 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 Battle Series. I hope you're all doing well. It is Tuesday, we kicked off this week in our last episode with this team that you can see on your screen in front of you right now. Just to recap it is the Mega Minectric. We've got Lunala, Kyogre, Tapulele, Katana and Hydragan. It's always the team is down in the description below. There is a roll piece and a poker piece. Go check it out. Try it out. And as I always say, if you do try it out, let me know in the comments how you get on with the team and what you're enjoying about it. Maybe what you would change about it if it was yourself going forward with the team. But we had two really good games yesterday to kick us off with this team. If you've missed them and you'd like to catch up before coming into today's episode, I'll link a card up there for you. You can go and check that out and then come back and watch this one. But without further ado, let's just jump straight into today's episode. Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent of the day. And as always guys, if you do enjoy this sort of content, please remember to leave a like on the video. Subscribe to the channel for more Pokémon content. And do leave your comments. Let me know what you think of the... If I can even speak of the team, the matches, our opponents, anything and everything. So we've got our first opponent like Magic. So click into Music and we'll get into Team Preview. Oh, this looks very familiar, doesn't it? This looks like a team that we were playing not so long ago on the channel. It's the reindeer call. It's the Xernius and the Kyogre making up that coined phrase. Then we've got the Emungus support option there. It's going to be something used to deter around trick room, bring in and disrupt with spoil, redirection and things like that. Then we've got the Incinero, got the Tornaders and the Kangaskhan. Now we know from playing this team how much of a problem Tapulele was when we were trying to utilise these Pokémon. So Tapulele is definitely something I want to bring. Something I can lead as well because there is no opposing terrain on my opponent's side of the field. And we know how much of an exploit this can be. So we will lead Tapulele. Do we want to bring Mega Minetric though? I think probably not. I think Lunala is a nice option here definitely. The Kangaskhan does worry me slightly just because it can and probably has got bite. So Minetric is good, especially with the Intimidate support. We've got Snarl support there as well. We want Kyogre for sure. And just about what we bring in as our last one. Like Katana could be good here. The Tornaders put on a little bit of pressure there. But I don't know if my opponent brings the... I really want to bring Katana. I don't know if I want to bring Lunala to this match. I'm going to bring Katana. Let's do it. Let's lock in against this and hopefully we've got enough in the tank and utilise that Katana again. It did so well in our last episode. It did amazing work. So hopefully it can continue that on today. Katana is such a great Pokemon. You know when I was putting this team together I went through so many variations of the Mega Minetric team. Like I tried our Crobat, I tried our Pherothorn. And they were all alright but never really hit that kind of note with you. You know when something resonates with you and you've got an idea and you put it down on paper and you test it out and you're like, this is the one. This is what we want to be playing with. And that's what it did. With the Katana it was amazing. As soon as I brought it it was incredibly good. So we're going to see Kangus Kana. We're going to see Zonius lead out for my opponent. Could we...? I don't really want to Magic Room. I mean one of the things we could do. This is a conflict. If we're not leading off with Katana and we decide to go for the Magic Room it does become a little bit of a problem. Because we can't really utilise it. And the Kangus Kana is a bit of a threat for us. We do have the Intimidate of course here. So we could go Magic Room right now with Lele. And then just go for a Snarl. And then we can kind of nullify. Yeah, we'll go Magic Room for a change. We'll Mega Evolve and we're not going to go Volt Switch. We're going to Mega Evolve and we're going to Snarl with Amonetric. And then it should give us two turns to nullify the GMNC boosts if my opponent does decide to go for it. Or not as well. But we're not going to see a fake up on the Kangus Kana. So the Intimidate here is going to be pretty useful. So my opponent decides to go for the Intimidate onto the Kangus Kana. So important. This is where Eury Impulse would be very good. Because then you get two turns to Eury Impulse. Azernius and put it down to minus two when it's trying to go for a GMNC. Azernius actually just going for the Protect here. So we're going to get the Magic Room off. Which is nice. But like I said, it does hinder the ability of our... I have a caught on when it comes onto the field. It's not going to be able to activate that Psychic Seed which you want it to do. We talked about yes, the Kangus Kana for an Icy Wind. Okay, wow. That's interesting. That's something you see every day lowering the speed of both targets. And that's out of the field. We could skill swap the Kangus Kana with that Tapulele and just go for a Snarl. I mean the thing is we probably see Azernius attack this turn. And I don't really want to lose our Psychic Terrain because I think it's very important for us. But we do stop this Azernius really being able to operate as well if you kind of want it to. It could Volt Switch as well. I kind of tempted just to bring Kyogre of our own and Volt Switch out onto Azernius here with Ammonetric. We might see the Azernius Switch out to stall out these Magic Room turns. But I want to preserve Lele for later in the game if I can. So many options there with Lele though. We could win for the skill swap. I think the Icy Wind kind of puts me a little bit more on the precautious side of things because we don't want to just take a double edge, moon blast and lose it. And if we can maneuver our Cortana onto the field that would be incredibly good for us. We'll probably move after everything with Minetric. There's the moon blast from Azernius. It's going to be into Minetric. Jeez. Jeez, there's so much damage. We do get a critical hit in return. Hopefully you see the Kangascon actually go for an attack here rather than an Icy Wind. I don't really want to see an Icy Wind into Cortana. We want to see Cortana in a nice position now where it can stop threatening the Kangascon and this Azernius. Obviously there's a double edge. It's going to be into the... Ooh, it's going to be into the Cortana. Even better. Even better than I first. I wanted to get rid of that Minetric. Now, the thing is, I think the Azernius is so pressured, we're going to Water Spout and we're going to Sacred Sword into this Kangascon because I think the Azernius probably protects here. Either switches out, I'd imagine. I'm trying to get a Sacred Sword onto the Kangascon, get some damage onto it. It's probably going to try an Icy Wind as well. You've got to imagine that's what it's going to go for. But we will go for that. And again, hay fever, guys. If I'm all nasally, my eyes are puffy anyway. And my nose is so itchy. So itchy. You know, I need to get some honey. Local honey from around your area is going to be a really good medicinal way to get around hay fever because it's local pollen. So if you can do that, eat it. I'm going to make it better. I did it a few years ago. I did do the trick. But we'll have to, we'll have to see if it does it this time. I need to get some first. Anyway, back to the match because we're going to see Azernius switch out because of the threat of the Cartana. Come in Kyoga. So we're going to see what this Kangascon's going to do. It's going to actually switch out as well. So we're going to get a free Water Spout onto something. Bye-bye! Incineroar. And we'll get the Sacred Sword into that slot as well. The opponent's not got many options. It cannot utilise the fake out, but it does get the Intimidate onto our Cartana. We do get a critical hit. Not really going to matter too much, but it gets a nice damage onto the Kyoga. And it doesn't really matter what comes in now because if it's a Kangascon, it probably goes for an icy wind so we can sacred sword that slot again. It's also going to take it a bit better now with the Intimidate drop that we've had there. But the Kyoga's got to feel a little bit pressured from Cartana as well. I imagine the Kyoga probably protects. So one thing it could do to get around it is just Water Spout to protect Cartana in kind of expecting the icy wind from the Kangascon. Too many K's on the field. Kyoga Kangascon. Kyoga Katana. I'm getting so confused. I don't know why I'm getting confused. There's no reason for me to get confused. Just chatting rubbish. So there will be the tech. There's the Origin Pulse. Okay. Are you going to go for an icy wind with the Kangascon? That's what I would expect. Yeah, there's the icy wind. We want to try and avoid that. That's the thing. And get some nice damage onto... Actually we avoided it with Kyoga. It doesn't really matter because we have a slot stand on the field. But this is what we want. We want to get this Kangascon in range for a sacred sword this next turn. We know it can't protect. And the Kyoga can. Do we bring anything else in though? That's the thing. It's just taking an Origin Pulse. It's not ideal. But we can sacred sword get the boost from Kangascon. I think we'd take an Origin Pulse anyway from the opposing Kyoga. We'll go for another water spot. And we'll go for that sacred sword into the Kangascon. Which we know a lot of speed. Yeah, Kyoga gonna protect. We'll get this beast boost for free. Katana running the show. Last couple of games, isn't it? And then we've got the Zonius to come in. And if the magic room runs out, which it's gonna in warm turn, I think, we get our psychic seed boost. Which just, you know, seals the game for us really. There we go. Oh no, it actually disappears from the field. But I mean, the next turn, what we can do. Leafblade into the Kyoga. Yeah, yeah. Switch in Tapulele, get our seed boost. And then we can sacred smart strike. It's gonna be tight though. It's gonna be very, very tight. Because there's a part of me that wants to not allow the Zonius to get the boost. But it's got to feel very threatened here. It does. Although, their kind of pins, their options aren't that great. So they go for the J-Mancy anyway. I don't think you protect Zonius at this point. But hopefully between Katana and Tapulele. And Kyoga and Minitric, we might be able to do something. So yeah, we're gonna get the Leafblade into the Kyoga. That'll be enough. We'll get another beast boost. That'll put us to plus one now, I think. Oh no. Yeah, there we go. I was like, why haven't we got the beast boost? Why haven't we got the beast boost? There's a J-Mancy, which I'd expect you to do. Yeah. I wonder if we could be cheeky. Because if we can steal the fairy aura ability. That will make things a little bit easier for us. Because then if we steal it, we give psychic terrain over. We take away those big boosts that they do get. And I'm a little bit afraid that Katana's in a position now where it can. I'm gonna skill swap the Zonius for sure. I'm just gonna actually detect. I'm gonna protect Katana. Because I feel like you do go for the Moonblast into that slot. And what we wanna try and do is steal the fairy aura. That's going down some gleam. So Lele should take this. I mean Katana would have taken that. Yeah, we take it. And now we can switch Lele out, get rid of that fairy aura boost. Get Minetric onto the field. Smart strike. Pick up the knockout and take this game. Because even a Moonblaster now with that card, we should be able to take this. So like I said, what we'll do, we'll get rid of this. We'll get Minetric in, we'll probably sack that. Look at Katana's stats. We haven't had a psychic terrain boost, actually. Which is a little bit worrying. Where's that seed gone? Huh. That's weird that it's not activated. Let's see. Hmm. We still got it. I'm really confused now. Yeah, we still got the psychic seed. And even though the psychic terrain is not activated, we haven't actually got, we haven't got that boost. So we're a little bit, a little bit vulnerable, yeah. We need, yeah, this is the thing. They'd go for Dazzle. We should be alright. If they Moonblast, we're in a bit of, we're in a bit of trouble. Now they're gone Dazzling game. We should take this with Katana. Yeah, without the boost. Is that like a weird mechanic where the psychic seed, because in the magic room, it's not allowing it to proc. That's so strange. I would have thought when magic room ended, we'd get the psychic terrain back on the field, it would proc, but who knows, who knows. I feel like I'm losing my mind a little bit, but I don't think I am. Anyway, good getting to my opponent. If any of you guys are there now, hit me up in the comment section, let me know. Put me right. So yeah, good win for us Katana coming through again. Without that skill swap taking away the ferry, or I don't think we would have been able to do that. And a moon blast into the Katana there. We'd get a little bit lucky, because I think that would have been enough to pick up the knockout. But get by it by the skin of our teeth. Let's hop over into our main. Sinnoh legend version one. We'll go for that music today for our next one. Yes, but things going alright with the team so far. It's been doing pretty well. And Minetric, when I saw the vaults from the pole, I was like, oh, this is going to be a tough one to play around with. Now, I do like Minetric a lot, but I was really struggling to put a team together with it, whereas I'm comfortable with it and thinking, hmm, how can we get this to work? It could also, I think, fit in with a Groudon Lunala core, for sure, but I feel like I've played one of the things on the channel, I feel like I've played a lot of Groudon, a lot of Groudon, very little Kyogre. So I think we've played one team with Kyogre in the Ultra series, which I think I've not been purposely staying away from, but I think it's something that, you know, we need to explore a little bit more and see how it can operate. And in a team like this, it's quite nice to bring it back and feature it and still see it can do a nice job. Hopefully at some point, we can get the hidden power water combo going. I had a lot of opportunities in practice where it came off, and it was pretty satisfying. So it'll be nice to see us do that in this one. It's taken a little bit longer to find our next opponent, so I will cut to when we find our next opponent. So we'll be right back, guys. And we've got our next opponent of the episode. We've got Candy, Candy, Candy, Candy. And they are playing a team of we'll jump in the team preview and we'll go through it. Something sticks out like nothing else. And it is that Sharpedo there. So I hope it's Mega Sharpedo. That would be incredible to see. But we're going to see Candy is playing a team of what, just wait a minute, because that is just such a good game of tag, isn't it, Candy? I do love it. I'm getting a bit obsessed with it, but we'll get into the team. So it's only as requires, we've got the x-ray combination. We've got the standard support options next to it in Cynarall type of finny. You don't often see Stack Attacker in this team, but I do like it and do appreciate it. It gives the team a trick room deterrent, an anti-trick room and a trick room mode as well. And then you've got the Sharpedo, which is probably going to be maybe another Mega, but maybe not as well. If it's not Mega, then it could be banded. It does have access to speed boost. It could have focus sash. So it's something we need to watch out for, especially with something like Lunala on our side of the field. Right. What are we going to do? What are we going to do? What are we going to do? Minetrix, very good here. I don't know if we want to lead Tapu Lele because I do feel like Tapu Lele. I'm going to bring Kyogre up front because I do think that we'll probably see the incineral. The problem is though, one of the things we need to kind of help ourselves check against is the potential GM ANSI setup, which will be a little bit vulnerable to otherwise. I will bring Lele and probably leave Lunala and go caught on her in the back though. Because otherwise we're going to run out of time and we're going to be locked into this trainer profile as well. Look at Kandy. He just looks cool. He's just a very cool trainer with a very cool name. Got a little bit of a mind crush going on right now. Big... Yeah, but no. But I mean, yeah, I think Sharpedo causes a lot of issues. Leave nice speed control. Time and time again get sucked into where we're not having the best of times doing against the X-ray call where we don't bring our speed control. We've done it once again. Something to think about going forward. But at least I'm doing it so you guys can pick up on it and be like, right, when I play X-ray, speed control is so important, so important. We might not need it in this match, but it's just about denying this GM ANSI here because it's going to be something that's probably likely going to come out now. I'm going to have to mega-evolve Snarl. And did we just water-spout? Just get some big damage onto the field. Try and get some big damage. I think I'm just going to... Sharpedo, what are you going to do? Going to go for a Z move? We're going to be able to intimidate you though, so you shouldn't be picking up a kill anywhere. Time's soon. We're going to switch out. Rikwaza, come on to the field. Don't mind too much. This is where the area impulse again comes in really, really useful. The Sharpedo leading is the main reason I didn't want to lead with Lunala here. But there's no way for us to really stop. There's only us going for just to protect. I do not mind that at all. We'll break his sash potentially on this Rikwaza and it's going to take a chunk of damage on this water-spout regardless. So, yeah. And it probably will mega-evolve this next turn. But it is. Is it minus one? Switched out before mega-evolved, right? So yeah, we got the Intimidate onto it, which was extremely useful. So we'll just snarl again. I could bring in Lele, or I could just stay in with Kyogre. Because I think Lele caught on a really good end game for us to just kind of keep on top of stuff. I'm just going to water-spout again. We might take a Dragon Ascent. But yeah, we get the snarl to both targets. What's this Rikwaza going to do? It's not mega-evolving, though. So the Sharpedo is probably the mega here that we're going to see utilize. There's the Earth Palace, so these snarls coming in massively helpful here as we do an art able to take that. Leafs Kyogre open to get another water-spout off. It does reveal the life orb on that Rikwaza and we do see the G-minity boost now. It's only going to be plus one. So that is helpful, especially when our Cartana hits the field. And getting just this water-spout damage onto it as well is going to be useful. It should pick up the knockout onto the Rikwaza. And like I say, my whole point end game is going to be that, that Cartana Lele. I think getting it in, especially with minus, just a plus one makes such a difference on the Zernius rather than plus two, especially for Cartana now. That Zernius is probably in smart strike range, depending on the build of the Zernius. If we can get at least a Skald off into it, it can make things so much easier to deal with. Especially when Cartana hits the field. It's not going to worry about Sharpedo too much either. It's going to come onto the field now. You've got to think that the Zernius probably does dazzling gleam, does it dazzle? Because I could try Sneaky Snarl again. It's just, I feel like, we'll probably see. Because I think the Sharpedo attacks into the Minetric here. I'm going to just Skald. If we can get a burn as well into the Zernius, that's going to help us out even more. And I don't really want to just lose Minetric so freely here. It might be worth, yeah, there's a dazzling gleam. So Kylda will be able to take this pretty comfortably. Plus one, let's see what it's doing. It's not too bad. Crunch. That's into the Kylda though. It's not what we wanted to see. It is not. But if we can get the Skald off, get this burn off, that would be extremely good. Burn. There's a speed boost. That's not exactly what we want to see either. But... It's tap-a-lily. It's going to be one of those things we could switch in just to, I think, get our terrain up, sack it, and then get caught on or out on the field and just protect Kylda here, rather than just let it go down. Because then we get the Intimidate onto that Sharpedo as well, which might be useful. Because I'd imagine we'd probably see dazzling gleam. It's going to mega evolve now. So it's got the one speed boost. That's all it needs. Mega Shot, Peter. It's such a cool Pokemon, isn't it? Never see enough of it. It is a very cool Pokemon now. So we'll protect Kylda here. We'll see what the Zonius goes for. Moon Blaster into that slot. Okay, so Lele might actually liquidation. This probably takes us down in the rain, to be fair. Yeah. It opens the door for Cotton to come back in. But we're in that situation again where we need to be a little bit more cautious with what we do. And maybe protect. Protect Cartana turn one on potential protect from the Zonius. So we'll get in and get that Psychic Seag Boost. Because it's so easy for us here just to go for... I need the Intimidate, I think, with the Minetric onto the Sharpedo. Because it's going to be so easy for my opponent just to potentially double in on the Cartana as well. And we want to get the rain off the field. That's the big thing. It's just if we lose Minetric here that would be... a little bit problematic. Maybe we would have been better going for Protect with Cartana, Attack with Kyogre. Because then the rain will come back onto the field. Which is not ideal. But you've got to remember that the Zonius is only... it's only plus one. So it's not going to be doing as much damage to Cartana. So maybe we get... Okay, we're not going to see any Protects from my opponent this turn. It's interesting. There's a move last into the Cartana. And a Crunch. Oh, double in on that slot. Okay. Hmm. Could we... Should we go for the Leafblade this turn into the Sharpedo? Hmm. And a Snarl. I just feel like the Zonius Protects here. I live and die by the sword. I'm going to Leafblade the Sharpedo. I think the Zonius Protects. And I'm going to Snarl as well. Come on, Zon, Protect! We want to see it! No! Oh! Okay. We take that pretty well. Crunch. It's going to double up for sure. Yeah. We'll take this though. Wow. We actually don't take it. Man. That's a strong Sharpedo. Minus one as well. I mean, that has to pause right. I think so. That is boosted. But, phew. Yeah, now Dazzle just gets us, but... Ah. Well, we wouldn't have gotten an attack off either way with Cortana. Because they doubled into it both times. That's where we maybe should have left Kyogra out in the field and just Skalded. Skalded. The Zone. I've got to Skald the Zone now. And I'll try and protect Minetric. I just don't see us. Like we need to Skald. Get a Burn. And probably get a Double Protect with Minetric. But even then, the Sharpedos. Yeah. You can probably take a Dazzle from this range with Kyogra. But you'd probably double. You go into the Minetric. There's a small chance we can maybe do this Burn. No Burn. No Poir. Yeah, now Dazzle comes out. I just don't see us being able to do it from here. Liquidation's going to be more than enough. Protecting with Kyogra. When we don't necessarily need to, I think the match is done. We could have just hit that fourth button. But let's see how my opponent plays it out. Nice and satisfying when you do. You do get a nice victory to play the whole turn out. So you can get that nice win. So yeah, Minetric going down for Dazzle. And Liquidation. I think it would have been into Minetric anyway. And Poir Kyogra. We have been undone by Sharpedo. I think the problem was though, allowing the Jimansi to go up. And it becoming such a problem. But at the same time, the Sharpedo kind of... I would expect... Well, yeah. It kind of covers the Lunala. It really makes it very difficult. Like Lunala, Minetric there might have been the play to make, get the Intimidate onto the Sharpedo. Hopefully we take the Crunch from the Sharpedo. Minus one. And then we can roar out the Zonius. We lose a lot of resource at that point though. So it becomes very difficult. But a very good game to Candy. And you did not disappoint. I loved using him. I loved your trainer profile. Very good game. Pleasure playing you. And I'm sure everyone at home enjoyed seeing Mega Sharpedo do some work as well. I think we could have approached it a bit differently. Just one of those things we've got to look back on and think how we could maybe approach it a little bit better. It's utilising the Cortana and making sure that we deny the Jimansi boost as well. So that's something to think about. So a few options to think about going forward in this week. Continue on tomorrow and see what we can do with this team going forward. But thank you so much for tuning in. Hope you've enjoyed today's episode. Have a great rest of your day, whatever you're up to. And I will catch up with you very soon. Take care of yourselves and bye bye.