 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon vgc 2019 battle series I hope you're all well having a great day We are back with some more x-ray action today to end the week up after kicking off with it earlier this week in the Ultra series and it's been incredible if you've missed any of the games and episodes from this week I would strongly advise going back and checking them out and checking out the matches that we've had so far to see the Progression of this team because it's been incredible. We're sitting on a nice record at the minute We'll get into that in a moment, but if you have missed and you'd like to go back and check those episodes out I would put a card up there for you and you can go and check those out But just to recap the team the team is always is in the description down below with a raw paste and a poker paste Check it out. Try it out. Let me know what you think of it If you do and just to recap before we go on to anything we've got the mega requires I've got the zernius lander is theory and we've got the type of finny incinero and that's arena So it's been incredibly fun so far We might change things up next week We might come back and just start on Monday play this team a little bit more until Wednesday And then we'll play a bit more of the quirky things with the x-ray build on Thursday and Friday But without further ado, let's get some music and get into this episode So as always guys if you do enjoy the sort of content Please make sure to drop a like on the video down below Do subscribe to the channel for more Pokemon content in general and do Do leave your comments because as I always say I love love love hearing from you all all the time So Music Giovanni for us to kick off with today 9-0 with the team at the minute pretty good 1657 rate which isn't too bad So hopefully like I say hopefully we can keep this up the team has been in some really tight spots this week But we've managed to kind of overcome like all of us does those bad bad Situations and come out victorious. So the team is performing extremely well and like I was saying in our last episode I'm really enjoying it and it is just one of those really solid teams that we've got access to now in this format that can Just do so well and if there's guys out there girls out there They're attending events in the next few weeks I definitely Recommend having a game plan against this sort of team because it is going to be very popular going into Berlin or variants of it dear Turner as well and Other events alongside that so just keep that in mind when you're going into events and make sure that when you're practicing for these events You practice with friends against this particular team or a variation of this kind of team because it's something that will Will cause you trouble. It's a very solid team and it's taken a little bit longer to find our first opponent the episode So what I'm gonna do is just Cut in when we do bump into our first opponent. So be right back guys So we've got a first opponent of the episode We've got a player from Portugal, which is very exciting a lovely place of the world So we'll hop straight into team preview and Our first opponent today is running a team of Rick waza Kyle got bronze on tap a cocoa Gengar and Scraffty, so we've probably got a dual mega team here. We've got the mega Rick waza and the mega Gengar here We've got and predominantly speed control method here is going to be on that bronze on with the trick room So indicating that it's gonna be a Slower bulkier Kyogre on this sort of build and then things paired with it to help it set up that trick room with the scraffty with its Intimidate support fake-out support that'll help set up and neuter our physical attackers The top cocoa there is going to be there for the terrain support for the rest of the team to prevent any sleep and things like that But if we can deny the trick room, that would be amazing Because it means that we can get around this team a little bit easier And although denying the trick rooms extremely difficult for us Especially with the Kyogre coming out onto the field I think what we're gonna have to try and do is utilize like Incineroar is extremely good here for us because just having access to that Intimidate especially for the Rick waza the opposing scraffty and then the dark typing for the the mega Gengar They're the bronze on and having that pivot option as well turn one on that mega Gengar We will bring tap and finny. I think we definitely need Rick waza And do we bring Serena here or do we bring Xerneus? Neither have a great time here, but Xerneus might be a little bit of a better option for So we'll hop straight into it. Good luck to my opponent And I feel like this could be one of the more tricky matchups with the team That we faced this week But let's see how we can approach it You just got to take a time like we like I always say you do in these games Just assess what's in front of you and see what you can do Right Gengar and Kyogre a nice pink Kyogre, which I'm not really too fond of if it primal reverts. It'd be a lot happier Is it gonna primal reverts? You're gonna misty terrain up Timidate support, but it's gonna primal reverts the last thing to happen Here we go. Yeah, no scoff Kyogre I went out how long into the format it's gonna be before I stop saying it's not scoff Kyogre It's probably not too long to be honest Should be seeing less and less of them as we go forward, but the mega Gengar the Kyogre there Now we have got access to fake out here, so we could fake out Into the Kyogre for sure Maybe get something else in The problem is If we icy wind without finning, we're still not gonna be faster than the Gengar the following turn But it would mean that we potentially can set something else up after the finny goes down and We could maybe predict the Kyogre protect here And switch into Rayquaza and it might not be a bad idea to do that just to preserve our incident or to be honest Switching Rayquaza and if I can lock in I don't think I'm gonna be able to do it. That's really frustrating Taking too long without decision-making here. We could get seriously punished on this one Ah We need the icy wind and we're not gonna do it. We're gonna be hazing which is terrible for us Please see the Kyogre protect now. We don't see just a double I think it's gonna be a double into the finny just really frustrating because we would have been able to get this icy wind off now And then Rayquaza would have been in a position to get this Gengar the next turn instead of hazing like a fool My opponent's like what what are you doing? Why are you hazing? Now Rayquaza's in a terrible position, but not not in the worst position, I guess, but not in the best position either Okay, let's Mega evolve. I'm hoping that the Gengar's attention is attracted more towards the Rayquaza rather than to have a finny now And we just icy wind And get this icy wind off. We're gonna see the Kyogre switch out and the bronze one coming Okay, I hope we lose finny now we get the Incinero back in so Still not ideal for us at all Come on Gengar target down that Okay, it's just protecting. That's fine We could have healed us there as well. That would have been an option But I think the icy wind after our turn one play. Yeah, it's put us so far behind in this match We can't switch anything out either now, which is a little bit of a pain And But we can drag innocent Gengar. I think you've got to chase the Rayquaza here with Gengar unfortunately And it doesn't give us the opportunity to potentially heal pulse with our finny. It's a sludge bomb Okay, you're going into the finny. We do go down And do you set the trick room up with bronze on because the dragon is sent I'll be able to get the Gengar We see a trick room here things aren't as bad Things aren't great It's a terrible, okay, and we definitely don't take that Right now. We've got Kyogre to deal with big bad Kyogre. Oh This is tricky tricky tricky tricky tricky very tricky Can we win this with Xernius Incinero and it's all because of that turn one that we did the turn one play where we Where we just miss clicked well We didn't miss click we ran out of time and it happens so often It's just it's managing talking and then I'm not making excuses because I should be I should be like I've done this for long enough Now there should be no mistakes here and especially timing out, but It does happen sometimes you just can't beat yourself about you just got to try and regroup and then See what you can do to come back in the game like this Tabacoco here. Could it have the z move? And come on come on game load It's just taking it's time. Hopefully we haven't dropped out. This is ah This could be us because our internet is terrible, but maybe it's not now I think it is it's taking too long to to reboot and that that's like I've been here didn't do that intentionally That's really frustrating for us Because I still feel like we have the opportunity there to GM and see fake out the bronzong and Because it's minus one we're able to take the GM and sees a little bit better, so We do have that option To take advantage of what is happening with my DS. Okay, we'll come back when we're we're back into a game Okay, so we are back guys. I've had a little bit of an issue with my Home broadband going down once again. So I've had to hook up to my hotspot on my phone So hopefully we find another point. We have fortunately we've taken our first loss, which is really not very fair But we'll get into our first match of the day proper one. Hopefully our connections days fine So our next opponent is running a team of Rayquaza, Kayoga, Mimikyu, Incinero, Landeris and Celesteela So quite a nice combination of Pokemon here not so common that you'll see that frequently We've got the Rayquaza and the Kayoga restricted pair here You've got a supporting cast of Mimikyu It's gonna have access to trick room there that we need to be careful of Maybe to support the Kayoga and that Celesteela and then double intimidate with the Landeris and the Incinero So they're having the fake-out support as well to help things set up on the team like that Rayquaza like the Trick room on that Mimikyu So we need to keep an eye on that and then the Celesteela Which is gonna be something that we find very difficult to hit with this team I think we have to rely quite heavily on Incinero here, so Right, one of the things we could potentially do is go Incinero or Xerneus Go Xerena. I think Xerena would be very very useful for us here And I want to try and force a Xerneus setup in this game Possibly by getting a cheeky GM anti setup early on Getting the Intimidate support with with Incinero as well onto something like Celesteela Could be really crucial for us and then I think we need our Rayquaza as our last one here So we'll lock in with these and we'll get straight into this next one Good luck to my opponent as always and yeah, I do apologize I'm having horrible issues with Virgin at the moment and the worst thing is as well about a month ago Just because I want to do more streams And I want to do better content upload content quicker onto YouTube and things like that So I upgraded and I count with them the service that I get with them to the the maximum speed Broadband, well fiber optic broadband that I can get and I've had so much trouble since upgrading and it's been really frustrating to deal with So I do apologize that streams Have recently been affected, but I would I would really love it if you guys came by It's always a nice nice time we do them on a Saturday morning now at 9 30 So we'll be streaming tomorrow morning if you're about and there is the Primal Kyogre I'm gonna see Landriss Primal Kyogre come up for my opponent Can we get the Geomancy off that's the thing like I feel like we were not in a bad position to do it What do we not want to take like I don't want to lose Incinero That's the big thing we need to keep Incinero around And For for later in the game. That's the the break big prerogative because of that cello stealer. Um, so I don't really want to get tectonic raged and I definitely don't want to get water spouted, but I I mean I don't really want to switch it out either. I want to make use of this this fake out I'm gonna go into the Kyogre here Because I want to keep Incinero and I'd say more likely than not the Landriss goes after the Zonius If not, then we get a free Geomancy here Um And forgive me cat if you go down here, but the Landriss switches out So you make the right decision there and the Incinero coming in for my opponent. That's fine Because then the next turn we've got that Serena switching and we can take advantage of that to get around any potential Fake out support and just dazzle all oh Kyogre going as well Is the cello stealer coming in? Yeah, cello stealer Okay I wonder if the Incinero on my opponent side of the field's got roll At least we know there's no trick room element to what my opponent's got. They've revealed or fall their Pokemon already. Which is quite nice So we do proc power herb Get this Geomancy off and set us up quite nicely going into the the next few turns Um, one of the things we've got to be a bit wary about is the Kyogre switching back in on that Incinero slot to prevent Flair blitz onto the cello stealer because it's such an easy thing for my opponent to do I think I will Um I'm gonna protect well do I protect I feel like there's definitely a fake out coming from the opposing Incinero So I think I could get away with going Serena here and just going dazzling gleam Because there's going to be a fake out and probably a heavy slam if it's flash cannon I don't really mind too much and even heavy slam. It's not going to be doing as much as my opponent wants it to be doing It's not like it's going to be a gyro ball Could be a gyro ball coming out from the cello stealer, which I've just thought about now and yeah Could be pretty detrimental to us. There's a fake out We do block that let's see what this cello stealer goes for Okay, we get some nice damage into the Incinero. There's just a leech seed. It doesn't affect. Yeah, so that's fine That's perfect for us because now we can nuke the Incinero. We can switch back into our Yeah, we can just switch back in I mean we could help at hand I mean the thing is I want to get an intimidate onto the cello stealer So that's the big thing and I'm just going to moon blast the Incinero get rid of that right now If it is heavy slam variant then the intimidates way more useful And like I say about the flash cannon, we've got the boost up already. So we're not too worried about that It's just the gyro ball or heavy slam that would be the big thing So it makes more sense here to go for the intimidate onto the cello stealer to kind of weaken it Give Xerneas a better chance to cut through the potential Kyogre and the rake requires a cone in after this So we'll see what my opponent goes for. We're going to just switch Serena and keep it around for later on It's also going to be a nice option to have against potential Kyogre later on in the match So that does come down to that The moon blast now switches out for my opponent I'm going to get rid of the Incinero now. Let's see. Do you see another leech seed potentially? Yeah, leech seed again gone into Xerneas this time. Makes a lot of sense To go for that slot, but we've got fake out this next turn so we can chase down this Kyogre If we would like to Because the Kyogre is the one thing that we need to get rid of before we can really deal with the cello stealer Which is making it quite useful and I think does make it quite useful in this sort of call because of how it operates It's it's able to sit around and have the protection from the Kyogre to really disrupt with the leech seed and You know before you can really deal with it. You need to deal with the Kyogre So that's a big threat and all the time that you're concentrating on this Kyogre The cello stealers are sitting there able to do whatever it wants really So the Kyogre now going to hit the field for my opponent. I'm going to get I'm going to get Incinero out of here And I'm going to bring in Rayquaza And then we're just going to go for a another moon blast into that Kyogre slot So sooner we get rid of that the better and then we if we leave the cello stealer till the end and we've got Incinero left that's like that is what we've got to try and do Incinero versus cello stealer we just win And also keeping Incinero on the back to have the intimidate for the Rayquaza is another nice option to have Kyogre is likely to go for yeah protects and then it's going to try and walk us about or Origin pulls the next turn, but I mean we've kind of got to pin this next turn because it can't double protect It either has to switch out. There's a leech seed again does break our Sasha and Rayquaza, but I'm not too concerned about that cello stealer is not putting on too much pressure And my opponent's got the decision now. Do they keep the Kyogre in? Um and take a dazzling gleam and a dragon ascent, which is what we're going to do Or do they switch it out into the Rayquaza and and have to deal with with that? Um It's hard it's hard I don't know what I would do in that position to be honest if I was my opponent, but we are going to mega evolve And just go for that dragon ascent and dazzling gleam I think the one thing about cello stealer that makes it a little bit different to maybe some of the other better zonius checks and why we don't see more of it is because It's it's not able to damage zonius as much as you kind of want it to we're not even seeing the Rayquaza in this team We're just going to see the lander has come in now We'll not get it with a dazzling gleam But then the Kyogre's back in the same position the next turn My opponent has to sort throwing out some heavy slams at some point You get the delta streamer So there's a dazzle Cellistila could have also had wide guard as well. That's the other thing Um And we've got to kind of be mindful of that because we've only seen leech seed From it so far So land out going down And my opponent choosing optin to keep the Kyogre around for the last part of the game And there's a heavy slam. Let's see what this is like I mean, it's respectable damage for sure. And with another leech seed We might be in a little bit of danger from Getting taken down. I think we probably are So we need to be we need to be super careful But we've got our end game that we need to do we need to get rid of the kyogre and we need to um We need to have incineroar as our last pokemon available And really tempted to just double protect here because I think the kyogre protects and you go for a heavy slam Into the zernius Um, and I think my my opponent's best way to get back into this now is going for the protect with the kyogre And then trying to protect the following turn It's going to make things a lot more difficult if the kyogre doesn't protect here I just feel like their hand's kind of forced to make them protect because they've got to try and get the zernius with another heavy slam So there's protect number one Requiser protect number two kyogre I see wind it doesn't protect Okay, I mean my opponent's doing all the right things here really they are um Now we're gonna have to rethink what we're doing I think we need to get request out to get this airlock back up get rid of this leech seed So we'll switch in serena go for a moon blast into the kyogre if we lose zernius we lose zernius um But props to my opponent for um for for being ballsly there and making the player thinking that we will double protect And they will protect this turn. I can guarantee it But we've got to try and get some damage onto it. So we put it in range for a dragon ascent That's the big thing. I mean it might not protect But it's likely it will right now There's a protect Okay, I mean the better player the previous turn would have been switching in to uh serena with requiser and then um having faint moon blast this next turn to get around that potential Potential protect there from the kyogre, but it's all all right still It's still not too bad because we get requiser in and you know what? I think requiser or the help and hand dragon ascent can probably well Dragon ascent and power whip is definitely going to be more than enough to get the kyogre and like I say It's getting that end board position That we need to do to to beat the celesteela Now the kyogre's got to go for a double protect here I feel and I don't think the celesteela's got so they got leech seed protect heavy slam What's their last move? I wonder if it's acrobatics. It could be But we'll go for the power whip and the dragon ascent into kyogre. We might lose requiser here, but it's Actually goes for it, but it fails. Okay, so we should be able to close this one up now and then the next turn we can um Just protect requiser for still around if you don't get the kill. Oh, we get it critical hit I don't think it mattered too much because then the power whip would have finished it off anyway They really needed that double protector come off and um, we get a little bit of a Power whip into this celesteela. What the one thing we don't want to do now is just grant this celesteela free um Free beast boosts because that's the one thing that like will put us in a really bad place so we'll switch out requiser now get incinero in and um We'll start the uh the flablets party so All right, come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. What do we want to do? Um Ah, we can just power up. We've not really got many options there with serena. So just getting some damage off onto it Is fine. It can't leech seed us as well being a grass type Which is quite a nice thing to have on the field in front of a celesteela that's Going to try and leech seed the heck out of us Be interested to see if my opponent predicts the the switch from the requiser and leech seed the incinero again It gives them even more opportunity to kind of come through this But as I said now, we've kind of done everything right up to this point with incinero to Put ourselves in a position where we can take this match. We've just seen a heavy slam It's going to be into our incinero slot Um, and we can just help in hand flablets to be honest Or faint flablets I think fainting faint Flablets is just the play because they could protect you And we kind of deny them the play to go leech seed protect stall us out With just the faint and there's the forfeit so very good game to my opponent And we are able to continue this on with the team even though we had that blip earlier on I'm putting that down to my wi-fi even though didn't look too good at the time We still had an opportunity to kind of come back in that game. So would it be nice to at least play it out? Um, but it has tarnished our record But we'll be hopping into our next game and searching for our next opponent right now So we don't want to see the game and we'll just hop straight into it Let's see what our ratings like now Took a little bit of a tanking off that that disconnect that we had before which is a little bit of a shame because We could have in a week maybe got up to 1700 but I don't think it's gonna happen. I don't think it's gonna happen. We need to pick some music, don't we? Uh, let's go You know about legend for a change. We've got our next opponent from the united states 1688 rate player So we'll hop straight into team preview Oh, and this is a nice team. We've got the reindeer combination the kylega and the zenius the restricted pair here We've got nylega another nice option. We've got salamence mungas and the incinero so options of speed control First things to identify always. I think in a team preview our salamence. It's got the option to tailwind there It's got intimidate as well another intimidate with that Incinero it's got the fake out support and then the other option to speed control We can't you know ignore is nylega does get access to trick room. So it's an option there that it could take advantage of um And it'll be around supporting the kylega the zenius We know what it's going to try and do get that j-man see up And my opponent's got a nice little way to shut down our zenius if they choose to with that a mungas Right nylega is a little bit awkward for us to deal with Especially because it hits pretty much everything on our team for decent damage, especially if he's got hidden part ice as well Um, but I do like landers here Just for the fact that we can hit the nylega the incinero for decent damage. We've got double intimidate as well Um, we can nuke the kylega as well as long as it's not scarf, which it's not likely to be in this core What are we going to do though? We need to make some decisions. I'm going to bring incinero um And finny i'm going to bring landeris and i'm going to bring reqaza and leave uh Zenius behind for this one. We'll give it a little We'll let it sit out this one just to be kind to it give it a little rest It's been putting a lot of work this week poor little zern Right, let's see. So we've got one two three e four five e four five All right, I'm gonna see nylega. Yeah zenius nylega. Okay We could get caught up by this nylega, you know But the one thing we could potentially do is his fake out Fake out the nylega I'm kind of I just want to fake out the zernius and got icy wind more than anything else to be honest Um Because then finny will be able to add speed to nylega and the zernius the next turn Um Yeah, i'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do that Uh I'm just got icy wind It does put us in a bit more of an awkward position with getting the hairs off especially against the zernius Um Oh, dear, it's gonna be the poison emz. Wow Huh see you finny Yeah, nylega is one of those niche picks that does so well, you know in this format I do think I died said it all along in the moon series and it did such a good job there It's an interesting one with the um the poison em Right gets a beast boost as well. Where is it in special attack? All right Right, let's bring in landeris We know it's not sash nylega, so we'll go down to an earthquake Oh The zernius has a real easy time setting up and it's whether or not that nylega has access to hidden part ice as well It does Makes things even more difficult for us Do we just let incinero go down? Uh And give another beast boost It's a problem That is the big problem. Oh I'm gonna uh, I need to switch in requires that to be honest It's just we're gonna take a massive chunk of damage And I'm gonna go for the tectonic rage into the zernius I feel like I've got to do it to try and just deny that geomancy nylega switches out. It's not the hidden part. I saw This isn't ideal either But it's not the end of the world Because we're gonna get a snarl off and we've still got requiser in the back Um, no, we're not getting a snarl off. Sorry. We're gonna get requiser in so we've got access We're not intimidating. We've got access to this extreme speed Which we can okay zernius protecting this turn Game's not over by a long shot Any damage here is great for us really Because then if they go for the geomancy the next turn We can get in our incinero It's just about preserving this sash now and requiser um We need to protect And I think we need to get incinero onto the field as soon as possible So we'll retreat landerists keep you around for a little bit later on And we'll protect rey. We're giving a free geomancy here, but It's just the fake out into the rey. We could have went for an earthquake, but we are minus one with that Well the landerists and I think we've got more more room to kind of get around This zernius this next turn by going fake out into the incinero and sword dancing And hoping that the zernius protects For the fear of the the fake out dragon is sent into it and I think they're probably likely to do that So i'm gonna go sword stance And i'm gonna go into incinero and then we've got our sash to fall back on so we can deal with the zernius We've just got to hope that the zernius protects here if it doesn't protect and it attacks then I think it's game over So here's a moment of truth There's a protect that's good. That's perfect for us actually Okay, and there's a sword stance There's only to protect that last turn so we can take it down this next one And we have to drag in the senate though. We have to drag in a senate And it's likely we lose Requisa to a dazzling gleam And a u-turn But there could be worse things Incinero we're not gonna lose Requisa then we're gonna see the nai ligo come in What we're gonna see the zernius do dazzling gleam here that makes a lot of sense Takes us down to our sash Okay, so we'll pick up the knockout onto the zernius And the dragon is sent will be enough to take the nai ligo down And then we still got we've still got a landeris to to utilize as well So it's not over just yet We know it's not sashed or scoffed or anything like that because of that z move But even a minus like even a plus one dragon is sent even though it's resisted on nai ligo I'd still say we probably have enough to take it down Um, I wonder if the kai auger makes an appearance now The plus one we should be able to deal with the kai auger, especially earthquake Dragon ascent would be enough Interesting to see what my opponent brings in though Is the kai auger? Hmm Very interesting indeed Okay, let's think about this. What are we gonna do now? Because we've not got our airlock but we do have to be nai ligo I feel like nai ligo probably like I want to I think what I'm gonna do is just protect rikwaza It's just I want to get an earthquake off If we lose landeris, that's the big thing here. We could just double protect to see what my opponent's gonna do to be honest um But the problem is with doing that the incinerole gets the free switching so I think He might be better off just attacking And go for the kai auger and just go for the earthquake as well Yeah, go dragon ascent into the kai auger and earthquake Oh Okay, we're gonna get it If this nai ligo hasn't got hidden power ice Then it does mean that landeris can get the earthquake off and probably kill both Okay, the kai auger is not even an issue now. Okay. We should get the earthquake off into the nai ligo Can we do it? The rain has lifted power gem. Where are we going? Okay, and now there's just the incinerole left so we Man, you know what like the times where I feel like okay, this this we've lost this like turn one It goes bad and then we manage to like just pull ourselves back into games um This team's incredible So we knock out the nai ligo And then the incinerole's the last thing to deal with but we've got our own incinerole to come in And although we have to probably earthquake our own incinerole at some point. It's fine, isn't it? It's all okay in the okay corral so Yeah I don't know if I'll ever have a better week with the team on the channel. It's been incredible I'm gonna try and do better next week, of course, but um, it's been An insane week for us On the channel this week. I mean every game's been absolutely amazing and with such a solid team as well It's uh, it's been really really great to um to be able to do this. So, uh, just to preserve our incinerole this turn We'll rock slide rather than anything else and there's the forfeit So I'm just gonna say a great game to my opponent really big props for bringing that nai ligo as well Really nice seeing that there and um guys. I hope you've all enjoyed this week's episodes all the matches this week It's been incredible Thank you so much for all of the support that I get always on the channel from the comments to the likes to just the views in general And I hope you continue to enjoy the content. It really means a lot that we've got such a great community here I do see it quite a lot, but it does mean a lot And um, I'm gonna end it up there and end on a nice note. Have a great weekend guys Thank you so much for tuning in and watching and I will see you all on Monday for another episode of VGC 2019 battle series. So until then take care and bye. Bye