 Hi everyone, I hope you're all well, having a great day, thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 Battle Series, we are back again today with more x-ray action, we've been playing it since last week on the channel and this is the last week that we'll be featuring it of course before we go into a new team next week and if you've missed any of the episodes so far and you'd like to go back and check them out before coming into today's episode, as I always say I'll link a card up here for you, you can go and check the battles out, see some of the great matches that we've had with this team so far and then come back into today's episode and see how we can continue on to the rest of the week with this team, so to recap we've got the mega-requires of the Zernius, the Landerous, the Tappofini, the Incinero and the Serena, so without further ado we will just jump straight into it, as always if you enjoy the content guys please remember to leave a like on the video, do subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content and leave your comments in the comments section and I will get back to you as soon as possible, let's lock in some music Giovanni to kick us off today, I think just a little bit different from what we've normally had and hopefully it doesn't take too long to find the opponent, if it does I'll cut straight back to it and we'll jump into our first game and we've got our next opponent and our first opponent of the episode, it's been taking so long to find the opponent I nearly give up but we'll hop straight into team preview and I think it's opponent we've already had once this week, so we've got Qing and he is playing a team of Umbrian Phaerothon, got to tell Landerous Therian, Kyogre and Rekwaza, I think this is the third time we're playing Qing this season so we'll see and this particular team as well so we'll see if we can still overcome it in that last game we made use of Rekwaza's sword dancing and then just ripping through the team from there so can we do the same again I think that'd be a bit more wary about what we're doing here this time around, what are we gonna lead because we know that there's the trick room option we can't really deny it but we can try and get around it as best we can, I don't know if the Incineroar is the best lead here to be honest we do definitely need Incineroar it's just if we get trapped in next to that Kyogre it's gonna be very difficult for us to gain any sort of momentum here from this first time, my opponent doesn't have any fake out either so we could potentially go for Landerous and then we've got the double up opportunity on either target then Incineroar and we'll leave Finney and we'll bring Xerneas in the back and we'll lock in with those and we'll see how we get on in this first one today right oh I've literally been sitting for about 15 minutes looking for an opponent and it's just been going around and round and round and I'd literally nearly given up I thought it's not gonna happen it's just not gonna happen today whereas everyone but we find Qing so this is all good we can have another go at this they definitely know this team inside out now so I'm presuming that they'll approach it a little bit differently. Gothetel Kyogre coming out. Do you want to do? Do we want to do? Do we want to just Earthquake? We chased down the Gothetel we did that last time we saw an ally switch there didn't we? We could just U-turn as well but we're not really going to be U-turning in on anything that's where the Earthquake is quite a nice option here and maybe chasing down the Gothetel with a dragon ascent. The only problem doing that is we might proc a berry on the Gothetel and the Earthquake might not be enough to get it but at the same time I'm just gonna do it I'm just going to go Earthquake, Dragon ascent let's see what this Kyogre does and if we see an ally switch here then ideal but I don't know if my opponent does that it does throw your head in a spin when you know that ally switch is there but at the same time the only problem is if we Dragon ascent into the Gothetel and the procs a berry that would be the biggest problem. I'd imagine the Kyogre wants to try and protect here so the the trick room getting that up is the the best opportunity my opponent has with the kind of core team that they have the requires is obviously nasty to deal with but the moment of truth is coming up so let's see what my opponent does. Oh we've protected with lander what are we doing what are we doing okay I don't know why we've protected with landers that's a complete misclick on our end how do we okay so we get a nice chunk onto the Goth it's probably an extreme speed range we're gonna see an origin pulse and the trick room set up from my opponent requires it does avoid so we've still got a sash intact. Okay now do we just extreme speed the Gothetel or do we Dragon ascent the Kyogre I'm gonna extreme speed the Gothetel because as soon as we do that the sooner we can start switching out and I'm gonna go for a tectonic rage as well into the the Kyogre slot we'll see what my opponent does helping hand oh it's gonna be an origin pulse isn't it this should take the Gothetel down yeah it is an origin pulse that could miss water spout that makes a lot more sense yeah helping hand as well wow oh my gosh look at the damage it does to Ray holy cow alright we'll get incinerating slightly the pherothon hits the field now from my opponent but we've got the freedom to kind of switch around now so that's that's the other thing pherothon comes in yep now do we just fake out the Kyogre and protect because the pherothon's got a feel threatened here the other thing is we could just literally try and nuke the pherothon at extreme speed the Kyogre's got to feel pressured from the fake out for sure but the pherothon's got to feel pressured as well one of the things you could do is extreme speed the Kyogre and then flare blitz the pherothon pherothon protects trying to get around hopefully the extreme speeds enough oh the Kyogre protect double protect okay so we definitely get the pherothon the next turn and we can protect with our Requizer keeping it around for another day unless the pherothon switches out which it's likely to do now because then we could go snarl because the Kyogre is definitely gonna go origin pulse how many times the trick room we've got we've got to plan this out too hmm yeah the pherothon doesn't stay stick around does it it really doesn't let's go snarl pherothon switches out I think yeah yeah too threatened too heavily threatened Requizer coming in we'll get the extreme speed off into the Kyogre it's a bit annoying because yeah okay and the snarl we need to see what's about really more than anything here I feel come on what's about okay still gonna do a lot okay I mean Incinero takes it pretty comfortably I mean all my opponent has to do now is get the Incinero we can snarl again and go dazzling gleam or moon blast even yeah we can moon blast if that rate mega evolves it's gonna be faster than Azernius well this is the last turn of trick room so we could potentially Geomancy here I just feel like we've got to check the Ray because it chases down the Incinero otherwise let's go moon blast and let's go snarl so it is mega evolving I think that's a big mistake to be honest because if it doesn't protect here we get it the next turn and we get at this turn it's gonna launch the Delta stream there's the snarl doesn't miss the Kyogre no protect coming out either Kyogre is gonna watch about I'd imagine or origin pulse Incinero shouldn't go down though here and will outspeed the Ray yeah and we'll be able to to take it down the following turn well yeah I mean you know what I mean okay there we go and now the Kyogre should be in range of two moon blasts that mentioned so back to normal and I don't think Incinero is in any danger of going down to an origin pulse here so means we can check the Kyogre and just constantly check the ferrithon which is likely to protect here yeah we'll take another origin pulse yeah and the Kyogre definitely yeah the ferrithon protecting her it's just about the the Zornius taking this Kyogre down into moon blasts I mean a special attack drop here would be even better now but we're gonna yeah it's hit every single origin pulse it's a good Kyogre this one yeah and there's a flablet so we'll be able to get the ferrithon the next turn the moon blasts will be enough to get the Kyogre and we'll just click in after that miss click turn one I'm like oh my gosh I thought we'd lost this one and that would not have been any fun honestly that would have been terrible but hopefully this is enough here yeah and then we should have enough in the tank to take down this ferrithon with the flablets we've not been intimidated there's no no hope I don't think unless it's sashed yeah there we go it's gone good cat good cat oh that was too close for comfort and so now we're going down to three cold damage but very good game to Qing again and I'm not no doubt about we'll probably bump into you at some other point on this battle series so we'll look forward to the next time we play right let's hope it doesn't take an absolute age to find our next opponent and we'll hop straight over there's games you know when you get a little bit complacent and I think I will put it down to me just sitting mindlessly searching for like 15 minutes and just being a little bit off the boil but when you do and it kind of pings you up and you're like what have I just done and then you're kind of kicked into gear and thinking okay I've got to actually start playing again and luckily enough we had enough left to to kind of pull ourselves through that one it wasn't fun but nothing like a little wake-up call like that so we'll go with team rainbow rocket as our next track because this is one I don't think we featured I love rainbow rocket as well love them they're such a cool team Mr Giovanni and as I say well hopefully it doesn't take too long to find opponent I'll just cut now to when we bump into our next game and we have our next opponent in the episode Japanese player and they are playing a team off ooh this looks spicy I mean this looks really spicy I mean we need to get into team preview so we'll hop over to that right now here we go oh we're not even where's the right screen we're not even getting into it there we go we get to it finally sorry about that guys that is terrible but we've got lorantis this is Yveltal a lowland mark kayaga or corio the electric version and ferromosa wow this is this is a fun team quiver dance ferromosa or corio doing work here I think that's something that we can totally expect we probably want incinero um requiser oh we could go zernius set up early might not be a bad idea we do need to be careful around that a lowland muck as well then could be a decent one to bring well I definitely want to bring requiser could be a decent one to bring landeris but finney's also quite useful here as a switch into that kayaga um what do we do what do we do what do we do um let's go finney let's lock in with finney and go with that one and we'll finally get the screens right we'll finally get them right they're all the transitions all getting mixed up I'm like yes we'll get into this one here we go okay at least we're gonna play something a bit fun to end off today's episode that'll be great um I like seeing these obscure pokemon these niche pokemon and I'm sure most of you do as well and seeing them how they're operating what they're meant to do in the team and things like that so it'll be a lot of fun lorantus and ferromosa okay here we go here we go right we have to fake out the ferromosa I don't really care about the lorantus because we can definitely get our geometry up we'll take a plus one leaf blade from the lorantus unless it's z moved and then we're in trouble but that's fine we'll go off yeah we'll go for a fake out and we'll just gm and see um because I do wonder about the lorantus switching out anyway to the or corio the ferromosa going for the quiver dance the or corio doing dancer and the other thing is the ferromosa is probably sashed as well so it's nice to be able to break that stash that's something the lorantus hasn't got a way to deal with the zernius I mean if it has hat off to you my friend we'll get the gm anti-boost and then the next time we should be able to just dazzle and nuke the lorantus as long as sinora's still around it might take a superpower yeah there we go how's it going let me take it nah poor in sinora poor in sinora but we've got our gm anti so it's all that matters really now because we can get re-quazarin and I don't really know what my opponent kind of does to get around this to be honest um because we just well do we even need to mega evolve it might be nice not to know that there's a kyogre in the back um and just go dragon ascent into the orantus and dazzling gleam yeah I mean that's pretty straightforward for us there there's not really too much risk of anything else happening in our own feel and then it'll be evalto and kyogre in the back and this is why I'm not mega evolving because when the kyogre comes in it's the primal reverts that gets rare enough but then we can still mega evolve and get our delta stream to overwrite that so ferrimosa switching out saving that for later on but mark good old friend from vgc 2017 how are you doing having seen you around for a while oh mark that's how we treat you when you come in a critical hit I mean you take a critical hit doesn't gleam just how much of a boss you are legit like big bad boss so we'll get the lorantus though yeah even with the defensive booster it's fine oh mark mark mark mark I love a lola mark it's such a cool pokemon it really is and mark is one of those pokemon from generation one it's such a cool pokemon but you could never really use because it didn't like psychic and generation one was just broken wasn't it so yeah I think we just we just do the same again now we can just um dragon ascent mark dazzling gleam and that should do it and then the kyogre will be in the back I'd imagine probably left the evalto at home so there's a dazzling gleam get the jump on got both of them actually it's a bit unfortunate and then one pokemon left see what this pokemon is it's orcorio it makes an appearance oh this is great okay I have feel I almost feel mean for doing this but I mean it's fine isn't it it's fine well moonblast look at it pom pom bird doing all the right stuff extreme speed break a potential sash there and uh moonblast and good game to my opponent I think because that was so quick we could probably have a look for another one guys so like I say a very good game to my opponent um just getting the the geomancy off turn one was more than enough in this match and they didn't bring any of the restricted smiths it made it a lot easier so um we'll move on and we'll try and find our next one the black screen what are you doing come on we don't want to save that no come on let's get into our next one right music music uh Sinnoh legend let's do that one because I think this is one that we haven't had for a while as well and like always my no no there we go we've got a zone extreme as our next opponent so we'll hop into team preview so our next opponent of the episode we're going up against the kyogre, gengar, ferrathorn, reikwaza, tapu koko and incinero so we've got a jewel mega team here between the mega gengar and the mega reikwaza we've got the sporting cast of incinero for sure with the fake out intimidate support the tapu koko with its electric terrain um quite possibly has the um probably not got the ferrinium z because you got the mega gengar that can deal with alternate crossmer pretty well um kyogre there's no speed control on my opponent's team so it'll be a question whether or not that gengar's got icy wind so any sort of speed control from our side is gonna really disrupt their ability to operate very well um what are we gonna do I think incinero and hmm reikwaza definitely in the tapu fini and yeah we'll bring we'll bring zern to this one and we'll just lock in and we'll jump straight over to our min and hopefully it doesn't take too long for my opponent to lock in um but it should be a good one it's always going to be tricky playing mega gengar it's it's one of them pokemon but like I always try and do if we can kind of trade it early on for the reikwaza it does make life a little bit easier for zernius later on um I think the thing again we're noticing quite a common trend as well with these ferrathons you've got to just keep in mind that you've got to have that incinero for the late game if you don't things are very difficult and even though I'm saying that we have got our own reikwaza so it isn't like all is lost it's just it's a lot easier to deal with when you've got untimidate and a big fiery cat to help you out I'm gonna see kyaoga gengar come out for my opponent okay hmm yeah I mean one of the things we could do here is just go for the dragnocent into the gengar fake out into the the kyaoga here the other thing we could potentially do is just dragnocent the gengar um and switch into tapu finny but then there's the chance of my opponent doubling the reikwaza which I'm not massively keen on so let's just go that fake out route and it's got dragnocent into the gengar and if the gengar doesn't protect here then it is going down all the way downtown um we probably will take some heavy damage with our reikwaza here though that's the problem so reikwaza fever feverously I think that's what it is it's getting fever and bursting out becoming a badass so we'll get rid of this ring which is helpful gengar protects it's fine kyaoga protects also fine um now question is do we chase down the gengar again or do we chase down the kyaoga this time I kind of want to chase down the kyaoga more than anything um and go for a snarl yeah I'm gonna do it I don't think we'll pick up the knockout onto the kyaoga but the amount of damage we get ooh a skill swap gengar oh oh man okay it's going to get the intimidate which is so so useful for this kyaoga it does mean that our reikwaza can't get taken down here but it probably will mean that our our poor incinero will be down unless we get a silly old crit oh it does nothing does it you're doing better sword stance in there origin pulse rare voids still keeping that sash intact which is the big thing and ah we take that that's pretty nice so we'll get our snarl off which is really important for us here um it would have been better going for the skill swap with the kyaoga to be honest and then you keep your shadow tag because now you're pretty screwed because you're trapped in although the gengar's not trapped in um but we can switch out our incinero into our finny did we do that yeah let's do that and let's just protect bray we've got pretty fortunate with raid dodging these attacks like a little ninja uh we we do want to protect it though we don't want to just let it go down freely I'd imagine the gengar probably try something into that slot this turn to try and damage it so the kyaoga can maybe clean it up um but the snarl's going to be really really helpful for us here there's a skill swap again going for the kyaoga this time okay and there's a primordial sea and more intimidate spam hmm I'm probably going to see another origin pulse minus one it's not going to be doing too much to the finny and the gengar's not really going to have much chance to pick up a knockout with sludge bomb anymore which is the nice thing um I think what we'll do is go for an icy wind and hmm depends on fastest kyaogras as well because we've got the option here to go haze um it's just what do we switch in and in this case in this scenario um we'll probably have to sack incinero and it's not really something we really want to be doing um I'm going to go icy wind and I'm going to go into zernius here I think it's the one thing we can maybe get away with and the gengar withdraws so that means zernius has a way easier time coming in the rain does run away um we see the ferrithon hit the field zernius avoids wow the white origin pulse is such a terrible move we do get the icy wind um what we could potentially do is switch into incinero on geomancy because I feel like the kyaogra might switch out here and I think we take a minus one origin pulse with incinero yeah I'm gonna do that and there's a part of me that thinks that my opponent probably doesn't want to allow doesn't want to attack into the zernius because it's it's obviously we protect there but if we can get this geomancy it puts us in such a good position especially if incinero doesn't go down this turn so there's a geomancy hmm what this auger does I'm surprised the kyaogra stayed in to be honest because we could have just went for the moon blast but I mean it is being checked by the ferrithon so it's fair enough origin pulse does come out it does connect with both targets now so now we're taking that gyro ball into the ticket we do okay that's what we wanted we're in a perfect position now because we just dazzle and dazzle dazzle and go for the the flowlets um yeah the problem is like the ray quasi comes in at some point and it can just deal with with the zernius can't it this should be enough to take the kyaoga down but you've got to remember that the ray quasi cannot mega evolve just can't it cannot mega evolve there's the ray here he is big boy ray but what do you take down here do you take down the incinero or do you take down the zernius I think you take down the incinero hmm yeah I do think that you take down the incinero which could leave an opening for us to go for the dazzling gleam because I don't think you worry about the zernius you'll be able to go down to your sash you want to protect the ferrithon more than anything um yeah so I'm gonna dazzling gleam actually so that's the target I think you protect your ferrithon whatever costs ferrithon will take a dazzle oh wow we don't actually see an extreme speed oh we could have just oh we could have just never mind okay yeah it goes for the finny we just broke that berry or is a berry gone now there's a berry the ferrithon takes down the zernius now yeah oh it doesn't wow mad mad mad mad mad mad mad man um I think we'll just go for a nice wind and it protects does the ray protect here that's the thing or does the ray go for the finny now knowing that the extreme speed yeah that makes a lot of sense I mean fair like fair play to my opponent they're making all the they're not making bad decisions at all they're making it as hard as possible for me there's a gyro ball this time but we've got to be so careful with incinero because it's it's so low at this point on health um I mean the one thing we we don't want to do that we want to try and I see wind yeah and dazzling gleam probably not going to get it off I wouldn't have thought so there's the extreme speed now coming out yeah I can't believe that first time we could have just went for the flare blitz it's that old saying isn't it like your opponent worries about we'll lose the finny here because it will go power it oh just gerbil it'll be enough anyway yeah now I've got the mega gengar it's gonna come right down to it I think um because the gengar checks are incinero oh man what are we doing and yeah it's hard it's hard it is really difficult we'd have to survive we'd have to we have to get the game oh we still got a sash so there's every likelihood that we can do this I think we have to chase the gengar or the dragon ascent and the flare blitz they have to go for they have to go for the incinero here with gengar which could allow us to I just don't know if we get the ferrithon with just a normal dragon ascent from this range and there's no way to get around the gengar otherwise hmm and if we go after the ferrithon now it could protect and the gengar yeah that's the thing like I think we've got to get rid of the gengar and then hope we've got enough in the tank to okay if the ferrithon doesn't protect here it's done oh we could have sword stance oh imagine if we'd sword stance there then we just take yeah okay it's trying to get as much health back so because it knows the situation it's in um we'll go flare blitz again and just do the same again I mean yeah we have to do the same again because we can't allow the gengar to take down yeah the incinero and not get any return because we're going to take a gyro ball it's just a shame that our defense drops but we have got the intimidate onto the ferrithon it's just a shame that incinero is not in better shape I think the one thing we could potentially do because we'll take this let's see what this damage is like there's a chance it's a roll you know there's a chance no there's not I think our only hope here is swords dancing and then we can dragon ascend it I'm just gonna have a quick look on it a damage calculator because it's the one thing I never do this I've not got long left but I'm just gonna have a quick look to see because I shouldn't really do this and I'm gonna make my mind up before it's not even loading and I'm running out of time yeah I've not got time um do we just dragon ascend I'm gonna sword stance and hope that they protect okay we didn't get the damage calculator up in time but it's fine because we just do this this is the one win con we've got here because now we can 100% get this ferrithon ah what a great game really good opponent and um we will be able to just dragon ascend and take this thing down and this should be more than enough what a close game though great stuff to my opponent I'm Bob's damage and uh Rayquaza coming out victorious once again so very good game to my opponent and guys that is going to be it for today I hope you've enjoyed today's episode it's been a bunch of fun it's been really good we've had some really nice games today and thank you for sticking out to the end because it was well worth it I feel so we're gonna wrap things up we'll be back with more x y not x y x ray x ray get it through my head x ray action tomorrow so have a great day enjoy your morning afternoon night whatever time of day it is make sure you're taking care of yourself both guys and I will see you on our next one so until then take care and bye bye