 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 Battle Series. It is Friday, we are finally ending the week up with this Lunala Groudon Mega Love Pony, Mega Morwile Gastrodon and Tabakoko team that we've been playing throughout this week. And coming Monday we'll be starting with our brand new Road to Ranked roulette series. So I have been saying all week about this new series that we'll be starting on Monday. It's going to be very much very similar to what we're doing at the minute. We're going to be playing on the ladder, playing 2-3 games a day, but we'll be playing with a team that is selected by you guys. So if you'd like to nominate a Pokemon for us to play, put together in a wacky six of random Pokemon for next week's series starting, do go over to our community post nominate a Pokemon. It could be anything restricted, non-restricted, anything that's legal in the VGC 2019 format. It can be anything from Katabee right the way up to Mega Mewtwo Y or Mega Mewtwo X. There is just so many Pokemon you can pick from, pick your favourites though. So hopefully yours comes out, but yes we'll be starting that Monday, we'll be wrapping up with this team today. It is the North American International Championships kicking off today, they're all so very exciting and just a big good luck to all the players going over to play in that competition. I hope you all have an amazing tournament, have a great time the weekend, be safe and just enjoy playing Pokemon and being around other fans of the franchise. It's always very fun doing that sort of thing so I'll be hopefully catching some of it over the weekend depending on how the year is and if she enjoys it or not. So I'm sure she will, I'm sure she will. But yes it'll be great to come back on Monday and have a look and discuss some of those things with you. But getting on to today's team, as always the team is down in the description below. There's a raw paste poker base, try it out, if you do let me know and with a further ado let's jump into today's episode. Let's change screens, let's see what our rating is, remember the lad I reset a couple of days ago didn't it, so let's click some music in and across my version too, why not let's go out with style and I'm a bit nervous about this new role to rank through let's series. I really am, as excited as I've been saying I am all week, I'm really nervous about it because I'm worried in case it just nose bombs but at the same time I think to myself well if I try it and it fails at least I've tried and that's a good lesson I think we should all live by, it's no harm in trying things. I'm hoping it's gonna be a success and I hope you guys enjoy it so we'll just have to see, we'll try it out and see what happens but we've got a first point of the episode so we'll hop over into team preview. So first up on today is running a team of Stack Attacker, Kyogre, Gengar, Rikwaza, Incineroar and Tepacoco, so likely we've got two megas on this team, one is potentially that Mega Gengar which makes up a really nice call with the Stack Attacker, the Kyogre and that Incineroar, there you've got a really slow trick room mod there with the Stack Attacker, the Kyogre and then you've got that really nice support option with the figure intimidating slow pivot with that Incineroar that complements that Mega Gengar so well and then on the flip side of things you've got that combination, really fast offensive mode with the Rikwaza there, the Tepacoco as well and then the Rikwaza obviously gonna be the Mega in this variant and then the Kyogre to really bounce off that which does give a ground on element of the team a lot of trouble but one of the things we do have to help us out especially is Tepacoco and the other one is Lopony, Mega Lopony gets scrappy so we can pick out that Gengar if we so choose to and the other thing is we can bring Lunala as well to this match I think, Lunala can be pretty good here and it do feel like ground on can be good we just got to be careful about getting ourselves locked in those horrible positions where Gengar's out and Kyogre's on the field and we're locked in the ring because that would be the worst so we'll see what we can do. It's a good team to kick us off with today you know I was thinking in yesterday's episodes like I haven't played many much Kyogre this week much opposing Kyogre so like magic we bump into Kyogre hopefully we can come out on top it would be good if we can but yes yeah talking about the Roulette series again I am pretty nervous about it I'm hoping you guys enjoy it support it and do like it I'm pulling out a lot of stops for this as well I've got a really cool roulette wheel animation that we can we can select the Pokemon from it's like a tiny portion of the episode as well it's like the selecting of the team that will use every other week but we will bring it back for the other things the other bits to add on to this series to make it a bit more fun where you've got rules and regulations rather so we've got mega Gengar and Incineroar is Gengar gonna protect here is it gonna protect up can I just get some decent damage on to Incineroar we go a volt switch into that slot and mega evolve and fake out that slot we kind of tend to just to do that to be honest I could fake out the Gengar we are risking potentially using the speed type to that mega Gengar if it does stay in this high I don't know if it will I think it might protect I'm gonna see that hopefully pepper cocoa doesn't lose it's not even mega evolving though get some nice damage onto that Incineroar preserve cocoa for later because it hasn't mega evolved I mean I'm gonna bring a groudon if we do see a sludge bomb from that side I'm just gonna take it a lot better than anything else we've got in the back in because I don't really want to bring Lunala on to the field when we just needlessly breaking that shadow shield on groudons a tank in his and his own right so he can take a sludge bomb that's what we see so we get groudon in get the sun up I think then the one thing that we have to do is make sure that we do switch the groudon out this next turn Gengar going for a sludge bomb it is into that slot okay so groudon we don't want to get trapped in we don't want to fall stray of anything like that so what I'm gonna do is bring hmm bring pepper cocoa back in yeah I think I do and I'm gonna go for a low kick into Incineroar and that will pick up the knockout onto the Incineroar from lowpony we are minus one remember the intimate it has been fired off but we will be able to make nice handy work of that Incineroar and get cocoa back onto the field as well just in case that Gengar does mega evolve I surprised it didn't to be honest already but I feel like with the groudon out now it's kind of too tempting for my opponent not to mega evolve and if the groudon does protect here then we can lock it in to that protect the next turn with our encore and with cocoa coming in we've got a nice Thunderbolt oval switch into a potential Kyogre that comes in on that Incineroar slot oh if with the Incineroar goes down here yeah no mega evolve from the Gengar again might not even be make a Gengar it might just be guessing yeah the whole time a shadow ball coming out this time into Tabakoko okay well if it doesn't make a Gengar you we know for a fact that cocoa is gonna outspeed it every time anyway so we haven't actually seen a protect yet either which is interesting we do take the Incineroar down to a low kick hmm interesting I wonder what we see come in could it be Rayquaza which would be a little bit problematic with that extreme speed for sure but we'll just we'll just wait maybe Rayquaza hasn't even brought but if it's Kyogre do you want to bring Kyogre in right now that's Tabakoko Tabakoko in the field and okay well I mean do a wrist is be tight though I'm gonna actually just got discharge and I'm gonna bring in ground on low-punny it's not the best thing to do in these situations generally we probably would have been better vault switching out the draw of the discharge is just too much and it would be nice to keep a little punny in the back four later when we can bring it back in utilize that fake out once again now we still got Lunala in the back as well which might be the thing that kind of wins us this game really we could lose a speed tied to the opposing tabakoko here wouldn't be ideal but they may not risk the speed tie and imagine we see it doesn't gleam down and a sledge bomb come out so we'll get ground on it when it's be tight we do we win it or maybe the tabakoko on the other side of the field just slower than us we did take the Gengar it's revealing wow double crit this is why discharge is so good but that's not so great for my opponent doesn't gleam it will take our cocoa down and we'll probably see another sledge bomb from the Gengar into ground on now just pick up the poison which isn't ideal but we can bring low punny in and I think we just fake out Gengar earth power cocoa we'll probably take a dazzling gleam ground on I'll take the dazzle and okay I don't know if we're gonna be able to clear the field here though I mean if we can we can take both these down I think the games we can wrap this game up pretty pretty easily especially if Kyogre's the last Pokemon in the back which you gotta imagine it is it's a bit more tricky if it's Rayquaza the nice thing here is though we've got the alcohol we can pick out was to see but I dare you Gengar and it will be Kyogre for sure but we can lock cocoa and to protect but if we do that oh it is Rayquaza okay I I honestly prefer Ray coming in now to Kyogre well on court and we will go for an earth part into cocoa if you can get rid of that and just have the Rayquaza to deal with it makes things so much easier it really does but I think you know I'll I'll be able to deal with the Rayquaza by itself there's the Ray mega evolving that's the Ray's got like earthquake could have so that they're in that Delta stream there's the on court we're gonna see any extreme speed come out cocoa gone for the protect dragon ascent hopefully it's into a lot of money yeah and then we'll get the earth part into the cocoa pick up the knockout there love any doing more than its fair share of work here and life on okay that's fine so we can just trick room and then moon guys beam it for the win and it's really got a dragon ascent alunala like it has to we'll take at least one dragon ascent and I think the minus to that point puts it probably into moon guys beam range so trick room in here's probably the better call I think especially when it can't can't extreme speed you know which is a big plus and it doesn't seem to be something that carries that I don't know you can't really ever discount what Rayquaza has got or hasn't got but we'll eruption with ground on just to try and get a bit of damage onto it but lunana coming in being able to do the work in this first game today which is excellent excellent right there's a dragon ascent and his life or to remember it is gonna be doing a lot of damage the shadow shield really helping us out I don't think we'll take another dragon ascent so we've got to where we've got them like get it with the moon guys be in this next turn once we get the trick room up pitiful attempt ground on but it's all it's all for the cause isn't it because the minus to ground on goes down to the poison yeah you just got to hope now that we are able to take it down and I mean probably we could have probably just moon guys beamed it requires a return previous and being in the same sort of situation we we have the phytinium Z on it so the Z move here is not gonna be very very useful just got to help a moon guys beam it's minus two special defense so yeah it's gonna try and stall up trick room but I mean you're gonna need three or protect to get through this and I just don't see that happening unfortunately mr. Ray funny if my phone and goes further I mean why not why not go for it I've never seen four protects in a row now we're gonna see it there's a moment of truth can the moon guys beam be enough to pick up this request a minus two that's all I'm telling myself it's minus two should be enough it's enough it's enough Lunala big bird doing all the work very good game to my opponent and nice to kick off for the winter there so that's really good we'll hop over to our other screen and well hopefully it doesn't take too long to find an ex-apponent and that was it that was a nerve-biting end to that one it was but nonetheless a very good one and it's a bit sad like briefly just playing Lunala ground on to end the week up but I don't know I don't know what's gonna happen with this new series we might come back to I hope we don't come back to regular school of hard knocks daily battle series I really do hope that we can kind of continue on with this mad mad roulette series or we might get to the point where we just do roulette series once in a week carry on with these these battle series but I feel like like with the end of the season coming up now it's kind of it's a good time to do it isn't it so we've got an ex-apponent of the episode and we'll hop straight into team preview it's another Koga after we haven't seen them they come and they come and they come so we're gonna see it really kind of standard-looking team there's a little variation on it than what you'd normally see normally see a stack attacker in this kind of build but you're gonna see the eval tool definitely mega Gengor and this team there isn't any other option of a mega here we're gonna see Primal Kyogre Tepele, Togonomaru and the pherothone so primarily I'm really kind of looking at your opponent taking advantage of the probably nuzzle on Togonomaru as one of the options to speed control and then tailwind on eval to saw a trick room here could be extremely good the big problem is are we gonna be able to utilize our trick room because one of the issues you've got with that is eval tokansha dana luna pretty hard do we bring tapakoko I'm really kind of tempted to bring tapakoko here even though we are seeing Togonomaru up top it's just because it will overwrite the terrain from the Lele if they do decide to lead it which they may not actually and what we could do is go a lot of money more while the tapakoko it means leaving Lunala I don't know how how good I feel about leaving Lunala but I don't want to fall into the trap where we need tapakoko they can switch in Lele and then they can do shenanigans from there and block our fake out if we have more while out it's gonna be the slurst thing aside from the pherothone which will allow us to get the switch and we get an intimidate off onto the eval tol as well to shut down that potential tailwind turn one and the other thing is like with more while we've got sucker punch as well so that's kind of nice and it's boosted by that eval tol right now the only problem is if not like if we keep more well in we're pretty stuck because we can't switch out with a lot of money or anything like that I mean the same time has it is it gonna have oblivion is it do we just sit in front of these two what was the worst thing that could happen if we stay in it's like a punch I mean Lele could come in for the gang for that the eval tol I don't really feel like it does though and we brought we brought to so we can't mega evolve I'm gonna actually have to just fake out and I can't I've run out of time and I haven't made it with either I just realized I bought both megas for this game the problem my friends eval tol protects okay come on gang goes not protecting though that's one for substitute no you don't like that okay please break this up please break this up we are so we are so lucky we are so lucky I am just saying this right now now we can mega evolve what's better do we mega evolve with love bunny and do we not an uncle the eval tol and then go no love bunny should know love bunny is one of five so will outspeed it will outspeed eval tol so we can on court regardless and we can mega evolve with more well and I think we just iron head the gang are here case it goes for the sub again the problem is now Lele coming in our ferrethorn I don't mind too much I don't think the gang are goes for an attack here because threat of sucker point for more well although it could be completely wrong now we can't we can't uncall gang are this next turn hmm I think you do go for we will can we can definitely low kick that ferrethorn and do you suck a punch the gang are this time I feel like you just substitute again no I'm just gonna iron head there's no harm in ironheading yeah it's just gonna sub we don't want to get caught out we really don't low kick I mean it's pretty pitiful the damage there but this is what you get for bringing two mega's and not yeah there's a jar of all where we go a lot funny yeah that's fine we actually take it take it okay right let's see I want to suck a punch I want to suck a punch the game go now I really do I really do want to suck a punch game go now I'm gonna suck a punch it goes for a sub we're screwed but I just just protecting okay ferrethorn protecting as well huh okay well we can definitely on call the marathon into protect we would like to I just I probably think the further on switches out here and the gang are goes for another substitute and let's on court gang go and iron headed again I mean this is the ultimate double bluff when my opponent thinks okay well they're not gonna suck a bunch again now I mean one of the things we could definitely just do is go for a low kick and an iron head it's pretty it's it's a lot safer yeah it's just going for the sub again we probably go down to bomb damage and Bob yeah pretty good jar of all with we could have on court the ferrethorn for sure the more I'll doing a good job of checking this game go definitely which is which is nice leech seed okay probably kind of want to get ground on him but at the same time getting ground on in it's just gonna bait in the kayak I really isn't it it's better getting cocoa on to the field I think because at least with cocoa we can kind of check in the gang all the whole time we could double the ferrethorn here to be honest we could go ball switch and iron head maybe better if you flinch it and hope that that can go yeah protects here that's fine but we're kind of back in this situation where we've got ground on to come in we're not gonna be able to I mean it depends what we can do to the ferrethorn it's got leech seed it's got leftovers it's a real pain to deal with especially when my opponent definitely has Kyogre in the back I mean if we can iron head flinch the ferrethorn here that will help us out a bunch that does a lot of damage does a lot of damage it's just a jar of bone okay right well press this blades is definitely something we can utilize here because that probably takes down ferrethorn I imagine and do we just suck a punch again the game go I'm just gonna iron head again we've iron headed ferrethorn and just clicked in way too quick it's such a fool such a fool yeah it goes for the shot of all here we could have sucker punched oh come on this like that's my own fault it's my own fault for doing this let's get this ferrethorn with eruption and get this game go with sucker punch it's the wrong time to do this though now I feel like we're going going downhill now but just had if I've been a bit slow with that selection yeah we're gonna see Kyogre coming right about okay do we get the sucker punched down I think this is far too far gone now this game goes done so much work I'm gonna play rough the battle we've got the opportunity I think the gang are probably substitute here I think it goes into garden okay tailwind well kind of don't mind that either because the end of the day and I do mind it actually because the car over comes in and now it's really difficult for us to deal with and I don't think you got enough turns to stall to stall out to allow Coco to come back in and put ground on the like the game go doesn't even need to attack now now I don't think we can win this one we will press this blades and we will suck a punch but I think it's it's pretty much over there's not really much we can do to maneuver around here we're good the sucker punch into the Kyle gun I mean it does some decent damage there's a substitute from the game go water spout will be enough to get both yeah and then Coco coming in and because we are specs and we cannot protect it's over it's over it's over it's over which is a bit unfortunate but my opponent's put it really well with the game go you know we definitely had our opportunities where we could have we could have dealt with it but I think the biggest problem obviously bringing two megas and only been able to make a one was the first thing if you thought about this a bit more in team preview it might work out alright but sludge bomb should be enough to get the cocoa from here yeah there we go okay very good game to my phone it just shows very well played gang are to be honest with the substitute and it's really strong and it's still a big threat in this format and I think it will continue to be as long as mega Gengar is around so very good game to my opponent's today yesterday and all week that we've had and I guys I hope you've enjoyed today's episode it's been really fun and exciting we'll be back on Monday but with the Road to Rank roulette series so make sure before the deadline cuts off at 12 this evening you've got your nominated Pokemon in because I will be selecting the Pokemon getting them ready prepared for Monday over the weekend so have a great evening have a great weekend enjoy the North American international championships if you do check them out over this weekend I hope whoever you're rooting for does well and I hope you just enjoy the whole event they've got a great cast of casting team if that's even how we're pronouncing it now casting the event of the weekend too many casts there but never mind anyway have a great one guys thank you so much for tuning in I'll catch you all on Monday for the new series which is gonna be really exciting so until then take care and bye bye