 Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of our Road to Rank roulette series. My name is Lee also known as Osiris and today we're going to be kicking off with this team that you can see on your screen in front of you that we selected from the roulette wheel. Thanks to your nominations in yesterday's episode and talking about yesterday's episode we kicked off with the team. It was pretty good. We played Ham the man in our first game and thunder happened and stuff went wrong and then we pulled it back in our second one so if you'd like to go back and check out those matches because they were both really good. The team has been performing really well. I will link a card up here for you and check those out and then come into today's episode or watch today's episode and go back or just rely on my recap right now. That might that might work for you as well but I hope you're all well. Looking forward to getting into some more battles today. As always the team is down in the description below. There is a raw paste poker paste. Check it out and if you're mad enough try it out. I wouldn't even try it out because it is pretty fun. Definitely try it last week's team if you haven't because I think that team is legit good. But yes it's going to be a lot of fun. Like I said at the end of yesterday's episode we didn't really get to see much of the linoons so hopefully today is the day we can unleash the little weasel if that's what it is. It could be a ferret as well. But who knows that's a topic for another time. Without further ado my friends let's get into it today. Remember tomorrow is the day where we can activate our bonus buttons. We've got a randomizer switch up and our legendary and our patreon buttons so we can change the team with tomorrow sitting on a rating of 1549. It's unbelievable and as always if you enjoy this sort of content please remember to drop a like on the video. It does really help out the channel and the video itself and do subscribe if you're not already because we have lots of pokemon content coming up for you on the channel here especially with the release of the new rules coming in which hopefully was at the weekend and amongst other things as well. I want to stay away from necrosma version 2 until we like get to a good point. We're going to cross my version 1 to kick us off today with our music and yeah like I say hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent. But I just want to get this linoon working. I've played linoons weird pokemon. I've never really played it myself but I've obviously played against it many times and it's a very scary pokemon to play against and I think the sableye compliments it so well. Sableye was probably the MVP from yesterday's episode um either that or kyoga and kind of putting kyoga down because of how many thunders it missed in our first game which definitely cost us but sableye's been really good and I think the ability to not be faked out and have that kind of ability to have a fast ish fake out in this sort of format where incinero is probably your fastest common fake out user then it's a really good option for us to kind of go down with linoon. Imagine if linoon got in a focus as well that would be pretty sick probably bust but um yes hopefully like I say we can we can get the linoon working today. We can't find an opponent so what we're going to do my friends I'm going to cut it here we'll come straight back when we bump into our first opponent of the episode and we've got a first opponent of the episode japanese player from rated 15 27 and we'll get straight into team preview. Okay so our first opponent is running a team of dawnwings nakrozma, tapulele, venusaur, garados, groudon and celestila. This is quite an interesting team composition you've got the dawnwings which is probably going to revert into that ultra nakrozma supported by that tapulele the psychic terrain there you can imagine that that's quite an offensive mode there if the the tapulele is scarfed it gives my opponent a really fast offensive mode straight away and then the other fast offensive mode is going to be that groudon with the venusaur which potentially could be the mega of the team as well it has chlorophyll before mega evolves of course so benefiting from that sun with double speed then you've got a potential other mega on the team which is going to be garados probably not I don't know it could be mega garados which has the intimidate support and then celestila which supports everything with that wide guard and everything else from that side of things so what are we going to do has scoff kayoga that great here probably not against the groudon so we need another way to deal with groudon we need a way to deal with the tapulele and the the dawnwings as well this feels tough already Ellen you're not going to be ideal for us here charabug maybe not too bad um let's go with me too sableye charabug and do i bring in i have to bring kayoga really i'm going into this first one today and apologies if you can hear any like kind of construction noises bleeding over in this recording i do apologize hopefully it's not bleeding over and you're like i can't hear anything but if you can i do apologize neighbors are doing work again and it's pretty loud so it's like come on it works on a weekend typical anyway anyway aside from that we're going to see groudon venus so it'd be great if it was scoffed groudon wouldn't it i'd love it we could then utilize that kayoga override the rain but it's sadly it's not it's primal primal groudon although how good would scoff groudon be in this series that would be good scoff groudon for half the week scoff kayoga for the other half that would that i would i would enjoy that anyway we're gonna see venus so we're gonna see groudon come out for my opponent um well we'll go mega mega evolve um hmm do i just start attacking the groudon i feel like the venus so probably protects here just to get around it's uh i'm gonna just go for the fake out into venus so it's with the chlorophyll it's pretty fast venus so switching out tapulele yeah i mean we're not i mean this works out fine for us if we switched sableye into chorobug that battery ability we may be able to knock out that groudon here groudon might protect as well but i doubt it not with the kind of player that you see my opponent wants to catch us out faking out into that groudon but the psychic train really boosting mega mutu wise ability to hit this groudon for some big fat damage can we knock it out that would be incredible if we can oh doing some nice damage though back sableye avoiding because it's a ninja it's a ninja um okay mutu huh that's that's nasty damage scarred lily i'd imagine it probably is um it's got for a protect there what can we do with sableye right now can we do anything not really i mean we could try and get a foul playoff into the groudon the thing is i think we'll probably see a moon blast and a precipice blades although you might target the mutu if you're tapulele to try and get rid of it so groudon's a bit protected i'm gonna see the groudon protect tapulele moon blast yeah it's into the mutu so that makes a lot of sense foul play there okay um i mean we can we can do the same again and maybe preserve mutu to later on bring in chara bug and go for that foul play into into the groudon because my opponent now has to double in to save light to get rid of it and i think you i think you have to prioritize the mutu because otherwise you lose groudon like it's it's that simple isn't it there's the moon blast is it into yeah it's into that mutu chara bug gonna sap that up quite nicely precipice blades does connect may take oh okay but we'll get rid of the groudon which is the a nice a nice thing for us although wow oh how do we not take groudon down with foul play from that range that's insane um i think string shots probably a good option here we can't use quash though um and we can't really do anything else and a precipice blade is just gonna absolutely demolish huh i don't think we can beat the scoffed lele um the psychic touring really really does affect this team quite quite badly and we need to really get the string shot off if we can get the string shot off it makes life a lot easier for um we'll go for a foul play again into groudon i guess it's the only option we've got i feel like this is yeah the moon blast coming out into save like we need a precipice blades to miss if precipice blades misses it could open the door up for us rock slide groudon okay hmm now we do get kayoga and obviously our rain will not be a thing so we can get rid of the groudon for sure but it's the lele is the big problem for us here this is what i really need to get rid of and i have to lock into an attack with kayoga and ice beam's not really gonna cut at all um you're locked into moon blast you're gonna go for you're gonna go for the me too we could try and call on my opponent i think they protect the groudon here to be honest because it's obvious that the rain doesn't activate here that we are scoffed so you know just go on yeah i mean if we get a freeze here that would be good but i don't think you can freeze can you miss please miss please miss for the foul play damage which is really strange okay that foul play damage is groudon still throwing out some big damage like that precipice blades onto the me too was huge um yeah we're just gonna have to try and shadow ball and go for the ice beam it'd be amazing if me too i would spend the lele but i don't think we're gonna be able to okay the groudon protecting might not be the fastest fastest lele that's the thing nah the moon blast's coming out that's game unfortunately it's not a really great way to start the episode today it's gonna put us down to uh two losses one win but it kind of shows how weak the team is to the psychic train um okay we'll try and get the groudon last ditch attempt we should outspeed the lele um but we'll see we'll see if we can do no we don't even do that that's uh is that timid scoff potentially oh we survived with one hp carloga still kicking around but really we've got no options now yeah psychic train is a big problem for us we need something to come in and be able to help out with with tapulele um and the cross man coming out i mean not the best of starts for us at all but what can you do i mean when you get something that really like kind of walls i mean the other options we could have looked at on the team would have been the noon wouldn't have been really that great here because of the tapulele um because you can't really utilize that extreme speed like we need to landeris might have been all right i think really we would have been better starting off with maybe charabug and going for um the string shot and spamming that that could have been an option for us uh because we really i think that the priority that we needed to kind of go down there would have been slowing down that lele and then it opens the door up a little bit more from you too to kind of knock things out but as it stood it was just protecting my opponent the rest of my opponent's team which is a little bit sad for us but at the same time that's why scoff tapulele is so good right what music we're gonna go for in this next one let's go for something like and let's go gladian i've been enjoying gladian recently and um hopefully again it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent they are coming in dribs and drabs but i guess it gives me a little bit of an opportunity to talk about um the reveal the sword and shield reveal news that we had at worlds how exciting was that normally i'm a bit like hmm is it gonna be that good we've had some years where it's been really kind of mediocre like i don't mean to sound bad on some pokemon like but mega slobro reveal was it 2014 in dc i think yeah i think it was the last time it was in washington and it was just like a bit like uh mega slobro great and that was after like the previous year where we got mega kangaskhan which is like damn that thing's crazy um so to get the reveal that we got this year was was really incredible we've got some really great mechanics um neutralizing gas i mean that is going to be really interesting and then whereas it reflects armor as well on um uh covid night that that's going to be interesting and i think like just the the mechanics around when you gigantamax you can't be faked out that's pretty cool so there's it's pretty cool as well when you'd look as as well at the battlefield it looks as though when you've got two pokemon out you've got your gigantamax pokemon out as well now i don't know if that was just me misinterpreting i'm gonna have to go back and check it out the video but it did appear like there was both sides of the field had two pokemon out and then their huge pokemon behind them which kind of turns it into a triple battle for as long as you've got your gigantamaxed pokemon out and like i say i don't know if i was just misinterpreting the the scenario the battle scene or just dreaming it up but i could have sworn there was when there was that huge ride shoe on the field there was ludicolor and another pokemon and then a huge gigantamax pokemon behind them which kind of indicates that there's three and three oh cracking we've got a really good good fellow patreon member stew who has just been phenomenal in our flinch god circuit this season and he will be playing in the invitational very soon so what a pleasure to have him on the channel finally and coming up against this week's team so he's gonna have a sneak preview before it goes up but nonetheless we'll get into team preview and see what he's gonna throw at us today stew on 1700 as well so if we win we're gonna really scupper his rate and he is playing a team of zernius groud on tornadoes kangus khan the incinero and tapu koko can we catch him out with scoff kayaga i really don't think we can um save like could be really handy here though um although the kangus khan with scrappy could be a little bit of a problem as well right um is this the one where we got lanune um potentially potentially is um scoff kayaga i'm not really i'm not gonna bring to this match i'm gonna bring lanune i'm gonna bring charabug and i'm gonna bring me too as well do we do this yeah we'll do we'll just throw a random bunch in now we are one win two losses obviously we need to win this one to tie it up going into tomorrow's episode which would kind of set us up nicely to activate those buttons and get a good result by the end of the week and obviously if we beat stew here we'll steal a bunch of points as well it's gonna be really difficult though not gonna be straightforward but at the same time we'll see what happens so we're gonna see lanune and save like i'm out for our good sales against kangus khan and tornadoes so um let's go for fake out do we go belly drum though uh because we could fake out the kangus khan we could fake out the kangus khan um that's the thing we could fake out khan although we're probably just going to trade fake outs here that's the thing it's fake out the tornadoes we could potentially switch in something like charabug as well i kind of tempt it just to go for the belly drum though i'm gonna go for the belly drum let's let's try and get it off to fake out it's going into sableye okay we might see a taunt yeah it's gonna shut down our lanune doesn't want us doing anything like that yeah it's pretty it's a nice lead to shut down that um now i think we go for far play and we switch do we switch we're probably better off switching keeping lanune for a little bit later we could pull a double switch i mean that's the that's the other option here where we go for mutu into sableye and then we go into charabug um with lanune we keep this lead for later when when hopefully the tornadoes the kang has mega evolved and the tornadoes is maybe still sitting there and then we can maybe get some traction that way uh i'd imagine we'd probably see the tornadoes go for tailwind now taking the opportunity to get the tailwind we could see as he moved from the tornadoes as well um but the kang is probably likely to go into the charabug with a double edge or a return i think um to try and get rid of we do see it mega evolved there's the tailwind um and the charabug probably gonna eat up a little bit of damage here from yeah the kang is gone so yeah we do see that but charabug taking that pretty well to be honest and like yeah that's pretty nice um so i think what we'll do protect we'll go for a we'll go for a string shot we'll try and get rid of the speed boost here with charabug charabug goes down i don't mind this too much because then we do get sableye back on the field there's the z move i think it will be into charabug i'd imagine let's see stew doing so well as well right now on the ladder with that 1700 rate and i feel like this is always going to be a really tough game but we'll not give up the match is still in the early days let's see what charabug does can you take this now it goes down but like i said does give us the opportunity of bringing sableye as a double edge um and the z moves burnt as well which is which is the other thing so we get sableye onto the field and that tornado is if it does want to attack it's got to go for blind hurricanes and they could miss so you can get punished for that we'll mega evolve we'll go for an aurora sphere into the kang and we'll fake out into the kang as well i'm not too worried about the tornadoes right now um we could get taunted from the tornadoes into a sableye but if it does that it kind of waits to turn and we potentially can pick up the knockout onto kangaskhan here with an aurora sphere i don't know it depends how bulky the kang is kang going to switch out though it's a smart play and groudon coming in okay taunt probably is the best play to be honest into sableye isn't it so we'll mega evolve mega me too and there's a little bit of fake out damage into the groudon icy wind okay yeah that's it's a tech that a lot of players are using at the minute on tornadoes which makes a lot of sense because when the tailwind does run out it kind of sets up their team to kind of keep keep pressing for the rest of the game and we get the aurora sphere into the groudon which is nice um the tailwind will be pittering out soon which is the big thing um i'm kind of tempted to switch into lanoon here and and try and taunt the tornadoes i just feel like when i'm going to be able to maybe a foul player would have been better into that groudon oh we do get the taunt so that's good it's actually going for an attack which is nice so we can't set up another tailwind it's going for another icy wind um yeah it's all going to be about this precipice blades hitting the sableye i think here really oh flamethrower wow okay don't mind that and because now my opponent has to we can try and get this belly drum set up now um because my opponent the side strike should take down this groudon um and the tornadoes can't taunt right now so we can belly drum my opponent's got to rely on a hurricane hitting a blind hurricane hitting so we'll go for the side strike into the groudon that should be enough to pick up the knockout there um we might see the groudon protect and icy wind come out from this meet from this tornadoes we'll see we'll see it's going to be interesting whatever but at least now we're kind of in a position where we can try and claw back this match side strike i can say from the damage from the aurora sphere this should be enough to take down this groudon oh no luna voids it flamethrower oh don't take us down too much oh no damn i can't believe it survived the side strike and now it's over flamethrower groudon has kicked that butt i'm gonna mark it down already there's no point i don't think we can do really anything from this point not with me too it's not that strong so sad so sad but it's just how it is you know we've had two hard matches today the lele kind of really screwed us over in that first game the tornadoes is that easy to take down we should have taken it down a lot earlier flamethrower coming out from groudon it's so powerful as well isn't it um i mean me too handling it pretty well thing is though i mean zonius or kan comes in now zonius yeah and like we can't split our attacks we can only target certain things and it makes sense to me if the zonius protected maybe now and kangas can't switch in for the groudon but we i can't see it there's no way for us to actually come back against three pokemon we can attempt to um but this is going to be it i think the germansi will get set up here there's no way we would be able to take down that zonius with a with a side strike from this position and even if we did um the groudon will be left open to flamethrower so a very good game to stew you did push you a little bit to the mark the hurricane miss is obviously unfortunate but uh we needed that flamethrower target into the me too not the linoon and um unfortunately we weren't able to uh to take the flamethrower mind it if we'd taken the flamethrower with a decent amount of damage you proc i bury you get the belly drum off then i think there's a game on but there's still the kang and the zonius to come in you got the fake out germansi which makes it pretty difficult from that point anyway so tough games today and not the best of results but we're not going to give up we're not going to be downtrodden by it and it's been great to have stew on as i'll last opponent today and we'll wrap things up there but we'll be back tomorrow and we're obviously going to be activating those bonus buttons tomorrow so that is going to be very exciting i've got three of those to activate and a fourth one obviously for my patrons um so hopefully they've put some nominations together so we can activate maybe even four tomorrow but i'm probably not activate all of them tomorrow let me know down in the comment section below which buttons you'd like to see activated and we can go from there and i'll have a think about which ones i think the keepers at the minute are definitely the sableye um lanoon because i want to get that working and i think everything else is probably up in the air i'm probably leaning on the side of keeping scoff kayoga but i'm not too sure at the minute but we'll come back tomorrow have a great day thank you so much for tuning in as always and we'll see you for another one tomorrows and til then take care and buh-bye