 Hi guys, and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2019 battle series I hope you're all doing well. We kicked off this week with this Suggalio Xigar team that you can see on your screen And as I said at the start of the week what we want to try and do is go through this week's games and Analyze the team see and make out what things we're struggling against and then tech against them going into next We can put our own spin on the team and make it a really solid finished article with our own twist on it come next Friday so hopefully it'll be a lot of fun going along and doing that as we go through the matches this week We've had some incredible games so far to kick us off this week if you missed any of them I'll put a card up here for you all so you can go and check those out and Without further ado, we'll just get into it today guys. Let's put some music on and hop on to the battle spot ladder But as always if you do enjoy this sort of content Make sure that you do drop a like on the video make sure you do subscribe to the channel So you don't miss any of these daily episodes as well as a guide series a flinch squad circuit And add live streams that we have and just to let you know as well I have mentioned this already this week, but we are currently working on our ultra series guide So they will drop at any point after the ultra series kicks into effect very soon So we've got a first opponent of the day, and I think it's a repeat from earlier in this So it's like a game three isn't it against a dog who can and he is playing a team of a zernius Kyoga Cortana and mungas ludicolor and incinero, so hopefully we can have a more success again against this team here We need to utilize the toxa croc for sure It's so good in this game against the Kyoga the Cortana even the ludicolor and the zernius it does so much work We need to protect ourselves against the mungas with its Rage powder and it's spores so the spores the one thing that really does give us a lot of issues Um, I think I probably want to bring do I want to bring incinero as well for the double faker because incinero can be good against Cortana, but again, we've got sogaleo to kind of fall back on in that situation if we need to so um I think we'll lead tap of any And we'll go sogaleo We'll bring the toxa croc and then zygote in the back and go with that same for Hop straight out of team preview and wait for our opponent to pick their team Um, but yes, so it's been a lot of fun with this team so far I'm looking forward to maybe making some changes up We did say in our previous episode that the venus all slot is one thing that we could look at maybe changing We're not bringing it. You're not really thinking about it too much even in team preview So it is a bit of a dead slot at the moment. It does have a lot of utility Um, but one of the things I would say is where it was very good at checking ground on It's maybe not so much anymore because of the the popularity of volcarana now pairing with that ground on And hopefully we can bump into a few of those teams to see how we can match up against them And going into the the later stages of this this um, this testing phase with the team So we're going to see coyoga and ludicolor come out for my opponent We are going to see the rain activated and then we've got tap of finny out on the field with our sogaleo here So I think what we'll do is straight away. We will go for a What do we want to do nature's madness? into coyoga And switch into toxic rock This one's a quick one. We might get three games today. You never know So let's see what my opponent decides to go for here with this fast offensive need that they've got I just feel so comfortable with toxic rock in the back, especially with tap of finny I'm gonna see a fake out coming out and it is into that toxic rock slot Which reveals actually a life over and a thunder now coming out from coyoga I'm gonna attack straight hard into that tap of finny now and do some good damage to it Taking it down to 50 health, but we are going to get nature's madness into that slot and Pick up some good damage in return trade blow for blow here as you take it down to about 50 health A dry skin activating on that toxic rock So healing up all that health and I think it's probably a good time to get in as I got And go for a poison jab into that ludicolor because if we see another thunder come out from this coyoga It's going to be into that tap of finny. We want to try and protect that for later in the game Get as I got in resist that thunder Um, it's just if we see for some reason my opponent predicting that and seeing again I like going for an ice beam into that slot Oh, even a water spout wouldn't be ideal or a hydra vortex into that slot This is I got here wouldn't be the end of the world, but it's it's losing resource It's not early on that we don't need to That wouldn't be great, but I think we'll probably be quite safe So we'll get zygote onto the field activate that misty Seed get that special defensive boost We're going to see a knockoff actually come out from the ludicolor into the toxic rock here I'm going to say I'm going to target down the toxic rock with a thunder this turn We'll be able to remove this ludicolor though And there's no threat of us getting paralyzed from this thunder from the coyoga here as It does do a chunk of damage. I mean a critical hit there is really unfortunate for us That's like the one thing that we don't want to be seeing right there Um, which is really frustrating, but never mind Um, we do get some dry skin health back though, which is always useful. We have lost our Saltfest the knockoff tech there is really nice on the ludicolor Um, it's good for getting rid of assault vests on things like toxic rock and eveltals and other things so on and so on We are going to actually see cartona come onto the field now, which is an interesting pick for my opponent as we can just go I think we'll just go for that a thousand arrows and Do we switch back into type of finny here Yeah, I want to keep so the layer if I can because I do feel like the zonius is probably lurking in the back Although the zonius was there. You'd feel like it comes out now Put a lot more pressure onto the zygarde Let's see a smart strike though from the carton and this might be enough to get the finny We're gonna be spooked. Oh, we survived. We survived the calcs I'm coming in clutch For our finny here. We are gonna see Oh war terri mz No, we want to see no I don't know if zygarde takes this plus one. I really don't I really don't know if we do take it the cartona is gonna be a bit scary to deal with as well I mean really critical hit Oh, there's no words is there. There's no words I want to do the calc on that actually I'm gonna just quickly do it. I'm gonna see uh, kayoga Zygarde, might make me feel a bit better Against plus one We're pretty bulky. Yeah, we take that we take that 100% of the time So that crit did matter doesn't make me feel any better now though, but never mind And we've got the fake out we can go for the fake out I think and just an icy wind into that cartona and kayoga and slur if you think down We're gonna see the kayoga switch out now The moonga's coming to the field. So We need to make sure that we are We are keeping that terrain around for for the moonga's and to deal with that because That thing can become quite scary if we don't deal with it properly We do get the icy wind onto the cartona and the moonga switch is nice get some more dry skin Health restored here, and I'm gonna go for a drain punch Into the carton. I'm gonna switch in so go now Hopefully you target down the type of finny here But I imagine you probably target down the toxic rock because of how easy it has a time against the the kayoga. We're gonna see A rage powder Leaf blade it is gone for the finny. So that's fine. I mean we get away with that this term No, that's just general damage Drain punch. I mean any health here is good health, isn't it? So toxic rock we need to try and keep we'll get some rain has stopped so no more dry skin No more dry skin inch Um, okay, so we'll bring in teppie finny toxic rock get this terrain back up in effect. Um I can't go superpower yet. I need to go some steel strike into the moonga's and I think The thing is though This cartona feels like it's probably Got knockoff I mean, it's not gonna do too much to us, but at the same time it's still gonna do some damage I'm just gonna protect the soga layer this turn. Yeah, it's just gonna continually rage part of the moonga's. It's a bit of a pain There's a smart strike. Oh, what? Okay Not so good. Not so good. Not so good. Um, okay I mean if we can swagger soga layer, uh, we're just gonna have to send steel strike the moonga's I can't bring in toxic rock here. I just can't Yeah, it's just gonna rage part of again. Hopefully this moonga's doesn't have like one of those super varies Because we're likely to proc it here, which will take even longer to take it down Which makes it even more difficult to deal with this cartona Because it's gonna get a beast boost regardless. Okay, we don't proc yet It's just going for the smart strike the longer it's not going for this knockoff into our soga layer on the bed I really um It does get the beast boost of course But we do have an opportunity now where we can fake it out and go for the sun steel strike into the moonga's And get rid of this moonga's once and for all Does it open in the door for the kayaga to come back in? Okay, cartona actually revealing detect, which is quite interesting So good job. We didn't fake out and double target into that slot There was considering it thinking that it was potentially gonna have The assault vest, but it definitely doesn't And it doesn't have knockoff then which is which is also very very good for us Still gonna be very very difficult to close this one out um Because we potentially we really need to fake out now Um, and we need to utilize wide guard toxic rock is not taking Um, I mean one thing we could do is good to go sucker punch into the kayaga and then go for The z move into carton And hope we don't see an origin pulse while we actually outspeed cartona. No, we don't this is the cartona. No we do Did we get nice? What? I don't understand this This means toxic rock has a free free ring now As long as I But I don't oh this is I'm confused I'm so confused There's a thunder it's gone into toxic rock. This will probably take us down Well, it will take us down Yeah Because it's just always critical hitting. It's like the ultimate kayaga never stops critting Ever ever stops critting. Well super power that should be enough to get the kayaga from this range Um, and that should steal up the game and somehow like I honestly thought we'd lose this after that critical hit hydro vortex into azai god, but Um, we actually managed to survive. So that's that's really good for us really good Huh good game to my opponent and um a bit of an exciting one for us to kick off with today And even though the rng gods were not shining down as very kindly in that match We managed to still come through and that says a lot about a team. I think so very good Right, let's get into our next one super quickly and brush off that that old rng and um Get into our next one. It's gonna be exciting. So yes Nearly 1600 now it's only taken half the week to get up to this point But um, I'll be playing streams and stuff in between now and next week. So we'll be we'll be Well up high by then. So yes, but like I mentioned earlier in the week as well We've not got long left in the moon series So if you would like to see any sort of teams calls or anything like that played Before we do end up and go into the ultra series Make sure you do drop your comments down below and let me know what you'd like to see played So we can arrange that for the last couple of weeks in the moon series, but we're gonna next opponent ban And ban is playing a qr code team. It consists of kai auger ludicorla incinero lunala ferrathorn and Tepicoco We're not seeing hardly any groudons these days. Oh, yeah, I wonder if they're all just further up the ladder I wonder wonder wonder, but what are we gonna do here? We've got kai auger lunala is the restricted pay here You've got that combination of ludicorla there with a fake out supporter Support and be very fast and offensive with that kai auger that's potentially scarfed Yeah, you've got the incinerole. It's also got fake out support and good switching for lunala You've got a trick room check in ferrathorn and the tepicoco there. I do feel like Um Zygarde is going to be very good here We need to be very careful around the ludicorla kai auger But we can bring toxicoco to try and check that to a certain extent. I definitely want I really want incinerole in this match if I'm really honest because we need it for oh, we don't need it It does help out against the ferrathorn quite a lot where we could rely on so go leo a bit more I think what we'll do is lead off with so go leo and finny toxa croc And zygarde like we have been doing and finding a lot of success with that kind of combination We'll get into this next one And see how we get on it's been I am really enjoying this team though. I really do love zygarde We haven't seen as much of zygarde as I would have liked A bit unfortunate in that last one might have seen a bit more of it, but I do really like zygarde I mean still go leo with the phytonium z is kind of stealing the show at the minute Lunala's a little bit of a difficult matchup still for us We just need to be very careful with what we're doing in front of lunala and make sure that we are um approaching it correctly because losing so go leo In this matchup it's not going to be great for us at all and z move could come out I'm an easy pick up the kill so I think straight away we want to um to try and get around that if we can problem is though um We haven't got incinero to help us out here, which is a little bit tricky And we could bring in zygarde And we could go icy wind Yeah, I think that's not a bad play and then if we can get the icy wind off get zygarde And we can heal pulse the next turn if we see z move into that slot power construct should activate if we do see that as well Hopefully see the figure into that slot no it's into the finny That's not what we wanted to see until we got but that's not the worst that is not the worst at all Okay, um Do we coil I think we just thousand hours here just to get some damage on stuff and I think we swagger as well There's zygarde I don't feel comfortable going for the icy wind now with the tail wind up because it's kind of pointless if my opponents which is Something in here or you turns out Um, they're still going out speed is the next turn so it's almost like a dead turn almost for us because We do break the shadow shield on the lunala, but at the same time We're not really gaining much momentum by going icy wind might have been better going for nature's madness than a thousand hours into the Lunala, but at the same time I kind of want to just get as much damage off as I can with this tap of finny We're not going to see a switch out. So likely we're going to see you turn From this incinero, we are going to see the z move though from this lunala Whereas it can be into we know that finny takes this pretty comfortably and we'll have to cut out this guy So can it is into the tap of finny here? Can we take it that is the big question? We should be able to Oh, we take a 12 hp just hanging on so we are going to be able to get this swagger And thousand hours off as we see the incinero now go for the u-turn Into the zai god It's going to reposition itself But as long as that swagger hits anything coming in it's not going to enjoy this plus 2000 hours from our zai god So that is a big big bonus for us tapu koko of all the things Normally you'd be like, yeah, this is great. This is great. We didn't want to see thousand hours, but because it's swagger It's not a misty terrain anymore Oh There's always a chance that we could hit ourselves in confusion. Come on zai god pull through do it for the team We did it We did it We'll take down the koko and do some nice damage to that lunala in the process Wow, okay Not so ideal really Um not having the incinero on this match is Proving to be very difficult for us because we really need a switching for whatever this lunala is deciding to do Kyogre now going to hit the field with this electric terrain up as well. It is extremely threatening. So Um I'm going to protect zai god I'm going to switch finny out and bring in toxa croc It could be the crocs of our game here, but I mean we've got to do something to read just this point and I think I don't know if we see a side shock into tapu finny I mean we might do but I feel like You probably want to concentrate more on getting the zai god off the field right now At least that's what I'm hoping and I'm convinced in myself. That's what the the the best play is, but it's not And we're confused as well, which is really difficult. Okay, we get through it I mean the reduced chance of confusion now hitting yourself is so much better Lungeis beam coming out it is going to be into the toxa croc. We do take this um Better than a side shock for sure And whatever the kayaga throws out if it is a thunder it's something good. It's a nice beam. Okay, so we're just just kind of Keeping up feet on the ground here. We've got sucker punch though that can really help us out against this lunala and I think what we'll do is go for Can we switch into tapu finny here? Because we could just sucker punch I'm going to extreme speed the kayaga and sucker punch the lunala It's got to know that we've got sucker punch The kayaga we're going to switch out. We're going to see incinero coming. It's going to get the minus one Okay, probably lose toxa croc here if I'm honest Oh, we hit ourselves a confusion that's not what we want to see sucker punch. It's not going to be enough at minus one I don't think no we needed the just yeah the intimidate there being huge my opponent Okay, we are going to lose toxa croc, which is a little bit unfortunate But their tailwind does pitter out. They've got a perfect opportunity to get it set up this next turn now Um, but I'm going to bring in sogaleo now And I'm going to go for this thousand arrows And I'm going to go for this unsteal strike into the lunala so we can we can double tap that slot You can only fake out one thing And if you go for the tailwind, that's fine But we get we take down the lunala, which is the big thing hindering a sogaleo at the minute But we can definitely stall out these tailwind turns just the ice beam on the kayaga It's a little bit awkward to deal with isn't it fake out coming out into Sogaleo We're gonna see tailwind. Yeah, hopefully we snap out of confusion. I feel like it's a turn we do snap out of confusion No, come on zygarde do for the team Yes, we do it for the team. Do we take down the incident? Oh, we do probably plus one So close Oh, if we'd taken that down as well, that would have been insanely good for us Never mind. We just proc a berry. So that's all right It goes back up to full health Just about anywhere half over half health. I should say And then the kyle is gonna come on and now our job is to stall out stall out As I got the z move I mean, we could play a bit safer just to just to see if it has switching finny for sogaleo now We do lose access to the wide guard By switching it out, but at the same time if we wide guard and it's a moves. I can't z move Lunala have the z move. Of course. Of course. Of course What am I talking about? Losing my mind here. I'm losing my mind. I'm sorry guys We are getting the misty terrain up and getting rid of that electric terrain is useful We do eventually snap out of confusion as soon as that misty terrain comes in is that a coincidence or what? And there's a what's bad. So we could have wide guarded there The finny goes down here if you see a knock up and knock off into that slot. Yeah, okay. That's perfect I mean, we're gonna get sogaleo back in Um, that's fine We can't my god. We can't my god here How many turns of tail wind have we got left? two, okay It's a thousand arrows NY guard And we got to hope that that coyote is locked in And it doesn't deviate from the water spout Yeah, it's got water spout excellent. Perfect. So that's it now Knock off. Okay into zygarde. That's fine We'll get the incident. I'll do so much damage to that coyote. It's not gonna matter anymore Uh, we can just extreme speed z move it this next turn and that will be fine As the rain does stop anyway and that should be game for ourselves Which is excellent news for us guys As we're back to old winning ways Well, we haven't really stopped loot and winning have we so and there's a forfeit so that wraps it up for today guys I hope you've enjoyed today's episode. It's been really great Thank you so much to my opponents in today's episode and good game for both both players there It's been a bit of an up and down one But we managed to come out on the good side of all of them and we've had some tough matches as well So we'll go into tomorrow and after tomorrow's episode was when we reevaluate for the weekend And we make some changes coming into next week and start tweaking things to our liking a little bit Even though most of the spreads while all of the spreads in on this team on my own The movesets I've chosen my own Obviously, uh, there are the standard ones out there, but I have put this together It's just a common six that you're going to see normally played together But I do feel like the venus or slot is the one that we can get rid of sorry venus or But yes, um, if you've got any suggestions, don't let me know and we can totally take those forward with us But we'll end it there guys. Thank you so much for tuning in. Have a great evening morning afternoon and night Whatever time of day it is wherever you are take care of yourselves and we'll see you for the next one Until then