 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Road to Wrike roulette series I hope you're all doing well had a fantastic weekend and already to get into some more roulette action in today's episode I cannot wait. We had a great week last week It was the result wise it wasn't the best, but it was just a great bunch of Pokemon We had some really nice pics in there and it was just a lot of fun all around So I'm really hoping we can replicate it this week and maybe get a few better results along the way We're getting very close now to the new rule set being announced for the 2020 season You've got to assume that it is going to be announced at the world championships like it was last year and fingers crossed We get something different to the ultra series as much as I do love the ultra series I'd love a little bit of a refresh going into maybe November time when a certain game is released and we'll probably get brand new rules then so I Don't know. I don't know. It could be ultra series. It could be the could be a new rule set But whatever happens will will have that announcement very soon and that will mean that unfortunately We'll be coming to an end with this series, but it has been a lot of fun We'll be returning to our daily battle series where we do more competitive and serious teams But we'll come back to this series every year like I've said It's just a bit of a downtime period series where we can have a lot of fun with it And I hope you guys have been enjoying it because I have I've had a great time with it It's been really good It's been a learning curve and it's been really enjoyable doing it and interacting with you guys and Through their nominations and then the random wheel that gives us the gifted Pokemon every single week. Anyway We're mumbling on like usual, so I'm just gonna say thank you so much for all our nominations this week We've had a bunch of amazing nominations So I'm really keeping my fingers crossed for a lot of you have those come out this weekend without further ado Let's head over to the wheel and see what I like the selection we've got the wiggly tough there We've got Lugia, which is a really cool Pokemon dawn wings and across my good hitman top Volcarona So we've got that old hitman top Volcarona combination the top moth call from is it like 2013 season? I don't know before then sometime. It was a long time ago regardless It's a really good combination and then Laurentus as well stuck on the end there So thank you so much to each and every one of you that nominate those Pokemon They'll be up on the screen now so you guys can see but remember for those of you that haven't had their nominations come out yet We've got four bonus buttons. We can activate come Wednesday. We've got our randomizer at switch up a legend maker and a patreon button So we will activate those later in the week obviously when we can and we'll mix the team up And hopefully some of your nominations come out When we do that so without further ado, I guess it's time to have a look at the team. It's pretty interesting We've went for a few picks that you guys have suggested like the the Z the Z move Lugia is one the assault vest Wigglytuff is the other the rest of them I've kind of just put together I've went for a quivered and set on the Volcarona Because I just think it's a fun set and you can work especially with the the hitman top there with his support The why god fake out support it works really nicely there The only thing that was a bit of a tear there was do I give a giga drain or do I give a bug buzz? There's arguments for both sides giga drain obviously helps a lot against primal Kyogre Whereas bug buzz helps a lot more against ultra and across my Mewtwo and some of the other bug weak Pokemon the few that there are in the format anyway The team is always has done description below There is a role-paced and a poker-paced for you to check out in your own time and try out if you'd like to and But without further ado again, we'll jump straight onto the battle spot Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent today But regardless of anything I really like this team I really do and you know what we've probably got two weeks left of this series like realistically speaking two weeks left So if we can finish above 1500 that is gonna be amazing and I'm just gonna call it a day there But we'll see we'll see maybe we get that one hit KO team coming on But we've got a first opponent of the episode AJ so we'll hop straight over into team preview So AJ running a team of a request a lunala tap Coco a lol and Raichu nail ego and incinero I lovely mix of Pokemon all the Pokemon I want to be seeing right now. I don't I don't feel like we've got the best of matchups here But it's it's gonna be fine. Isn't it? It is gonna be fine. Um, right What do we do here against this build? I think it's trick room a good route to go down Potentially yes because my opponent looks like they're probably more Based around tailwind with the lunala there I mean there could be trick room both lunala and nail ego get it But the rest of the team don't really benefit from it too much So you would think tailwind of any speed control at all It's probably gonna be the thing that they go for now. Can we can we get a trick room off? I don't know if we can that's the big question. What do we go down there as he as he Tailwind route. I don't know I don't know like top moth could potentially work here But again, it's not it's not ideal. I'll go him on top. I'll go in a cross ma. I will go with Lurantis and Do I bring Lugia to this match? It feels really difficult for Lugia. Whereas maybe the Wigglytuff could potentially do some stuff And we haven't Fist cam there we go popping in popping in just like that. Yes Yeah, so that's from me recording the flinch squad circuit series recently Recording all the matches that the guys have been putting up So if you haven't missed if you haven't checked those out when you've missed those matches They're up on the channel at the minute There'll be more this week and the final probably next week So very exciting time and then we've got the invitation will come up soon, which would be a live streamed event Yes, so right you and lunala coming out for my opponent Hmm It's it's tricky, isn't it as well take a move guys the z move up for sure We've got a try and get the trick I mean we Have to kind of try I wish I had like I like switch here. I just feel like Anna Krosma is gonna get dropped hard Do I go for our do I go for the protect like what's my opponent gonna go for they might think it's ultra Krosma might just drop the the bomb on us But the longer I take to get the trick room up the harder this is gonna be I'm good I'm just gonna go for the trick room. I'm gonna go for it. If we get dropped we get drop lunala protects What okay We get the fake out onto the right you I don't believe this has just happened This is why over predicting is never a good thing Okay, I mean I Can't believe we've actually been able to pull this off. Okay, so I'm gonna pull in Laurentus right now For him on top and I'm gonna I'm gonna go for the nuke I'm gonna go to the menacing moon rays Maelstrom into lunala to get rid of the thing because that That's still a threat. It could switch out into insinu all for sure But I Can't believe we got that that playoff That's one of those teams where we don't make the play we made and we were like Yeah, we could have just done this we could have just done this and we actually just did it for a change So it worked out and Here we go him on top gonna retreat. I'd love to see insinu all come in give us the contrary boost But we're not even gonna see that would you not even gonna see a switch or anything We're getting the Z move off obviously it's the lunala Z move But we can use this as dusk main because it's kind of half-and-half isn't it so we'll have to cut this will be right back And into the lunala it goes is it gonna be enough to pick up that off like shipping, right? Yeah easy easy It's not surviving. I'm not surviving that. I love how soon as it gets knocked out in the most convinced person in the world Yeah, of course, it's never surviving There were well anyway, we get rid of that We get paralyzed kind of helps us out a little bit more in the trick room for sure the right you Doing the nozzle Now what comes in I've got a horrible feeling like the time it's taking my opponent to select moves They might just to be timing out every time they might have just left that the DS just felt sorry for us But I don't know who knows a Now illegal gonna come in I guess we probably have to double down on the night legal Let's say that's superpower and Photon guys or it just to make sure that we can we can get rid of it because that thing gets a sludge bomb on to Laurent is there's a chance it could pick up the knockout. There's a good chance it could It might not but there's a good chance it will and we don't want to risk that we know where we're slower than it so Probably the requires are lurking in the back. I don't know Let's count the next turn like to see my point is like taking it It feels like they may be a little bit quicker than then what I'm imagining the timeout would be I'm gonna see right you switch out and requires it come in They're definitely not timing out now because you can't know this is like that. This is not what we want not paralyzed right now Super power coming out. It's not gonna be enough We do get the boost boost boost but sludge bomb Laranches takes it and prox the Agua very because it's just a beast. Um, okay, so we are avoiding This is tricky. This is trick tricky tricky. And do we just go for the requiser like a double-end to rate to ray with Hmm I cannot knock off it's not gonna do very much But then it's probably gonna do more than a superpower and a leaf blade But then we do get the defensive boost again, or do we just get rid of The nile ego while we can prevent a beast boost. I'd probably prefer that Seen as we've got wiggly tough in the back that could potentially do some do some work We'll go for the the moon guys beam into the Rayquaza And there it is ultra ultra ultra ray mega Rayquaza ultra mega Rayquaza. Yeah, just just so confusing this form right now It's time to move on. I tell you what I've got some great Cracking ideas for what we could have yet does protect so we could have went for that double up into the Rayquaza But you know, we're playing the non the non predicting game We still got a turn a trick room after this so I mean it's very bad minimum We'll be able to get rid of the nile ego And we do some nice damage to the ray with a moon guys beam and a dragon ascent will come out I'll be into alarantas. Oh huh Didn't expect it to be into a plasma. Okay Now we can just pick up the knockout on both. Yeah, cuz the trick rooms. Yeah, I mean Rayquaza probably Protects you right super power will go into the night legal and we'll go for another moon. Let's beam it into ray Oh, no night you go up and it switch out right you're gonna hit the field. Okay keeping it round for later The quasi gonna protect that makes a lot of sense a hundred percent like yeah How much is this gonna do be nice if you picked up the knockout? It's not quite enough If we'd only knocked off that slot it would have been it would have been way better. Um, hmm Can we get another trick room up? That's the thing because what we could potentially do is switch in him on top here Because I feel like you chase down the necrosis map And what we'll do we'll try and protect we'll get topping and if we can get another trick room off then I think We've got this one against AJ Still gonna be it's still gonna be a little bit tricky. I mean we do have wiggly tough in the back So it's it's gonna be all right. Isn't it wiggly tough? I'm hoping we can feature wiggly tough in our next match. It's a cool Pokemon Is it there was I think Scott and Pinko were with the guys that nominated this week, so And Scott nominated last week, so he's been sticking with it This is my thing like stick with these Pokemon that you're nominating if you really want them come out They will definitely come out. That's not what we wanted to see There's the fake out into our top we'll get that eject button I mean it means we can cycle intimidate again, which is which is nice. We'll get wiggly tough onto the field Thinking now like ice beam would have been better on wiggly tough just for the ray There's the dragoness and the paralysis that nuzzle coming in so handy for my opponent Hmm if we only had faint on our If we only had faint on hit my top, that would be incredible because then we could potentially hmm Faint the Rayquaza because it's gonna protect here. I think Well, that will doesn't gleam and we'll close combat that doesn't gleam and Yeah close combat the right So I can imagine the night legal coming in here if we can keep him on top around for the night legal that would be ideal but At the same time, I feel like the ray isn't a position now I can just take it down if it wants to the dragon a sense. So it's not quite sealed up and I lose now one restricted that we brought Making it a little bit more difficult, but my opponent quite weak. Okay. They're the ray going down Huh the night legal. Yeah, it's not gonna go down to doesn't gleam You've got the close combat the wrong way around electric web coming out. Okay, but we do get the competitive boost Which is I guess handy If we only close combat But maybe the Maybe the ray comes in and It targets down the hitman top rather than Because we'll take a sludge bomb with wiggly top with wiggly tough I don't know if we'll take a combination of attacks. That's the problem. Um, and I don't know if a close combat enough to get the ray from this range With him on top, but we're better off going for the night legal. I would I would I would that would be my my thing, but You know, we can't protect I'll just go close combat into the night legal It's gonna be down to one my opponent like decides to do here if they Poison you see can we take this? I Don't know if we're gonna be able to Mmm. Oh It looks so good for a minute and now it's all gone downhill Come on with you to prove prove your worth in this team survived this attack. Oh Oh Man, that's like the most it's never gonna happen is it as a beast boost All we need is Okay, well, I mean ages done. Well, he's played around it the best he can and it leaves us with them Good old good old the rant is it's gonna come in and just take a pounding. Ah I'm really like we was such momentum in this first game to kick us off today, and it's just turned out to be absolute I mean the fully When we're fully paralyzed that was definitely a big a big kind of draw against us to just get our top in and then Get the trick room off, you know, that would have been that would have made so much difference if we kept Don't wings around it does happen though. You know, that's the thing so We can't complain and there we go didn't have enough. We said at the start. It was a bad matchup, but I feel We didn't do too bad. We did ourselves proud. I think in that matchup AJ good game And the the nuzzle came in bigger than what we expected it to that one turn. It's always the turn though Nuzzle isn't it? It's always that one turn where you think I don't really want fully paralyzed here I can I can deal with it if I'm trying attempting to set trick room up, but on on a protect turn That's why it really hurts. It really hurts The soul is stung and okay our rating our rating I'm Obsessed I am too obsessed with our rating. I really am let's go look across my vision to because I just like this track and I Need some cheering up after that last match feel like hard done by but I mean we didn't do too bad Wiggly tough Well, well, well wiggly tough I think if we thought about it as well with the rickwaza like minus two after two dragon a sense It was minus two after two into it. It's you think it's probably gonna switch out at that point We could have maybe thought about a little bit more and targeted into that slot none the right you would go down Whatever, I just wasn't really concerned about the right you that point because it wasn't really putting on any offensive pressure at all and but That's just one of those things. We've got our next opponent anyway 16 10 rated player from Japan So let's hope we can do a little bit different here Okay, so our next opponent is running a team of taboo Finney Rayquaza Zernius Incineroar Metagross and Whimsicott. Mmm. Okay. I think it's a Lugia a Lugia one here So we'll go Lugia I'll go hit Montop. We need something against the The Zernius though, that's the problem Hmm the Zernius setup is a bit scary Especially when we don't have like a red card Volcarona or a whirlwind Volcarona, which could potentially be quite decent and Trick room could also be really quite powerful here important But again, I think we're quite weak to will bring Donwings we are quite weak to to Zernius and Just generally Mars teams I'm gonna say But we'll see what we can do. We'll get tough might have been a good call here. We did feature it in the last game obviously Hard it's hard isn't it the one Pokemon that I do feel like I don't really want to be coming up against is a hundred percent the Valtor because I feel like I don't know what we do against that There's the Intimidate from our top. So we will be able to fake out the Incineroar I think it's probably better to fake out the Incineroar to guarantee as the tail wind up Yeah, so we'll see tail and we'll get that crit rate boosting onto the field We'll go for the fake out into the Incineroar and see if we can get around This I think the Rayquaza probably does attack into to Lugia That'd be my best guess the Intimidate definitely helps out though without him on top. Oh Ray gonna switch out Ideal, I mean the Whimsicott can on court. I hit my top double switch. Huh, Zernius coming out Okay, but what we can try and do is go Yeah, we'll get the Z move off now The Z tail wind Then we can help and hand error blast into the Zernius Because the Whimsicott can't on court as he moves So we'll go for that. We'll go for a helping hand And that should get round when we trying to on court our top if we try to go for that It could potentially just go tail wind Here and try and get that Zernius Sped up by protecting it But I wonder what a helping hand crit error blast will feel like on this Zernius If it does like 50% then that's that's kind of nice And it's just about keeping Lugia's Multi-scale intact right now. So no protects coming out And There's a bit of course Before the protect, okay There's a tail wind to match. All right now. They probably will be able to get and depending on the speed of the The Zernius because I don't think whether like the we're not the fastest Lugia But we'll go for it again. We'll go for it because even if they get the GMC off We We kind of bypass those boosts anywhere with the crit. So it's fine. Let's see what my opponent does I figured as well if we're going on the crit crit route with our arrow blasts Then it's it's gonna just make a lot more sense to have the The helping hand support next to it. I'm gonna see Incinero switching my opponent obviously feels a little bit pinned at the moment Which is fine There's a helping hand to be interested to see how much this does Endeavor Wow, okay That's nice. I mean that's definitely in close combat range I'm just gonna recover now and I'll go for a close combat into Incinero I can only fake one thing out And I doubt it fake the him on top out. Oh it does. Okay We get the eject button now So getting the heck out of here and we'll be able to bring in let's bring in Volcarona Because we can stop quiver dancing And we know with my opponent having no weather. It's not gonna make too much difference We're gonna see if fake tears now come out to Lugia. She's fine. We'll get this recover off And we know an arrow blast should take this Incinero down the next turn And The tailwind does pitter out so we have to be a little bit careful and my opponent still has their tailwind in effect Hey, do we go for bug buzz bug buzz? I mean, we could double the Whimsicott. That's the other option here Getting but we could tailwind we could tailwind. I think tailwinding and quiver dancing Could be a nice a nice option here. Oh, it's gone for our own call No, it's locking us in That's not good. I Don't like that at all because now we have to switch out and we'll lose the boost But I mean, we're gonna yeah, okay Kind of get around the the snow and now we're gonna be on cold a definitely again in our on our And have all corona Which is a little bit of a pain but at the same time we can get around that Lugia is still in good shape So we'll keep it around for later. We'll switch him on top in we will go for protect with all corona So then at least the next turn when we get top onto the field We can fake out the Whimsicott and he can actually attack like bug buzz the Incinero And get around this uncle So it's gone for the on call there we go Incinero you turning hmm My opponent's gonna bring in Makes sense to bring in the Xernius here Maybe the Rayquaza the Rayquaza probably makes a lot more sense at this point. That's gonna be the Ray Okay We're probably gonna have to lose our ball corona here. I think and Because I'm gonna fake out with me and I'm gonna just get rid of it with an overheat Well, I'd speed everything on the field With with for Corona and we can deny my opponent getting another tailwind off. So If we do lose for Corona, I don't mind too much. It's not the end of the world There's the Delta screen So we fake out into the whimmy Yep, I think it definitely goes for the other heat that's trying the the tailwind. That's definitely trying there's a overkill and Where's the ray gonna talk it into? Dragon is sent into if it goes into the Volcarona if we get the flame body here I mean that is that is huge first come on Volk get the other flame body. Please activate it Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. I don't think it's I don't think it's activated. We're already done it by now dang All right, what do we do now? Do we get in necrosma or Lugia? Let's go into Lugia And it's I think one of the things we could hi, it's a zone. Yes, okay Hmm, I don't know. This is gonna be very very difficult for us to Deal with now going forward. I feel like we don't really have too many options Left and we can get dawn wings in Hum. Hmm. We could go tailwind. I don't know if it's really gonna help us out too much though Because the geometry comes out. I think maybe an error blast probably just better into the earliest at this point Yeah, the incident are all gonna come in But if we can try and maneuver him on top on to the field with dawn wings We can maybe get a trick room up. It's already gonna help us too much against the incident roll But the okay just a dozen gleams. That's that's not the worst It's a pity. We haven't got as a move left with dawn wings That doesn't do too bad damage, you know, actually, that's not too bad at all It's going to go to beam Let's go for another another arabast Lugia probably will get faked out here. Okay. We're not gonna see it We're just gonna see what we're gonna see and sooner or go for a snarl. I reckon Okay, I still think an error blast Probably not now Unless we get a crit error blasts without the crick boost But do we go trick room, I don't think we got trick room here just yet I'm gonna try for the error blast and the moon guys beam again We can maybe get a crit and it would be enough If we can create error blast here That would be more than enough to get around this geomancy And I think would put the disowning is definitely in range for all men guys being to pick up the knockout And I would not feel bad about that at all I really wouldn't and desperate for a win today if we can get one come on Lugia, what are you doing? You're the worst you like the worst restricted Pokemon ever Unless unless don't win to the crick yet. Oh man Well, that's that's that game over like completely The error blast we needed to We needed to crit with it a hundred percent But it needed to hit to have any chance of that Come on Lugia. Let's try one more time. I'm hoping you can take a dazzling gleam. You should do from this range Come on. Let's do this We hit we hit come on is it a crit It's like the weakest of week. Okay. Oh, yeah, come on You could have went down for that and give us a free switch into top It's all but over now. It is all but over and I'm just prolonging it. Just a little bit sad I just feel I don't know. I feel like we've had like a pretty a couple of pretty hard matchups today And I don't know if we're gonna have any good matchups in the format with this team We're gonna be positive about it. They'll come on. Well, we'll have definitely better matches We'll go for the moon guys then we'll go for I mean we could switch in we can try and switch in hit Montauk Right and go for double protect But the thing is hit Montauk is gonna come in on a dazzling gleam and it's just gonna go down We needed Lugia to go down there really like it's not would have been better for us I think because it would have taken Lugia down and And Would have given us the opportunity to get top in where the incident was out on the field next to this area So we could have went for the fake out trick room potentially, but we get the double but we're not taking this with with him on top We needed really to see moon blast, but there's no need for my opponent at this point to moon blast They they're quite happily just gonna be able to go for the dazzle and whatever other attack Alongside it. So Lugia coming back in And it's gonna be the end of a not the best of result wise day for us to kick off this week But it just gives us more to work on going into the rest of the week It really does and one thing I would say we've built out Lugia and one thing that might be more useful about Running Lugia is running a faster one So that's something to consider for later in the week when we change things up Good game to both my opponents today. I feel like there was definitely areas where we could have done a few things differently maybe in the games and Definitely game one was a few areas where we could have clinched that one I think but second game maybe got a bit away from us But regardless of that had a lot of fun. Hope you guys enjoyed it Remember if you do enjoy this content drop a like on the video guys remember to subscribe to the channel and leave a Comments down below and I will I'll look forward to reading them about the team today and what your thoughts on the matches as well But we'll leave it there. We'll come back tomorrow We'll readdress things we'll reset and we'll see if we can do a little bit better on our next one So until then take care of yourselves. Have a great day, and I'll see you for the next one So until then now bye-bye