 Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of our road to rank through let series it is Tuesday And we kicked off in our last episode yesterday with this team that is on the screen in front of you right now As always there is a team paste down in the description There is a roll paste and a poker paste of the team you can check it out Try it out if you'd like to and if you do try it out as always do let me know how you get on with it But as I say we kicked off with it yesterday. We didn't have the best of starts to the week So I'm really hoping in today's episode. We can we can turn over a new leaf try again reset and See what we can do with the team just to recap it though We got the wiggly tuff the dongwings and across my Lugia the Volcarona Laurentus and hit my top and that was what the roulette wheel kindly threw out for us this week Remember tomorrow we can activate some bonus buttons depending on how today goes We'll see but it might be likely that we're gonna activate maybe a couple at least tomorrow Of some of those bonus buttons. Let's Hop over into our main screen. Let's see what the the damages we're sitting on a 1451 rating We're doing well we're doing well we're doing we're doing all the right things We're gonna get up to 1500 by the end of the week I promise you that is that something that I just say every week and I just it just never happens I don't think it's ever happened. We're only in this position because we've been streaming and We've been playing good teams on stream and it's managed to kind of get us to those points It's weird playing a stream with a properly built team and winning Winning but it does make winning in this series that much more worthwhile It feels so much better because you've really worked for it and really struggled for it So with a bunch of mad Pokemon But I'm not gonna complain too much even though I feel like I probably am so I will apologize for that We've got a first opponent in the episode so we'll hop straight over into team preview Okay, we got incineroar request another a quasi. Come on. Come on. Give us something different tap a cocoa crowbar Kyoga and Exkidrill Well, well, well, okay, we've got the the crowbar for the speed control works super well next to that Rayquaza It's gonna be mega Rayquaza The exkidrill. Hmm. Has it got mold breaker to get around things that are a floaty like stuff that could Maybe give this team a bit of problem like bronze on stuff like that I hit months up regardless. It's gonna be really strong here I don't know if we want to go down a trick room route although trick room could be very good for us the incineroar does cause us a few problems and It's looking gonna be the way to go here the type of cocoa could be awkward I'm actually gonna go for the necrosma. I'm gonna go trick room route here I think around this is really good. And do we go wiggly tough? Do we give it another chance? It's not got the best of it's not gonna have the best of time against the exkidrill, but we've got Enough Pokemon to kind of get around these others. I'm gonna bring it. I'm gonna do it We're gonna start off today like we did yesterday with the same for with the same kind of basic premise We did well in that match. I think there was the the nuzzle that Kind of screwed us over a little bit late game Other than that like if we got around that we possibly would have been able to claw out a victory there But let's try again. He's fought it. All right So we're gonna see crowbar and we're gonna see Require that the crowbar's got to taunt us hasn't it has to Ask the taunt us. We can fake out the Rayquaza. We get a nice intimidate onto it Now do we Z move the Rayquaza and fake out or do we Z move it next turn? I think we probably Z move it next turn. We'll fake it out. We'll go for the photon guys that into the crowbar Because I I totally expect a taunt to come out here to shut down a potential trick room The one thing I would kick myself about a little bit is if the ray It doesn't protect you and we could have doubled into it And it's kind of like one of those situations where you think I could have got rid of only one of them all nuisance restrictive Pokemon on my opponent's side and That is exactly what's happening super fine coming out Maybe predicting that we were gonna turn into a tree in a plasma, but not the case if this takes you down Okay, this is where faint again would be so so useful and Let's go for the trick room. Let's try the trick room Do we bring in wiggy tough? I think it's probably not a bad idea And we'll try and trick room. Yeah Then we preserve the the top for later We've got there the intimidate support because the X could rule the problem in case Kyle good comes in We got a white guard there. So Perfect tailwind not suspecting in the slightest the trick room here from our donwings across We're gonna see a dragon ascent is it into yet into our donwings, but Intimidate it will be able to take this Bandit, it's not I Wouldn't have thought so anyway, but we do get the trick room up, which is perfect all Excellent another turn where a tailwind goes up. What more could you ask for? We can dazzle? Dazzle razzle dazzle and we'll go moon guys beam into the request We'll sit on as he moved just for the moment because We'll just we'll just wait for whatever comes in later and see if we can we can knock something out later We're gonna see an extreme speed Okay, it's into wiggy tough takes it like a champ gonna be able to get this dazzle off knock out this crobat Do some nice damage to the requiser and hopefully put it in range for a moon guys beam to pick up the knockout there So we do deal with these two threats pretty easily Whatever comes in next as well, you know, they're still in a tailwind. We're in a trick room. Whatever it is What however slow it is it's gonna be Slower than us, so we're gonna be able to get the Z move off and Hopefully set up kind of like that nice end game that we're wanting to see and pick up a nice win to kick us off today It should be fantastic really. Um, I wonder what it is. It's definitely gonna be Kyogre and maybe in general maybe Maybe tap a cocoa would make sense, but we are gonna see the incident. Oh, that's fine. Um, I Think what I'll do is We did get a competitive boost kind of tempted just to stay in Well, go for the Z move into the Kyogre for sure and we'll try and do we focus blast? the incident Yeah, we'll give would give wiggy tough its moment in the Sun or the rain As we've got now, let's go out on when you need it Okay, um, yeah, let's let's focus plus we're gonna get we're gonna get picked out for sure Moseley move Kyogre might protect but I'm hoping it doesn't I'm hoping it feels like it's gonna be fine. Oh, what have I done? I give it focus No, no focus blast. It's got focus. Oh, what is this? Okay, regardless of what wiggly tough is doing We've totally botched up the moveset there as well as the Laurentus. So this should do a nice chunk to Kyogre Definitely weak in that water spot at least it's gone for the origin post. Let's see. How are we take this? Okay, both both survive. We're not gonna go for a focus blast again. We're gonna go for a thunderbolt into the Kyogre and We will switch into We'll switch into him on top Thunderbolt from wiggly tough. Come on wiggly tough. You want to get in knockout? You can do it You can do it my little friend, right? Maybe the Kyogre protect here, but I don't know. Maybe not But if it does and the wiggly tough gets taken down, it means yeah We get we get we'll get a free switch into the Laurentus. So I mean it's we're still gonna be in a Fine position going to the next turn Docus laureate. It's gonna be into hit one top. I think Yeah Okay, so you check button activating but that's all right because it does give us the opportunity to just get Laurentus under the field and we can just super power Super power the incinero and we can go for the thunderbolt Into Kyogre Super power and thunderbolt and then we should be picking up a win for for our first match today Which is amazing, which will bring us to a record of one win and two losses. I need to just keep Keep a tally of how we do through the week just to keep keep things every great if we could finish today like level Level playing field that would be amazing. So there's the super power and get the boost Is the thunderbolt after a competitive boost? We should be yeah picking up the the knockout there against Kyogre and And this is gonna be a nice little win for us here today Incinero obviously going for that z move after it does a weird snarl thing Mid animation. I don't know what's going on with the animations in this this game It's weird like all the pokemon are kind of doing animations in between turns, which I've never really seen before So here's the malicious moussaint from the incinero Into Laurent is not going to do too much though. Um, and I mentioned some back to normal Should we go for the focus blast just for the fun of it? I think we should let's try Focus punch because it's going to be focus blast. Uh, we'll go for another super power I don't know if we're going to be able to take uh, flablets Well, we're plus one defense and then minus one attack. So maybe flablets I'll be surprised if we do Here we go. Nah, we can't take it, but this will probably proc a berry Oh, no, it's z move. There's no berry focus punch Wiggly tough you are the man you do You showing how strong you are with focus punch. Yeah, you don't need that focus blast You want the the focus punch is the one Here we go. Anyway, so we will change that that is a definite definite error on my on my end So apologies about that but it worked out in the end So I mean what we got to complain about nothing and it was a lot more it was a lot more me me Then uh, then the alternative so We're off to a victory today and our first one, which is always good Like I say victories are few and far between in this series and when you get them The feeling is amazing. It really does. It feels so good to get a victory. So we'll um We'll move on to our next opponent. Like I always say, hopefully it doesn't take too long. Let's pick some Music, uh, should we go with gladian? Yeah, let's go gladian here. Um, yeah But the victory in this series feels like 10 victories in a row In our normal series. We got jackson up next. So we'll hop over to you and see what we've got So another requires Okay, it's like Ray quasi like flavor of the week this week. Um, I don't know if we're ever going to face anything But Ray quasi, I hope we do tomorrow Let's pray and hope anyway. We've got jackson He's playing a team of incineroar type of finny requires a crowbar stack attacker and the zernius So again, our trick remords probably our best one to go for here. I'm going to lead with him on top Dawn wings to cross ma. We've got to worry about that crowbar for sure Um, I'm going to go laranthus and I'm going to bring Wiglet of exactly the same four again it's going to be difficult Because there's the inclusion of the zernius here and we know how Hard we struggle against zernius without any real checks against geomancy, which is a bit of an oversight But just one of those things but uh, jackson's ready. We're ready. Let's get into this one here today And I feel like we can maybe do something I don't know it depends. It depends if we can get a trick room up And we can nuke the zernius with our zinus Maybe that's a way for us to beat zernius And then the rest just takes care of itself crowbar's zernius okay It's a bit like the last game where it's like the Rayquaza and The crowbar where we're like Could we could we go for trick room here? Or do we just go for the photon geyser into the crowbar? crowbar's definitely gonna be sash, isn't it? Um I've got a fake other zernius And it's just it's it's whether or not I Go for the trick room here or not Uh, I feel like trick room here could be good, but I also feel like My opponent's paying attention. They probably think we are going for a trick room But they might think we're altering our cosmo as well. So they might go for tailwind. I'm gonna go for the trick room again See zernius protecting we're gonna see tailwind. Come on There's a fake out blocked No No No Jackson Jackson, you're too smart. You're too smart for this game Uh, I mean one of the things we could potentially do is go for a help in hand Uh z move into the zernius it's gonna get the geomancy off But there's z move help in hand should still do a good chunk of damage. So there's the helping hand Uh, let's see what we can do super fine into top It means as well we can get top out to get top back in again with this eject button. So It's nice and in many ways we'll get wiggly tough in it might it might prove quite useful Against the boosted zernius. I don't know what the cards are like against it. There's the geomancy absorbing the power And proccing a power if it didn't have the power hope could you imagine? But it does That would have been the best because then then we get it But i'm still feeling kind of confident that this z move still gonna do a crazy amount of damage helping hand boosted Let's see It takes a class it would be it would be it'd be amazing it really would but Probably means we can't protect as well with the only song man Look at that damage. That is ridiculous. That is ridiculous Oh, I can't believe that We'll go for a dozen game. We've got the fairy aura boost Um, and we'll try for the photon geyser. I guess Um Do we go for it into the crowbar though or do we go for it into the zernius? Because I think wiggly tough definitely survives I'm going to go for the photon geyser into the crowbar because then we can potentially yeah, we should take this moon blast We should And oh no, he's got cross poison, but we should take this we should be able to clear the field Come on to hit me The hype is real here. We get the crowbar Come on. We need this dazzle to do enough We need to don't let us down at this point, please Yes The tough is enough Here we go. Here we go friends. Okay, so we're we're getting rid of zernius there Our taunt wears off which is good Uh, we've got two pokemon to deal with and now we know one of them is going to be the Rayquaza Potentially the other one is is oh, it's tapu finny. I was going to see it in center all tapu finny's maybe a little bit better to deal with than um Then the insineral to be honest because we can potentially get a trick room up It's going to be difficult to get trick room up though. Um It's really going to be difficult to get a trick room up Wigglytuff hasn't had any boosts yet. So I think what we'll try and do is switch Wigglytuff out into top And we will go for a protect with nukosma Uh, it's just tricky because I think like even a nice wind at this this point takes nukosma down And the likelihood is the finny could have skulled. So that's another thing Uh, it's going to be really difficult to close this one out. I don't know if we're going to be able to do it We'll see we'll see, you know that like anything can happen from here. We can play it a little bit smarter than what we maybe Maybe being able to do just normally. I don't know. I don't know what I'm saying I just want us to win this match after that getting rid of those two pokemon so Rayquaza intimidated gets a belt to stream up after mega evolve and will protect us nukosma um Crunch, okay Indicating that it maybe is the southwest nature's madness top of voids. Okay So let's try fake out Rayquaza. Um and go trick room Indicating that the finny's got nature's madness its other move is going to be Icy wind which it has to go for now. I think because nature's madness won't get It's heel pulse Okay, we get a trick room up then That's pretty that makes things so much easier for us Um, and if that is a southwest ray, we can get laranches and knock it off. It doesn't game it Um, okay. Okay, uh Do we just do we just nuke into the Rayquaza then? I think we do. Um, we guys being helping hand into that slot because I think it's a southwest for sure uh The finny probably just heel pulses it though, which is the problem but I really need wiggly tough and laranches on the field now That does nice damage. Okay, nature's madness fine with that I'm on top still sticking around. There's a crunch. It will take us down. Um But I wonder what a helping hand dazzling gleam will do to the ray from our wiggly tough I don't know if it's going to be enough Um, but we need to get laranches onto the field because we need to help in hand leaf blade the finny I think that's the most important thing now to get rid of the finny because the finny is the one thing that can Can help heal A little rayquaza over there. So we'll go for that. We'll go help in hand leaf blade that should be enough to get the finny Even without the boost we should be getting it. There's extreme speed going to be into top. So laranches actually oh, wow It's not even enough to get the top That is enough. That is enough all we need now is a knockoff Maybe even a close combat from this range. We'll get it. So uh Super flying weak pokemon I'm doing a number on on this rayquaza the ultimate flying pokemon Come on. Let's I'd love to be able to like the knockoff. We'll get rid of the assault vest We'll probably see an extreme speed, but we just see the forfeit We get a victory. So we've got double victory. We haven't had one of these days for ages my friends It is a pleasure to grab and tie up the score going into tomorrow's episode. So that is great. Um two wins today Obviously had two losses yesterday. So mary's up perfectly making it a great end to the show today Which is brilliant and takes us with all the momentum going into tomorrow's episode Now we did say at the start of the episode we have those four bonus buttons that we can activate We'll see how the episode goes today before we make any decisions going into tomorrow's episode before we change things up But let me know in the comment section. This is important You guys let me know what you would like to see maybe one two or three or four buttons activated Tomorrow, that would be great. Let me know in the comment section and we'll make some decisions when we come back tomorrow But have a great incredible fantastic rest of your day my friends and I'll see you all for the next episode tomorrow So until then take care and bye. Bye