 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Road to Ranked roulette series. I hope you're all doing well. Thank you so much for tuning in and we're ready to kick off with some more wild roulette action today on the channel. So I hope you're looking forward to it. Earlier in a week, we spat on the wheel and they spat out this team of six Pokemon for us. We're very fortunate because it's an extremely strong team. We're going into a new format where we're selecting the restricted separately and the four non-restricted Pokemon in the wheel separately as well. From your nominations, of course, we have got as well access to our full bonus buttons in today's episode and for the rest of the week. So we can activate those at any time that we want. We've got our legend maker, our randomizer, switch up and Patreon buttons. So I'm not going to activate any of them just yet, but we might after one match. We might just wait till tomorrow. But let me know which button you would like to see activated first. Obviously, you can check out the buttons down in the description, what they are, what they consist of and which one you would like to see. But I'm going to sit on this team and give it a chance before we activate those buttons just yet. Very excited though to activate those buttons and see what Pokemon we can maybe add to the team to strengthen it. Make it a little bit better at the minute. We haven't really utilised the Rangaroo very much. So hopefully we can see a little bit from that. But if not, then maybe that is a Pokemon that we think, let's switch it out for something else as sad as that would be. But on other news as well, we start off the week as a little appreciation and bit of a thanks from myself to all of you guys for the support. We're holding a giveaway for this lovely I Hard Flinch, Flinch Squad, Flat Peak Cap. So one of you lucky people out there will be able to get your hands on this nice Flat Peak Cap. All you need to do to enter is leave a comment and leave a like on the video. It's that simple and we will draw all you one lucky winner next Monday on the channel. So get your entries in, just leave a comment down below. Leave a like, that's all you need to do. So the team as always is down in the description below. There is a roll paste, poker paste. Let me know what your thoughts are about it, try it out. If you do, definitely let me know and without further ado, the music is on. We've got everything set, let's get into it guys. So I'm looking forward to trying out this team. I'm a little bit sad, you know, I recorded an episode prior to this one and the video file is corrupt. So I'm going to have, I'm having to do this episode again. Let's kick off with League title defense, which is a little bit sad. So the rating is a little bit wonky from what it was. I I've just had to leave it as it is. It's a real shame because we've had two really good games where I can't really count because they were both wins. But never mind, we'll carry on. The goal to get into 1500 by the end of the week is looking more and more possible. So hopefully that does happen and we'll get into this first one today. Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent. But if it does, it does. There's lots been going on. Hasn't there been some more sword and shield news? And I keep saying I'm going to do more sword and shield content now. I need to get this out ASAP. So next week at the earliest, I'll get this done because otherwise I'll fall behind and it'll feel like, well, why is he putting this content out with this three week old news? It's pointless. So what I'll do is get a video out for next week. We'll talk about the stuff that was released yesterday, which is very exciting. And some of the other stuff that I haven't touched upon yesterday. And dare I do it? Touch on hashtag, bring back the national decks and give my opinions on that topic as a whole. Because it's an interesting one, so to speak. But I've got my own opinions on it, but we'll leave that for another time. We've got Goku, Son Goku for our first opponent. So let's hop into team preview if I can even do. There we go. So what's the Super Saiyan got for us to start us off with today? We've got Milotic. We've got Wimzacot, Incinero, Groudon, Xerneas and Landerous. So we've got double ground types on this team with a restricted pairing of Groudon and Xerneas. Very strong restricted pairing in this format, as we know. Then we've got the supporting cast from Incinero. We've got the fake out support. We've got the U-turn support, Intimidate support. We've got some crazy background noise going on. I'm going to have to shut my window in a minute, so I'm sorry about that. If it's bleeding over Wimzacot, speak control there. We've got to watch out for the Milotic. With Snarl particularly on our side of the field because of that competitive ability there. Right, what are we going to do? It's obviously got to be control as well, I would imagine. I'm going to lead off with Perugly. Did we go with our Xerneas though? Because, not too sure, not too sure. Because the Wimzacot kind of puts me off going for the Zgeomancy because of the Encore there. We don't really have too many other ways to deal with Wimzacot. I mean, Ivelto with Oblivion Wing, of course, is a nice way to get around it. It's kind of tough though, isn't it? I'm going to make a decision. God, I'm going to make a decision. I'll go Ivelto, I'll go Xerneas, and I'm going to bring Megabinet to this one. Let's get into it. And I'm just going to literally run and close this window because it sounds like... It always happens. It always happens. It sounds like the neighbors have gardeners in and there's some heavy duty machinery going on in the background. Always happens. It's a hot day. Come into the studio to record. I open the window, I'm like, it's all airy, and then there's either a dog barking, the neighbors have the gardeners in, someone's doing work. I can never win. I need to record at like five o'clock in the morning. Then I'll be waking everyone up. Never mind. You'll probably be like, there was no noise bleeding over, but there might have been. So I've just got to be safe. So we're going to see Landeris. We're going to see Incinero come out. Man, are we getting defiant boosts all over the shop? Double boosts. Crazy, crazy man. We're a plus two with Prugly. Is that right? Plus two? Yeah, plus two. So we're sitting pretty nice at the minute. Um, okay. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Let's fake out the Landeris. And, um, hmm, do I keep Ivelto in? I mean, Ivelto right now isn't really doing too much. If we could file play the Landeris, it's likely it could protect though. Uh, I'm going to bring in Zernius. I feel like if we get Zernius out into the field, we can maybe go for a Z Moonblast or Z G-Man C. It can be wild and go for a Z Dashing game, but there would be no point in doing that. So we'll probably not do that. So let's see. Plus two fake out. What's the damage like? Man, it's not bad. Is it fake out? Oh, faking out the Prugly. Breaks our sash, which is a little bit unfortunate. Um, hmm, do we go for the Z G-Man C here? I feel like it's a good chance because I think a Giga Impact will, will get the Landeris for sure. Let's do it. Let's do it. I feel like if we've ever got a time to do it, it could be a good time. The only problem would be the Incineroar having Ra, which would not be good. Giga Impact. Plus two. Better Bing. Better Boom. Bye-bye, Lando. See you later, my friend. Right. I always feel a bit risky going for this Z G-Man C. You know, it's always like, oh, the Power Herb's just better, isn't it? I think we need better support. We have got the Burnett in the back, so we'll, we'll help us out. It's just getting through this additional turn. It's like doing a, a good old fashion conventional G-Man C without the Power Herb, but then getting the Z kind of boost extra for it. So we're just going to see a Flablet from the Incineroar. That's fine. I'm getting into Zenius. Not doing too bad damage. And no burn, so we're fine. So let's see what my opponent brings in. We're completely, we've got no buttons to press this next turn. Nothing. Perugly has to recharge. Zenius has to charge up. And the Whimsicott. Of course the Whimsicott comes in. No. Can you on call a Z G-Man C though? Because it's like, it is a Z move, right? It is. We've literally, we've gone pressing buttons. There's a Tailwind. I guess one thing we could potentially try and do is protect Zenius taunt, perugly, depending on what, what this, this Incineroar does. Then we can stop an on call, I guess. So I'll take this down to plus, plus two. So that's not too bad. That's not too bad. I don't mind that too much. I don't think the Incineroar, oh, but we do get the additional boost. Just to fire off another gig of impact. Plus three. Okay. Let's go for the taunt into the Whimsicott. I mean, the, the worst thing that can happen here is the Whimsicott doesn't on call our Zenius and attacks that perugly. And then, and then we got locked into on call the following turn, which wouldn't be ideal. But let's see what our opponent does. I think you probably want to go for the on call, to be honest, into the Zenius here. When you've got access, you've probably got access to it, right? You've got access to it. Oh, Incineroar Reveal and Protect. Interesting. Fake tears. Okay. That's fine. Really don't mind that because now we're in Goldenland because we've, wherever Goldenland is, but it's a good place and I'm right there right now. Yeah. We can go at gig of impact. Do I waste the gig of impact? Do I? I mean, we, we'll, we'll just do it anyway and we'll go for a dazzle. Yeah. Because a dazzle and gig impact should be enough to get the Incineroar. But plus three, I mean, with perugly, we should still shut out speed grass not coming out. Can you take it? Come on, per. There we go. There we go. We don't miss. Oh, that's good. So bye-bye Incineroar. That's great news for us. Okay. What's coming in? Did my opponent have a Zenius? I think they did. I think they had Groudon and Zenius, right? Pretty sure. Pretty sure that's what it is. Like it's perugly doing all the work and it's Milotic, so excellent. Everything feels like it's all working. All coming out Milhouse. Um, right. Let's see what we can do. Do we want to protect Zenius here or do we want to just attack? I mean, they've got one more turn of tailwind, right? Let's see. Yeah, one more turn. I think we'll just protect. We'll just protect Zenius. We know the ones that got and not got on call, so it's kind of fine. Grassknot. Okay. And Skald. Okay, that's, yeah, perugly. Perugly, I mean MVP all day long. Perugly has done such a good job. And the tailwind pit is out. Should we bring in Banette? And what's Banette? Does Banette need to come in? Banette, yeah, let's do it. We very rarely get to see much Banette, so let's do this. I love Mega Banette as well. It's such a cool Mega Pokemon. It's got such a nice design. It really has got one of the nicest designs. Let's find and force this Milotic. I don't know if we'll get it off. We probably, we probably will. And we can always give all the glory to Banette. The next turn, if it doesn't gleam, doesn't take down this Milotic. We are only plus two, so it won't take the Milotic down. I guess the problem here that we've got to watch out for a little bit is the Milotic with Miracord. Because we'll be able to crush Xerneas if it has got access to it. Let's see. Doesn't gleam. Bye bye, Wimmy. Yeah. I mean, Milotic's just a tank, isn't it? Ooh, what is this? What's this Berry? Meranga Berry. And another Skald coming out. Okay. Did we get a Burn? No Burn. And a Phantom Force. Okay. Maybe Banette. We just don't allow Banette to come back to the field and just Moonblast. A Moonblast from here will get the Milotic. I don't really want to. Um, it might not actually, you know, because of the boost. Boost, boost. Let's see. Has the Meranga Berry activate defense? No, it must. Oh, wow. Look at that. Milotic is a beast. It is a beast, isn't it? Phantom Force, we're going to get an attack off with Banette. So let's see what this does. Wow. That's not even a crit. That isn't even a crit. Banette is just a badass. Yes, Banette. You know where, where, what the deal is, don't you? All right. Good game to Goku. Um, great playing. Our good old Super Saiyan friend. Um, and we'll move straight into our next one. Okay. Let's hop over to our right screen. And then we can have a look at our Skull. See what we're doing. See how we're doing. But I feel like there's 1500. It's going to be so possible guys. I'm going to actually not make any changes for this episode. So we'll sit on them. We'll make changes tomorrow for sure. We'll try and use all of the buttons at the end of the week because that'll be the ideal thing to do, won't it? So, um, yes. I don't know which button to activate first though. Wow. I feel like we're in Dreamland a little bit. Maxi and Archie. Yeah, let's do it. Um, I've never, I've never felt so good about such a low score in my life. But, um, things looking, things looking pretty good at the minute. Things looking pretty rosy. But I mean, we do have, we do have some good Pokemon, don't we? I mean, Garchomp's always good. Xernius, we know. It's good. Yveltal. Mega Burnet. And Perugly. Perugly is that forgotten about Pokemon doing so much work. Um, we did get pretty lucky in that last one. I mean, my opponent did leave with Double Intimidate and then they did Snarl Perugly as well. So, yeah. I mean, even if the Whimsicott as well had Encore, we would have been able to shut it down with Perugly. So, things have gone good. We've got our next opponent. Looks like he's got a tasty, spicy team. So, let's get into team preview. Okay. Next opponent today is running a team of Moaile, Porygon 2, Incineroar, Tapobulu, Swampert and Kyuga. So, it looks like we may have a Double Mega team here. Between the Mega Moaile and the Mega Swampert, you've got the Tapobulu there for Terrain Control Intimidate Support from the Incineroar. Fake Out Support there to help set up the Trick Room for that Porygon 2. Because outside of the Mega Swampert, you're looking really like this team is heavily relying on that Trick Room. So, we want to make sure that we can shut that down as best as possible. Perugly does a really nice job at that. What else do we want to do here? I think we probably do need Garchomp for the Moaile. Because outside of the Moaile, we don't really have too many ways to hit. Outside of Garchomp, we don't have too many ways to hit it. Is... Eveltul's always going to be a nice option, I think. Just with the Snarl, the File Player, the SoulFest helps against all these special type attackers. Xerneas going to be nice again. And do we go Garchomp or Benet? That's the million dollar question, isn't it? I'm going to go Garchomp. Oh, do I? Do I? I feel like I'm letting the team down by going Garchomp and up. Garchomp makes sense. Garchomp makes sense. But Benet makes sense as well, in a way, just to support everything. It's tough. It's tough. It's always good when you've got a team, I think, where you're really struggling. Well, I say it's good when you're struggling to find that four Pokemon you want to bring every time. It's not really that good. It should be really straightforward for you against the matchups that you should know inside out. But when you've got teams like this, I mean, I feel like it's a good thing being struggling, not which Pokemon to pick. The only one that I'm not really ever considering is the Orangaroo. Just a little bit sad, but I do love Orangaroo. But it just doesn't really suit this team very well. I'm going to see Porygon 2. It's going to download, get that attack boost, and then the type of blue come out as well. Let's fake out the Porygon 2. And do we have Living and Wing? I guess that the issue here would be if we see the Bulu switch out into Incineroar and then they've got a pretty seamless fake out trick room in the next turn. Now we're not going to see a switch. So that's fine. Living and Wing. We've got access to that taunt in the next turn to attack into the Tapu. The Tapu Porygon 2. Of course, there's the Rock Slide from the Bulu. Wow. Geez, that did a lot of damage. Did way more damage than what I expected it to do. Man. But I mean, we're going to be able to get the Tapu Bulu the next turn, and we have to taunt the Porygon 2. So we'll go for another Oblivion Wing into the Bulu because if it stays in, we get it. If it switches out, whatever comes in, we get a little bit of health back anyway, which is always going to be helpful going forward. We're going to see the Kyogre actually switching. You've got to imagine that this Porygon 2 is definitely going to go for that trick room here to try and set this auger up. So, primal Kyogre hitting the field. Primordial C, yep. And the Oblivion Wing obviously not going to do a great deal of damage, but the main thing is shutting down this Porygon 2, which we get the taunt into the Oblivion Wing. Let's see. Damage we can do. I mean, probably, I wonder if it's a foul play. I don't think so. Foul play, a combination. I've got to worry about the Kyogre though. Like a snarl would be nice. I kind of want to target into the Kyogre, to be honest, with a giga impact and a snarl. Yeah, we'll do it. We'll do it. We'll do it. The damage, I mean the Kyogre could protect. We're not going to see it protect here. Let's see what the giga impact does. Just nice damage. Nice damage, nice damage. We could have went for the foul play giga impact there. The snarl's going to really help out against both these attackers anyway, because they're primarily always going to be special type attackers. We do see an Origin Pulse come out. Probably will be enough to get the Perugly. Yeah, not enough to get the Evaltile though. Thankfully, and a nice beam coming out. Hopefully that snarl does help out, yeah, which it does. Quite a lot. I'm going to see the Grassy Tree and take effect. Um, do we, do we, do we bring in Garchomp? Uh, it's a bit, I mean, yeah. It's not ideal right now with the grassy terrain in effect. I mean, Xernius is probably the better one to bring in. Um, we could kind of maybe smoke out the more while it comes in. This is why I don't want to go for the Z. Um, I'm going to go for a Z. Like, I don't want to go Z. Jaymancy because I think the more well comes in. If we do that, then we're locked for the next turn. The more well has pretty free time picking off the Xernius, which you don't want. Just wondering whether a snarl will be enough to get the Kyogre. Um, whereas an Oblivion Wing would be probably better just to guarantee we get the KO there. And we're not going to kill the Porygon 2 for sure. There's no way we do. Not even with it as the, as the Moon Blast. But I think it makes better use of, um, the Z move then. Okay, let's have a really kind of coming back onto the field. I wonder if the more wilds even be brought. Because it was Swampert the other mega, right? Yeah, Porygon 2 is not going to be taunted for that much longer as well. That's the other thing we need to keep in mind. And that might make things a little bit more difficult for us. I think it's Xernius, floating through the sky, doing all the, all the stuff. Wow, holy what? I can't believe it did that much damage. Man, that's ridiculous. Wow. Okay, I didn't realize it would do that much damage. That is powerful. Power play coming out from the Porygon 2. Unfortunately, I'm not going to do too much damage to us. Just recover a little bit of damage. I think it's a Moon Blast range. Tone wise off now, but we'll be able to pick it up with another Moon Blast. Now what comes in? The Kyogre? No, more well, more well. Hmm, more well. More well this, more well that. Okay, not ideal. What a foul play I get this Porygon 2. It did get the attack boost, right? Yeah, I think a foul play off the back of that will be enough. I'm going to switch, oh, do I switch in Garchomp? Hmm. Do I switch in Garchomp or do I just go Moon Blast into it? Hmm. I might just Dazzling Gleam. I don't really want to switch Garchomp in and take a play rough or an Iron Head. I think I need to keep, I need to keep Garchomp for later on in the match. It's kind of important, especially with the grassy terrain going to be running out soon. Mega Moel going to mega evolve. And the thing is by switching Garchomp in and we take Iron Head damage, it could potentially put us into Sucker Punch range, which I don't really want to do. So the Dazzling Gleam going to go off first, we're going to pick up the Porygon 2. So we'll get at least a foul play into this Moel, which is good. Kyogre's in range from anything. The foul play doing nice damage actually there. Rockside coming out, it will take down Yveltal. And yeah, Dany is coming back in. Okay, well, I mean it's still fine because Garchomp Stomping Tantrum should be enough to actually get the Moel, regardless now. And a Moon Blast will be enough to get the Kyogre. So we should be able to pick up another victory, which is Excelente. And that would mean we've done it twice this week where we get two losses. I'm not going to get ahead of ourselves right now because something unbeknownst to myself could go terribly wrong. Although it feels like it's pretty set in stone right now. Feels like it's done. But if we can pull up two wins again this week, I mean the team's done it two days and we're in a row now. It's gone for a Moon Blast. Let's go for the Stomping Tantrum into the Moel, which I said to that should be enough and we should be able to lock this one up. The Z Moon Blast, way better, way better than that ZGM ANSI, isn't it? Kyogre going to protect this turn. Hopefully, hoping the Moel be able to do something. Hopefully this is enough. Yeah, you know when you think it's definitely enough? If you asked me that a million times over, I'd be like, yeah, but when you're in that situation where you're like, huh, there's the doubt starts creeping into your mind because it's so pivotal that you pick up that knockout. I don't know if you guys do this, but I always do. I'm like, hmm, is that actually enough? Like Kyogre now, is Stomping Tantrum enough to get the Kyogre now? You know for a fact it is, but there's always that doubt where you're like, hmm, maybe it survives. There's no way it survives, no way. But very good game to my opponent. Great couple of games today. Your team's just doing so much work. It's refreshing. I'm really having a great time. I hope you are as well. I think tomorrow we'll activate at least a couple, if not three, three bonus buttons because we've only got two days left with this team. So mixing things up for the end of the week might be nice and remember guys, those of you who are stuck to the end, there is this giveaway for this lovely hat this week. So all you need to do is leave a comment down below. Leave a like and you will be entered into the draw that we will do on Monday next week, revealing the winner of this lovely hat. So thank you so much for tuning in. I hope you have a great rest of your day. Hope you've enjoyed today's episode and I look forward to catching up with you all on our next one very soon. So until then, take care and bye-bye.