 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series I hope you're all doing well. Thank you so much for tuning in and we are ending up today Going into the weekend with this team that we kicked off with at the start of the week consistent of mega Minetrick, Linala, Kyogre, Tapulele, Katana and Hydrigan So we've seen a lot from most of the Pokemon on this team I'd like to see a little bit more from the Minetrick, but it's been doing work here and there Hopefully you can see a little bit more of it next week We discussed some different options of changing up the team in yesterday's episode going into next week So if you do have any suggestions as always do leave them down in the comment section below and As always the team is in the description There is a raw paste, poker paste, check it out if you'd like to and try it out if you'd like to as well But if you do try it out as always do let me know how you get on with it And what your thoughts are on the team It is a little bit different from what you're normally seeing in the format at the minute So I think it's something that can be just taken and had a lot of fun with if nothing else. So Without further ado, let's get into today's episode Music is on and we are good to go. So I think we just need to flip screens Just momentarily lock in some music and like I said in our last episode if you've got any preferences on what you'd like to Music wise on the channel do let me know and I can make sure to play those next week But yes, if you've missed any of the episodes from earlier than we do go back up here I'll put a card in for you and you can have a look at the progress of the team so far It's been a really crazy ride. We've had some really nice games this week And definitely if you have missed any of them definitely go back check those out and then come into this one and check out How we end up this week before we do make some changes next week I think one of the things I really love about this team more than anything is that psychic seek hater No, we saw do some major work early on in the week And we haven't played it so much in the last couple of games, but it's done some incredible work so far Lunala is definitely one that we I think want to put wide guard on for sure But we'll discuss that at the end of the episode before going to the end of it because we've got a first opponent of the day So I'll hop straight into team preview So first opponent today are playing a ray auger team consisting of Rick wazza and kaiog I'm making up the restricted pairing of this team then you got stack attacker It's gonna be an option of trick room on this team to support probably the kaiog I'm more than anything else gonna have access to things like why god that we need to watch out for Jarrah ball rock slide and potentially skill swap as well Then you got the type of feeling they're gonna be terrain support also gonna have access to some sort of speed control with icing wind More than likely nitches madness normally something there probably haze to counteract things that are boosting up Then in Cinerol fake-out support intimidate support Pivot support as well and then the whimsicott something not normally see on these ray auger teams But very effective one thing that does really put The stoppers on it is that price the ability is tapu lele so we can make use of that here What are we gonna play? I feel like Cartana is incredible in this match really do I feel like if we can get the rain up and protect it from that in Cinerol. It's really good We just need to deal with the ray quasi which we can do effectively with Minetric possibly Minetric also very good here So do want to bring Minetric I Think I'm kind of leaning towards Minetric kaiog are here With Lele and Cartana in the back and leave Lunala Hydraegon and the sidelines for this one I think we'll click in with these four and go with this Clicking in good luck to my opponent and Feels weird not bringing Lunala, but I Think Cartana is gonna do like if we can get rid of the ray quasi Cartana can like literally sweep through this team So if we can manage it right then then it can be can be quite good quite effective I feel so in Cinerol and Rayquaza coming out from my opponent You don't mind too much So you get the Intimidate with I'm gonna say the Intimidate from the Incinerol is going to asset if you're not really gonna matter too much because you're especially based We can't get the Intimidate back onto these targets with both of ours I do have to stay on the field and attack Though I don't predict. I just don't want to give the Rayquaza room to To get a sword stance up, which I feel like it probably could do here One of the things that could do is just vote switch out and switch into Tapu Lele with Kyogre And then try and maneuver Kyogre back into that Minetrix slot And then so we've got the Minetrix in the back mega evolved so we can bring in the Intimidate again To kind of nullify any sword stance boosts because this is what I feel like my opponent's probably gonna try and do here Let's go sword stance fake out Which targets you fake out probably the Minetrix Probably more than anything. I don't know But let's see the Rayquaza might be special as well. That's the thing about Rayquaza You know, you can you can never you can never know what variant it is. It could be special It could be all out physical it could be banded and I think that's what makes it so dangerous It's unpredictability and when you're facing down against that you can make a kind of a decent enough guess at certain points when you played but Just by what's kind of paid up with the rest of the team, but like a lot of times it's just it's hard It's hard in the best of one, but at best the three makes it a lot easier to To deal with we are gonna see the Kyogre come in for my opponent for that and so we're gonna preserve it for later on Um Kind of maybe indicating that They expected the psychic twin switching. I think one of the things we have to try and do is Get to put a little out here So we've got it to bring back in to to negate those extreme speeds that are so devastating from Rayquaza Left unchecked and like I say what we're trying to do set up a board position where we get Kyogre back onto the field now We'll override this Delta stream. So if you can break a sash here on this Rayquaza, that'd be very useful Because the ice beam then should be able to take it down We'll get my nitric out of Homs Wayne. Then like I say with preserving that Terrain from having Lele We can do switch my nitric back in This next turn So let's see what the Rayquaza goes. Just dragging a scent. Okay. It's gonna be into the Lele slot We might lose Lele here minus one. I don't know if we'll take it to be honest No, no chance No chance at all Shame losing Lele like that. It is life-altered We'll bring in my nitric We can vault switch the Kyogre Get another Intimidate onto the Rayquaza. It's likely the Rayquaza switches out here though Say maybe the cut like I want to make a prediction I feel like I've got to make a prediction here because I feel like we're falling like way behind in this match So I feel like I think the Rayquaza switches out Into Incinero. So I want a water spot. I feel like the Kyogre protects here So I want to switch Minetric out into Carton and get the psychic seed boost while I can We should switch out before anything so it means we definitely get a psychic seed boost if they like to say if The Finney comes in for the Rayquaza here Because I could be one option. I just feel like the Kyogre probably feels a little bit vulnerable So I want to protect and the Rayquaza mine is too definitely wants to protect It's just trying to stay ahead so we can we can gain a little bit of an advantage in this game What we'll see Carton are coming on to the field now It's why they're not this Kyogre, but this Kyogre attacks. This Kyogre attacks We're in a bit of trouble. Rayquaza switching out like we thought Sinneral coming in It's gonna get the Intimidator on to us But we will be able to take it down with the water spot. It's about whether or not this Kyogre protects which it does here So I mean we guessed right whether or not we want to switch out the Carton and our not Because the leaf blade now won't get the Kyogre but we could get We could get Minetric back in For Cortana and we could we could ice beam the Rayquaza because if it goes dragon descent Which it has to really do here Then we should get it on the minus one and minus one life or Dragon descent will take with Kyogre like no problem If it wasn't Kyogre might switch out and might feel a little bit vulnerable I don't know though The other option is like if it wasn't minus one with Cortana I think I'd be more inclined to stay and switch Kyogre out to Minetric Get the Intimidator that way and then leaf blade into the Kyogre to pick up the knockout But I think if you're my opponent as well You might want to attack into the carton of slot with Rayquaza rather than concentrate down on the Kyogre at this point And if they do that that that will open a door up for us where we can we can happily get an ice beam into the Rayquaza Pick up the knockout even in the Delta stream Minus one we should get it Kyogre actually switching out. Okay Stacks coming in big stacks. Okay, so it's a good job. We I think they will go for that Cortana now Let's see. We're gonna see the Dragon descent. What's into Kyogre? Okay. Well, I don't mind this too much Yeah, I mean life or minus one this car has a beast. We should pick up the knockout now Should do minus one Gonna be close. Yeah, we get it. Okay, so that's good Now the stack attack stack attack is gonna try and go for trick room for sure It's just whether or not a Skald Hidden power water is gonna be enough to get the stack attack So imagine it probably is gonna be enough. So I'll go Skald. I'll go ahead and power water If the stack attack protects here, then we get a free like the Kyle was the opposing Kyle was for you It's gonna my god. Yeah, I'm going for the trick room I think that's the biggest worry for us really because soon as Cortana comes in it can Can do a job like our Kyogre should be able to while it does a decent amount of damage. Good work little Minetric Skald pick up the kill and now Cortana comes in and just chaos that Kyogre so Thunder Yeah, this will take down our Kyogre But like I say now it's fine because Cortana comes in doesn't need the boost. We've got Cortana and Minetric And the game is done So I think like looking back at this game. It was the just getting that call right Where we We put enough pressure on the Rayquaza to say it's minus two. It's gonna probably switch out to come back in later and the Kyogre protect so rather than keeping just Pressing attacks keeping everything in we switched to Cortana out get the Minetric in which gives us that advantage Going into the next turn and I think from there was it kind of domino affected Kept us in the game where we needed to but very good game to my opponent and nice way for us to kick off today So hopefully we've got one more Hopefully we can continue this streak and keep things going, but we'll hop over to our other screen before searching for an opponent Right. Hopefully it doesn't take too long to bump into another opponent Let's go trainer version 2 because I don't know if we've ever had that on here ever But creeping slowly but back towards that 1700 mark which I Ideally would have liked to have been on at the start of the week and then next week coming into this We make tweaks to the chain to the team and then we really push on with everything and see how far we can get with it Because that's kind of all we're doing with the Veldon team and then and then little fear fear was born And then everything went to pieces because yeah, it was all happening wasn't it? But hopefully we can keep that momentum gone But we've got our next opponent 7p and we'll hop straight into deep preview So my opponent playing a QR code team looks very fun Looks like one. I would love to actually pick up and have a go with myself It is gonna consist of tapu lele me too tapu finny and sinoro groudon and stack attacker. So we've we've got that really fast offensive mode between the tapu lele And what's likely to be them you to why there's a really hyper offensive psychic mod there? Coming up from my opponent Then you've got the tapu finny for the terrain support the dual terrain support in Sinoro for the fake out support and groudon and the stack attacker there. I Really want to lead Hydragan I really do because I feel like my opponent leads with the the tapu lele and the me too And Yeah, they can moonblast us But we are sash so we can always guarantee our tail end up and I think that would be pretty huge for us if we can do that if we go Hydragan and What to pair with it though, that's the that's the question kind of want to Draw away some attention. I think Go I don't want to bring Kyogre up front. I could go Katana though and then go Kyogre and Lunala yeah, let's go Lunala in the last slot It's like a tricky team that is a really tricky team I feel like Katana can be good here with the psychic seed boost, but at the same time I need to be careful We need to be very careful. We need to get tail wind up I'm not too worried about the trickery mode of my team my opponent's team. It's more this fast defensive psychic mode that really does Worry me slightly, but this is fine I mean couldn't ask for a better lead for ourselves because we can Sacred Sword it's part of the stack attacker Smart strike the tapu lele if we want the stack attacker is gonna feel so pressured in front of this Katana Hmm What do we do I Don't want to leave the tapu lele alone. That's the one that I think that's a big mistake for myself So if we leave the tapu lele alone, I don't think you got trick room here. I think we got tailwind and I'm just gonna sacred sword into the stack attacker. Oh I like switch. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. No, this is not good Sacred Sword not gonna be doing anything to this lele now. This is where we see this is where we see trick room I like switch trick room. It's all right. It's all right It's got a part into the stacks Let's go Do we got a smart strike? Into the lele doesn't switch out. I mean that's the thing. It probably switches out. Um, I Could just sacred sword just to check it The lele is locked in it has to switch out. It has to switch out has to switch out We could deal with the stack attacker from here So one of the things I could potentially do is go dark pulls into the lele and go for sacred sword into that stack attacker Which is what I'm gonna do in Sinner all coming in here would be the worst let's go out on don't mind that I really don't mind that So if this stack attacker doesn't protect you Good chance that we actually pick up the knockout and get a beast boost And then cotton is not in a bad place It really isn't as long as we can get coyote on to the field and protect it from these fire type attacks Gyro ball where we going into hydra again. That's fine Hydra again taking it like a champ though Get to stock pulls off all the damage onto the ground on be very handy sacred sword there We go into that stack attacker It's not quite enough to pick up the knockout though, which is a little bit of a shame Hmm Let's think about this. What have we got in the back? You know, okay. I don't really want to switch in Kyle guy to be honest. I'm gonna go for an earth power into To the stack attacker, and I'm just gonna just gonna protect Cortana this turn I'd love to see my opponent double up into the the Cortana here like gyro ball press this blade It'd be amazing just don't see it happening. Oh Gravity press this blades. This is devastating for us the move. They will never miss It's unlikely that they've got skill swap then So you got trick room they got gravity But gyro ball we got all good off We've got all that if they got skill swap, I mean Ultimate ultimate support stack attacker. It's just crazy good Does everything to alleviate any any problem in any match. Okay, so tailwinds still up But it will run out this next turn if we can clear the field now if we can I'm gonna scald the ground on and I'm gonna go for that sacred sword. I'm actually not I'm gonna go for a smart Striking case the stacks which is out. It's unlikely that it does But you never know smart strike will get the stacks from this range anyway Go my god. Okay. They don't mind this Now this is where the smart strike doesn't pick up the knockout the presence blades will take with both There's a scald So I tell when pittering out now if it is that psychic Combination in the back then we should be all right cuz I tell when pit us out so we'll underspeed everything just Yeah, don't know why I was worried about that so much Be as boost here. We go bubba bubba beast boost Till and run till and runs out for us. So I'm in a good position now We can snipe the lily which we know scoffed so till it's still up and Me too. Oh, we got Lunala in the back. So what looked like a bad situation turned out to be a great situation So that's a me too And I think this falls back to the very start of the week when I was talking about this this bulky Kyoga And This is why it's so useful So we'll just smart strike the lily and we'll scald the me too Likely we see protect from me to here try and stall out this trick broom But it's a good job that I tell when pittered out when it did but the lily's gone a goner 100% so there's mega me to why Which will probably be Second fastest probably want to speak a lily I've scoffed pencil fast the lily is though. There's a skull that's called as a fest this thing on the field No protect from me me too though, but at this point. Oh What is this? It's not even scoffed lately. Oh We could lose this now we could genuinely lose this This is into cotton, which is like oh no, okay now we've won this That was into cotton. I did you don't shout psyche. Hmm. We thought was scoffed lately Z move lately Smart strike pick up the wind and the keo there and then got Luna. I like to come in We'll lose cotton here to me too, but there's no way Loses one-on-one with me too Of course yeah Wow That really caught me off guard. I like it I prefer it to scoff Lele for sure And I mentioned to him back to normal psychic train disappears And we can bring in Lunala and the wind guys beam is all we're gonna need to deal with this me too Because I don't even think a shadow ball through your shield will get us Pretty sure it doesn't I think it needs help in hand We'll soon find out because if it's got it. Yeah, it's got it. Let's see do some big nasty damage though Nah, you know, that's too strong too strong So very good into my opponent nice way for us to finish off the week as well with the team such a good game I think we've had some really good games today. We've had really good games all week So it's been extremely good and really loved playing this team, and I hope you guys have as well So do let me know down the comments below what your thoughts are of the team what you would maybe change going into next week And I will take them on board before making any changes, but we'll be back on Monday with some revamp revamped stuff on the team some revampation if that's even a word, but we'll have some Changes to the team going into Monday's episode. Thank you so much for tuning in though guys Have had a fantastic weekend, whatever you're up to and I will speak to you all very soon So until then take care and bye bye