 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 Battle Series. I hope you all well had a great weekend. We are back. It's Monday, so that means one thing again We are going to be playing a brand new team going into this week on the channel as you can see It's on the screen in front of you as always the team is down in the description below There will be a raw piss and a poker piss so you can check it out in your own time try it out If you'd like to and as always if you do try it out Let me know how you get on with the team because I think it's gonna be a lot of fun Especially in the best of one situation now Kyogre's earliest is 18 call that had a lot of success earlier in the season We've not really seen too much play from it going forward in the ultra series So one reason was I haven't played Kyogre so far on the channel this year So there's one reason and also I do feel like this combination can work And it's still got a lot of utility in this format. So we're playing that combination today We've got the Kyogre the tornadoes the tornadoes is gonna be there It's quite a bulky one as well because I was a bit drawn. I wanted to focus sash on it But then focus sash seemed a bit more fitting on the talk of tomorrow here So we've went for a berry on tornadoes very bulky. It's got tailwind role play Which is the nice thing got toned and then hurricane and we've got the talk of tomorrow support there with fake out U-turn We've got endeavor because you've got the sash there, which is gonna be nice to really chunk things down It's jolly nature as well So it should out speed the majority of the format that we're going up against, you know with that nice base 96 speed that it does carry there and then U-turn so we've got a fast pivot out as well to also support Kyogre help us with the Weather control there Zornius is pretty obvious You know what it does we need to get the Geomancy up support it well enough and I feel like within this team We've got enough to prevent and stop trick room getting set up Which is kind of like our biggest threat at the moment just looking at it on face value But the kindest corners are mega because we do need a mega there I originally had incinero and then looked at the team and thought there's no there's no mega here We're looking for a mega so we've got Kangas con in there. We've got fake out We've got bite we saw that played over the weekend in Berlin There's picking up a lot of popularity just because of the flinch chance that you've got there with it So you can fake out and then bite something hopefully by the two hits You knew also pick up the flinch and then Serena again It does support tornadoes, especially without protect on there and the other members of the team So you've got the Queen of Mages He's just supporting and gives us a nice grass type as well to the team We've put the Z move on it because it gives us a way to nuke things like Kyogre things like type of finny that are so predominant in the format right now So we're gonna kick off with this team this week as I say it's down in the description if you want to try it out Look at it and it will be a lot of fun and we'll probably change it up as we go through So we've done the brief introduction without further ado Let's crack some music on and let's get straight into today's episode as always guys If you do enjoy this sort of content, please remember to leave a like on the video Do subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content and leave your comments because I love hearing from you all so since our last episode We've been playing around on stream and things like that with various teams So I'm written isn't as high, but I'm sure we can climb quite high up to it Let's kick off with Lee title defense today to get into this one and of course it was Berlin International the European International Championships over the weekend I'm actually recording this episode before the finals So I don't know what the outcome of that was but I hope you guys enjoyed it anyone attending I hope you had an amazing time and do let me know if you were an attendant So you were watching the streams what you thought of the event and the teams that came out on top There's been some incredible games this weekend and make it again Go has been doing a lot of work, hasn't it? So that's something to keep in mind going forward I think if you're playing this format going into tournaments yourself Making sure that you've got like it get watching these tournaments gives you a better idea of what to expect going into them And it helps you kind of I Don't know like just accumulate your ideas to know what you have to prepare for So it's nice with the format kind of betting in at this point being able to have a good idea of what you're Going to be facing going into these events and obviously players will be adapting their teams and things like that as we go forward So it's not just straightforward yourself But we do have a better idea going into these sort of things Then we did beforehand, but we've got a first opponent so we can hop straight over into team preview And our first opponent today is playing die alga, pheromones, caiga, tabacoco, Raichu Which is the Alolan form and tornadoes. So what are the chances we play tornadoes and we bump into a tornadoes I don't think I faced one tornadoes yet this season But regardless of that, it's fine. Right. What are we looking at here? We've got tailwind on my opponent's team trick room with the dial guy We've got that really fast auto mod with the car the tabacoco and the Alolan Raichu That's something we have to be a little bit careful of now talking about it can be pretty good here You know, and it faces down against the the Raichu and the tabacoco pretty nicely here and Do we go with I'm kind of tempted to go with Zernius honestly As a lead just to try and get the geomancer. We've got to be a bit careful around the trick room, of course But then again, we could get it up bring serenae and kiss my opponent brings that tornadoes and then you know We're not going to have much speed control, but I think Could we go could we sneak caiga in the back or is that not the best idea? And maybe we go Kang and leave caiga behind here. It's just Hmm I'm going to go caiga. I'm going to go caiga I feel Olga could do a job here. So we'll go into it The camera is gone. There we go back like magic. So Hmm This is a tricky one because like I think the kangas can't could have been just as good Over the caiga, but I just I just like bring caiga obviously you want to bring both restrictives to every game you can But the the additional fake out might be useful. So we're going to see Raichu and we are going to see The tornadoes come out for my opponent. How I feel like we've got a pretty good chance here Just to switch toga tomorrow out and get serenae in And we'll be able to block All of the the pranks the stuff all of the fake out shenanigans and get a geomancy off Which should put us in a really nice position So let's see if we can catch my opponent out because it's it's kind of obvious that we might try this And they might not fall for it, but we do get the the fake out block Oh role play But it's blocked So we do get the geomancy up So this is a nice little start for us and this is one of the beauties about serenae And this is why I keep harping on about it so much in this format Why I think it's like legitimately so good and people are probably getting tired of me because we played serenae on the The requiser team, but I just I just think it's great. I really do We will probably change the team up as we go through this week So serenae won't be on it for the whole time, but I think just as a utility in this team It really kind of jumped out at me now. We've got Ah geomancy boost up, which is very nice. So what I'm going to do is just switch serenae straight I'll get toga tomorrow in and just go for a fat dazzling gleam because we are nicely boosted up now We are running a bit of a different zanyus in this team as well that we Then then the ones we've been running previously another week. So it's a little bit different It's not as fast as some of the other variants, but it is it is just as bulky So we see the tailwind here from the tornado. It's kind of locked to do in much else Get the dazzling gleam off. Maybe the right you is sashed Yeah, there's the sash, but if it goes for a volt switch, then we'll pull it in with There you go. See it is gone for an electric web. We do get The lightning rod, but we can't get around it completely. It does lower our zanyus is Speed by one stage. So The tailwind kind of counteracting there. So all right, what do we do? Hmm, I kind of worry more about the right you having nuzzle So I want to fake out into that slot and I think we'll just go for another dazzling gleam here Tornado is protecting. Okay, that's fine. It's fine. Yeah, so we'll get rid of this right you That's nice. Get rid of that We've got to worry as well because the tailwind is up So our opponents will be potentially outspeeding us depending on what comes in. Obviously the kaiaga coming in now could be a little bit Tricky, but with the geomancy boost at this point. It should be all right. There's the kaiaga Hmm, we'll probably see it double up into It does zanyus here, but I mean one of the things we can do is just go for a nuzzle into the tornado Yes Do we want to get rid of the tornadoes like we don't want to take a hurricane and um Hydro vortex Hydro vortex what am I talking about a water spout, but we could nuzzle the kaiaga as well It would make our lives a lot easier going into the The latter and I think I'm kind of tempted to just do that um It's just if we Yeah, I'll do it because then we we've got the option to endeavor Potentially if we want the next turn and just getting the nuzzle onto the kaiaga is pretty nice Uh, obviously we need to click in I need to wake it up I thought I'd already clicked in to protect on on zanyus here, but we need to try and stall this tailwind out, of course Okay, so hurricane. Yeah, and we'll get the nuzzle Oh, kaiaga actually Add speed to the tomorrow Of course it does because they've got the tailwind up. We could have went for the endeavor there But never mind. It's fine. We get the nuzzle into the kaiaga, which is always going to be nice It's not going to do a huge damage, but any chip is nice and it's not really threatening us going into this next turn Um, and we could potentially just go endeavor into the ogre and dazzling gleam Because we'll take the kaiaga down to one hp. I'd imagine the tornadoes probably wants the hurricane into the zanyus here Um, and if we do get that into the kaiaga, then that's that's brilliant Because we'll be able to pick up the knockout with a dazzle and then my opponent's just got one pokemon then in the back Which should be should be fine. I wonder if it's a dialger though. That would be my question Is it the dialger? or not hmm It's a bit like that situation where I'm like, hmm I want to bring both restricted style. That's probably really good against this sort of call But you know as we will get the dazzling gleam. Ah, we go before our toggle tomorrow, which we need to really keep in mind, you know Um, but you do get the endeavor off regardless I'm gonna take it down to one hp. There's It will be enough to get the toggle tomorrow, but I think it probably did about one. Oh crit as well crit One hp. What's about big damage? There's the tail when peering out. So zanyus in a really nice position now Uh, we'll bring serena in because we then if it is the pheromosa, we've still got Access, yeah, there's the we can just faint dazzling gleam And it should be should have enough to kind of clean this match up now For zanyus with Even plus one will outspeed the pheromosa. Um, so we can just go faint. Um We know it's not sash because the ride she was sashed But just in case it protects then we can get around it that way So we should be able to pick up our first victory here. And that's the other thing with serena as well It's you know, like here we can just get around any I mean, we're not on any real Trouble here, but I mean if there was a similar situation where Your opponent had the potential to protect and stall out a turn and maybe get a bit of an advantage there The faint just denies that and that's one of the other things I really love about serena It kind of blocks that on your end, but you're allowed to do it as long as there's no Psychic terrain up, of course, which would block it. So Right, we do pick up the win very good game to my opponent and we'll move on to our next one Hopefully it doesn't take too long to find the next opponent But um, I had like one game with this team before I jumped into the episode I thought, you know, it's probably a good idea just to get a little feel for the team And I wish I had recorded that episode. It was great. We faced a Crobat groudon build and we totally got the always mega gengar as well, which was really nice But we got the whole role play thing down and it was um It did go very well. So I feel pretty nice about coming into this one today with this team. So sitting on a rating of There we go There's the rating screen. I always forget to kind of flip it back over to this one So I should be more mindful um David for you, I will not throw out ultra and across my version two We'll we'll go with elite four for our second one today. I do spam that one quite a lot But we've got an next opponent. So we'll jump straight into team preview Okay, this is an interesting bill We've got a groudon zernius salamence tabulae less mega and clefairy So we've got all the support options here, haven't we got the clefairy It's going to have that friend guard going to have follow me all sorts of shenanigans here as well as that Smeagol with access to follow me. So lots of redirection support here fake out support from the smeagol Can have tabulae there which will bring its terrain which will kind of hinder our ability to utilize our prime star on a tornado um and Our fake out support as well. It's kind of gone. So Salamence becomes a bit more of an issue Um, whether or not I want to utilize toggle tomorrow here More than anything just to nuzzle things for a bit of redirection might be a way to go We need to be very careful around this smeagol because one of the things it can do is potentially Put things to sleep which we don't really want to have to contend with now one of the things I could do is lead Kangascon and zernius I'm just wary about the tabulae leading because with the psychic terrain up and if it is scarfed like I kind of expect it to be Can put a big dent in zernius to begin with. Hmm. Okay. Let's go Actually, yeah, we'll bring can we'll bring zern we'll bring Togo tomorrow and kayoga It just doesn't leave us many actually i'm gonna bring tornadoes instead of the toggle tomorrow and we'll jump Don't want that screen We don't want that screen. We want this screen. I need to be quicker on the trigger finger today Um, I think the tornadoes gives us a bit more alleviation against the ground on whereas toga tomorrow Um, we don't have many good ground on switches in And our opponent is definitely going to have ground on out at some point And we need a way to be able to switch in and kind of adjust our board position a little bit And the tail winds obviously very nice as well Okay, so we're seeing tabulae and we're seeing zernius Um, they want to be able to get around Fake out to allow the zernius to set up Now one of the things we could potentially do here is go for a mega vol bite into the zernius And hope to pick up a flinch that way and stop at geomancy and because if we can do that And we can geomancy ourselves Then that does put us in a good position So i'm going to just go for it and i'm going to feel confident that kang is con Mama kang can do all the work it needs to and flinch this zernius because we're max speed So we're allowed speed after we mega evolve and This is really like quite a nice tech If you can get it guaranteed to get it most turns when you do it It really does put you in a good place. So we're just going to see a thousand gleam Come out from the lehle I'm surprised we don't see a side shock there. We just see the bite From the kang There's two bites. Do we get it? We get it There we go boys. We're back in action So it's so broken. It's so broken Right, we get the geomancy up wearing a Pretty nice position right now. I know the lehle is locked into dazzling gleam. We know it's scarfed Went before everything so it has to be We're not in really too much danger here of Going down and I think what we could potentially do is just go for I mean, what's my opponent going to switch in here? Smeagol, maybe salamence no Groudon potentially um I don't know. I feel like I could just Return into did we return into zerno? Do we just moon blast it? um I feel like I probably just want to return into the lehle And we are modest So we should be able to pick up the zernius with a moon blast from this range unless it's like super bulky Um, but I think we should be pretty safe. We're not going to see any switches out here This should take the zernius down. We remove that threat, which is nice Could have protected there as a dazzling gleam Kang hanging in there and there's a return. This should take the lehle down And it's a little bit. Oh well critical hit Sorry, sorry opponent, but I think we probably get it anyway. Um, that'd be interesting to see what my opponent brings in now Likely to be groud on You've got to imagine But we still have access to bite Big bad bitey kangas con can we get a bite flinch on the groud on to finish it off today? That would be that would be pretty nice. There is a salamence. Okay, so that's Fine zernius can deal with that and it is a groud on like one of the things we could potentially do here is just Go dazzling gleam bite into the groud on um And hope that we pick up the knockout onto it. Um, I kind of Probably would like to protect zernius here but Because I expect the salamence to protect but I don't want to get punished I'd leave that salamence alone And allow it to get the the tail end up now zernius should be able to take a precipice blades from this range should But even if not like what have we got in the back? We've got tornado this kind of we're in a fine position We're like fine. We're super fine actually So it it'll be it'll be all all right. Um, do a dazzle or do I just Loom blast Oh I just dazzle dazzle get some damage off into the groud on as well The salamence is likely protect like that's what yeah in my point. It just for fits. So Got another win very good and shown kind of the dominance of Kangas con with that bite as well today, which is really nice We had a like a little feature of the serena as well, which is super nice. So Team kicking off really well. I'm really happy with how it's went today So hopefully that continues on as the week goes on It is a little bit different from builds that you've probably seen before But I think it'll be a lot of fun playing this team through this week And like I say, I'm super open I know with the the extra team that we played last week We didn't really make any changes because it had such a nice run And we wanted to see how far we could push it on I do feel a bit similar with this team But I'm way more open to to changing it and tweaking it as we go But it feels like it's got a lot of like items texts and things like that to help it Cover each other to make sure that it can function well Especially like I say in a best of one situation where we can really catch our opponents out and the bite on the Kangas con is just crazy Isn't it but guys we're going to end it there. I hope you've enjoyed today's episode Do leave a comment down below. Let me know what you think of today's episode And I will look forward to going through them and we're applying to you as soon as possible But thank you so much for tuning in. Hope you have a great rest of your day And I will see you all for the next one so until then ticket and buh-bye