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As always if you do enjoy this sort of content, drop a like on the video, it does really help the channel out, subscribe to the channel as well because we have a bunch of Pokemon content like I keep saying lined up for this week, well the coming weeks with Sword and Shield dropping, which I'm so excited about. And leave your comments down below. Like I say, let me know what your thoughts are on the team and on the episode in general. And if you haven't already, what team Starter are you? Come on, come on we need more answers. We've got a first opponent in the episode, so I'll hop straight into team preview. This is a great team to kick off with today, one that we never see too much. This is a black and white team. So we've got Reshiram Zekrom and then Supporting Cast of Kangaskhan, Shiduninja, which I love to see. We've got Stack Attacker and Tapping Finny. So there's definitely potential of Soak on this team. I'd say there's more potential because of the Zekrom as well, not only the Shidunja to Soak opposing threats and then let Zekrom pick up big knockouts. It's something we need to really, really watch for in this one. I think one thing, this is going to be tricky because if the Soak goes up, we're done for. What's a Moonga's got? Has it got any Jibble? It hasn't. It's got Fireplay. Okay, we're going to have to utilize Groudon, make use of our Taunt as well. I think we might have to go Crobat. Hope that the opposing Zekrom's not scuffed. Crobat, Gengar, Groudon, and I'm not bringing a Moonga, so I'm going to bring Z. It's going to be tricky. It's going to be really tricky. Like if the Tapping Finny is scuffed as well, that makes things even more difficult for us because there's no way for us to stop that initial Soak onto the Shidunja. Really. But we will try our best. We will try our best. That's all we can do. Are you flashing your eyelids at me? Like going to kick my ass? It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. We're going to win through this. Okay, so we lead off with Crobat and Gengar against the Reshiram and the Kangaskorn. Thankfully, we don't see the Tapping Finny hit the field just yet. We need to preserve our Gengar, at least for that Tapping Finny later on in this game. So I think what we will do is, we could see Tailwind, but I'm not going to do that. I'm going to Tailwind. I mean, one of the things we can potentially do is taunt the Reshiram. We could Tailwind and then Mega Evolve and taunt Reshiram. I think that might be a good play because the Reshiram has access to Tailwind. I'd imagine that's probably one of the things that my opponent would want to try and do, set up some sort of speed control. The Kangaskorn, if it doesn't, Mega Evolve can fake out our Gengar, but we are seeing the Mega evolution here. So it's going to pop out of that Mega Shell. It means we can't be faked out on either Pokemon now, which is good. So we get the taunt off into the Reshiram and we will get our Tailwind up. So setting up for the rest of the game, which is decent. So Blue Flare, Great Attack, Crobat, Voids, Crunch. No! No! Gengar! Okay, we take it. There's no chance of Sucker Punch, so we could potentially double into the Kangaskorn now. It's more likely for Reshiram to have Protect than Gengar, so we'll double the Gengar. I'm hoping a Super Sonic Sky Strike and a Sludge Bomb won't be enough. I'd imagine it probably is, unless this is a super bulky Kangaskorn. And with having Crunch, there's no way that it's got Sucker Punch. Watch it just pulse Sucker Punch out of the bag now. Now I'll just give up instantly. See how devastated I am? I've got a Game of Thrones mug and it got put into the dishwasher and it's just ruined. Westeros is gone. Okay, so we get the Sludge Bomb, do a decent amount of damage. Probably not enough, not as much as we wanted. Super Sonic Sky Strike, Crobat, it's all on your head now, my friend. Let's pick up a knockout onto this Kang. Come on. BOOSH! Crit! There we go. Crobat heard it. It was like he heard it. It's like, don't worry, I'll sort it out. This problem is not a problem anymore. Loot Fair coming out. Man. Okay, Reshiram's mad. Another Crit back. At least we didn't lose Gengar. That makes me feel a little bit better. We've got, yeah, we'll bring that out on him. Heck yeah. Because we can hear the power of the Reshiram. Probably pick up a knockout there. Oh, we could double it. And if the Zekron comes in, I'm not really too scared about it. Oh, this shit ninja. Hmm. Ah, this is a pin because now ally switch is a thing, isn't it? I hate you, shit ninja. Are you gonna ally switch or am I gonna look stupid by Earth paring into that slot? Hmm. Well, what do we do? What do we do? We could eruption, but we're not gonna, we've not got Shadow Ball on Gengar. So there's no way we can double up into this ninja. I'm gonna have to, I think what I'll do is go for the Earth Par into this ninja. So I'll look like an idiot regardless. And I'm going to, do I sludge bomb that slot as well? Or do I sludge bomb the Reshiram just to cover bases? I think I'll sludge bomb Reshiram just to try and cover some sort of base. Ally switch, we get it. Yes, come on. We should have been, we should have went for it fully though and went doubled into this ninja, but we get the Earth par into the Reshiram. It hangs on. It hangs on. No. Okay. Blue Flare into, damn, damn, that does so much damage. Okay. Will an eruption get the Reshiram from this range? I don't know if it will, you know. And now we'll probably be able to get the Sheninga. Let's go for a sludge bomb and an eruption. You might see a Shadow Sneak come out from the Sheninga here. But I'm hoping that the eruption will be enough to get the Reshiram. Shadow Sneak onto Gengar yet. Okay. Well, it all comes down to eruption. Can it do like two HP damage to Reshiram? It does double resist it. Come on. It has to be on like one HP. Okay. We get, we get rid of it. That's good. That's good. And then the Sheninga is gonna hang on with its little old sash there. I think Groudon may take a Shadow Sneak as well. It's so important though for us to protect this Groudon, like we've never protected a Groudon before. If we lose Groudon, we will lose this match and it stacks coming out. Of course it is. I think we've got to overheat. We've just got to overheat the Sheninga. It's just going to protect them. We're going to see a trick room. I don't know if we can win this now. The mind games are just crazy. Okay. Our options are going for an earth part into the stack attacker and going for a GM. A GM answer is not really going to help us here at all. Or we go for the eruption. There's the threat of wide guard. Um, which wouldn't be good. We could overheat the Sheninga. It takes away wide guard, but then allies switch to be a bit of a pain. And we'll GM on C because if we can get rid of the Sheninga, then the GM on C will help against the stack attacker for sure. Go Shadow Sneak. So the overheat should get it if we survive this. We do. Okay. You see a trick room though. Let's see. Let's see what's going to happen. Come on. So tense we do it. That's great. Okay. That's good. Bye bye, Sheninga. Hate you. Hate you. I don't hate you. I love Sheninga, but it's a horrible Pokemon to play against. Rock slide. That is not what we wanted to see. Really is not. I'd rather... No, I don't know. Yeah, we're done for now. We're done for. We are done for. Um, because there's no way to take a Jarobor. Just a nasty team. Just a nasty team with a nasty Sheninga. I mean, I didn't expect the restroom to be doing as much damage with that, that blue flare, but it did some work, didn't it? Moonblast is not quite enough. Jarobor will pick up the knockout now. And that is good game to my opponent. That is unfortunate. That's like three losses on the bounce now for us. But I mean, we have played some weird stuff. So I'm just going to put it down to that. We're just going to put that on the drawing board. And okay, we've got like three games left where we can pull ourselves back out of this. This mare that we're in and try and get through with this team. Let's see if we can turn it around for this next one. I feel positive that we can. Things are kind of falling into place with this team. It's just the little little aspects that aren't. Would it have been better maybe going for, it wouldn't have been better going for an earth power into the stack attacker to be honest, because like we needed the groudon, we could have went for an eruption. That probably would have been the better thing and not being so worried about potentially a wide guard coming out. I don't know if we would have taken a rock slide though. I think it still would have done like 20, 25 health damage to groudon. Could have missed though. But anyway, we've got a different team. We're going to team preview. So next opponent is running a team of Kyogre, Requaza, Tabulele, Tabcoco, Togonamaru, and the, what is that? It's the Vika Vault Pre-Relation Charaburg. There we go. The little bust there. All right. Well, this is going to be tricky. Lots of electric types on this team. So groudon has a good time. The only reason why it doesn't is because of the Kyogre and then the Requaza paired up next to it. I wonder if we can just brute force our way through with Zen Amungus here. Could be an option for us. I think like I'm going to actually lead that. Zenius Amungus, we're going to bring groudon for sure and Gengar as our last one. Hmm. Okomoto. Now, there's two, there's two fairies on the team and a Requaza. Okomoto doesn't belong here. Right, we're locking and we'll get ready for this. So really what we're going to try and do turn one, depending on if the Togonamaru comes out or not, is we are going to try and just redirect, set the amount here, do as much damage as we can. Hopefully get rid of the Requaza in the process and then bring in groudon to close the game up. That's the plan, which in my head right now seems like not too bad of a plan and we can probably do it, but I'm sure there's going to be surprises along the way. This week has been full of surprises. So Pokemon Trainer, Cologne. We lead out with our Zen and Amungus. Amungus is sashed as well, so we've got a little bit of, we've got a little bit of wiggle room here. Lele coming out with the Togonamaru, which is a really interesting combination to come out because normally you'd leave the Togonamaru to utilize your fake out support, but you can't do that in the psychic terrain. So we will grow Jamancy and we will grow rage powder. The Amungus isn't going to be knocked out. It has to be doubled into here, so my opponent has to go for the double, the double up here, which is fine. If Amungus does go down here, I don't mind that too much because it means we do get to bring groudon in and we can then use that to get rid of the Togonamaru and we've got decent protection once we get the Jamancy up from the likes of Requaza and potentially like Kyogre as well. So there's the redirect. There's the psychic. Take us down to our sash. Good old mushy. Oh it doesn't. Amungus is just so strong and it sticks around another turn. That is huge for us. Superfan coming out. We'll probably take a Superfan with Zernius this next turn. The one thing we could potentially do though is actually, I don't want to switch groudon into a psychic. We could have switched groudon in on Amungus and kept Amungus around for later, but we'll probably better off. I mean one thing we could potentially do is go moonblast into the Lele and go for a spall into the Togonamaru. It can potentially nuzzle us and we can get punished for that, but at the same time Amungus will still be sticking around. So if the Requaza does come onto the field, we've still got rage powder and the ability to remove it. We just have to kind of contend with paralysis. I'd rather put the Togonamaru to sleep though right now just because I can. So moonblast this will get rid of Lele for sure. And the other thing is like a dazzle probably wouldn't get rid of the Lele. Let's see. Nuzzle, yep. It's into the Amungus though. They targeted Amungus. Could have brought groudon in there. Okay. I don't think I bring groudon in just yet, but I kind of feel like I need to. Just to get rid of the Togonamaru. Just if we see Kyogre come onto the field it's going to make things super difficult for us. Yeah we'll bring Gengar in. Just Gengar's not really got a way to hit Togonamaru which makes it a bit more awkward. But I mean it doesn't, there's not reason for us to not protect Zernius the next turn and switch into groudon if the Kyogre does come out onto the field. So we've got that as well. At least the Kyogre. The problem would be I think if the Togonamaru switches out into Requaza as we make the switch into groudon. Okay. It's scoff Kyogre as well. It's like a hundred percent scoffed. So what we'll do, yeah look at it. Look at it sitting there. Like it's like not primal reverting. I noticed that now. Okay. So do we just make that play? I think yeah I think we do. I think we just make the play where we'll get groudon. Oh I'm just a bit. I think what I prefer to do is have a paralyzed Zernius. I need to just cover the water spout. I don't want groudon coming down if that Requaza comes in. If they switch the Togonamaru out. But the U-turn won't work here because the Kyogre will be faster. So Zernius will get nuzzled. It changes things a lot though. It's scoffed all guy. It's way easier to deal with I think. We'll get groudon in. Kyogre protecting. It's not even scoffed. What is it then? This has just forgotten it's blue orb. I don't understand. I really don't understand this. This is madness. Okay so um do we erupt in Moonblast again? I think we do. I think we've got eruption in Moonblast. We might see the Requaza coming now. I'd imagine we probably do. I'm still going to Moonblast the Kyogre and I'm going to hope that we still outspeed the Kyogre. Which I would imagine we do. Unless it's scoffed then it has protect. Yeah it's the most mind janky set that I've ever seen. Who knows. It might be. It might be scoffed with protect. It could be to try it again. I don't know though. Unless the Re is not on the back. Okay so we get the Kyogre after going for the double protect and the eruption. This should be enough to get the tug of the morrow. It is sashed. Okay it's sturdy. It's not even got the lightning rod ability. It's a nice cheeky cheeky tech then. Requaza coming in as well. It's probably banded Re. Okay I think we just double double target. We'll go for the dazzle and we'll go for an eruption. We've got Gengar to come in and I feel confident like after a Dragon Ascent or two if we can just get some damage onto the Re we should be able to deal with it pretty handily. And the thing is like if you are my opponent I think you have to target the Zernius and you're probably super fine with Groudon. So worst we should end up with like a 50% Groudon and maybe we don't get an attack up with Zernius. But maybe they expect a protect on Zernius and double into Groudon who knows. Let's see. They're gonna mega evolve. Oh they might not even mega evolve. They might not even have Dragon Ascent. They haven't. You're gonna see a super bang. They have got Dragon Ascent but they haven't mega evolved. I don't really understand this. I don't understand anything that's happening. What's going on? Okay well we lose Groudon. Get the dazzle. This would be enough to get the Re and they're talking about oh it's not okay. Requiser just hang out. Sashed. Okay there we go. There's your little cheeky item that you've got there. Mr. Sash Requiser. The weirdness disappears. The psychic terrain and we will bring in Mr. Gengar and we'll mega evolve in Sludge Bomb and we will be able to pick up the win here regardless of whatever else happens in this match. I don't think anything other peculiarness can happen at all. So yeah we'll just go for that mega evolve Sludge Bomb and that should wrap things up and we do pick up a win. There's the forfeit. It's a very good game to my opponent and at least we finish the episode with a win today. That's great. So we'll carry this on in tomorrow's episode. Finish off the week with two wins and before I go remember that I am doing a special Halloween stream over on Twitch this evening. I did mention it in yesterday's episode. I don't know if I mentioned it today already but come over. We'll be starting around 7 p.m. probably going on until about 9 o'clock. We'll be playing a very Halloween themed team on the battle spot. So it should be a lot of fun. It would be great to see as many views possible and it's to kind of get started again back into the streaming mode of things with myself and the channel and everything surrounding that sort of thing. So have a great day morning afternoon night whatever time it is where you are. I will see you all for another episode. Tomorrow we'll wrap up with this team then. So until then guys thanks for tuning in. Take care and bye bye.