 Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of our road to rank roulette series My name is Lee also known as Osiris and today's Thursday So it means we've activated no bonus button so far this weekend. I'm gonna activate all three Leaving one out which will activate tomorrow right now. So we're gonna activate the switch up first then the legend maker And then the randomizer so I'm nervous about it, but I feel like the team needs a little bit of help We've had some great games so far this week if you've missed anything would like to check them out I'll put a card up there for you and without further ado. I guess What's the worst one the randomizer because we have to lose something randomly from the team and then throw something else in and I I can't pick which Pokemon. I really want to take out right now. So We'll pick the randomizer and we'll go over to the wheel right now See which Pokemon it is gonna be that we're gonna lose this That's diggis be it's diggis be the bunny the bunny has been our favorite member of the team so far this week It's done so much work. I'm Devastated and lost it Okay, we need a replacement ground type 100% we need a replacement ground type Let's go over to the wheel again and see what we've got on place of our favorite bunny ever in Pokemon history Okay It's called up. Okay. It's it's not a rabbit. It's a duck And it doesn't know any ground type attacks at least I don't think it does But I mean it kind of works. We've got to airlock Pokemon. Okay, so on that logic I'm gonna activate the legend maker button now because if we can randomly select Our requires that then we still got a lock active and we can still utilize that and we don't have the conflict there So I think this could work quite well, right? Let's head over to the wheel. Let's see which legendary We're gonna lose this week It's me two X I'm sad about this We never really got me two X kind of working this week And it's really sad because I know a lot of you have kind of wanted to see it played Like I said in our last episode if you'd like to see more me to X Definitely nominated in the coming weeks there's a post up on the community section right now and You can go over there and nominate and hopefully we have a different combination of Pokemon where I can really thrive because I do Feel like it's a Pokemon that has a lot of potential in this format do go over there and Do give it a vote, but we'll head over to the wheel again to see which new legendary We're gonna have in place of our good old me to X Cosma David, thank you so much for that suggestion this week. We've got duskmen the cross man and mega requires us So that's that's a nice combination. I feel confident about that like really confident about that We've got one more button to activate though. It is gonna be a switcher button and I think Could I cheat could I cheat a little bit and see which Pokemon that we're gonna actually activate like which we're gonna achieve I'm gonna do I'm gonna say we're gonna go over to the wheel now We're gonna see what Pokemon comes out and then I'm gonna replace it because I get to choose on the Pokemon That comes out what we replace it with so we'll head over to the wheel I know it's cheating, but we need a little bit of help we need a little bit of help and It's not really cheating because we're kind of making the rules up So bending the rules this week because of the skull and we want to finish good I'll head over to the wheel now see what we pick and then we'll come back and we'll select one Pokemon to go out from the team So will what have you got for us as our last button of the day? Crobat, okay crobat this feels like ace like a solid team I'm sad that we've lost the diggers be but we got duskmen the cross man We've got the gold duck and now we've got crobat now. We've got to pick something from the team It's gonna have to be butterfree. Jason. I'm sorry. I'm sorry Butterfree's done amazingly well this week. It's been great seeing it If you want to see it in future weeks get nominating it again There's every chance it can come out. We've had this is the second week that inferno has been out So we've got a new team going into today's episode like I say I feel really confident about it We've got Rayquaza, Duskmen, the Crobat We've got the gold duck the ditto and the Incineroastel So this is the team team has done the description below There is a raw paste poker paste check it out. Try it out if you're mad enough as always But I don't feel too bad We've went with the sword stand set on the duskmen and cross man with earthquake and Sunsteel strike We've went reverted back to that The choice band on Rayquaza some mega Rayquaza there We've got one mega now and the team which is really nice and we've got the Crobat Obviously there for helping out against Zornius speed control taunt We've got a good groud on check and gold up with the life orb there Ditto, Scarfed still and then the infernip we went for a fairer fire in him Set so without further ado, let's click into it. Let's get into today's episode I'm pretty excited about today's today's exploits. It should be quite good So let's select some music. Let's go in Hommage I've had duskmen across my let's go You know, you know a track. I'm gonna go for I'm not even gonna say it You know so the rain's not too bad We're not too far away from 1500 where we can go and I know I shouldn't concentrate on it too much But I do concentrate on it way too much And I do think it's a nice target for us to aim for and I feel like with our record at the minute with two ends four losses We can turn this round with this squad We can turn it around duskmen and Rick was a cover each other so well Such a formidable partnership. We haven't got exactly the most amazing Pokemon surrounding it But there are a fun bunch and I feel like they can do some work and I yeah We've just got to believe in them. So looking for a first opponent It's gonna take a little bit longer than what I would have liked to so we'll cut here We'll be right back when we find that first opponent of the episode And we've got a first opponent of the episode so we can kick straight into it now And go straight into team preview First opponent today is running a team of Kyogre requires an incineroar tapaco co-crawl back and ferrithon So we've got that infamous Kyogre requires a combination Supporting options there in the scenario with the fake-out support the U-turn for pivoting especially in this team Which is quite vital and then the intimidate as well alongside that tapaco terrain control gonna prevent any sort of sleep powder Does threaten our crowbar and quite a few members of our team depending on what I am told and it could be the z move It's more than likely that it is the crowbar They're gonna be able to set up speed control for the team and then the anti-trick room Pokemon of the team and something to give a little bit more help against zernius fairies and opposing kyogre With its grass and steel typing ferrithon. So Hmm, what will be good for us here? Hmm. Ha This is pretty tough, isn't it? Banded ray could be good. Definitely Uh crowbar could also be Pretty decent for us to set up. Uh, I think crowbar's like not bad to be honest if you can get a tail wind up I do like infernip here because of the fact that we've got that against ferrithon um, do we bring ditto? Henry requires that or do we bring ultranacross? Could ultranacross am I gonna be good here? I just don't see it being as good as it potentially could be. I'm gonna bring ditto And um, sorry in Rayquaza. I think they're the two that I want to go for here Um Primarily because if we can get ditto into a kyogre like a free switching Especially in tail wind if we can get the tail wind up with crowbar Then we can get a scoff primer kyogre. That's something I'm wanting to do all week with this scoff ditto Then I think we're we're in a good position Especially alongside maybe our banded Rayquaza, which could be extremely strong Um, okay, this is a nice This is a nice lead for us because we can fake out the kyogre set up our tail wind Puts us in a really nice position going into 10-2. The incineroar obviously can't fake out our crowbar So that is a bit of a bonus for us. Definitely Um, but we need to I think more than anything preserve our incineroar because uh, our infernip Okay, so I'm so confused with these fire starters. I'm just like, yeah I've just got incineroar on the brain and especially when it pops up every time. I'm like Obviously gonna just see it. And so we'll fake out The kyogre we need to keep incineroar though Infernip though because of that potential ferricline in the back without it It does become a lot more difficult to deal with So we will fake out the kyogre Um, and we'll see what this incineroar does. It could use her and I guess It's interesting that my opponent hasn't bought their crowbar though Such a good way to just get Like a handle on speed control, especially when you're looking at The options that we've got potentially to shut down is infernip with faker, which doesn't affect it Which my opponent's having exactly the same issue with now and uh, either going for the speed I would either crowbar to try and taunt but it's very risky because if you you lose the speed tie You lose the speed control We'll see a fake out from the incineroar into infernip. It does, you know, do a little bit of damage there But it's fine. Um, and we get a tail wind up with our crowbar So this is this is looking all right for us right now because we can go for a tasty old superfine into the kyogre Chunk that down to half health And we could bring in ditto right now I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna bring in ditto. I feel like it's a good opportunity to bring in ditto Uh get scoffed primal kyogre on the field. Come on ditto. Do your thing my little my little wonder blob There you go Turn into that huge whale Incineroar gonna switch out. We're gonna see Require there. Okay It's fine It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Okay. Um Kyogre protected even better Even better It isn't so good. Uh, it's really is. Um Because this next turn we can we can totally go for the double into the requiser if you want. Uh, I still think superfine. Let's see what this kyogre's got Kind of tempted to go for the requiser to be honest. I'm not really first about what this This kyogre is gonna do. Um, the other thing is the kyogre could switch out into incineroar and the requiser could protect Um, that's definitely an option Um I'm gonna go for the ray. I'm gonna go superfine ice beam into the requiser. Okay Kind of feeding the nora come out, which is a bit of a pain in the back side But I mean should have just locked in with that water spout there Would have done more than enough damage going rid of this Down blasted incineroar, but it's fine. Um, I think what we'll do Yeah, origin pulse coming out of it. Oh It's gonna take a bit of damage from it, but it's fine Crawl back going down to nearly sash. Uh, the problem. I think here is that we'll see potentially um I don't want to switch because I feel like if If we see the incineroar and we're locked into ice beam, which is never a good thing with kyogre actually Um, I'm gonna switch into ray I just would if I could have locked into origin pulse without kyogre here Would have been better because then you're kind of saying to the incineroar Well, if you don't fake out the kyogre, you take a water type attack if you do Uh fake out into crowbar. You will get rid of it, but then the kyogre gets a free attack off So, uh, there's a fake out. It's into the ray, which is fine. Uh, we'll get the superfine into the The kyogre, uh, and the tailwind does put her out. We can get another tail wind up though So that's the the big bonus first here. Um, which I think we will do And uh, we'll go for the mega evolve and we'll go for the dragon ascent. I'm pretty sure a banded A banded dragon ascent. I'm hoping gets this kyogre here. We're not intimidated Although most kyogre are built to take this attack. Kyogre gonna retreat though. A good little girl The girl that it is, this typical girl comes in. Okay. Um It's gonna be ideal if we see this incineroar you turn this turn Into something like kyogre or rayquaza because then we get a tail wind up Get potentially rayquaza, uh, kyogre back on the field and then we can lock into origin pulse And this banded dragon assault Dragon ascent is still going to do a ton of damage Uh to the cart the type of cork or The damage it's crazy Uh, there's a u-turn crowbar. He will go down. No Wow Okay, yeah rayquaza coming back in makes a lot more sense Let's go for a super fine into the rayquaza and go for um Could we pull ditto in here into taba koko? Because I feel like the taba koko Just protects anyway. I'm gonna do that Yeah, and then we get to preserve ray for a little bit later in this match. We've got a super fine onto the ray Potentially get rid of The crowbar here. So we get a free switch in this next turn There's the mega ray going for the mega ray We could have doubled into the ray, but I feel like you probably extreme speed maybe from your rayquaza Into ours if anything The taba koko might protect as well Yeah, okay But if we can get this super fine, and then that rayquaza will be in it'll definitely oh come on This is really we didn't need that super fine to miss Yeah, the taba koko going down. Okay That's frustrating that is frustrating um We're gonna have to get rain The problem is that the crowbar isn't able to take anything down, which is really really annoying um And we can't leave the rayquaza unchecked because it's just gonna drag in the centers um, the koko has just protected so If we lose our ray we lose any ability to win this match That's the problem like that's the problem with the super fine there um And i'm gonna have to go for the the koko because the koko Well, no, I think I have to go for the rayquaza because the koko could have twinkle tackle But I think it's yeah, okay I think it's banded ray You know, we're probably going to lose our rayquaza either way I think in this situation That's super ah we needed we need really needed my opponents played up well because they're not allowing the crowbar to go down They're not really too worried about it and taking things down next to it Which is really what you should do the whole time There's a little bit frustrating as we're going to see the twinkle tackle here and we've got no way to deal with the incineroat or the kai auger now um, unfortunately Or maybe we have maybe It depends if We can get the kai auger with a super fine and a close combat But we we have we're not even getting the the koko the koko's still sitting happy here right now And I think the incineroat comes in Gets the intimidate probably you turns Do do we have faint on the incineroat? Do we have faint because faint might be enough to get the koko Unless we see the koko protect here and this could be an opportunity for us just a close combat Well super fine We do have faint okay So we could close combat we right we're banking on the koko protecting here. So we we have to fake out Incineroat and super fine it and hope the koko protects which it doesn't so we could have got rid of it Um, yeah, and then now now it is 100 done We had to have the koko protect there because I don't think a faint is going to be enough to get the koko But then we would have been kind of banking on that this next turn Is it enough? No way That's it. It's done. It's done. It's done That is disappointing that is disappointing. I feel like that was definitely a winnable game very good game to my opponent. Um The super fine miss is unfortunate. I don't think it was like the pivotal turn of the game it just definitely was unfortunate for us because It Kind of tied our hands and I think the biggest thing for us like I mentioned already was the crowbar Just not going down when we needed to to give us that free switch in to actually utilize our our tailwind um Maybe we would have been better off not locking into ice beam It was a bit obvious when we had the kyogre and if we locked into something like Water spout there then it probably would have appeared off a lot Um at least to take advantage of our tailwind turns when when we didn't lock into it And then as soon as the race switches out then we lose kind of momentum We have to switch out. We have to readjust our board position and uh things got a bit dicey from there But I think in a team Well, it's so difficult because in this situation where they had the the koko and the requiser if we target the type of Koko there then we probably lose our requiser to a dragon ascent anyway It's where intimidate would be useful in that situation to make sure that we could get the koko and then Nullify the requiser enough so the dragon ascent doesn't take us down But regardless of that we'll have to see if we can claw things back in this next one So we've got our next opponent will hop over into team preview Okay, so our next opponent is running a team of lander aetherian the type of finny kyoga Serena requiser and kanga's con so another requiser kyoga Combination with support options from kanga's con the serena is going to be a bit difficult for us to get our Requiser going get our in a fake out calling as well But we do have crowbar that can be very useful here With our tailwind and maybe this is one way we can bring along gold duck Um because gold duck any tailwind My opponent's got very little speed control gold duck can definitely take down the lander is definitely take down the requiser It's got scald for the kanga's con So it's it's not bad at all here. I'm going to lead off with with crowbar Um, do we bring in infernip though? I don't feel like infernip's doing really that much here at all um Could lead off with gold duck for sure could lead off with with duskman I think i'm gonna have to make some quick suggestion quick selection So we've got we've got the gold duck in the the gold duck has been selected So it's not the worst we run out on team preview, but talking about it too much talking about that previous game too much. Okay Five losses To I think two wins still two wins this week. That's that's bad We can get a win here that will pull us to three wins My losses and it will put us in touching distance tomorrow of doing something Okay, so we're gonna see uh kaiyoga and kanga's con come up from my opponent We're guaranteed our tailwind whatever whatever the whatever happens here. So that's that's fine. Okay Um Do we need it though? I'm definitely gonna go tailwind We could Ultra burst and sword stance, but I don't feel like it's the best thing to do I think we're probably better off just protecting this turn Um, and yeah go for the tailwind with crowbar if the kanga's con Doesn't fake out the crowbar as well or attack into it then crowbar. It's gonna be around the next turn So that's that's all right, isn't it? We've got a potential to develop on something but we're actually gonna see it's scoff kaiyoga, isn't it? Oh No, oh no, oh no and waterspout. Here we go. I should have noticed that. Oh come on scoff kaiyoga So you lose that lose a tailwind um, okay Let's bring in ray and I guess let's Do we go after them the kaiyoga or do we go after the kanga's con? I mean we could ultra burst and go after the kaiyoga's con I'm actually gonna go after I'm gonna go after the kaiyoga's con and I'm gonna I just don't want to take a waterspout really. That's the problem um I think we've got our ultra burst because we could earthquake Some seal strikes never gonna get I'm gonna sword stance and hope that we can take Yeah, we should be fine. I think like the the banded ray We'll be able to get the kaiyoga's con. I'm pretty sure unless it's like uber bulky But we should get it And that will give us a free turn to get a sword stance up with an acrosma And then we'll see where we go from there But we get rid of the rain. That's a big help We've got two dragons on the field another big help It's just getting rid of this kaiyoga's con. That's the big thing. There's the waterspout. We can't prevent that. It's scoffed Still doing decent damage, isn't it? And there's a sword stance Come on ray. Let's get this kaiyoga's con. Please get it with the dragon ascent We've got the choice band. You should be getting it. We should be getting it. I say See, did you get it? Ray you get you're a monster. You're a monster, ray Okay, well probably in waterspout range though after the fence drop That's the only problem Right So Rayquaza gonna come in hmm I mean Can we take Can we take a waterspout? What's it done since 60? I think we probably can. It's just an extreme speed in a waterspout that would be a bit of a problem um Now I'm gonna go for the sun steel strike into the opposing ray. We've got to hope that it's not Sashed and we should be able to get it with an acrosma It's just banded extreme speed could be a problem. So we're gonna see the kaiyoga switch out Uh, that's fine Sun steel strike We've got to hope that this rayquaza isn't sashed and we will pick up the knockout as long as it's not sashed Wow, okay, we don't even pick up the knockout there plus two man That is disappointing We'll get the serena. Yeah Now where's Rayquaza gonna target? I'd see you probably go after our Rayquaza. Oh, it's going for a salt stance Okay Hmm We might need to re-adjust our positioning a little bit. Maybe get our Rayquaza out of here um because in extreme speed From our from our Rayquaza could be more useful. I think And they've got to go for extreme speed into our Ultra knockout to really get us with the sword stance. Okay, let's see what we've got in the back We've got gold duck. Let's bring fodder gold duck in for Rayquaza and just protect with knockout here I'm hopeful that we can do this. I'm hopeful Not feeling massively confident right now, but We'll just have to see extreme speed. Wow, it's into our Rayquaza leaving That's might okay. Hmm. I have to go for the ice beam into the ray And I think I probably have to go Like an earthquake is not going to get this Kyogre though. That's the problem Um Gotta go some seal strike into the Kyogre just to get some damage off onto it and hopefully put it in extreme speed range There's extreme speed Okay, gold ducking down. It's not the worst. We're gonna lose both our targets here. Could I protect? Uh, I don't think you take this Nah And then the ice beam Yeah, this is what I mean. It's not it's not looking ideal for us at all We're not going to be able to get the Kyogre in two hits And we need to lock into extreme speed as well. Um Uh, we can go for the speed tie the thing is the Rayquaza on on the my opponent's end could just protect here And just get like the ice beam off with Kyogre. It's probably the thing that I would try and do Uh, we do win the speed tie. Uh, it's not even a speed tie. Is it it's not even Mega ray, um, but the ice beam gonna come out and I don't think we can take two of these Not even one Oh Terrible scoff Kyogre Destroying our dreams in this last match man Things aren't going well The switch ups today have been terrible Oh So disappointed, you know, we get a great selection of pokemon. You think ah, it's good We've got these big powerful pokemon and just the execution of it has not been good. Okay Um, I really hope you have enjoyed today's episode regardless of the results. Let's take the results out of the equation We're gonna be coming back tomorrow. We've got one button We can activate before we get into anything tomorrow. We will activate that patreon button and we'll see which pokemon we get From our patreon members To change up the team and hopefully change things up a little bit going into the last episode I'm not really convinced about the inferno Let me know if you would change anything I've gone into tomorrow's episode But more importantly go over to our nominations page I post on our community section get your nominations in for next week and uh, I'm already looking forward to it I'm crying inside, but no, it's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. I say it's fine. Anyway Remember that we have a stream going on tonight. It is Thursday So 8 p.m. This evening will be over on twitch playing some serious pokemon with serious teams So come over drop by if you are around. I'll be tweeting out. You can follow me over on twitter Osiris vgc I'll let you know when the the stream goes live It'll be a lot of fun And if you're gonna make it don't worry because I will be uploading it to the channel afterwards anyway So it'd be great to see you there. If not, I will see you all for tomorrow's episode. So until then guys Thanks for hanging around. Thanks for enjoying the episode. Um, I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you all for the next one So until then take care and bye. Bye