 Hey everyone, I hope you're all well having a great day. Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series. So we are here. It is Monday We finished up last week with a version of the reindeer core that we played last week It was a lot of fun if you missed out those episodes and you'd like to go back and check out How the progress of the team got on before coming into today's episode a link a card up there You can go check those out before coming into today's episode But we have changed a few things up going into today's episode and I'm gonna just say right now So we're gonna keep things The same for today and tomorrow obviously today because you've got the team in front of you right now But I would like to ask each and every one of you what your suggestions would be And what you'd like to see more going through the rest of the week So I'm gonna hold off pre-recording anything post Wednesday So come Wednesday, whatever we decide whatever we chat about in the comments going forward with this call What you'd like to see played I will feature that for the rest this week before we move on to a new team next week And it'll probably be the team I play in Bristol regionals, which is this coming weekend Which is gonna be very exciting. I haven't played a live event in a long time So I'm really looking forward to competing and seeing how I get on I've got a nice team kind of put together So it'll be nice to feature that next week on the channel and then we'll get back to featuring some more Calls that you guys would like to see played as always because I want to just feature things that you guys want to see that are Relevant in the format. Obviously, we've got some big events coming up soon like US Internets things like that regionals happening everywhere and then obviously the run-up to worlds, which is very exciting So with that said the team that you can see on your screen right in front of you is Down in the pace down in the pace down in the description below There's a pace a roll pace check it out. Try it out if you'd like We've got the Kyogre we bolted out a little bit in this one So we ran really glass cannon Kyogre last week We've got a bit of a bulkier one here to take a few more hits and perform a little bit better than maybe the glass cannon one I'm still not decided which version I prefer and we've got the tornadoes again We put the sash back on it now because we don't need to bury we haven't got the toggle tomorrow We've introduced mega swamper one of my favorite Megas, so we've got the rain there with Kyogre Why not take advantage of it and swamper? I feel at the minute can do a lot of good things, you know There's not very many really threatening grass types in the format So he's gonna have a really easy job the rain obviously we get the boost it hits Primal ground on for good damage even out of the rain, so we've got that going for us It's got ice punch so we can hit all those dragons are kicking around so it should be quite good We've got the Xernias obviously making up the reindeer coat and Cinerol there is brought back into the fold We've given the Z move and then we've tagged on ferrathorn It gives us a little bit of a better option when trick room goes up gives us a better option against Xernias in general and things like Sheninga That could be problematic We've got leech seed there to hit that and make sure that we can just eradicate that before it becomes too much of a problem So it's gonna be fun like I say the team is down in the description without further ado Let's hop into it Let's get some music on and as always guys if you enjoy this sort of content Please make sure to leave a like on the video do subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content and Like I say leave your comments down below Let me know what your thoughts are about the team going forward what you'd like to see in future and just anything in general How are you being because I love hearing from you all so we tried streaming last week? We had a little bit of a hiccup. I think I've sorted out now so come Tuesday hop on I will be streaming everything should run smoothly I've had an absolute nightmare with my OBS settings and things like that So we've not had the best of time over on Twitch recently so I will be making that up to you guys So if you're around 7 p.m. UK time Tuesday night do come by I will be streaming and then Thursday again We'll do another one. So Rating on the back of that has taken a bit of a tanking because of internet issues things going on and streaming stuff like that But we'll climb to the dizzy heights of 1700 no doubly, but we've got a first opponent of the episode. So let's hop straight into team preview Right our first opponent today is running a team of a ground on zonius salamence tapu fini incinero And a moongus and apologies if you can hear a dog barking in the background It is my neighbor's dog and it is it does this sporadically but getting back to the team You've got a really standard zoned on team here You know, you've got the salamence there with the intimidate support alongside that incinero Incinero has got the fake out support to kind of disrupt health board positions You've got the tapu fini to prevent any sort of status conditions obviously It does have a lot of support options as well I see when nature's madness haze for setting up things like that and then they move this there as well So what we're looking at here probably tailwind is the only means of my opponent's speed control here Tornados is going to be pretty good to be honest because there's no psychic terrain to kind of Get in our way or so to speak. So I am going to bring tornadoes Um, what do do I bring up beside a tornadoes? Um, maybe I mean, this isn't a bad one to lead swampert tornadoes um We probably want ferrathorn though, don't we because it's it's pretty decent against the majority of things Especially if you've got weather control, um Do we want zernios? Maybe not. Maybe not. Let's go kayoga No, let's not go kayoga. Let's go swampert. Let's go kayoga And let's bring good old ferrathorn as well and let's click in and My camera's not even on I'm not even prepared today. Look at my hair. It's like the worst I'm having such a bad hair day today, but never mind. Um, I feel already like the team has got like that that five The kind of mons that you want to bring and you're really struggling to kind of fit everything in all at the same time I don't know. I don't know. I don't even know if I'm making sense Anyway, we're gonna see the amungus and the uncinorak come out for my opponent We've got to worry about potentially a fake out spore into our tornadoes, which would not be Great for us at all Um, but to do leave the swampert all alone just to do all sorts of shenanigans. Um Like one thing I could potentially do is just taunt the amungus and switch into ferrathorn. We're not gonna see We're definitely not going to see the incineroar go for a fire type attack into the swampert here Um, I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do that. I think that the tornadoes gets faked out But whether you leave this one putt alone is another thing like the biggest the worst player here for us There's a fake out spore into tornadoes for sure Okay, that's fine That works out way better for us. We'll see a fake out into the ferrathorn I'm barbs activate and we'll get this taunt. I mean if it's mental herp as well Ah, it's me. Of course You see it and it happens But they spore into our ferrathorn slot, which is the best thing for us. Um, okay Right, do we tailwind do we taunt? Um, I mean we've got a taunt. We can't allow this amungus. Just a free ride I'm gonna switch back into swampert here Because I feel like you probably you pivot out with incineroar Um Bring a groud on gonna see zernius hit the field now Maybe we see a flablets. Maybe we do, but I mean getting the taunt onto the zernius is pretty nice It does mean that They cannot do man see which is the big thing here first because now the amungus isn't on the field as well We could probably switch into wow. We are just seeing that Okay Could it easy to just switch to kyogre as well Well, I mean the amungus was out so it's probably not super likely that we're gonna be able to do that Um, what I'll do is switch in kyogre and I will Hmm if we switch in kyogre, it means that the incineroar can pivot out Um And I can't really earthquake But the zernius cannot protect either. Do I want to waterfall that slot? Yeah, let's just let's just do it. Let's just waterfall waterfall the the zern The groudon could come in here though I'm kind of a little bit afraid of the the pivot out you turn Into the groudon, but I mean we will get our attack off before They can do anything. It's just whether or not they switch the groudon in for the zern now Which would be bad real bad, but then I mean It's still not going to be the worst is it we're not we're not completely out of this So we get kyogre in we get the rain up There we go. This is the groudon Nothing moves. That's all right. That's all right. I mean Um, I don't mind this at all And waterfall does have a flinch change chance chance chance I'm like Sean Connery. Um, okay. Here we go Waterfall if we get the flinch that would be incredible Doing nice damage as well moon blasts coming out. Are we going? Man, I always thought swampert looked huge, but Swampert looks so tiny. It really does. It looks so small Uh, do we earthquake and ice beam? Or do we just double ice beam the moongus? I feel like the zernius probably switches out here This is why I want ice beam and ice punch the moongus I think the zernius switches out. I'm pretty sure it does Doesn't want to stay in and get taken down. It cannot protect Like you switch it out I think you keep the moongus in There we go Groudon, groudon Groudon, okay Now we should get the moongus with an ice beam ice punch Once we get rid of that Things get a little bit easier for us because we've not got that spore threat anymore, which is nice Okay, so big bad groudon coming in Spoiling the party with the sun I mean not really because I love the sun but for us right now The party's over. Okay, ice punch Oh I mean easy easy double up Bye bye moonga Right, this is fine Now zernius probably comes in which This way it gets a little bit tricky Especially when you're relying on ferrithorn to deal with it But maybe you want to bring in a zenerol. Okay. I mean I much prefer that it gives us way more options to Get around the zernius late game Okie dokie, what are we gonna do? Right, let us Hmm. Do we actually need to switch kaioka because if we just do this protect kaioka and then bring in tornadoes We've got the role play the next turn and we can just go role play Just wash away wash away groudon It's all gonna be fine because tornadoes should get through this turn You might see like you probably fake out The tornadoes slot I'd say, huh, okay They have power. Okay This is fine. This is like this is all this is all good water spout And then we go role play And into kaioka we steal that primordial sea get rid of the uh I hope the groudon stays in please stay in please please stay Please stay in and let go eruption Please please do it for the channel. Okay. We're not gonna see any switches So we'll get the the good old prankster primordial sea Thunderbolt Yes I do love it. I do love still not gonna be enough though. I don't think to take this Maybe the incinerole. Nah, it's done I like the thunderbolt though. It's a nice. It's a nice tech. What comes in there? The zernias which we can taunt we can arch and pulse We've got this all day long All day long I mean, we could probably just hurricane it but I don't I don't really want to just give it the opportunity to uh To come back in this game even though we've got ferrathorn in the back. I mean, we're gonna be all right, aren't we? It's a taunt You probably just moonblast dazzle here Ah, that's geo. Okay. That makes sense. Like you need to at this point You need to try and get it to come back into this game Origin pulse and picks up the win So very good games for my opponent and a nice way for us to kick off on this beautiful Monday morning Right Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find the next opponent. I actually really like the team Mega swan perks a lot of fun Like it was weird when I was looking for changes You guys put a bunch of amazing suggestions last week now. We talked about different trains and stuff like that Um, and I do want to try some different Tapu's maybe in the team to kind of alleviate um The psychic terrain problems that we had last week But I was just scrolling through options with the team and I came across Sorry, I came across swampert and I was like, oh, wow. Yeah mega swampert It was something that I touted really early in the ultra series I thought that could be like legitimately quite good And I think it's the format's kind of progressing It seems like it could be getting a little bit better carton as usage stats are getting a bit higher So that would obviously conflict a little bit But it does get superpower which does alleviate that and you could pair it up with I don't know. Well, the tornadoes helps out a lot there, doesn't it as well But yeah, swampert. I saw it. I put it in and that that was the reason why okay Let's get into team preview I am yammering on far too much in this episode, but I hope you don't mind guys, right? We've got our next opponent they're playing a team of dusk main necrosma Just probably ultra necrosma. You got salamence growed on again Tapu finny incineral and good old ferrithorn part of the club part of the club now Um, okay, so we've got tailwind definitely on the salamence I see wind support probably on the tapu finny May have trick room support on that dusk main necrosma. You can't discount it It's definitely a possibility there with a maybe a slow ground on But again Right what i'm gonna do like salamence is pretty good here. Um, sorry swampert is pretty good here salamence is good for my bonnet We do need to be a bit careful around that dusk main ultra necrosma For sure if it does try and gets it up, but um, maybe we want to bring intimidate this time around Okay Let's go Do we do you got tornado this and zernius try and get the setup if we can incineral and kayoga Yeah, we need and we're gonna bench. We're gonna bench swampert here. I'm not sure if it's the right thing to do Hmm I just feel like zernius could do a job here Especially against the salamence and stuff if we can get even the tailwind up I mean that deals with salamence even without geomancing We need incineral because ferrathorn is Here and it will be definitely brought i'd imagine Okay, so we're seeing the cross map Salamence come up for my opponent I mean we've got the option if we would like to to just Bring in incineral protect zernius and then geomancy the next turn. I don't really see Too many ways for them to get around that the problem would be if the tailwind get grow out on them to the field So we could tailwind we could potentially Um, we have to worry about the sun seal strike as well on the um, the necrosma Uh Do we tailwind do we taunt the salamence? I mean we could taunt the salamence for sure And then tailwind the next turn and bring an incineral just to be careful And we also get an intermediate off onto both these targets. We preserve zernius for later on Um, but we need to be super careful with incineral because like I said at the start if we do see My opponent with the ferrathorn we need to make sure that we are keeping incineral in good shape So it is able to deal with it Okay, so I'll actually bring an incineral at a perfect opportunity. I wouldn't imagine this ferrathorn sticks around on the field for too long though But we do taunt it prevent it from leech seeding or protecting the next turn which kind of forces it out to be honest There's a sun seal strike. Okay, and it will be into zernodimagine. So incineral be able to take this Pretty comfortably Yeah, okay. Wow. Is that a crate? Yeah Poof That's slightly annoying That is really that kind of puts us close to earth power range potentially Okay, let's tailwind And let's you turn out on the Ferrathorn the ferrathorn's got a switch here. It can't stay in. I mean they could call my bluff and stay in but I don't think they do I think they switch. Bye. Bye ferrathorn. See you later salamence coming back in Kind of want to see this ultra necrosma Well, this duskman necrosma ultra burst really that would be ideal not going to see it just yet I wonder if it trick rooms Just sun seal strike again this time probably into that tornado um Oh Into the incineral again Man not not giving up in that slot. I just want to Get rid of the cat, but we will you turn out? Good turn good good good opportunity. Good time to bring in kayaga. I think um The groudon come in here probably We just ice beam The men's to prevent it Yeah, and then we can roll play the next turn. I guess that's the thing um Yeah ice beam the men's I could just hurricane Then across and I just get some damage onto it to be honest I mean it could origin pulse or water spout roleplay, but I just really want to get rid of this men's. I don't want to allow it to set up the the tailwind here Okay ferrathorn going to come back in so that the hurricane working out pretty nicely first here men's protecting You know that groudon's lurking in the back. So the hurricane did some nice damage. Maybe a hurricane water spout Well, I'll definitely get it the next turn um Ice beam into the the men's okay I mean I'm just gonna I'm just gonna go hurricane Thing is the hurricane probably takes ferrathorn down into berry range, which we don't want um And the men's is just protected so The men's probably goes out to groudon like Genuinely because that's a groudon. I would imagine just the ferrathorn Just annoying because I kind of want a roleplay The water spout. I just don't know if it gets the ferrathorn from here. Let's just do it It's probably the wrong thing to do But we're gonna do it anyway because I feel like the men's goes out groudon comes in if we can get the groudon Yeah And the ferrathorn we still got we still got tornadoes Yeah, we got zonius still as well Got incinero for the necrosma Ultra necrosma when it finally decides the burst And you never know you never know the The water spout might be it might not be a bulky ferrathorn. It's not gonna be it's gonna survive the the water spout I imagine But you never know my crit. We probably take a power from it though to be honest like I've been pretty serious here We've got such a bulky kioga Um, we probably do take a power whip Is it berry? Berry berry It is the berry That's magical berry Okay, all that health back. Look at that Oh, it's confused as well. Of course, of course It does leech seed though, huh? Well, well, well, we don't mind that too much, do we? Because we definitely know that another Hurricane and what's about would get it. Okay. What comes in mints? Or necrosma It's the salamence. Okay, um Definitely protect double protect here. I would imagine Hmm. Oh, do you I mean, uh, yeah, let's just go taunt into the mints and Do we bring in incinero? Yeah, let's do it Let's do it. Let's do it I don't think you risk I think you protect with both because you want to stall out the tailwind for sure Um, and I don't think ferrathorn wants to get doubled into mean ferrathorn could attack here for sure. There's a salamence protecting And the ferrathorn no protect there. So it's going to leech seed. That's on illness. I imagine Oh, it's confused. Do you hit yourself? It does hit itself in confusion this time round um Okay, does that tailwind pitter out? It does. Um, hmm No, we could we can't Well, not out speed this alamence. That's the big thing That is the big thing here but we could Because we haven't got prankster anymore. That's the other thing we haven't got pranks there Well, one thing we could potentially do is switching zernius and go flablets Because the rain will disappear when we switch tornadoes out and the ferrathorn maybe feels a little bit too secure right now And if the dustman comes in we still get the flablets into that slot Which is nice, but getting rid of the ferrathorn is a big thing here for us once we get rid of that zernius has a way better time No ferrathorn Deceived us. Okay, I'm probably gonna see a tailwind Yeah, salamence. Maybe a double edge um Like in sinarall take a double edge from this range minus one Tailwind, okay I'm hoping That we just flablet ourselves into bery range. That would be the the most perfect thing for us Can we do it? No, we're just out of range. Ah just out of range if we don't like Hmm But yeah, I think we protect here for sure. We bring in tornadoes For in sinarall Whatever we do we need to keep this in sinarall for that ferrathorn I mean ferrathorn as long as we got tornadoes all in sinarall. We're like not too bad, but I'd prefer in sinarall But we might there might come a point where we have to switch it in to get more intimidated onto These these targets that are on the field right now because these are my opponents like big powers is pretty much Double edge. Yep, okay Please don't double the tornadoes No So we can match tailwinds Which is fine because that's all we want. That's all we want. Um So the cross mat is not ultra bursting and I mean it's kind of all right now And I might be doing the one thing that we we said we don't want to happen where we Where we sack a tornadoes and iron sinarall Um But I kind of want to get the intimidated down now and I definitely want to get a tailwind up But there's no way for my opponent to control the weather now So once we get Kyogre in in the tailwind and their tailwind pit us out Once zernius is in It should it should be all right. We should be all right And it's finally done it Excellent. Excellent. This is what we like We want to get you weak to zernius There's a tailwind It's a pretty easy double knockout for my opponent here to be honest double edge Yep, that's in the cross. I'm going to take earth power Oh, you went earth power Wrong move definitely wrong move. Okay Now Let's bring in zernius We have to worry about the z move for sure but Yeah, we have to I think we've protected zernius here. I think it's it's pretty obvious that my opponent probably brings in ferrathorn But their tailwind pit us out the next turn So you could potentially Hmm Do we get do we get kyogre in right now? ah What do we just do man see do we just do now? I don't think we do I really don't think we do Let's get kyogre in it's going to be really close still Hmm, okay, let's see what happens I just don't want to take a z move and a double edge on the zernius slot even though I feel like my opponent probably switches out maybe to ferrathorn Because if they don't switch here then I think the game's over because then you have to switch ferrathorn into a dazzle What's about the next turn? It doesn't look like they're gonna actually switch at all Hyper voice and z move I think So we'll have to take an Intermitted break Because the z move is obviously Copywritten and the video will not be able to go up. So we will be right back Friends when we see which target this goes into and it is into the zernius as we suspected But because we've protected there Makes things a little bit easier for us now like I say well the thing is now gone all in on that turn their tailwind pit is out Salamence is not in the best of positions and um, yeah, I mean a waterspout Dazzling gleam is going to be more than enough to dig down both of these targets We probably see some protectants some shuffling rounds shenanigans, but I mean from this point on We should be fine Should be hopefully Let's see See what my opponent does Just thinking about I do expect the ferrathorn to come in here, but I mean and it's decent health, but Oh, we're not actually going to see that. We're just going to be able to remove everything from the field Okay Still not going to be Easy to kind of close down. I think the one thing we need to do is make sure that we have our rain up on the field um The ferrathorn is a decent health. It's it's berries gone um, but Hmm Do we just sack something do we just go moonblast moonblast moonblast and ice beam at moonblast origin pulse? Hmm Let's go to the waterspout It's single target. I know we're taking a bit of damage, but it's more reliable than the origin pulse And you can only take one thing down here We're not geared so this is not going to be doing. I mean It's not bad. It's not bad. I mean hurricane's going to deal with it. Oh, I mean, that's pretty good It's definitely going down next turn goes after the cargo Just take us down But moonblast will be enough to pick up the knockout the next turn and we do have a good old tornado still sitting in the back On low health, but we can taunt we can moonblast Just to stop any leech siege shamanigans We'll just moonblast again and we will go for the taunt I mean we could hurricane but we're not on rain It is bad. I don't think it matters now. I don't think it matters at all But it's nice just being able to stop the leech seed Which could be the one thing that gets the health back that they need To come back into this game But the moonblast will be enough and we do pick up a win So very good game to my opponent and that wraps up today's episode two really nice games with the team to kick us off We have featured the the mega swan put in game one which was nice So getting to see a little bit of that we didn't bring a game to but we kind of Showed a little bit more of the other side of the team Which I think is nice and both games really utilizing that role play which is still kind of really surprising because There's there's a part of me that thinks I really won't protect on tornadoes But the role player especially in a best of one I think more best of one than best of three the role player is just incredibly strong I think in a best of three If you're not playing serena, you can get caught out quite easily by fake out support Which is everywhere on every team So that's something to think about I think but like I said at the start of the episode guys The team is down in the description below go ahead try it out and let me know what you think about it It's been a pleasure as always. Thank you so much for tuning in guys and we'll be back with more Reindeer action tomorrow. So do not miss out and I look forward to reading all your comments very soon So I can't even speak but take care of yourselves. Have a great day and I'll see you all for the next one. Take care guys. Bye. Bye