 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 Battle Series, we are here it is Thursday and we are continuing on with this team that we kicked off with a week or so ago on the channel. If you've missed any of the games so far and would like to go back and check out the progress with this team and where we've kind of ended up with coming in today's episode, click up here, put a card in for you, you can go check those episodes out, come back into the day and you'll understand the route that we've taken to get where we are. We are aiming for 1800 by the end of the week, I still believe we can do it. We had a bit of a hiccup to kick us off in our last episode yesterday but I feel like we can still do this by Friday's episode. So we've got today, we've got Friday, we might need to squeeze at least one more game in than we do normally but we'll see what we can do. Just to recap the team for you guys at home, we've got the Minetric, it is the Mega of the team, we didn't feature yesterday so hopefully we can bring that today. We've got the Lunala there, it's got the Z move, Primal Kyoga, Tapulele going to be Skaft, Katana with the Psychic Seed and Fokusash Hydragan. All of the members of the team have been doing a lot of work over the last couple of weeks so it's really nice to see the interaction between all of the Pokemon and we can kind of slot them into each other as well that all interchangeable feels like that, obviously matchup dependent but the team as always is down in the description, there is a roll paste and a poker paste, check it out, try it out if you do and as always if you do try it out, let me know your thoughts out of the team so without further ado let's get into today's episode, hopefully it doesn't take too long to find the opponent, we'll hop over to this screen so we can have a gander at our rating, 1747 so we've got a little way to go haven't we, music to kick us off today, should we go battle royale because I never picked this music but it's a kind of fun one isn't it so yeah, yeah we had two decent games yesterday, I think one of them obviously was one that we just just lacked any sort of answer for in that gravity hypnosis team with the Lele the drift blim, that was extremely difficult for us to kind of overcome and like I said in that episode we needed a lot of luck to kind of get around that and it would have been a one-time wake up get a tail wind up um but I think at the end of the day it was just showing that we've got a big a big hole in the team that were weak against that sort of thing so taking steps forward with the team we can look at that to kind of overcome it but I did say in yesterday's episode what do you guys think about doing and making changes to the team to make it a little bit better when we come up against those things in future so I will definitely check those out if I haven't done already and as I keep saying as well guys I'm so sorry that I'm not able to get back to you as soon as I would like to in comments and respect to that it's just with fear starting a new job it's like 10 hour days as well which is crazy so fitting in the the channel around it is a little bit difficult at the minute but like I said in yesterday's episode feel like two weeks time I'll find my feet we're gonna have brand new content onto the channel we're gonna have more content sword and shield hype all sorts of things so it's gonna be really exciting can't find an opponent again so we'll be we'll be a post haste with this and um and um I'm trying my best you know one of the things I was uh I did this like induction day work in my new job and one of the the the that's the talkers at this induction day it's so bad talking like to this whole room this conference room and all he kept doing every other word was M and M and I thought I probably do that and it really is annoying so one of the things that I would like to try and do is stop saying M but I do find myself saying it over and over again I'm gonna go we're gonna try and like consciously now I feel like okay I'm I'm just gonna say it all the time now and it's really good a grade but I've highlighted it it's something we'll work on the delivery of the episodes will be a lot better if I don't do it of course um but what we'll do now guys is it's gonna take a little bit longer to find an opponent that I would have liked so we'll cut to when we find our first opponent of the episodes will be right back and we've got a first opponent of the episode it is Matthew from Japan I think 15 27 rated player we so we'll get straight into team preview I guess I feel like I'm all over the place today in this episode but all the same we're gonna be fine I hope this is not more gravity hypnosis it's a bit of deja vu going into this one but our first opponent today running a team of Tapa Lele Incinero Crobat grow out on Mewtwo and Bronzong so we've got two forms of speed control definitely sticking out like a sore thumb we've got the crobat with the tailwind and then we've got the bronzong with the trick room we've got the psychic combination of Tapa Lele and what will we probably make me to why there's gonna be gravity hypnosis potentially in this team as well with scarf Tapa Lele with their gravity and then the crobat with the hypnosis one of the things we can do to get around that is obviously the minetric and the Tapa Lele which both um do out speed the crobat so we can go down that route I think it might be a bit better it's a bit easier than dealing with the um the drip limb from yesterday we definitely need Kyogre of our own because of the groudon in this matchup weather control is very important and did we go Lunala as our last one Lunala can be very good the only thing about leading like we are is it leaves us a little bit vulnerable to a potential a bronzong lead from my opponent but I'm gonna lock in anyway the other thing is that Hydra again could be quite good here we haven't bought it we'll have to manage without the three-headed dragon but I think we should be okay we'll see anyway bronzong is the one thing I don't want to see my opponent leading with I can't really see them leading with it seeing as Lunala would be a real kind of option for us to lead with and it's something that Claire's do tend to lead with so you kind of want to maybe keep the bronzong in the back for later game to set that trick room up if your tailwing doesn't doesn't come to fruition we are gonna see Mewtwo and Crobat come in for my opponent now if this is mega Mewtwo why will that be able to out speed aminettric which isn't ideal um makes things a little bit more tricky for us for sure because we are we are prone to um probably going down to a side strike which is a little bit it's not ideal it's not ideal at all we can psychic the Crobat but I don't think we're going to be able to I just don't see us taking a side strike from the Mewtwo with Mewnettric there's no way we do I really just don't see it uh oh mega evolve we can move last into the Mewtwo but the Crobat's the one thing that I really want to try and get rid of um I'm going to snarl and I'm going to psychic into the Crobat if I can and hopefully we've locked any time we're running out of time as well this is the problem here I'm kind of hoping the Mewtwo attacks into the lana here if we can get a snarl on to the the Mewtwo why it does help us out quite a lot but I don't know if we're going to be able to um to take an attack here we could have protected but it doesn't really help us out when the tailwing's going to be set up I'd imagine the Crobat's probably sashed as well these opposing psychic teams are pretty awkward for us to deal with any time out with little it's like the worst oh we actually see okay this works out a little bit better for us because it does try to use gravity okay look of the draw wow it hits anyway come on oh really really really really really this sucks I hate hypnosis well at least we can taunt the Crobat but I mean at the same time hmm do we keep Minetric on the field and bringing Lunala for Lele I think it's maybe a better option it just if I bring Minetric out Lunala rain I feel like we're going to take an attack in that slot and I don't really want to feel getting broken can see yeah there's a side strike where's it going to be into oh wow it's into Lele here we stay asleep there's a tailwind getting set up now super fine okay that's fine that is fine um I think we've all switched out onto the Crobat this time around and do we try I don't think we try and get a tailwind up because although the Mewtwo is I'm going to bring Tepelele back in I still think even minus one Mewtwo Shadow Ball be enough to get Lunala when it's Shadow Shield's bust but Lele should be able to take you there's the Shadow Ball hopefully Minetric can wake up and we can get a vault switch into that Crobat and pick up the knot of course not okay hypnosis does avoid the gravity okay so let's vault switch onto the Crobat again I mean we could psychic this time into the Crobat and just get rid of it and just go for another snarl that might be an idea to do as well um I think probably would be better doing that unless the Crobat's got the psychic resist berry which would not be ideal but we should be able to get rid of the Crobat which gets rid of the hypnosis spam gravity Mewtwo so many different options with this gravity spam Mewtwo gonna switch out okay oh it's the ground on come in it's not what we want to see tailwind setup I think now unless it is special ground on I guess I mean we should be able to deny the tailwind that's the the big thing here now the Crobat gonna switch out as well Bronzon gonna hit the field yeah Bronzon my opponent going down this route and we're really really really neat we're not even waking up with Minetric this is like a nightmare a nightmare I tell you um okay we'll vault switch out onto the Bronzon do we skill swap the ground on we because we could prevent my opponent from being able to kind of skill swap around it's just tap a little it could be so valuable later in this game we know that Minetric's gonna wake up we know we'll be able to get Kyogre in uh I think we switch out and we bring Lunalo onto the field hopefully the ground on protects but I doubt it does I think it just throws out precipice blades here yep three turns sleep as well oh we're gonna see trick room setup for sure this could be kind this could be I don't know this could go in our favor it might not as well the problem is though that we've got is this skill swap with this Bronzon potentially with the ground on to get weather control we've got wide guard which does really help us precipice blades Kyogre avoids which is nice you know it's not so bad um now we could potentially scout out to see if they've got skill swap just ice beam get some damage into this ground on oh my god and if we can get let's see skill swap I would imagine yeah hopefully they're just precipice blades that's what we can kind of hope for I think the next turn we can get away with yeah probably switching in Minetric for Lunala because I imagine a fire punch coming out there I don't imagine you go for the precipice blades until hmm yeah I think if we go for another ice beam bring a Minetric in the hope that the ground on fire punches the Lunala to get rid of the to get rid of the wide guard the intimidate going to be really useful for us here regardless if we see a precipice blades are not terrible yep that just goes for it yeah thinking that you probably get the kill which you probably do on to the Minetric now yeah but it does allow us to get Lunala back onto the field so we've got a wide guard again two more ice beams we were able to do it it's just I'm gonna have to just continue to go for it do I go for an attack here into the bronze on hoping that we see or do they just go for the same the same kind of tactic as last time and go for the precipice blades gyro ball and imagine they probably just do that then might go gyro ball fire punch hypnosis oh fire punch this is where I'm not having to protect on Lunala it kind of hurts us a little bit hmm again it's least like hypnosis gravity teams we've got nothing for them and to get to this 1800 mark that we want it to do it's so difficult it's so difficult when this is what you kind of you've gotten really very few answers to to deal with this sort of sleep spam as the as I would call it so I think I'm not really comfortable locking into to psychic with Tabulele I mean one of the things we could do is go for there's a trick we're meant now yeah it does we could I mean if if Lele can stick around this turn we could try skill swap our Kyoga I just don't say it happening now and even if we do that yeah there's no chance and we've just yeah lost such a sad day we do wake up but just not enough I don't think you've got to really hydrogen would have been the thing to bring here this is where hydrogen would have really shown against I mean we're still susceptible to the hypnosis from the bronze on which isn't ideal if the trick room does go up in this situation like it has done and we can get rid of that the ground on but the bronze on hypnosis is again me too comes in yeah and I mean hypnosis has crazy accuracy I will just say that like my opponent doesn't even need the gravity he just don't run gravity there's a point for everyone gravity hypnosis teams don't even need gravity you just go for it and there's a me too comes in and we will gracefully take another loss to this sort of team it's crazy that the last two days this is the sort of thing that we keep coming up against our rating is going to take a chunk for this one now because messier is not very highly rated so we're going to take a big chunk of points away from our tally at the minute taking away probably our ability to reach 1800 with the team which is a little bit sad but I think just really highlighting areas of the team that we're kind of struggling against they definitely matchups that we're struggling against the psychic spam oh difficult difficult difficult anyway good game to my opponent it's a bit it's a bit it's it's really difficult when you kind of know that you like one matchup gets highlighted and not very I would say not one of the more common matchups in the form like the the gravity hypnosis isn't really something I would say is that common in the ultra series and then to get like pretty much three on the bounce where we come up against them it makes it very difficult to kind of come to terms with our rating hasn't taken that much of a chunk and I guess 17 22 lost about 25 points yeah so we'll try we're getting too caught up with our rating though our numbers we've got to concentrate on the games hopefully we don't find and bump into another another hypnosis gravity team but we've got our next opponent so we'll soon find out it doesn't look like it it looks very interesting though so we'll get straight into team preview so we've got a team of duskman and crossman is a pyro yeah I think it is it's uh requires that something that you never see it's a normal fire type pretty sure requires a gango tapu finny and scrafty and I do apologize in vgc you never really see pyro I think we saw it briefly in 2014 well not briefly did some work there I think that format yeah pretty sure but since then it really hasn't featured I made much of a splash but quite an interesting team we've got the scrafty there it's going to act like a bit of a incinero with the intimidate support it's dark typing as well just a lot slower performs well under trick room which you can imagine this team's probably going to go for and maybe that isn't alternate crossman maybe it is just actually duskman to do the trick room stuff you're going to probably see mega gango there alongside the mega request but maybe not mega gango maybe it's got an odd item on it as well but what are we gonna do what are we gonna do I think lunala is very very good here tapu layla as well as good to kind of check gango or at least if we do see that come out um probably monetrick with its yeah monetrick's gonna be good and I kind of want I want hydra dragon but I just feel like Kyoga's gonna be better so we'll see it's a weird team but it's highly rated so let's see what my opponent does there to come at us with today but seeing stuff like pyro I mean that just kind of encapsulates the whole ultra series doesn't it there's so many viable pokemon and that's why I think it's a really good time for us to do the this roto rank roulette series because I feel like there's so many unexplored pokemon pokemon that I would probably never even look at so if you nominate and it comes up in the wheel it's great because we can take that forward into the next we can see scratch your heads a bit and think well what can we do with this pokemon right we've got the duskman nakrothma and the gango is it sash gango is it sash gango I don't know I'm definitely gonna launch a z move into this nakrothma because potentially we should pick up a cow when we could taunt nakrothma the problem would be here is if we see like sash gango sash gango go for trick room and the duskman just protect I'm gonna go for it anyway the duskman doesn't really too much okay we're gonna see it switch out see pyro come in it's immune it's immune to it's immune to our attacks this is why the normal type is really good it's actually scarf gango wow scarf gango oh things go from bad to worse right well it's not the end of the world um we don't need to cut a z move here so that's a good thing right can we bring kayaga in yeah I guess we can we can probably set up a tailwind and then we can start just throwing out some water spots which should do the job against this sort of team I would imagine I don't know what the pyro is going to be doing now sure that's the female version because you got the male and the female variations and this is the female one pretty sure but I really I'm not really too sure what pyro is going to be doing here it's obviously a very good switching for any ghost type attacks we'll go for the tailwind we will protect kayaga this turn obviously there's the the ray quasi in the back which is definitely going to be the mega of the team I think whether or not we see it switching right now it's another thing but we will see another sludge bomb that's going to be into our hard on say the pyro has got like crunch it's got taunt are you kidding we're getting like absolutely demolished by gango oh gango pyro right we can't tailwind um we can side shock the gango for sure and let's just water spout it's just water spout water spout let's see what it's this thing's doing man scarf gango really didn't see that coming I really didn't obviously as you can possibly tell it's ripping us apart it's the magic of best of the best of one format I do like it though I mean you can't not like it things are pretty tough for us right now but it's now great great great great water spouts should still get the pyro and a side shock should still get the gango the problem is dealing with the requiser when it comes in because it's I would imagine side shock disabled exit I'd imagine the the requiser in this bit kind of build would be banded just to get the maximum the maximum effect from mega requiser so we do clear the gango and the pyro oh what are we gonna see is it gonna be the requiser yeah there we are big boy ray coming in spoiling the party alongside dusk main hmm really need to get magnetic onto the field to get an intimidate off but it's gonna be kind of tricky getting lunala yeah we'll do that we can protect kayoga for a turn at least we'll see if we can get if we can get magnetic in in a decent position to get at least an intimidate off we might be able to come back in this one I don't know that feels a little bit too far gone now for us to do very much scarfed gango pyro taunt snarl mean it works works does the job this is what we've got to look forward to in our roulette series for sure these sort of things because you can get away with it 100% in the best of one situation we are going to actually see ultra and a crossmer wow I didn't expect that of all things okay so we'll protect kayoga what we're going to see my opponent do photon geyser it's into the kayoga and dragon ascent into magnetic come on magnetic take this I know you're not very strong but so powerful so powerful it's life all right well what are we going to worry about eerie impulse into the necrosis yeah let's do that eerie impulse into the necrosis and ice beam into the requiser because I think after an intimidate we should take a dragon ascent from the ray hopefully we don't see the double in eerie impulse I'll put that necrosis into position where it's not really going to be doing very much if we can get the requiser after another dragon ascent minus two we should be able to get it from that range I'm hoping it's just whether or not our intimidate is enough to take the dragon ascent and I'm kind of confident that we probably are able to take a dragon ascent from the ray and I've just got to hope that you go for the rig the kayoga in in this in this situation hopefully you do eerie impulse so put this necrosis down to minus two this is a physical variant could be that one it is physical it is physical I went knackered we're knackered we should have all switched ah yeah when there's no way we take a dragon ascent here the crit didn't really matter I don't think yet and that's that's it there's no way lunala can come it back in this game what a disappointing episode what a disappointing episode we've had two really bad losses here today um it's not something we're gonna get like super upset about it's just hmm it's difficult approaching these sort of teams well they completely catch you off guard but I think at the end of the day you've got to kind of look at it like okay well we can't just assume all the time that everything is going to be super standard as you kind of expected to be it's going to be sometimes and this is where you're caught out you kind of expect things to be a certain build a certain variation and they're not and they completely catch you off guard and by the time you kind of try and get caught up with things in the match you've lost too much resource on your set of field and there's no way for you to come back so the longest evil of animation is underway and it is into lunala physical does a decent amount of damage and enough for rare to pick up the pieces I think right here with this dragon ascent and it will be able to close this one up for my opponent and that's the first time we've had two losses I think in a long time yeah difficult to take difficult to swallow definitely areas of the team that we've just yeah we've got obviously the weaknesses to the sleep spam which you've had for the latter parts of this week and then I think this team here is just crazy the pyro the the scarf gang are and then the the restricted combination just assuming that the the necrosma was going to be special based as well and kind of get caught out with a physical variant not very not very helpful there but very good game to my opponent and guys I hope you've enjoyed today's episode regardless of the results I hope it's been entertaining and again it's just stuff that we can take on board for changing the team improving it for future variations and this is probably a team that I'll probably tweak after this week with everything that we've taken into consideration from these matches and bring on to a stream when we start streaming again so keep an eye out for those when we do start doing those streams which will be very soon I promise I promise but we've got one more episode left with this team before we wrap things up tomorrow remember get your suggestions in for what you would like to see played next week and then we'll be going into the roulette stuff which would be a lot of fun but thank you so much for tuning in have a great day whatever you end up doing make sure you take care of yourselves and I'll see you all for the next one so until then take care and bye bye