 Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2019 battle series. I hope you all well had a great weekend And we're back here again today kicking off with a brand new team as you can see on the screen in front of you Just before we get into anything a massive shout out to each and every one of you that commented and made suggestions for Restricted combinations that I asked for about two weeks ago to play right here today on the channel and the common Consensus that came back was the Dialga and the Kyoga So that's what we went with today. Hope you enjoy the team as we play through the next two weeks We will be making a few changes I'm pretty sure like we did with the cure and white team and I thought the flow of that was quite nice There was a lot of benefits. I think as well from doing those sort of things It would probably help out quite a lot of you players newer players as well as your building in this format Just looking at how to test and overcome some of those big threatening matchups that you'll maybe struggling with in your Teambuilding process, but on to today's team as always it is linked down in the description as well as the role-players for you guys to Check out and take away and have a play with if you would like to if you do make sure to leave a comment And let me know what you think of the team But as I say, this is the starting process of the team will probably change things up as we go through the next Couple of weeks, but we are kicking off with the algo. There's gonna be a trick room set Or it has got thunder and earth power. I did one flash cannon on there, but we really couldn't make room for it We've got the Kyogre there. We've got calm mind on the Kyogre for this starting squad So it's gonna be a lot of fun to play around with him become very threatening very quickly Got incinerole there doing what incinerole normally does fake out support Intimidate support and it also gives us that really nice option against Lunala That otherwise would be a bit more difficult to deal with we've got zerkertree there It's gonna be a bit of an odd pick maybe a little bit of a forgotten poke one in this format But I think under trick room it can do a lot of work. So hopefully that kind of pays off this week We've got the bronzong as well. It's gonna be another alternative trick room set up and another check against Zornius in particular alongside that mungus that has got the rage powder support the sport support and works Extremely well in the trick room protects the algo from those fighting type attacks another Threatening attacks that it is prone to be knocked out by but on a whole I'm excited to play this team It's the first time we've had dial guy I think on the channel in the Sun and the moon series So I'm gonna be quite exciting to play this We've also moved the camera From down in this corner up to this corner because that was a suggestion from Nick as he said he couldn't read the text So we'll try this out for this week if it doesn't work out We'll move it back down But let me know what you guys think because the aesthetics of the videos are very important to me And what is best for you is what I'm gonna do going forward, right? Let's get into today's episode guys gonna be really exciting. Let's get some music on and Without further ado, let's get into it Hopefully find our first opponent very quickly as always if you enjoy the content make sure to leave a like on the video Make sure you do subscribe so you don't miss any of these daily episodes that we have coming out our guide series and also other content Pokemon stuff as well all that sort stuff. Yeah, see you now. That's it. What tune are we gonna pick? Let's go Jota legend and we've got our first opponent so without further ado we're getting to So our first opponent of the day is playing a team of ground on Xerneas talent flame in Cinerol Cortana and Amungus So one of the things we have to watch out for straight away if we go down this trick room route is that Amungus It is going to be able to really disrupt the majority of things on our side of the field We haven't got a tapu to kind of compensate for those spoils and things like that But we do have safety goggles on our bronze on that can help and do a lot of work And the trick room is going to be our best option because the majority of this team is very fast And you look at the the speed control options on here to just talent flame maybe that Cortana with tailwind so presuming that it's going to be more of a fast Variant than a slow variant with maybe the ground on being the slower of the two restrict It's there alongside that Xerneas. Xerneas in Cinerol is a lead that we'll have to be careful of We've seen quite frequently on the last two weeks on the channel that that lead if you lead in wrong against it Then it can become very disruptive. We want to bring the Kyogre for sure because of the ground on Sun So we want to try and win that weather war if we can and I think what we'll do is lead off with in Cinerol Lead off with Bronzon. I am gonna bring I don't know if I want to bring dialga to this match Although dialga can be very good. I definitely want to bring Kyogre and maybe Amungus here is gonna be our last pick Yeah, let's do that. Let's do that So good luck to my opponent and hopefully this one's a good one to kick us off today I don't know if I'm convinced about the the the cam up in this corner If it's just me, it's just gonna take a little bit of time to get used to but We'll see we'll see how it goes But I would appreciate any feedback on the the camera change in this episode in particular We've got our first opponent first leading out with Amungus and Groudon. So that's not too bad Um, we can guarantee the trick room and we can guarantee Going for well, we could just go for a flare. Let's to be honest into the Amungus if we wanted to Um, I think what we'll do is we will I'm gonna flare. Let's see Amungus And I'm gonna I'm gonna trick room as well Because if we lose in Cinerol here like I really don't mind But if you can get rid of this Amungus early on then it makes like the risk here to get rid of this pokemon Is so good for us precipice blades We avoid In Cinerol avoids ha and in the sun. Okay, the ochre berry that makes a little bit of a difference Uh, I wonder if they spawn into the bronzon slot Be funny if they do Ah There's the safety goggles working out so well already. So we are able to get the trick room up Um in Cinerol is in a little bit of a spot now For sure. Um, but we can definitely I mean one thing we could potentially do is I feel like the ground on No, I like I don't One of the things I yeah, what I'm going to do is bring in Amungus for In Cinerol keep it for later and I'm just going to gyro ball into this ground on It could fire punch us for sure And Amungus switching out In Cinerol coming in That makes a lot of sense But just having the incineroar in the back to bring it in again And then having Amungus out on the field as well. We can start sporing things which is really nice Imagine the ground on will go for a fire punch here The thing is I could have you turned as well with Incineroar, but I kind of really don't want to do that. But just going for a precipice blades Which is fine fine fine fine But the one problem we've got here is I'm not really taking advantage of our trick room turns as well as I would like to be doing um So I think because I want to try and I need to get Kyle grow out onto the field That's the big thing. I'm going to bring incineroar back in and I'm going to What an ally switch here because Yeah, if I reveal it now that puts down on my opponent's head and I don't want bronze on to get knocked off And I feel like that's what you would do maybe with the incineroar if you don't go the fake out route here And like preferably for ourselves It would be great if incineroar goes down here to a precipice blades I don't think it will from a minus two from this range. Um, but maybe a knockoff I'll the ground on switching out. Okay. Cortana getting the field Which again, I don't really mind too much There's a fake out Okay Not really helping us too much I could skill swap the opposing incineroar, which might be quite fun. Um But the Cortana's got to feel super threatened right now So There's a part of me that wants a u-turn out on the opposing incineroar and I think that's not a bad idea. Um And just gyra ball Hmm, we know this earliest hasn't been brought. So that's kind of fine. It's just making use of our trick room turns I think what I'll do is switch in a moongus And I'm going to u-turn out On the opposing incineroar and try and get a chai auger in for at least one turn Because as long as that ground on's out on the field for my opponent Like we know we've got a decent switch into precipice blades with anything that on our side of the field Um, okay the ground on coming in. This is perfect for us because we can get chai auger in now As a flat blitz it's going to be into a moongus. We should take this though Yeah And our berry Tasty berry. Okay, that's brilliant. And now we get we can get chai auger in Do some nice damage with a critical hit there. Okay But the problem is that trick room is running out so quickly right now So it's going to mean getting the moongus back out but that regenerator ability coming in super handy Um I can get the trick room set up once again the ground on's feeling so pressured right now. It's got to switch out I'm going to bring in Bronson once again and we will just go for a voter spout But both things out in the field right now feeling super pressured so you've got to imagine the moongus probably comes in for my opponent and Probably the cartonner as well and depending on the cartonner it could have a salt vest There's the incinerator switching out and the ground on definitely switches out So we're going to see both grass types come onto the field which then opens the door for our incinerator to come back in Okay, so ground on going to actually Protect here. We are going to get a free water spout into this moongus That means you sit back to normal, which is fine um We could waterium z the moongus this next turn just to make sure that we do get the the knockout there and trick room I think that's quite a nice option for us to do because I still feel like the ground on probably switches out here And can we just make sure that this ground on no this ground on is neutral the problem is if the ground on has the um The groundium that could be a big problem for us. So we could potentially Basing on this got ally switch And then go for the waterium into the moongus Because the waterium from this range will definitely get that a moongus It's just I worried a lot more about the tectonic rage into the kayoga slot which we're seeing right now Because The one thing is we probably take it because of how defensively bulky we are but at the same time We don't want to be left with no No health at all. That's the one thing we don't want to be left with because we can't really utilize kayoga very well if we're doing that Going into the latter stages of this game um But now with the moongus out the way it really opens up the door for our trick room kind of mode to really Really do a lot of things and there's the moongus gone an ally switch It's such a funny move. It's such a funny move, but at least we get around the busy move. Um, right I can totally bring in incinero now And I think what we'll do is just go trick room Yeah The ground on probably switches out for incinero if i'm like completely like if you think about the ground on You want to try and keep it in the back to make As much use of it later on with its weather as you can so taking out now would make a lot of sense It doesn't look like my opponent's going to do that though There's the leaf blade. It's going to be in too and see Our precipice blades will will pick up the knockout Onto incinero which kind of works out all right for us really Yeah, because now we get the trick room up. We get the free switch into kayoga As long as our rein doesn't end then we're we're sitting pretty pretty happy Yeah, the rain has not gone away just yet, which is good Um, now we get the ground on the ground and probably switches out for incinero You can imagine Uh, all right. How many turns of ruin have we got one? Oh, you might protect here Uh, we'll go waterspout and we'll go Uh, should we jarra ball or ally switch here? um I'm just gonna jarra ball because I feel like the katana is not a salt vest, but it could well be, you know God, I'm gonna switch out That's fine. I mean, this is this is like this is totally fine But we're relying on kayoga to take down this katana Which isn't always the best thing to rely on in these sort of situations Katana is not going to protect likely is that a salt vest variant then um So it probably takes this waterspout and we'll probably see a leaf blade. Yeah 100% 100% But the next time we can just skull that slot there's a leaf blade. You should oh There we go. That's the magic of um, that's the magic of ally switch. It does critical hit But yeah next turn now we just skillswap waterspout And uh, we've we've won this one. I think so that's a good start for us today A really good start for us. Um kicking off with a win. Um, hopefully we can continue this on But this this mode of the team feels pretty nice. Um, and this is against quite a popular kind of core as well with the zonius the groudon There's something that you will run into quite a lot and uh, there's a magic of the skillswap And this move is going to become way more Useful in the ultra series with the the primer weathers that we're going to see So keep it in mind for your newer players coming into the format So there we go skillswap rain up override the sun and waterspout for the win So go get into my opponent and uh, a nice little victory for us to kick off with today And show that the team can uh can really do some work. So It's exciting, isn't it? Right, we'll move on to our next game Hmm Bronze on if like your opponent hasn't really got ways to deal with it Then it is a pain to deal with Um, we just saw the groudon throwing out I didn't even want to entertain the idea to go for the fire punches The one thing that I do think we do miss a little bit on this team is maybe Some sort of recovery heal pulse. We've got berries everywhere berries coming out of our ears, but Bronze on with the safety goggles is so nice. It's something that I've really liked Since samungas has been such a problem In this format forever And but the safety goggles as you saw there does a really nice job in these sort of situations But it's the the recovery that you do miss on bronze on So maybe something with heal pulse could be quite nice in there We've got our next opponent from japan 16 of 5 rated player and we'll move straight into team preview And they are running a team of kayoga scissor incinero evalto tabukoko and amungus So, hmm things become a little more tricky for us here, especially if we wanted to bring the bronze on And maybe this is one where dalga kind of shines a lot more in this match Just because of the kayoga And it can do so much work Especially if that electric terrains up as we do have Thunder as well it can do some decent stuff against what my opponent's got again We'll probably want to end up with a trick room to support our kayoga It looks like the best method of speed control on my opponent's side of the field is going to be Tailwind potential on the evalto or scissor. There's no trick room options here But maybe this one's a really good one if i'm like completely honest for zerketry Um, it feels like zerketry could do so much work in this match Got to be a little bit careful still of that amungus for sure. Um But we do have our own incinero that we can bring to kind of alleviate that slightly But it's what we want to lead with. I think I'll go with dalga and Do I go with zerketry to lead? Yeah, let's go with dalga zerketry. There's no ground on my opponent's side of the field. So that's fine Um, we'll bring incinero on the back and kayoga as well Uh, there's a part of me that wants to bring amungus for sure. Um, but We ain't got room for five pokemon unfortunately I wish we had because amungus you would be right here right alongside us In this one And there's probably a part of me that's pushing to bring zerketry a lot more than we probably should But it feels like it could do really well, especially if the electric terrain is brought by my opponent Um, it makes a lot of sense for them to bring the the koko Against like the kayoga and stuff and we all Got that electric terrain Looking looking good sitting pretty. Um And the incinero and the type of koko coming out now from my opponent. So there's the electric train Firing on to the field and it makes it so much easier for us because now if that amungus comes in It can't stop putting things to sleep, which is ideal Right. I'm just going to trick room in tailglock here. We're going to get one of them off and If we can't get the other one off we can do it again the next turn. I don't think there's much Worry about has been knocked out with either thing on our side of the field from either a target So that's fine. I'm going to see a fake out from the incinero into zerketry stop that a taunt But my opponent taken every option to shut every method that we've got to set up down so Fair play to them fair play. Uh, what we'll do is earth power the koko um And Do we go tailglock again? Or do we switch in incinero? I feel like you probably Hmm We need to get the algorithm here so we can get the trick room up. I'm going to switch in incinero And I'm going to go for the the tailglock Although it's a little bit risky because without the trick room up We're maybe better just getting damage onto stuff. Um, and I feel like the koko at this point probably switches out So I'm going to just thunderbolt into that slot Get some damage on something coming in there. That's what I'm banking on but when I'm going to see it We maybe do we maybe see a vault switch out onto the dialger Now that would be the best situation if we see the vault switch out and then the kyogre or the belt will come in And that's what I'm kind of thinking my opponent probably Wow, okay, it's not it's gone for the gigavolt havoc I really don't Understand this but I mean They're probably predicting that the dialger switches out So I'm trying to catch something like kyogre in but I mean I'm not bringing kyogre onto the field in front of a type of koko It's into the zerketry once I just get rid of that Okay, this should just poke a berry she does The cinner or you turning Okay So my opponent doing all the right things not making it easy for us to kind of get set up or anything like that I didn't expect taunt on koko, but it is it is very useful If we do only thunder bolted the incinero slot like a normal person Mm-hmm. Yveltal coming out I don't mean look at that. It's not even boosted and we do like 50 percent to koko, which is crazy Um, we will you turn out in koko? um I mean we could predict that the yveltals I just don't want to allow The kyogre to come in with without dialger in the field and that's what I'm kind of worried about So I'm just going to thunderbolt the yveltal and you turn out in koko Okay, koko going to protect here. We're going to see a tailwind from yveltal Oh just a protect protect Hmm Probably predicting and protect for myself to be honest And there's also the fake out support, but we know that yveltal isn't uh self-est So that's quite nice information. Um I'm still going to you turn and I think I'm going to do exactly the same Although we probably are at risk to get taken down with zerketry I can knock off And something else can probably take us out here Um, hmm Yeah, let's just protect you but a zerketry here and you turn with incineral Try and maneuver out a dialger back onto the field As a thunderbolt what's into incineral and actually knock off Right, I think what we're gonna do is get dialger back onto the field We're gonna bait that taunt from the koko. Um, I feel like my opponent has to go for the taunt there Um, because otherwise we get a trick room up and it makes it extremely difficult for my opponent to kind of operate with that trick room Up so I'm going to switch straight back into incineral and I'm going to go for the thunderbolt this time into yveltal And plus at the same time we're going to get an intimidate onto the yveltal Which is super important to allow our zerketry to potentially survive and allow us to get a thunderbolt off into that Pokemon And that's like one restricted down which makes it a lot easier for us going forward So there's a taunt that we baited out as a knockoff perfect Yeah, and because of that intimidate that allows us to survive so we get this off. They should knock it out Yeah, 100% zerketry actually doing some work here. Um, it has been difficult because of obviously um The taunt on the koko and showing its utility here in this match, especially But I mean we got rid of that and koko is kind of on this last legs now the electric terrain gone We have got a beast boost, which is pretty nice. I all got coming in. I wonder if it's scarfed Could it be scarfed because we could fake out We could totally we could totally find out if it is scarfed or not um Because the koko definitely attacks into Zerketry here It has to like it really it has to it has to um But we need to get rid of the koko before we can really get the trick room up And we're not going to be able to do that. I don't think with Incineroar out in the field It is probably scarfed kyoga Koko gone for a vault switch was it into it is into the zerketry. Yeah Okay But now with the koko off the field we can get the alga back on The field and uh Try and set a trick room up Incineroar coming out Things are all Not lost just yet Probably just going to see a water spark come out But I wonder if my opponent wants to get the koko out onto the field fake out dialger. That's the thing I'm going to switch in kyoga for Incineroar and I'm just going to protect you I think the worst-case scenario for us could be if the Incineroar does fake our dialger out and we see the koko Come in for the kyoga But my opponent might be just greedy and want to just get some damage off because the next turn We definitely 100% are able to get a trick room up There's a fake out there's a water spark We're able to take that pretty easily and now we can just do the trick room stuff And let's protect In trick room You need the koko out really to prevent this turn because there's no way that Incineroar kyoga take out a dialger now the water spout, okay See how tanky this dialger is Oof and there's a knockoff. Oh, it's into kyoga Right. Wow. I thought you would go for the dialger there to be honest I give him completely honest I think like the dialger is definitely the slot that you want to go for Um, now we can just water spout and thunder The rain's up. So thunder's a hundred percent. We've got no way to get missing water spout should I don't know if it'll be enough to get the Incineroar I put in very close range though, and we still got a z move and then koko to deal with once it comes back in So, okay Even better the electric terrain setting up for us, especially if this means that we take out Um the Incineroar here. Okay Incineroar slower than a kyoga That surprised me a little bit Kyogra coming back onto the field Such a shame that it was into the the wrong slot Hmm But I mean, I don't know which target you kind of fake out here with with incineroar Because I I think what I'm going to just do is go for Hmm The problem is I guess is if we I have to I'm going to protect kyoga and I'm just going to thunder Your poison kyoga because the next turn we can water him z the incineroar and then thunder the kyoga It's just I'm worried about a fake out thunder into our kyoga from theirs Um, which could be a little bit problematic And maybe I die. I'll get thunder doesn't get their kyoga depending on how it's built, of course There's a fake out we get it wrong, but I mean that's fine still we're not in Terrible danger here. We still got trick room turns to go the skull doubling up Oh my opponent making a really nice read there so fair play to my opponent in that situation the rain does stop Makes it a bit awkward for us to get these thunders off now. Um But we should be able to still get The water emcee into incineroar and that will be more than enough to pick that up Don't need to worry about that too much and I think Do I go for a blind thunder? I think I go for a blind thunder into the kyoga There's a knockoff Okay, it's into our kyoga. That's fine. Now we get the water emcee I should take down the incineroar. We should have no trouble taking down the kyoga now I wouldn't have thought it's locked into scald And we only need one of our thunders to hit Like if it scalds into dyaga here, then It procs our berry Because incineroar decided not to knock it off But we don't need it because thunder strikes And that will be more than enough to pick up the knockout and give us another win in that first episode With this brand new team so our excellent start for us today Hopefully we can continue this as we go on the team feels really solid I think it'll be interesting to come up against a really solid ground on build because there can be issues there I think but that's that's debatable. I think it's how we play it But to start us off, we couldn't ask for anything better today I hope you've enjoyed the episode guys leave your comments in the comment section below I love reading them and I love getting back to you as soon as I've got a little bit of time to do that But before we leave just to remind you as always Flinch clothing has launched flinched clothing.com If you want to win some goodies, we have a prize draw going on till the 1st of March to enter All you need to do is hop over to www.flinchclothing.com scroll down the homepage find the join the flinch squad Which is our mailing list sign up You will be entered into a big prize draw for all of these goodies on your screen right in front of you now So good luck to all of you that are doing that. I hope you have the best of luck I hope you have a great day as well We're gonna end things up there guys and we'll be back with more coyote guy dialogue tomorrow So until then guys take care of yourselves. 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