Welcome everybody to another episode of the non-profit show. We're really excited because we are in non-profit Power Week with your part-time controller. You might hear us call YPTC and we are so excited because we have a new voice on with us, Tanya B. Paul, CPA. Tanya, you're coming to us from Houston, correct? Correct. Hi, y'all. We're like, Tanya, you can't wear your cowboy hat. You could. And then I, of course, would have to get my hat on. Hey, we're going to talk about something really important today, three steps to improve your charity ratings. And this is one of those topics. I can't wait, Tanya, for you to share with us your knowledge because this is something that we need to be talking about. We're not talking about it enough. And I love that and I'm counting finance, you know, firm would bring this to the front forefront for us. So I can't wait to get into this discussion. Again, if we haven't met, I'm Julia Patrick, CEO of the American Non-profit Academy. 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We have a new podcast every single day, which is just amazing. Okay, Tanya, be Paul, CPA, Director of Houston, your part-time controller. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the show. Thank you, Julia. Hey, so Tanya, talk to us before we get into these three really important steps. Charity Watchdog sounds a little intimidating, and what are these like ratings and what's the purpose of this? I want to even, I just want to say concept. Yeah, so that's a great place to start. You know, what are Charity Watchdogs? So Charity Watchdogs, they're also, first of all, they're also nonprofits. And what they, their whole mission, their purpose is to really try to help donors make informed choices about the charities that they want, they should support or they want to support. They're called Charity Watchdogs for a reason. They, you know, they do a lot of analyzing and assessing about information that they glean about nonprofits, and they post warnings about these organizations if they find something, especially if they're poorly governed or if they're wasteful or if they're inefficient. And every Charity Watchdog does things a little bit differently. And so they collect this information and then they evaluate them based on their particular ranking or rating or grading system. And then it's also important to note that Charity Watchdogs, because they are nonprofits, the way they maintain their independence is they rely on visitors to their websites to donate to them, as well as any subscribers that uses their information regularly. Interesting. You know, it's fascinating to me to think about this because you know, we go by the number 1.8 million registered nonprofits in this country. That's a lot going on. And it's changing. Are there certain watchdog groups that are by sector or they drill down by region or state? Or how does this work? Or is it just like a free for all across the entire country? Great question. So we tend to look at a certain subset of the Charity Watchdog spectrum. So I'll kind of give you a highlight of like the three different kinds that we have been keeping an eye on. So first and foremost is Guide Start. That's the most commonly known and used by all kind of all types of people out there. They're different in that they allow the nonprofit to manage the information that they're going to share with them. And then there's a group of nonprofits that don't really let the nonprofits volunteer or control. They pull information that's out there readily available to the public. So examples like Charity Watch, Give.org, which is a subset of BBB, Better Business Bureau, and then Charity Navigator. So they take information and then they analyze that data and then they provide a ranking or a grade or a scorecard if you will. And then there's these kind of next gen, if you will, type nonprofit watchdogs, Charity Watchdogs, like GiveWell, great nonprofits, Global Giving. They're using a lot of the similar types of information about kind of what I just mentioned, but they're trying to start focusing more on impact, storytelling, cost effectiveness, project-based giving. So there's even within the Charity Watchdogs subset, we're starting to see specializations in terms of how they present that information to the public. You know, I love that you bring that up because as we know, what donors want to see and how they're making their decisions is changing dramatically, and it has generational impacts. So I would imagine younger donors, newer donors at the same time, might be a little bit more interested in this type of information before making a decision. Absolutely, absolutely. And that's the thing, kind of leading into what you're trying to ask me is why does this information matter, right? It's the people who are using this information. There's all kinds of people looking at this information. There's the individual donors, which is the most obvious, right? They have a little bit of money to give or they want to give and they're looking for information to make those decisions. You also have volunteers now who want to collaborate with winners. Everyone wants to be tied to a winner, right? So they're looking to see which organizations have good information, especially this younger generation. They're way more in tune into kind of this depth of information about nonprofits. It's not just based on name alone, just because it sounds like a big organization or a national organization. They really do lift the covers to see what's going on with the organizations that they want to volunteer their time with as well as their money. And then also thinking about stakeholders like banks, institutional funders or grantmakers, they're looking at this information, right? And then also think about board members or future employees. They're going to take a look at your organization to see if you're an organization that they want to tie their name, their reputation with, right? And then also beyond just the individual person, think about the agencies that are picking up this information, agencies that are influencing people's behavior in giving. So think about during the pandemic like Facebook, right? With their impromptu kind of pop-up giving or, you know, like the giving basket, right? All of these organizations are starting to create their own methodology or their own way of influencing people's behavior in giving money. And so if they're touting certain organizations, that's raising the credibility. And where are they going? They're going to these watchdogs to pull that information. Okay. Wow. I love how you framed this up because now let's get, I mean, I'm a believer. If I wasn't before, I'm like a total believer, but you have very specific three steps that we can take to improve our charity rating. And step number one, it might be a little surprising because it involves the IRS 990 form. Talk to us about that, Tanya. Oh goodness. There's so much I can talk about the 990.  That's why you want to talk about the 990. Well, let me tell you in the nonprofit space, take a moment, get over your fear of the 990 and flip a couple of pages. And what you're going to actually find is the financial data input into a 990 is actually very minimal compared to all the other information the 990 is looking for. So some of the areas that I want to focus on so that you guys can kind of think about it is program service accomplishments, government and management disclosure, and then also compensation. And then finally, the statement of functional expenses. There's four areas in the nonprofit 990 that you really want to take a look at. So let's talk about program service accomplishments. If you flip to a 990, go to part three. And what you're going to see are their quality of questions in that section. Question one is briefly describe the organization's mission. Well, that has nothing to do with numbers, right? It's narrative. It's narrative. And then question two immediately following it is describe your organization's accomplishments for your top three largest programs, right? And so here's your opportunity to start sharing information about qualitative measures of what you did in the past year as an organization, how you had impact. If you're a homeless shelter, how many clients were you able to get off the streets and provide resources for them? Think about those types of things. The next section, part six on the form is about governance, management and disclosure. Let's take a look at a couple of these questions. Question 12 on there asks, does the organization have a written conflict of interest policy? Question 13 is about whistleblowers. Question 14 is about document retention and destruction policy. Question 15 is what's your process for determining compensation for your key employees? Are you saying yes to these questions, right? That's what they're looking for. What I tell people is if it's on the 990, you probably should have a policy and procedure for it. And if you've been watching your show all week, Angela Cokesome and my colleague Jen Aliva, they both have alluded to all of these things, right? So maybe now you're starting to see how the 990 is so important and how you can start telling a story. You know, I think it's really an interesting thing that all three of you ladies have brought up is that they're not saying and attach this document to this form. They're just saying, is it a yes or a no? Exactly. And so I think that's really, to me, that's really interesting because I like how you phrase this that it means or you can interpret that the IRS is saying this is important and so this should be done. We're not saying how it should be done, what it looks like, but your COI policy, your whistleblower policy should be structured, I guess would be the word and in practice. So I love this. I always think of the schedule O should be renamed to schedule opportunity because it seems to me that this is that narrative. This is that place where we can really tell people about our work. Exactly.  When I teach this, these topics to nonprofits here locally, that's one thing I tell them. You should be looking at your 990 as a marketing tool. You should be refreshing that information every year.  So take a closer look at that because everyone's reading it whether you like it or not. Okay, now let me let me throw a curve ball. So get your your mitt up because if you have quote unquote bad information or something, you know, was in decline or you had some issue, do you report that there in some of these narratives or or do you try to, you know, make it all rah rah, yay team kind of information? I mean, it's a marketing tool. So you want to be a little bit more on the rah rah side, but you also want to be transparent. That's the key, right? So if something went wrong, so let's take the pandemic. That's a great example, right? Okay, yeah, programs shut down across the nation globally, right? And so if you don't if you didn't put that information how you were adversely affected by your programs getting shut down, are you really being honest and transparent? Okay, right? But the spin on that the marketing spin on that is we were not able to address program A, B and C, which historically we've done, you know, a fantastic year over year for decades, but we pivoted in a time of crisis and we created a new program and did ABC, right? So that's that's how you can have that spin. Okay, yeah, I like that. I like that you helped us to understand that because rule number one transparency or I should maybe not rule but goal, you know, getting that piece in place, because that filters across all aspects of the donor relationship and stewardship and into your point that the different people that are that are watching. Now one of your next steps, step number two, which I can't wait to hear more about this, is that you say earn a guide star platinum seal of transparency. There's that word again. How do we do this? Yeah, so remember at the beginning I told you that there's all these different types of charity watchdogs. Guide star, we recommend starting with guide star because you can actually control how much information you want to share with the public out there. So guide star has four levels of seals of transparency. It starts with bronze, then silver, then gold, and then platinum. And then depending on how much information you're sharing, it's a progressive elevation from bronze to silver to gold to platinum.  They say 45 minutes, I'm going to let you take a coffee break and say it's an hour. And so, you know, the bronze takes five minutes. All you need to do is provide very basic information. What's the organization's name? What's their mission? Who's the primary contact and information on how to reach you and how a person or an organization can donate? And then the silver is a little bit more information. The gold standard wants a little bit of financial information, a little bit of information about the board, leadership demographics. And then the platinum is really not that hard either. They want you to share a fairly recent strategic plan, answer a couple of gold questions, and then provide at least one financial metric. Wow. You know, I love this because I have to admit to you when, you know, seeing these on websites and on the websites of our guests that appear on the nonprofit show and how you might hear somebody use this phrase, well, we've achieved the platinum seal of transparency, it seems like it's a really daunting and challenging thing to do. It's not. It really is not.   And here's the thing. As soon as you register with the IRS, you already have a profile out there. GuideStar automatically creates a profile out there. You just have to go and claim it. So it's not like you're making a request that they have to set it up. It's already out there. You just have to claim it. It doesn't take that much effort to claim it. There's a whole process on there that you can do. And then you just start filling out the information. And here's the thing. You can start with bronze. Let's say you don't have all the information. You know, start today. Start with bronze. Make it a goal to increase your level of transparency once a week. Spend 15 minutes once a week. And by the end of the month, you'll have a platinum seal of transparency. I love it, Tanya. You're my soul sister because that's kind of the way I think about these things, you know, do a piece, do a piece, move forward. And yeah, it's just like anything, you know, I'm like that too. You know, if I think of something as a big project, it becomes that black cloud that follows me. Right. Oh my gosh. I love it.  So I'm assuming is this a seal that only lasts 12 months or a calendar year? Or how is this managed in essence by GuideStar? Great question. So what we recommend is every best practice dictates that every accounting department at a nonprofit organization should have a finance calendar. And in that finance calendar, you know, you think of the obvious things, right? You know, reviewing your audit, planning for your audit, making sure your 990 is taken care of, you know, you have all the grant reporting deadlines. But we also recommend at least once a year, go out and look at your ratings across the board and especially your GuideStar rating. GuideStar is making enhancements every year in terms of questions that they're asking, because they're trying to tap into what the trends are. So one of the things we didn't talk about is remember, like these nonprofit charity watchdogs, they're starting to think about other things other than just the basic financial metrics impact all of those types of things. So GuideStar is adding questions every year. And when you go into renew the information, they actually put a little asterisk on all the new questions. So it's not like you have to hunt and, you know, look for what the new question is this year. It's highlighted for you. So you just go out there, figure out what the new question is, go find the answer and plug it right in. And so we recommend at least once a year, if you don't change it or update it every two years, you will drop off on your seal of transparency. Okay, cool. That's a good thing to know. Okay, well, now I'm really interested to have you dig deep into step three, because step three is is not necessarily one that I would have automatically thought of. And that's tell stakeholders about the raving. It kind of goes back to what you said, or what I heard you say in the very beginning, that your 990 should be looked at as a marketing tool. Yep. So, you know, really tell people about it, you know, it's, it's kind of be a little bit braggy about what your organization has accomplished through the year.  But it's more than that these days, it's social media, it's, you know, making sure your websites were fresh, interactive, sharing with people when you get the seal of, let's say today, you only have bronze after this show, you're inspired to go out and get, you know, a platinum seal of transparency, make that a marketing event, make it a, you know, a reason to reach out to your potential donors and tell them about it. Make sure those, you know, those seals or your ratings, if it's great, put it near where your donation links are, or embed it into your conversation about your annual, you know, newsletter, say this year we upgraded from a bronze seal to a platinum seal. There's so many ways to tell a story. Social media is all about telling stories. So make sure your website is fresh. Make it engaging. Make it so that people want to come back. Think about the things that the charity watchdogs are looking at, right? They're looking at financial metrics. They're looking at impact. They're looking at community engagement. They're looking at transparency. Put that information on your website. Make it obvious so that when these charity watchdogs are coming to your website, looking at your newsletters, looking at what you're putting in your 990, the information is easy for them to grab, to re-share and do their rankings and their ratings, but also for your would-be donors. And then one additional piece that I started telling my clients and the clients, nonprofits that I teach is become even smarter, be ahead of the curve. And when you have that platinum seal and you have those great rankings and ratings with these charity watchdogs, teach your donors. Tell them why you are the best and why they should always keep you at the top of their donor list. Because guess what? Just like you're looking for new donors, there are other nonprofits waiting in the wings, trying to glean a dollar or more from your donors. And you want those, once you, it's so hard to get those donors, you want to keep them loyal. So you got to give them reasons of why they should stay loyal to you. I love that. You know, I think that's really wise because it also, Tanya, helps the whole sector. So it's not just about your individual organization, but you know, we're talking about this all the time, like how do we elevate the professionalism and the operations and the, you know, frankly, the credibility of our sector? I mean, how do we do that? And so I love that you've talked about this really, really important stuff. Now, I've got to say one thought I've had and I, I've got to ask you this. I'm a little surprised that it's the finance department pushing this. It seems to me that this should be something that development is doing or development working hand in hand with the finance department, because they're the ones talking with those donors. But so I'd love to get your opinion on that because absolutely. And it really kind of comes back to why we started talking about it, right? So, you know, we try to say that your CFO, your controller, especially if you have a YPTC controller or CFO in your midst, we want to be more than just the number cruncher. We'd like to do the analysis. We want to be your trusted advisor, right? And so one of the things that we see is some of these analytics that we're doing that we're presenting to the board in our monthly financial packets, that's what the Charity Watch Dogs are looking at, right? And so as a development director, you're more focused on who do I strategically go out and get, but we're trying to help the development director have the tools that they need to speak intelligently and eloquently and financially savvy so that they do convince those would-be donors and grant makers to give money to them versus another nonprofit. I love that you said that because, you know, we see this too often. Those development teams are like off in their own area. Accounting finance is off in another area. Now with work from anywhere. We're together. And I love what you said. You know, the information that's there needs to be shared in use. Super cool. Super cool that you came to us today to talk about this because you gave me a completely new perspective and I gotta say in more than 600 shows, I've never had anyone talk about this the way you have here today. So that's just been amazing. I know that there's so much more that YPTC shares and I just want everyone to know that there's a really cool piece of the YPTC.com website and it's called Accounting Resources. And before you're like, out snoozer, it's not at all just about numbers. It's fascinating, fascinating information. Everything from, you know, how to communicate numbers to your board, how to share information. Got some great articles about digitally presenting information and how that looks. Really cool, really cool information. And it's remarkable because it's free. You don't have to be a client of YPTC to get access to this information, which bravo to you all because this is really powerful stuff. So YPTC.com, check them out for that information. Okay, Tanya, you've been just fabulous. How was your first time on the nonprofit show?   So I was really excited that I was able to tie in some of the things that they did to reinforce, like it's all connected. It's all connected. You know, I think that's one of the things that I've learned from you, your team is, and from you, even today it's been amplified is that accounting, we tend to seize up. We're like, Oh my God, numbers, spreadsheets, you know, and but yet it really is where we need to be thinking it's more of a strategic aspect. And so it has implications far greater than just, you know, a balance sheet. So I love that you could come on and share that. Now, you told me that you have to get going right after this episode because what are you doing, my friend? So I'm the finance chair for a local organization called Memorial Park Conservancy. And today we're reviewing the audit draft so that we can review, approve, and then present it to the board next week. So not only are you practicing, you know, in the sector, which I'm very grateful for, but you're practicing in your community. So bravo to you. Bravo to you. That's not an easy thing. Well, Tanya, we hope we get you back on again. This has been an amazing process for us to share this time. Nonprofit Power Week only happens a couple times a year. Jared and I are very, very specific about how we want to take our content and share information and put it together in a way that really is a deep dive. And so this is really an exciting thing for us. Again, we want to thank all of our partners, sponsors, Blue Morang, American Nonprofit Academy, Your Part-Time Controller, Be Generous, Fundraising Academy at National University, Staffing Boutique, Nonprofit Thought Leader, and the Nonprofit Nerd. Okay, Tanya, I'm gonna let you go because you have a board meeting. Thank you, Julia. It was great to spend the afternoon with you. Hey, it's been a lot of fun. And as we like to end every episode of the nonprofit show, we want to remind ourselves, our viewers, our listeners, our guests, to stay well so you can do well. Thanks so much, everybody. We'll see you.


Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2020 battle series My name is Lee also known as Osiris today We're gonna be playing a draggapult team as you can see on your screen right in front of you now It's gonna consist of a draggapult arcanine. They've forgotten about fire type That's still super relevant in this format at least I think so then we got the Taranatal weakness policy there Something I've wanted to play for a long time the Rotom Wash Roserade Primarily the reason behind using this team today I really want to give Roserade a try We've got the wide lens on it and another Pokemon an old favorite of mine is Aegislash kind of rounding up So we've got a double ghost type team here and I think it's gonna be a lot of fun So let's without further ado hop into this one And what I'm gonna do at the end of this episode is gonna have the rental team for you guys to try out If you'd like so stick around for that right at the end of the episode and I will post that before we finish Up today, so we've got our first opponent ratings kind of tanked from the last time But we'll climb and climb and climb to no regard we'll try anyway but our first opponent is playing a team of glacial nine tails incineral chandler garrados and Taranatal so we've got a kind of a hail core and obviously a sand core as well We have to be a bit careful with the hail core, but we can utilize a Taranatal to get around that Aegislash not bad here as well have to be a little bit careful with that chandler and the incineral Other than that, it's not too bad. And we've got a fast sash Aegislash, so we'll be able to kind of nab at least the Taranatal if we want to early on and Do I want to bring dragapult here the speed control could be good And that respect Arcanine pretty decent here overall Rotom good as well But Rosarade really looking quite good for getting these sleep powders I've got to be careful around these ice type Pokemon now for sure I am going to bring Rosarade since it is the the Pokemon that we want to be playing around with and Do we want to go a dragapult up top? Probably not I don't know if I want to lead Maybe Arcanine's not bad as a lead to be honest No, let's let's let's go let's go Arcanine. Let's go Tita and let's go Rotom And we're leaving that ghost behind. I can't believe it, but Tita was like a big Pokemon that we want to be taking advantage of here I feel so we'll see how we get on this first one It doesn't feel like the easiest one to start off with but More battles easy really come on No battle is easy Right, let's see so garrados and in-center all coming out for us. Just just fine. Um, the issue of course is gonna be The fake out into the Rosarade and the max airstream Which is gonna be a little bit of a problem given the garrados and speed boost But we can maybe play on that a little bit and go for a will always into the garrados Switching our Tyranitar into the Rosarade Because Tita is gonna be able to take both attacks pretty well And if we can kind of neuter the the garrados with a will always but that would be super nice I can't imagine Incineroar going for the Arcanine here knowing that there's the threat of the sleep powder from the Rosarade So and we'll go into Tita We've also got the nice switch into Rotom if we want to but we'll we'll stick with what we kind of initially thought And hope that's how things play out Whether or not it's like a super obvious thing That we're doing this and my opponent reads into it and thinks well the Rosarade is really threatened here So it's probably likely that we will switch it out or we will protect it And there is the threat of maybe wild charge or maybe willow whisper And then that would make sense for them to go for the fake out into the Arcanine And then the Max Geyser which would be very bad for us. They're bad indeed But hopefully fingers crossed it doesn't pan out like that And we'll see what my opponent goes for There's the garrados going for It's Dynamax But I would say it's more appealing to start going for these airstreams and get these speed boosts early on That's what I would expect the garrados to start and do and we'll see though. We'll see There's a fake out into oh no Arcanine Okay, it's not ideal That is really not ideal at all goes for the airstream still into the Tita and So now they have the speed boost We're gonna be able to take the Max Geyser. I don't think so, but And I think we have to preserve Arcanine now. I don't think we risk it I think we have to just max with Tita and Max Rockfall into the garrados Switch up Pokemon into Rotom here Keep Arcanine for later because I do feel like it probably a Max Geyser is gonna come out now from the garrados I don't think it'll go into the Tita though because I think it'll be scared of prokina weakness policy And that's the one thing I think we've got going for us right now I think unless you just want to get damage onto the Tita Then you go for it But I would I would say probably you'd be better off going for the Arcanine in this situation At least that's how I feel I would probably go about it I think I don't really want to proc the weakness policy and lose my garrados so early on So I think I'd probably Go for the Arcanine over the Tita in this situation but We will soon find out my friends and Was he the other option we got there's the Max Geyser coming out would be just going into the Incinerole The other one gonna eat that up because then The other thing it might have been better to go for would be the Incinerole get rid of that right now And then you still got Rotom. Oh Okay, well Me neither way this is fine So break break coming out nice tech then probably one that we'll see a lot more of I think going deeper into C series 3 of this format especially with all of the G max lap risk kind of kicking around but we do get a max rockfall off Interesting that the Incinerole at speeds are Tita as well So that's a speedy Incinerole But I mean we're still in an all right position really depends on what my opponent brings in next of course But we do have Arcanine with the Intimidate to kind of further neuter that Incinerole feel for my opponent Nytale's gonna come in We're not really gonna be able to stop the Auroraville, which is a little bit of a shame, but I Don't think it's the end of the world because we're gonna be able to get a rockfall up Depends if my opponent because we've got a couple of options here.  Okay too strong. Is that a crit? No. Wow. Okay. I think because it's it's probably more offensive and speedy It's not got the defense investment. It was kind of used to and it didn't get the intimidate off onto Tita prior to By to coming in so that Has definitely helped Tita is like one of those Pokemon. It's probably been like my actual favorite Pokemon since it got revealed in Generation 2 and I've used it like all my big events that I've done really well at in past and previous years And so it definitely holds a special place in my heart and I thought it's very good all season this year And it's it's crazy that it's taking me this long to actually start using it What do we want to prioritize to get rid of? Probably I could go for I could go for max knuckle, you know Might not be a bad idea from switching in Arcanine might be better So we've got at least a bit more firepower and or I could just go max rockfall I'll go max rockfall. I don't think Arcanine really necessarily needs the the attack boost I think we're gonna be fine regardless. Whatever happens here and I see winds obviously something that could come into play for speed control on either the glacial on all the The nine tails glacial is another favorite Pokemon of mine. I do love glacial Such a cool Pokemon, especially with Auroraville support as well. It's like it's pretty scary but it's deceivingly powerful, but Not strong enough even find Auroraville to take the the max rockfall Especially after the weakness policy boost, I mean, that's the the big thing for us here So and Tito just really stealing the show for us, which is pretty nice And I was a man sure how we get on with this team today, but so far so good But it's it's definitely not over yet. Let's let Arcanine get some glory here We'll just protect the Tito and get a nice clean win, but we don't need to because my opponent Pulls the forfeit and we take our first victory. So that's a nice start for us. My friends There we go Okay, I did say I was streaming on Tuesday, but things happened and I had like actually Probably like most of you I think the issues finished now But I did tweet out about an issue with connecting online with the switch on Tuesday, which is today So it's kind of put me a little bit behind with what I wanted to do for streaming today The issues resolved now, which is great. So we'll be picking back up on Thursday this week So if you are around make sure to come by Thursday and we'll do that But I hope you roll well I kind of would like to stream a bit more Depending on my situation if I'm gonna be working from home or if I'm having to stay at home soon Then obviously I'll have a bit more time to actually do some streams Which would be great because that's that would be ideal with what's going on at the minute Anyway, we've got Tyler Burden as our next opponent playing a team of Concorda the Dragapult Grimsnall, Silvian, Bravery and the Venusaur. Really nice looking team I like the look of this team.  Do we go Rosarade as a lead? Kind of tempted to I really am because we had to be the majority of things in my points team like outside the Dragapult Okay, let's go. Let's go Rosarade. What's gonna be a good partner? Like Rotom's not bad. Honestly, like I think Rotom's not bad Although, you know that the thing that we could go is Dragapult because then we can start getting some speed control at least and keeping pace with my opponent I think we probably want to maybe the Arcanine and let's bring Rotom and Lock in a team before we time out. I Don't know. I'm kind of rushing through this right now I feel like Conkledo is gonna be a bit of an issue. We don't have the greatest answers to Conkledo Relying heavily on putting it to sleep and then like Dragapult for the rest of the time Which isn't really the greatest answers So maybe that's something on the team that probably need to address at some point and my opponent Identifying that straight away And bringing it out. Okay. Well, we're leading with two shinies We're getting all the style points here straight away. I'm gonna go for a sleep out it into the Dragapult And I'm gonna go for a Dynamax and I'm gonna go for the Max Airstream into the Conk.  We are gonna see the Dragapult withdraw Grimstone, I'll hit the field now, which is fine because if we can put this thing to sleep that is perfect I've got the wide lens on the Rosarade as well Because I initially I would have went focus ash, but it we needed it on the Agus slash for how we want to run the Agus slash so for This team it made more sense for the the moves that Rosarade runs like sleep powder leaf storm I just to give them an extra bit of a boost with them The accuracy there. So that's the reason why there's a Max Airstream. Which is nice It's probably guts Conkledo. I would imagine Protecting like Normally you're gonna see protect on guts Conkledo with the Flame Orb, but I think we'll be Alright because we get the sleep powder, which is great for us I don't think we need to worry about the Conk because even yeah, there's the Flame Orb It's probably gonna go for like a Mac punch into Rosarade and imagine. We'll just start sludge bombing the Grimstone We'll go for the Max Airstream again into Conk, which should take it down here And if anything does come in on it, it's gonna take a chunk of damage at the same time So I really like the Max Airstream option on Dragapult. It's such a fast Pokemon anywhere But it gives like such good utility through our CTV getting it off first the dynamic speed changes in the format now With a generation even so you're getting that speed boost like automatically pretty much on to any partner in Pokemon So it's really useful really strong So it's something it's something I don't see played like too often and whether or not it's down to just having the room for it Or not, I don't know, but I just feel like it's such a good utility a lot of players need to be picking up on it a bit More and we'll get another one off give Rosarade that plus two speed boost We aren't gonna see a Mac punch from the Conk So it's gonna just go down without really doing very much We'll get a super effective sludge bomb into this Grimstone because Rosarade's pretty powerful as well. So let's see how much this does say probably around 50% I'd imagine Wow Okay, okay Sorry my dude the crit Okay, okay. Well, we'll take it. We'll take it. We'll take it. You've got to take these things when they get presented to us We can't can't Not take it to Sylvia. I'm gonna come in now and drag approach Okay, well they can still max something and I think we probably want to sleep out of the Sylvion and Go, I mean we could double the Sylvion to be honest a kind of Hmm, but then we double the dragon pool. I'm just gonna max fantastic the dragon pool because we should get it It is good the dragon pool is gonna max so the interest of the sea how much damage this does and where the opposing dragon pool Tax into is probably into our Rosarade. Ha. Oh, okay Sylvion going for the max This one it was the dragon pool, but we'll take that if we can put that to sleep then it makes this matchup so much easier Yeah, this is into dragon pool. They should definitely take it down. Yeah, no doubt about it and then As long as the sleep powder hits We should be in business to close this one up pretty quickly Rosarade on point today and Yeah, we're in a great we're in a great spot now to just close this one up Phantom Force and sludge bombs should do the trick So yeah, let's go sludge bomb and let's go Phantom Force And even if the silver well the Sylvion it's gonna have it could wake up this next turn I guess but then dragon pool. This is a beauty about Phantom Force as well it kind of pulls you out of the off the field for at least a turn to give us at least two sludge bombs anyway, which Rosarade is gonna be able to Deal with I mean mystic mystical fire could be an issue of course It's a phantom force and the sludge bomb should be enough. I think depends on the item of the Sylvion. Let's see But you still got Pokemon in the back, so we're not in the worst situation ever Yeah, I think sludge bomb is gonna do it now. It's a nice chunk of damage in sludge bomb. Oh Just hangs on It wakes up. Let's see where it's gone. Max flat into our whole Rosarade But we take it we tank it Rosarade so good Rosarade is like the best grass type. Why have I not used it before now? The reason I wanted to use you Rosarade is as well a lot of players have been using it recently So this is the reason about wanting to feature it today We'll take advantage of the Sun and we'll go from a flamethrower just to Clean this one up and we do pick up a nice win. So and yeah, two really nice games today. Good game there Tyler I hope you guys have enjoyed it. I I definitely have if you can't tell already But yeah, it's been a lot of fun. We'll probably play this team again later in the week but like I normally post the rental team later in the week, but Like I said today what we're gonna do. Let's see where ranking is. So I'm so so wrapped up with the ranking at the minute I just I like to know how we're doing the old times But not playing like consecutive days and for long periods of time It's kind of hurting because every time I come back the ranking kind of drops down a little bit Okay, well, we'll probably back to around where we left off last time. I guess Rental teams. This is what we need. This is the goodies you guys are looking for so If I remember on as well, I will put a poker face down if it's not up initially I will update it or add it to the next episode with this team. So if you guys Want that do just ask remind me what team we're gonna get rid of though So many teams is it time to get rid of the ice cube? I do love that team though Let's get rid of this one. This one's yeah, don't make public get rid of this one Yeah, this one's kind of generic generic. We'll replace an arca-9 team for another arca-9 team, I guess But we're gonna call it the rosary team For the sake of this so make it public. That's what we want to do But yeah, the team super nice it feels good, it's got a lot of options got a lot of mods to it You take advantage of things with the rosary We want to check it and there we go my friends There is the rental team for you all to to grab test out and try so I hope you enjoy it and more than anything I hope you've enjoyed today's episode. I'm sorry It's a little bit later than I planned going up like I said We had some issues with connecting on a switch account online earlier so that's meant it's a bit later than what I planned But I hope you've enjoyed it my friends Do drop a like on the video as always if you have enjoyed it and you do enjoy this sort of content It just lets me know that you're enjoying this and you want more of it in the future as well as Subscribing for more of this content and also other Pokemon content that we do we have guides We have news and all sorts of stuff going on So it's a lot of fun, and it's great to have you here with us. So do subscribe And I'll see you all for the next one so until then my friends take care of yourselves and bye. Bye


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