 Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2019 Battle Series We're in the Ultra Series My name is Leigh also known as Osiris and we're gonna continue on with this team that we've been playing at the start of the week today Which is made up of Alteria, which is the mega of the team, Raichu Lander is theory and it's got the Z move, the Misty Seed, Evaltol, Duskman and Akrosma Which is also Ultra and Akrosma and then the Tabufini. We haven't seen too much of the Duskman and Akrosma yet So hopefully we can see a little bit more of that today. The team is down in the description below There's a raw pace and a poker pace if you'd like to check it out and even try it out Do let me know how you get on if you do have a play around with the team and we'll just jump straight into it today Let's get started with some Galilean music. Um, but yeah, we had such a close game yesterday To finish up with where it all came down to our Alteria not outspeeding a plus one Zornius and we were in tailwind and it was really disappointing that we admit that kind of cost us the game If we'd just been able to add speed there, so important to get these benchmarks and that's what I mentioned yesterday But we've got a first opponent today. So let's jump straight into team So first one today is running a team of pherothon, Kyogre, Talonflame, Pikachu Incinero and Rayquaza. So Rayquaza and Kyogre call here. We've got some really nice picks You've got support options there and the Pikachu going to have that lightning rod It's probably got its orb as well to boost its It's special attack by two Then the Incinero with the intimidate there the Talonflame going to be able to set up tailwind Which this team's probably predominantly going to rely on and then the pherothon Which is going to be again another trick room check for this team if we do see that Oh Okay, do we want to bring a Landerous? I think probably Landerous is decent here The intimidate is quite important for that. Rayquaza the Talonflame And it does threaten the Incinero and the Pikachu as well as the Kyogre as long as the tailwinds not set up I think I will bring Ibelta to help set the trick room up We do and will need some form of Switching for Kyogre at least and Tepifini doesn't do a bad job at that And I think everyone will abuse the fact that we've got Altera here with its cloud nine ability and Flamethrower that we can get that pherothon with so we'll lock in with these four and kick right into it Yeah Duskmen across might could be good here as well but I feel like the other components of the team hold up a lot stronger So we'll see we'll see how we get on here. Um We need to start winning. We need to start winning. I think we're what what are we? Um, two three four Four and two which isn't great Which isn't great at all, but we're getting back into the swinging things As always and we always use the first week to kind of look at the team see what we need to change up on it You know, we've already got a few things where it's already said earlier in the week Nature's madness on Finny would be good Um, and I think obviously that speeds down mega Altera or maybe another mega in that slot might be good as well so If you've got suggestions do suggest a way things it would suit this call That'll be really useful and we might try them when we come back to this either next week or the week after So we're going to see Incinero and requires a come out from my opponent I think what we'll do here is straight away is to switch into Apple Finny Protect our evaltel and keep landers. It's All nice and safe in the back there and preserve that in Intimidate for later on as well where it might become a bit more useful After one of these Pokemon might switch out. So you will see landers Leave the field So for Finny you're gonna now come in get its misty terrain up and also to boot get a misty seed activated as well on our evaltel so We are going to see the requires a mega evolve It's a mega request Do you think mega request is going to be ridiculously strong? I think it's going to have a really good showing of worlds as well Again, like in 2016 I wouldn't be surprised if it does win the event. We're going to see a fake out here It's into the top of Finny and the dragon ascend going to be into our evaltel. So um I don't mind either of those. I think what we'll do is we'll go for a nice wind And we'll set our tail wind up right now um Well, we can So the requires are gonna protect we might just see you turn from the incineral We do get our tail wind up for free Which is really useful. And there's the icy wind from the top of Finny I went for a scald into that incineral there. That would have been good We'll probably see you turn like I say from the incineral It's going to reposition into the evaltel protected last turn makes sense to go for that slot um What comes in? Is it going to be the Pikachu? Could be pika pika pika Or the kyogar I guess but I wouldn't really I don't know And more likely think the Pikachu probably hits the field now That'd be my best guess, but I'm gonna have to just wait There it is There we go a little pikachu There you are. So there's the um, I think what we'll do is we'll go for the icy wind and we'll go for a foul play Into the requiser Pikachu gonna only fake one thing out and it is going for the evaltel um Yeah, so we'll get this icy wind off which is good We'll break a potential sash on the pikachu if it is holding a sash If not, we just get some decent damage onto it and lower the speed of that requiser as well We'll probably see a dragon ascent here. It is minus one Um, so we'll be into evaltel. We should be able to take this pretty handily Um, and we can like the next turn we can always heal pulse Um, and that's the beauty about this combination we got here Um, and we can heal pulse snarl and I think that's not a bad idea to do because I think what we'll probably see is the pikachu Attack but the requiser The requiser The requiser will probably protect the pikachu attack. That's what I mean. I'm gonna see extreme speed. Is it gonna be enough? Ah, it's enough. That's the worst that is literally the worst now. We're gonna lose finny. I think Voltackle hundred percent. We're going down There's no way we can win this now. I don't think Ah I didn't expect an extreme speed to do Ah, okay I'm sad now. Okay, so we'll get landers in and get hot tarry in I don't know how we're gonna beat the kyle, I'll go though I really don't Um, it's gonna be difficult. It's gonna be very difficult Uh, and we can't really earthquake I mean a rock slider probably be enough to get the the pikachu anyway, so we could just Uh, I mean one thing we could do is just go substitute get a sub up that might be better and go hyper voice Yeah, mega revolve on hyper voice. It will get requiser. It will get pikachu We're gonna see because I switch out and the incinerator hit the field once again. What's the pikachu gonna do now? It's probably gonna go down. The requiser is gonna reset that an intimidate drop though. That's the big thing I think for it The intimidate drop on two landers that isn't ideal So we'll get the sub up with lander which is decent Hyper voice. Yep We'll get the pikachu get some decent damage on to incinerator actually not bad damage on that's why he's a crit It's why in all terriers just weak, isn't it? It's very weak If we can get this down to two pokemon though two aside we can perish we can maybe do something You're not gonna be easy though. Requiser gonna come back in Could I could I forgot to put the rockium on um I forgot to put the rockium on Landers again again. I've done it. Uh, okay, so I'm gonna just protect all terriers because I will go as quick How do we go rock side? Rockside might be better to be honest Yeah, we'll go protect an altar and just rock slide because then it should put requiser in range for Our hyper voice and then we can we can potentially just see rocks like should get incineroar as well Dragon ascent. Yeah, I'm gonna double up into that slot which makes a lot of sense And we do hit the rock slide Hopefully this puts the rate in range For There's a rocks like gonna be enough to get the incineroar now. That's the thing. I don't know if it is Let's go protect on landers because I don't think I think the the requiser definitely dragon ascent alteria Um The incineroar probably attacks into the lander as I would imagine The dragon ascent. Yeah, it's all about whether we take this. I'm hoping we do I'm hoping this is something I've calc for Oh, man, that is so close. Okay It's life-orbed as well. I should have picked up on that earlier Oh, we don't get the incineroar. We needed to get the incineroar. Oh, so sad. So sad And it's gonna be Kyler go in the back. Hopefully the incineroar Oh, where's it going? Is it going into landerless? Yeah, it must be Are you going into alteria? That would kind of seal the game up. I think if you do Yeah, it's into landerless. So that's I guess we possibly could get our parish song off I don't know if I'm gonna be able to if it's Kyoga It's likely that I will outspeed our alteria. That's the that's the big problem Um, our wincon is if it's ferrathorn Kyoga Kyoga, okay, um I just don't think parish song is going to cut it here. It's definitely not Now we kind of it's quick And protect alteria but then Then we're going to need a flinch. Aren't we? We're going to need rockslide flinch So we could rockslide flinch here and parish song But then we're still going to need like a couple of protect But we'll try it. We'll try it. We'll try it Flinch squad. Let's do this. Oh, man When things got bad to worse Rockslide hits so we'll get the incineroar. It's all about flinching the kyoga. Come on. Let's get some like 2015 style points about this this turn landerless. Come on. You know, you want to do it Ah, come on landerless Yeah, okay. Well, I sub sub goes We need a flinch. We need a flinch. We need a flinch. We need some flinches. Okay. We need some serious flinches here Okay, so we'll go for the rockslide looks like it's not going to end too well for us But we'll never say never we'll never say never. Okay rockslide Single target or those rocks even sharper. Come on landerless do this Bad cat bad flying bird cat. Yeah Ha, okay good game to my opponent It's because we're not bringing dust man. I'm gonna put a pin and pin it on that but um, no losing eval to when we did Wasn't the best. I think like we needed eval to for the end game 100% for the kyoga and losing it like we did to the requiser with the extreme speed Put us in a bit of a hole and it was a bit too difficult to come out from I think after that Ulteria just not pulling its weight either, which is a bit of a shame, but um Let's keep our chains up. We've still got some matches left that we can claw things back from Um, so we just got to try and just carry on and take note I think of things that we're struggling against and things what Isn't quite working because that's when we go back to the drone board and And that's where we make improvements. Obviously a lot a lot along the line And you know one of the things why I do this bad series like a do it is because it's a good example for especially newer players with how to delve into Like correcting issues with their teams, you know Hopefully me doing this now can say it right. Well, what have we learned this week from like say we've only done What will this be the eighth match this week? Um eight matches, which is nothing in testing terms either eight matches is nothing But what we're doing is we're identifying areas where we're thinking right well We've already said nature's madness on top of Finney's definitely something That would be very useful for us. Um the skulls graze We haven't really been utilizing it very much We could maybe squeeze in the nature's madness as well We're also talking about the EV spread on the ulteria for sure We need to definitely look at that maybe look at flamethrower because we're not really utilizing it at all What other options there if we've got and then obviously Um areas like the eval tool maybe the substitute on the land rest is that really useful or as you turn better there But they're just some examples anyway So you can get so much information and it's taking that the bad parts of the matches And really capitalizing on them and changing stuff, but we've got our next opponent. We've got Scott up Playing a very similar team to what we've got. So we'll hop in And we haven't got long left So we need to be pretty quick with our selections here So he's got dustmen across my tapu finny amungus tapu lele incinero and eval So now one of the things that does worry me here is the amungus and the uh, its ability to spoil. Um, obviously And the switching from that tapu lele is well to override our terrain. Um I think eval tool is very important for us here. Um I think raichu Ulteria could be really important for us here. We could go ulteria to be honest We need to go check for that ultra and across my dustmen across my um Let's go ulteria. Let's bring our anacosma and let's bring tapu finny. I'm not too worried about fake add support. Um Yeah, and good luck to So yeah, the amungus is the one thing that can cause us a lot of issues, especially if it spoils our eval tool Puts us in a bit of an awkward position Um, but as as hard as it is for us to knock out his eval tool I think it's just as hard for him to knock out ours You mean you've got to really utilize that tapu lele. That's a big a big area that he's got to make sure he's utilizing um, we are gonna see The amungus and eval to come out for my opponent. So um I think what I would like to probably do is switch Into tapu finny here. Now. This is the problem if we see the eval to switch out into And I could go hyper voice. That's the big thing here. Um Into lele that would be bad because then he can sport us We're not going to do very much to the amungus but We can get some nice damage onto this eval tool which frees up and makes Things a lot easier for a dustman across my later in the game. So that's like mission one for us So to speak um So yeah, we'll mega roll for the ulterior It's nice to see us do some decent And we've also got the flamethrower that we can throw out onto that amungus as well This is where the nature's madness would be a little bit better potentially on um So we'll get the hyper voice I'd imagine the amungus goes for the sport here and that you can guarantee next turn Uh, we will see the tapu lele switching for that eval tool Um, that's why I think I'm going to go into necrosma with finny And Do you go for the sport onto the finny though? I think you probably do of everything um Do we just go for a flamethrower into the amungus? I think so just to get some damage off onto it. Yeah. Here we go There's the lele coming in. Oh, it's not it's the cross ma. Okay Okay, don't mind this too much unless we see clear smog coming out from the amungus Maybe just to get some damage onto ulterior might have sludge bomb as well Something else that we need to watch out for flamethrower does a nice chunk of damage. Uh, we are going to see Yeah Okay So that's where we're moved So I think what I'll do here is go for Um Go for the sun steel strike and switch into eval tool Now i'm going to ultra burst And i'm going to go for the sun steel strike into amungus pick up the knockout there and I kind of a half expect Uh, the val tool to come back in on that slot We'll get eval tool in on our side of the field. So at least we're pressuring their duskman Uh, whether it's duskman or ultra nacrosma is another thing. So there's a messy seed activating finally A bright light hits the sky Ultra nacrosma bursts out Here we go. So Amungus going for rage powder, which is fine. We want it ready for the amungus We know how much of a problem that is for eye val tool. Um, we'll get the sun steel strike there And I wonder if we'll see What's the opposing duskman going to do interesting to see Does earth power going to attack into us? But that's kind of why I went for the the ultra burst because I thought if I stay in duskman He's going to likely go the earth power Um, so we see tapu later now hit the field. It is going to get its terrain activated We can get rid of that straight away by um switching into our tapu finny and also In a way scouting out what this tapu lele is is it scoffed? I would bet my bottom dollar on it but You know, you can't always bet on that because sometimes um And more and more frequently, I think we're seeing less and less scoff tapu lele So that's the that's the other thing So we'll just preserve nacrosma for a little bit later on in the game. We'll get the misty seed up With ivelto and misty terrain with that tapu finny um And then the nacrosma is going to go for the ultra burst I wonder what it goes from here though because Generally doesn't have a way to really hit ivelto. I'm going to see a moon blast from the lele It's scoffed of course Um, so that's something we can make sure that we we pin down later on Then there's some steel strike interesting into ivelto Not quite enough though as we do get a snarl. It misses the Uh the tapu lele That's really frustrating that we missed that um because we're gonna have to Go for an icy wind now and we're gonna have to go for a protect That's frustrating and I don't think after one icy wind ivelto will outspeed the tapu lele, which is the The most frustrating thing we really needed a snarl I know ivelto would still be in a position where the moon blast could still pick us up But it just makes it easier for switching around if we get that snarl on to the tapu lele Um, but never mind A tapu finny on the field now, so The main thing and we'll just protect ivelto and there's a moon blast Uh picking out a tapu finny Yeah, special attack drop not so helpful and we're gonna see the z move here It's gonna be into finny. I'm hoping we take this the psychic terrain isn't up. It is minus one We're gonna have to cut this as well. So we'll be right back spirit bomb into tapu finny and let's see what the damage is And we don't take it even minus one. It's too powerful. It's just ridiculous z move, isn't it? Um, so we don't get the icy wind off there, which is a little bit of a shame We need ulterior Let's bring in nukrosma. I'm not gonna go for the z move. I'm gonna go for the lele And Terrier gonna come in it's gonna take a moon blast. It's not ideal I really need to kind of preserve ulterior for later on in this game I'm gonna try and get a tail wind up With ivelto, I don't think we're gonna be able to now. Definitely not Oh, you might be able to then Huh goes for the okay since just right now we're gonna be able to Know it now The icy wind miss is the biggest thing that icy wind miss Huge for us. Yeah, uh, we needed that onto the tapulele or the snarl. Sorry not the yeah Not that not the icy wind miss we didn't get an icy wind miss We got the snarl miss and now and now it's all it's all coming down We just I think it really highlighted the tapulele weakness We've got to the team. We need a way like we needed to bring something where we could Shut that down Stop it from It probably doesn't matter. It probably doesn't matter. I'm just gonna say good game and I'm done with the team I'm done. So we'll be back tomorrow to finish up with the team though, but uh, it's not going well at the minute at all. So Because that sometimes doesn't it and maybe we need to look at how we're approaching the games But more than likely need to switch things up a little bit because we're just Weak to certain real threats in the format, which is a little bit of a shame But um, thanks for tuning in guys. Have a great rest of your day And we'll be back to wrap up with this team tomorrow. So until then take care and bye. Bye