 Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon Battle Series. We are here again. It is the Moon Series. We kicked off this week with this team. It is on your screen right now which is Cure and Wide Arcanine. Sogaleo, Tapulele, Abomasno and Manabas. So we've got a few different interesting picks here. We've got the Arcanine then instead of the Incineroar and that was requested from loads of people that are like don't play Incineroar anymore. So we're playing Arcanine. An Arcanine is not bad. It's got bulldoze. It complements the Sogaleo with that weakness policy that we can get speed control from and stuff like that. We've got the Manabas that we've replaced this week. It's doing a really nice job doing lots of good things in the team. We've got the Abomasno to disrupt Kyogre which has become a big problem for the team without it. And then the two restricted Sogaleo, Cure and Wide, Cure and Wide has got the Z move. It's just ridiculously powerful. It's a great crowd on Ivelto, Stomper. So hopefully we can get some of that action into it. Scofflele rounding up the team but that's about it. Let's crank on some music. Let's just remind you all, as I always do, if you enjoy the content, please leave a like. Just down there hit the like button. Subscribe to the channel though so you don't miss any of these daily episodes, guides that we have out. Cobro's Cup, loads of different things, stream stuff, everything. Or VGC and some not so VGC but it's all good. Hopefully you enjoy it. But leave your comments in the comment section below because that's the main thing. And let's just get into this Friday episode. We might make some changes over the weekend to the team so if you've got any suggestions with what you'd like to see going forward, let me know and we can make those changes and try them out because it is a two fun week period. We'll be back to something more standard next week. And again, if there's standard teams out there that we haven't featured yet on the channel that you would like to see going forward, let me know in the comment section. I'll make sure to try and feature them the best we can. But hopefully it doesn't take too long to find opponent. Are we going to just stick with TrainerVision1? Sometimes it's nice to just stick with that original soundtrack. Sometimes it is and I think this is a day for it. Tapu Master is our first opponent of the day. So going up against the Tapu Master, they are playing a team of Raichu, Tapu Koko because they are the master of the kokos, master of the tapus. They have to have a tapu in their team, it would be disappointing without. Incinero, Kyogre and Amungus. So let's see what we can do here. Alright, we've got Trick Room, Heavy Trick Room. I feel like Mandibus is going to do a decent job in this match. The problem is the Tapu Koko and the Alolom Raichu that do threaten it pretty hard. So we have to be very careful around both of those. There's also the Trick Room element that could come out as well, Term 1. I think what I might do is lead off with Mandibus, Tapu Lele. I think we need a bomber snow, full show. Thing is, if we go down the Mandibus route, we're kind of not bringing a restricted Pokemon. We need to bring a restricted because we need to be able to match up against these Pokemon as best we can. So we could leave Mandibus for sure. We could bring Arcanine, Tapu Lele as a lead, with a bomber snow on the back, and Curum. Because I don't really know how much Silver Leia is doing here. Whereas Curum kind of resists the electric type attacks. Amungus is a bit of an issue though. But we have a bomber snow, who did so well in yesterday's episode. And I'm pretty sure he's going to do well again today. A bomber snow is one of my favourite Pokemon as well. I said this about every Pokemon, I'm sure you think. I said this about every Pokemon, but genuinely, a bomber snow. 2010, one of my first national championships ever. Went there, went to the UK, and came third, and had a bomber snow on my team. And ever since then, I've been a big fan of it. We're going to see the Raichu and the Tapu Coco come out from my opponent here. We're going to see actually a Scarf Tapu Coco, which is super interesting. But we do get rid of the electric terrain, which is just as interesting. I want to say how many Fly and Resist my opponent has on their team. Not many, none at all. So both of those here is very good. We could also snipe the Coco, because it probably stays in. It could dazzle as well. It's not a bad option. But we could preserve Tapu Lele for later. We kind of disguised the fact that we are Scarf, though. And we will get the jump on this Raichu, which just were not fast enough. We haven't got an attack to take down the Raichu. I don't think a Moonblast is quite enough. Whereas we can take down the Tapu Coco for sure. Probably switches out, though. But actually, a help and hand Moonblast will be enough. So if we can be fast enough to click in on the Raichu, that will do. Probably help and hand. What am I thinking about? We're not thinking about all the options we've got here on this team. We'll go Vault Switch out, so it's out. So it can bring the terrain back in, probably. Ooh, Thunder! Out with the rain! You're a madman. You are a madman. I'm surprised it hits. So well, you're crazy. And the paralysis, that's not very nice. It's not nice at all. We should get the Raichu with the help and hand Moonblast. Yeah, easy. Now we've revealed we scuffed. Now we could be in a bit of trouble because the Kyogra could come in. But we know the Kyogra is not scuffed. It is the Duskman Necrosma, which probably has a weakness policy. But it probably will try and go for the trick room, I'd imagine. So what we could do is bring in... This is a problem when we've not brought Sogaleo against this thing, especially with Arcanine. We don't want to go full. We could just roll it out, I guess. Bring in Curem. I kind of don't really... Do we want to bring in Curem? Curem's not bad. And we could Flareblitz. But it's going to trick room. And I think that... It's going to trick room. 100% going to trick room. I can't allow it to get the trick room up. Kyogra coming in. 100% trick room from that darn pesky dog of a Necrosma over there. We could argue it's a bird because it looks like it has got wings. It could be a bird. Bird up. Necrosma. So let's see. Yeah, it's gone for the trick room. Denied. Doesn't really help our situation right now, though, does it? But we can pretty safely go full. Oh, well, we can switch in. We can totally switch in. We can go earth power into the cocoon, switch in a bomber snow. This is why we've got it. A bomber snow. Come to the field. Save us from this Kyogra. And it's nasty, nasty rain. So we'll get the abomas now in. Our Sasha's undoubtedly going to be broken here. There's the thunder. It still hits. I can't believe this. It's into bomb. A bomb now. You take it like a champ. Take it. We'll get the coco here. I'm going to see a water spell. Or a z move. One of the two. Ice beam. Ice beam. We've got the double blizzard as an option here for the freeze hacks. We could do that. Freeze hacks. At least we win the weather war. I guess that's the big thing here, isn't it? I just don't feel like an earth power in a bulldoze. It's going to be enough to take down this thing. It's blatantly got. Blatantly got. I mean, I wonder. I wonder. Z... I... Thing is, I know the Z move does a lot of damage. Earth power is probably not going to do as much damage. And the Kyogre probably protects it. And the trick room goes up. Where we could use this time to just get as much damage on this Nekrozma as possible. And try and get a freeze if we can. Double blizzard Z move. Let's do it. Kyogre protects. Kyogre is protecting. I'm sorry I keep saying Kyogre. I should stop saying that. I'm just messing around. If those of you that don't know. I do know how to say Kyogre properly. But I just like the sound of Kyogre. Kyogre. And we are going to see the Z move. We're going to get it in the Nekrozma. I mean, it would be amazing if Abomasno just freezes this thing here. I mean, we're getting deep freeze now. Okay. Double blizzard would have been better. Double blizzard would not have been better. Earth power would have been the better play. But we can stall out this trick room, right? We can totally stall out the trick room. We can totally stall it out. We can do it. Okay, so let's switch into Arcane 9. I think you probably got... How do we actually keep the curemen and get rid of the duskmen? Because I think you target the Abomasno that actually threatens the Kyogre. So I'm going to switch in Arcane 9 for Aboma. And Earth power this Nekrozma. Because I think if you're logical, you take down the Abomasno that's threatening your Kyogre. Because otherwise, it's going to just ruin you. Water spout. Unless this ruins, this will ruin us. So we've got no option there. Oh no! I don't think we can do nothing now since you're straight. This will take us down. Oh no! We should have kept Abomasno in and just grass knotted. Grass knotted. I mean, at least we've got an Intimidate onto the duskmen. I think we have to double the Tector Abomasno. I think we've shown our hand. We've shown that we're scared of the duskmen Nekrozma right now. With Abomasno. But my opponent's not bothered about it. That's the weird thing. More bothered about the curemen. Which I guess makes sense because it's the one thing that could potentially take down the Nekrozma which you want to remove because it's your wincon. So we could potentially protect Abomasno. They do know that Lele's scarf though, or they should do. So they could just attack into that. What am I going to do? What am I going to do? I'm going to protect. And I'm going to go Himpar fire into the Nekrozma. If we get this off, we can win this game. If you go Stone Steel Strike into the Abomasno, or Fortran Geyser, we can win this game. Is it Ice Beam? No! Why are you picking every right... I don't think we take this in minus one either. We're just not going to be able to do this. It's not fair. It's not fair. I'm seeing it. Alright. We can go for the double protect. I mean, this is why this team is so good because it gets this end board position set up with the Slowkai Olga and the Dustman Nekrozma. And you find yourself really tied with how... You can deal with it if you haven't got the right trick room checks in your team. Hail Stops. Which isn't any help to us. Can we get a triple protect? Or are we going to lose to the Tapu Master? I mean, if we lose at all, I don't mind losing to the Tapu Master. It's one of them we don't mind losing. I've almost now could win this though. Come on. Not off to the best of starts today. Moonlight. Moonlight Nekrozma. That's interesting. I've never seen that before. Okay. I mean, we could get a double freeze. Hit Blizzard out of hail. Double freeze. That could win us the match. We could still do this. Kyogra protecting. Blizzard connecting. Oh, come on. We just want one break. Come on, RNG. RNG hates us. Whoever controls the RNG out there in this mystical world of RNG-ness, they really don't like me. I've done something to upset them. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I upset you. I upset you. Just reset the switch. Make the RNG fair. I mean, it wouldn't have been fair. If my opponent got frozen there and we hit it, Blizzard double blaze, double freeze. That's not fair. That's probably why they're like, no, you don't deserve this. Good game to my opponent. I think we could have won that one. Definitely, then the Sougalail for us would have been a better choice, especially with the Y God at the end there and then the knockoff against, I think the Curem was not the right pick in that match. And that's just down to team preview for ourselves. But we live and we learn. And we go forward and we get better. So we take it into next week. All improved and shiny. And we do amazing things. So we'll go on to our next episode, next match of the episode. And this will be the one to round it up and finish us off for this week. Let's go with Giovanni music against our next opponent, who's from Japan. A team of Cizer, Tabakoko, Zernius, Incineroar, Ludicolo and Kyoga. So we've got the restricted pairing of Zernius and Kyoga. That's a restricted pairing we struggled with quite a lot recently. So hopefully we can overcome it in this game. Tabakoko is going to be there for the terrain control. We've got Incineroar, Ludicoloar for fake-out support to help set that Zernius up. Protect it. You've got this Cizer as well. It's going to be a bit awkward to deal with because it does threaten Tabulele, our bombers now. Curem, but we do have that psychic terrain. So we need to make good use of that and make sure that we are protecting ourselves from those priority bullet punches. Right. Now let's get into this one. Right. I think they bring the Koko because of the importance of their fake-out and their priority bullet punch on the Cizer. So it is disrupt our psychic terrain. I do expect the Koko to come out. Whether it leads or not, I don't think so. I think it doesn't lead. I'm going to lead off with... What do we do? I think we lead off with Lele for sure. And I think we probably want Lele and Mandibas, Mandi. Let's bring them for sure. We need a bomber snow and we're going to bring Sogaleo or Curem. Sogaleo. We left the last game. I feel like it's feeling left out. Let's bring it this game. It's so good against that Zernius. And leaving it at home would be the wrong thing to do. Curem, you can sit this one out and we'll get into this next one and end up the week. It's been fun this week. I hope at least out of everything. I know sometimes it's nice to always see really competitive games and things like that but I hope on a side note you've enjoyed this week. It's been a bit lie hearted, a bit fun. We've done some really quite useful things, I think, in looking at what aspects of games and teams that you need to look at to change things up going forward. So hopefully it's been useful as well as entertaining as well for you guys. We are going to see the ludicolor of the coyote come out for my opponent. I'm going to proc that psychic seed and then the rain appears. Tabalela is in a nice position now to just throw out a side shock. I think we need to just refresh ourselves to see if there's any dog types in the back. There is the Incineroar, of course. There would be a bit of a pain but I am going to just side shock into the Coyote and I'm going to tell when I really need to stop saying that. Just say Coyote. Imagine if I get asked to cast again sometime soon and I'm like, and the Coyote and everyone's like you're sacked, you're fired. That's what the response would be. Let's see what my opponent does. They can obviously fake out the manabas because it's not attached to the ground and the pink jelly is not protecting us here but we can get some damage on to the coyote if it doesn't switch out and it's obvious that we are scarfed as this Coyote is not... Okay, so we're just seeing this happen. We're going to get a side shock and do some big damage into that coyote and it's going to go for a Z move though. Madman! Where's it going? They're going to take down a Tapulele. It makes sense if it does chase it down because the psychic terrain, once you overwrite that then scissor comes in and does a remarkably good job but the hydrovoltax into the manabas which we probably take with that after that psychic seed boost maybe, do we? No. No way! We're not taking that any time soon. I think it is a nice time to bring good old Abomas9 throughout some cheeky little blizzards. Oh, is it time? Or is it time to Baldur's and bring in Sogaleo? The only problem with that is I do worry a little bit about getting Skald burned on the Sogaleo, but I mean... I think the Kyogre switches out. I think the Incineroar comes in and I wouldn't be surprised if the Xerneus came in as well but we've got to do something. We've got to do something. So I'm going to go for it. Kyogre switching out, Incineroar. Scissor! Okay, it's Sissy. Sissy baby! Skald, this is the problem. Please don't burn us, because this would be... No! We talked about it too much and it happened. I mean, we'll get rid of those... those burn. So frustrating, isn't it? So frustrating. I hate burns. It's that RNG man. It's the mythical RNG man. He's hating down on us right now. At least we can throw out some blizzards still. There's always risk of the Kyogre coming in but I think superpower into the scissor and a blizzard is an a bad option. We talked about the risk of switching Incineroar into the burn. We went for it, regardless and we got punished. Ludicolor going to switch out. Is Kyogre going to come in? It is Kyogre. Okay. Can we hit a blind blizzard? That's what we need. We really need to. Super power. Come on, Abomas. No, you didn't hit the last one. We need you to hit this one. We need you. We need you to hit this one. Please hit it. Okay, I don't mind that. Okay, that does nothing to scissor. Bug bite. Oh dear. The burn is going to take us down. It's all gone pitong. It's all gone very, very wrong. But we are faster than the scissor so I think a combination of dazzling gleam it's just a problem of the cocoa being in the back and the fact that we need to dazzling gleam and blizzard and that's still probably not enough to take down the scissor and it's probably got a berry and I think we lose this one. Ah, never mind. Some good things to look at going forward in this. Okay, it's the Incineroar. It's the Incineroar. I mean if, yeah, this is alright. This isn't bad. It's just our psychic turn will run out at some point and then that scissor becomes very, very dangerous. You know what? A bomber snore is the worst blizzard user. It gives blizzard users such a bad name. Cure them white on the other hand. Sitting on stream last week. Blizzard in, blizzard in, blizzard in. No worries about the actual gravity or hail being up and just throwing them out and just doing an incredible job hitting every single one. Whereas a bomber snore, he's cousin here letting the team down. Letting the team down. Big style. Clings Rock. King's Rock, Jesus. Can we get a double freeze? No? We're not going to get a double freeze. I mean we hit the bomber. Incineroar, can we get one freeze? No. I hate you. I hate you. A bomber snore, why are you letting us down? You're one of my favorite Pokemon. This is not how we roll at Osiris Studios. Come on. Incineroar, please knock off my Lele. Please. So we've got access to Hidden Power and all the other nice options that we've got. Cizzas is just going to come back in now though and just slam dunk everything. So Skull coming up from the Ludicolo there. We need a double, we hit. A bomber snore, you hear me? Can we get a freeze? I mean a bomber snore is pretty bulky, right? It doesn't do a bad job. It's taking it, Axe. But Cizzas are going to come in now. Our only hope is, like we've got, pretty much no hope. Pretty much no hope because the Ludicolo definitely targets the Lele and the Cizzas definitely bullet punches the bomber snore. Bullet, bill. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. But fun nonetheless. So good game to my opponent. We are going to end it up there, guys. It's been an incredible week. We'll be back on Monday with some changes to the team going forward. We'll look at some aspects of the team. I'm going to look back at all of the episodes this week and just really summarise what my thoughts are. And we'll come back into next week and we'll have a real crack at making this cure on white work. Might mean changing a lot of items on a lot of different Pokemon and going down different routes with things. But we'll come back with a completely different team. As always, this team is in the description. So if you want to try it, let me know. Hope it works out well. And we'll be back next week. So until then, guys, take care of yourselves and bye-bye.