well No, it still doesn't really help us out. I mean, yeah the goth hotel protecting We can stall at the trick room for sure It's like we need one less turn of trick room to kind of to really kind of have a bit more momentum in this game because There's two turns left Groudon comes back in we protect the trick room runs out and then we can maybe do something where we can ice beam Moon Blaster goth hotel predicting the protect on the ground on but with that extra turn It's not so ideal. I mean if we miss here that would have been better almost if we miss But we don't miss the ground on coming in Gonna undo all of our work Get rid of our rain Bring that desolate line back to the field And we definitely see a helping hand precipice blades now one thing we could potentially do here is Moon Blaster goth hotel because I feel confident that The zernius has if it can take The precipice blades a lot better a lot better than the Um The kayaga here, so we will protect auger If you can remove that helping hand then kayaga can definitely Take a precipice blades and definitely get itself into a position to take down the ground on there. We go. That's what we're gonna see Up in hand plea blades So we'll protect this turn get rid of the goth hotel here with a moon blast We definitely will precipice blades might even miss, you know Oh, there we go puts us in a way better position get rid You know when you call it and it happens So we get rid of the goth hotel now we're in a bit of a better position because kayaga can definitely take One precipice blades and maybe that's all we need to do now Um, it definitely that miss definitely puts zernius in a way better position now because we can just go moon blasts ice beam and my opponent needs Needs the hits it's to start with And probably needs crit crit Here we go pea blades It's a damage like Big damage. Okay, but now that's fine ice beam It's not bad moon blast It's no bad and yeah ice beam will take it down the next 10 dimensions and back to normal Moon blasts can be able to deal with the ground on so that's what we'll just lock into zernius We'll be able to take all the glory and reindeer still pulling through When I thought this one might be the one that we actually Lose today, but we managed to kind of pull ourselves through this and my opponent just forfeit So very good game to my opponent and another nice win for the team. So we'll wrap it up there guys I hope you've enjoyed today's episode It has been a lot of fun again And we are exploring the team a little bit more as we get through these matches and we'll do so as we go Through the the episodes this week It's going to be a lot of fun and I really do and I'm looking forward to reading your comments thoughts on the team And how today's games have been for you And I hope you've enjoyed them and I hope you like the team as well So do let me know down below and I look forward to reading through those as soon as I get Around to it in a little bit of time. So have a great day though guys Thank you so much for tuning in and we'll see you all for the next one So until then take care and bye. Bye