 Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 Battle Series. We are here again. It is Monday. I hope you all had a great weekend and because it's Monday that means one thing. We are back with a brand new team to play for the next two weeks on the channel and as you can see on the screen in front of you, this is the team that we will be playing. It is going to be centered around Zygarde and Sogaleo. So one of the things that I would like to do with this team is mimic exactly what we did with the Cure and White build. I feel like this particular combination has a lot of potential and this team starting off is kind of like the common build that you would normally see and I'm sure many of you faced a similar build to this already in this format but what I would like to do is take it a little bit deeper, test it out, see what the weaknesses are and see if we can put our own twist on it, overcome and patch up some of those weaknesses, some of those worse off matchups that we might come up against and then end up with a really solid finished article a week on Friday which would be a lot of fun to do and I feel like doing this sort of thing throughout this battle series is really beneficial not just for me and the team building but to show to yourself so you can take these principles into your own testing and make changes and adjustments accordingly against the threats and things that you might be struggling with so you can have that finished team to take into a tournament and have a lot of success with. So I hope it is something that you do enjoy and of course if you enjoy this sort of content make sure that you do drop a like on the video it's just down below make sure you do subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any of these daily episodes and also leave a comment as well let me know what your thoughts are on the team and also on the battles that we have throughout the next couple of weeks because I love hearing from you all as always the team is in the description down below there will be a poker paste and a roll paste of the team for you guys to have a look at check out the spreads move sets and things like that for us starting off today and also if you want to try it out go ahead and do that but let me know how you get on with it if you do test it out at all but it's going to be a lot of fun so without further ado I guess let's just get into it guys let's pop some music on and hop on to the battle spot ladder and hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our first opponent but bigger news last week we got the pokemon direct generation eight has now dropped which is incredible and I was just so hyped when that that direct came out I had to sneak away it worked to watch it in like this little room so I could just watch it and see it unfold and all the starters and things get revealed and stuff like that so it was amazing and it was just like incredible and team sobble all the way we'll touch on that a bit later because we've got our first opponent and special opponent for us to kick off with so we will go on to team preview this is my good friend stew who is a good old patron and part of the flinch squad so stew good luck my friend always a pleasure playing you and you have an incredibly interesting build here with groudon tapulele mewtwo whimsicott among us and incineroar so huh the groudon is going to be a bit tricky for us to deal with for sure because we do have the suga leo that we really want to be taken advantage of especially for that mewtwo and the tapulele here and we do have the phytonium on the suga leo so we can nuke that incineroar any point want uh suga leo has a really nice time against the moongus the whimsicott that even the mewtwo and the the tapulele to be honest so protecting that is going to be a big prerogative in this match I think we do want some terrain control with tapu finny we're going to see tailwind potentially from the whimsicott but I can't discount that it could be a trick room as well so let's see what we can do here um I think it intimidates going to be super important especially with incineroar I am going to lead off with suga leo um and I think you know I want zygarde and tapu finny here makes sense to bring venus all because of the speed control that we've got and venus all is like really good but the two psychic types on pros and side of the field kind of put me off a little bit so I'm going to bench it for this first one and we'll get into it good luck stew and big shout out to you my friend and this should be a good one stew's having an absolute storming start to the flint squad circuit this season so um it's not going to be just that easy but um it looks like you might be testing this team out but uh always fun to play um we're going to see the mewtwo and the whimsicott come out and it's a shiny shiny mewtwo and shiny whimsicott as well nice all the shinies here so we'll lead off with suga leo and insineroar so not a bad lead from us we can't underestimate what might be coming out from that mewtwo it's a little bit unpredictable so we have to be a little bit careful around it obviously we don't want to get stuck in any sort of on-court shenanigans from the whimsicott but at the same time the whimsicott cannot on-court out in sineroar so we're pretty free just to go for the fake out into that slot and potentially just take it down but I do fear that it probably hmm you've got to wonder as well that tapu leila could come in get the psychic terrain a blocker fake out um one of the things I could do just to be on the safer side of things we're probably going to see a tail wind here it's just knock off the mewtwo um and send steel strike into the whimsicott because if the leila comes in there then we can catch it pretty hard yeah so there we go tapu leila coming in to block a fake out like we thought but we're not going to fall for that one although we normally do okay what is this fighting him this is going to be focused blast I'm going to say so go there I should take this should take it all our pummeling here we go it's going to be into incineroar of course yeah that makes way more sense doesn't it I'm sitting here thinking yeah you could only attack the yeah it does take us down I think you need to be modest unless timid has a real good like it just has a role so but um we should be able to take down this tapu leila here and then we can overwrite the um the terrain by getting that tapu finian next turn so yeah we get rid of the tapu leila which is nice you know the groudon's lurking in the back though that's the thing and without our intimidate it's not not the best but we'll bring in yeah we'll bring in tapu fini here just to get rid of this psychic terrain so yeah I mean it is kind of conflicting with the whimsicott so there's a part meaning things is this whimsicott chlorophyll could potentially be just because it doesn't make too much sense to have it in there with the psychic terrain but I mean at the same time it's it's all right isn't it so I think what we do I could I really feel like we're gonna see um really feel like we're gonna see a trick room from this whimsicott here for some reason for some reason I really do I'm gonna swagger my sogaleo and I'm gonna go for yeah Sunseal Strike into the Mewtwo we're not gonna be outspeeding our sogaleo whimsicott gonna switch straight back out a bit and I think groudon gonna hit the field now no trick room I tell in there from the whimsicott which is interesting preserve that for later on what's a Mewtwo gonna do so use this z move it is going for the shadow ball okay I mean I don't mind this too much either because we'll be able to probably outspeed the groudon the next turn I think and we still got zygod in the back so we're not in the worst place we've got wide guard as well that we can utilize um Mewtwo yeah and I mean what we could do is just wide guard well protect and icy wind that's not a bad idea for this next turn and then like plus two sogaleo is just gonna destroy everything I feel so we'll just protect you I wonder if a plus two phytonium z will get the um all that poem and we'll get groudon I want to say no because groudon is just so monstrously bulky but at the same time no Mewtwo gonna protect here I mean that's a small protect because you kind of probably suspecting that we would go off for the icy wind here anyway precipice blades gonna come out it does hit taboo phytonium take this down to half half it's not ideal is it to get the speed drop on the groudon let's see I wonder if we'll take a yeah we should just take I mean depending on the role we should take a shadow ball it's just yeah let's go for it um there we go z move though the z move is going to be the most powerful thing we've got I just don't feel like it's going to be enough we've got icy wind again and all our pummeling side strike it's going to be into taboo phytonium here I wonder if we can take this is that the tree no definitely not Mewtwo so strong we need the z later we are plus two we are plus two I just don't know if this is going to be enough I think this is if there's a salt gallium z we would be able to take the groudon down for sure but um depends plus two plus two we are plus two I'll just keep telling myself that and it's going to make a difference oh we get it oh come on back in the game boys back in the game okay so we get rid of the big threat and now we can get big old zygond in so the Mewtwo has it's got shadow ball side strike yeah it's not got ice beam so we're all right what's this whimsicob got though that's the other thing so you're gonna wonder what the whimmy's got um um let's go a thousand arrows and do we just stand still strike um we don't want to protect in front of whimsicott heck no because we'll just get on cold and then he's just useless so I think we do probably take this roll wise yes 10 10 moon blast it's going to be into so the layer I reckon no huh and now we're going to be able to close this one up yeah we see that as a life up whimsicott um and you can tell from the the first shadow ball roll like we should have taken it so maybe the first one was a bit higher the second one a bit lower so we get a bit fortunate possibly with that so I imagine the two-hick here is a roll it's along the lines but thousand arrows now well we've got extreme speed so we'll be able to pick up the um the knockout if not the next turn not this turn but uh very good game to stew always a pleasure to play you and what a good game to kick us off with today so team doing all right and we'll continue on to our next opponent guys so well it's always nice to start with a new team with a win of course um but what a great team that stew had that was a really really nice team you two putting in a lot of work and me too was one of the things that I was really thinking about playing um on the channel this week but um talking about things playing on the channel so it is coming up to the end of the moon series very soon we're probably gonna have time for at least one more team um to play before we go into the ultra series so one thing I do want to ask you guys is if you can if you've got any burning desire for any sort of team that you would like to see played on the channel before we kick into the ultra series let me know in the comment section below because I'd love to hear and try and fit in as many of the teams that you'd like to see played before we do go on to the ultra series and say bye bye adios to the moon series which will be like I say very soon I am starting and I have already started to do the ultra series guide so that'll be ready for when the the ultra series does kick into effect so that's another thing to make sure that you do hit that little old subscribe bell down there to make sure that you don't miss them if they're the sort of things that you like on the channel I'm really looking forward to releasing these guides and putting a lot of work into them and I think comprehensively they're probably the best guides that I've done on the channel since I've started doing YouTube so um hopefully they're some use to you guys there are a lot of fun making them and they've got a lot of content inside each one so there is five in total covering everything you need to know about the ultra series hopefully there might be a few things but I think you can refer back to a lot of the old guides that kind of still sit kind of true in the ultra series as well although there are a few differences but we did a bunch of moon as well but we got an ex-opponent so getting on to this we'll hop into team preview and Dogukan is playing a team of Groudon, Hort, All, Cortana, Tepifini, Whimsicott and Incinero so a really nice call here as well I love that Groudon, Hort, All combination it's it's a it is a favourite combination of mine I do think like it's it's very good you've got the supporting cast of Cortana then the Tepifini obviously the Whimsicott and Incinero with Intimidate and Fakeout support so lots of fire things going on here Zygod is so good against this team we have to be a little bit careful with the Whimsicott I guess but as long as we can keep our misty terrain up on the field Zygod does such good work against the Hort on everything like that I think what we'll do is lead off and Tepifini Incinero I think what brings Zygod and yes so sogaleo sogaleo yeah let's bring it and we've got why god I guess it's not the best thing to bring in this match but it's probably uh well Venusol's not bad but if the sun disappears and then we don't have it then it's tricky to deal with that Hort either way unless it's a slow really bulky one which quite possibly could be it's going to have tailwind though that's the options I would say on my opponent's side of the field maybe trick room with the Whimsicott again I always do wonder about that when when I do see a Whimsicott especially with the Groudon because it can it can learn trick room and it can really throw you off especially in these sort of best of one situations where you're kind of relying on it being one thing and then it flips being the other and then you just lose the game because of that assumption so we are going to see the Groudon Incineroar come out for my opponent we're going to lead off with our Incineroar and Tapu Finney you see that our Incineroar I think is the faster one here yeah getting our Intimidator first so what do we do we could switch in Zygod to be honest um or we could just trade fake outs I think that's quite a nice thing to do although I feel like my opponent probably switches their Incineroar out to be honest so we could just swagger our own Incineroar slot and just switch the Zygod in there then get it powered up get it in start doing some stuff with it as soon as we can gotta worry a little bit about the the Groudium Z on the on the Groudon but after an Intimidator I think both Finney and Zygod will be able to take these pretty comfortably we're gonna see a fake out into the Finney here we could have just traded fake outs but we're gonna see a Stomping Tantrum instead from the Groudon now um good job we didn't fake it out because that does trigger its ability to be doubled in power so I we will go swagger again um we could go coil as well just to be absolutely insanely overpowered um I don't feel like two out of place doing that to be honest um the Groudon like I say could have the Z move but if we coil on top of the Intimidator it's minus two it's not going to be picking up the knockout on Zygod at all I would imagine that Zygod would probably add speed this Groudon but it may not as well so we can't just assume things but we'll see my opponent goes for here so now we're going to switch out now and we're going to see Hoto hit the field but you do not mind at all and we'll get this swagger off you do not miss it's always one of the worries when you are self-swaggering if you do miss yourself such a waste of a move we do hit and we get this coil off before the Groudon so we're supercharged Zygod right now let's see what this Groudon decides to go for just another stomping tantrum this time into the finny to get some damage on there so I think what we'll do now is we'll switch Finny out we'll bring Incinero in and we'll just throw it out we'll start throwing out these thousand arrows because we got plus three now and we're still going to be able to do some decent damage at the same time so I think Zygod does really well against Hoto in general especially with the Misty Terrain support so you can't be burned from the sacred fires and you can ground it and then the next turn you're going to be hitting it for like super good damage so it's not the worst Pokemon at all and kind of has that little bit of an advantage over Groudon in this matchup I feel so Groudon I'm going to withdraw I'm going to see Incinero I guess probably hit the field now yeah to get that intimidating take us down to plus two but I mean still plus two you've got to say you're still going to be hitting pretty hard at the same time and with the coil we the defensive boost that we've got we've got the brave bird coming in from the Hoto now the bravest bird of them all where's it gonna hit into Zygod yeah like you wanted to take us down below the 50% so we can get the power construct we haven't had that yet so wow bye bye Incinero oh grounded I didn't expect it to take it down hmm that's kind of nice guess Groudon will probably come out now oh Cortana I mean don't mind that really at all we'll switch Incinero out bring Sovilleo in and we'll just go for another thousand arrows a Cortana is not going to be touching us I mean it can sacred sword definitely can sacred sword us and it will okay no but that the sacred sword just ignores any stat boosts and stuff like that so that's something that we can want hit the Zygod please please yay no oh are you kidding oh I don't know if we can win this one now that is so frustrating critical hit brave bird I mean you saw how much damage it did the first time around okay I can't let this Hoto I can't let the Hoto recover here I really can't because it's definitely got it I think I'm gonna have to go fake out since you're striking to the Hoto because I can't let this thing recover now we need to get rid of it that's the big thing that we need to do Cortana might switch out for Groudon because it's threatened by a fake out the all out pummeling might stay in as well frustrating yeah there's a Groudon coming in for the Cortana so this will be enough to take down that Hoto it's a bit trickier now though because you've got to contend with the stumping tantrums um from the Groudon this terrain disappears from the field oh losing zygod like that is really disappointing really disappointing but there's nothing we can do about we can only try close this one out now I think we definitely need our intimidate back onto the field I'm just going to protect bring Tepithini back in potentially we'll take a sacred sword here so I don't think like a precipice blades would be ideal precipice blade sacred sword a proccab area and a Finian person to wear better shape going into this next turn so let's just see what my opponent decides to do he has revealed the stumping tantrum already so whether or not you've got to have precipice blades maybe not no let's see oh get Finian it's just for the fact that we need to have that intimidate again onto these two pokemon really so protects over there as a sacred sword yep we're gonna see precipice blades yeah there we go this is gonna be really close depends how this Groudon's built whether we take this or not no okay we'll get instead of away oh this one this is gonna be really tricky the Cortana revealed the tech though earlier on didn't it detect I want to say that it probably will because we could just go phytonium into Groudon and fake it out I feel like if anything protects here it's the Cortana not the Groudon so we'll go into the Groudon yeah there's the detect I reckon Groudon doesn't so we can get the z move into it yeah okay and I reckon the Cortana's sashed as well I would think it's sashed but we need to make sure that we are taking this Groudon on the next turn which is kind of important for us so hopefully this does enough damage for us they like to put it in range first and steal strike which it should do I would imagine because the next turn we can just flare blades and steal strike the Groudon oh that is no we're near enough oh my gosh wow um okay stomping tantrum is going to be double power now does it press up his blades does it stomp in tantrum I give my opponent smart they stomp in tantrum we haven't revealed wide guard though so we could wide guard and flare blades the Cortana I think we need to flare blades the Groudon to be honest more than anything and then get in range first and steal strike I hope it goes press his blades here that's all we can hope for I mean after we've not had the best of luck with that brave bird earlier on it kind of wrecked the game for us a little bit sacred sword to incineroar okay and press his blades excellent okay maybe this is going to be enough to proc our own berry if it is that will be an ideal that's not is it we're in we are in sacred sword range now when a Sunseal strike the Groudon um and we will we'll flare blades the Cortana puts it back on to um to neutral I don't think it's going to knock off though so it has to sacred sword I saw a little does get a beast boost we just need this to take down the Groudon and then we hopefully should be able to win even after the bad rng role we had earlier on so yeah we take down the Groudon finally should have been a lot easier than that but I mean it's what you get putting zygod into like plus three I think this turn what we'll do is just Sunseal strike and then we can super par the next turn we should be able to take at least it should be a three-hick or whatever this Cortana is with pending critical hits or anything like that we've already had a fair share of them as well see what this does neutral oh yeah I mean with all day long all day long we're doing this aren't we yeah it does nice damaging like the super power should be enough now to take it down and we'll go super super power which should like I say take this Cortana down and win us the game detecting I mean what we could potentially do is just go Sunseal strike again definitely put it in range but right isn't it this is probably going to take us down we're not even 50% so like the Cortana is going to struggle to even get us and then like four hits it's going to need a big crit and I don't even think the next one will take us down if this misses but it doesn't miss and we get the chaos a very good game to my opponent and we pick up another win which is an extremely good start for us today and we'll wrap things up there guys so I really hope you have enjoyed today's episode it has been really fun playing this team so far and I'm really looking forward to delving a lot deeper into the games as we go on this week with this team and then looking at how we might change things as we go forward but all in all Groudon matchup isn't the best for us so we face two Groudon teams today and we've kind of come out on top of those pretty well pretty comfortably as well so that's really good news for the team being able to perform there and we haven't really relied so heavily on the Venus all that you think maybe we would do in those matches so we will round it up there guys thank you so much for tuning in and I hope you have a great evening we'll be back for more battle series on our next episode so take care of yourselves and team preview going crazy I'm gonna say goodbye see you later guys bye