Chapter 346
The referee gave Alex a 30-second timer, to call his next Pokemon.
Alex didn''t summon his next Pokemon right away though, and he started thinking intensely about how best to defeat this stoise.
Although the situation looked bad, Alex recognized a few details that didn''t make it look too bad for him.
Alex could see that stoise had gotten a big wound on his head after using hisbo move.
Just using thisbo move should have cost him about 15-20% of his HP.
Also, he noticed that stoise looked extremely tired after using this move. Although this tiredness was only visible for a few seconds, Alex knew that stoise''s body was still at least a little tired after thisbo move.
Alex didn''t know if this tiredness meant that stoise couldn''t use thebo move right away or if it was just a Move that was physically demanding and can be used again after a couple of seconds.
Although it looked like an easy win for stoise to the crowd, Alex knew better. He didn''t think stoise would defeat any of his other Pokemon without falling unconscious himself.
Gary gives a disgusted expression when he sees Alex waiting those 30 seconds again to let his Pokemon take more damage from the Poison. He thinks it''s a useless struggle and that this weak poison can''t do much damage to stoise when it''s not moving or in a fight.
After Alex had only 3 seconds left he started calling his next Pokemon.
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Pokémon: ziken
LV: 49
Type: Fire/Fighting
Abilities: Speed Boost (Hidden Ability)
Gender: Female
Potential: Shallow Diamond
Moves:
- Growl, Scratch, Ember, Sand Attack, Peck, Double Kick, me Charge, Quick Attack, Bulk Up, ze Kick, Focus Energy, Sunny Day [E], High Jump Kick [E], sh
- (Perfect Talent) Attract [M], (Perfect Talent) Overheat [M]
- (TM) Protect, (TM) methrower [E], (TM) Rock slide [E], (TM) Will-O-Wisp [E], (TM) Poison Jab [E], (TM) Sr Beam [E], (TM) Dig, (TM) Facade, (TM) Helping Hand, (TM) Brick Break, (TM) Acrobatics, (TM) Shadow w, (TM) Low Sweep, (TM) U-turn, (TM) Swift, (TM) Substitute
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Gary looked at ziken as he thought, ''This Pokemon can [Attract] on the Master rank if I remember correctly. ...And because stoise can only detect another Pokemon with his eyes, I can''t avoid it either. This will be an annoyance.''
The referee doesn''t wait long before he starts the fight again. "3,2,1,Go"
Alex said telepathically to his Pokemon, "ziken we''re changing the n, you''re going to..."
Gary said in a serious expression, "stoise use [Surf]. Also, don''t look at ziken after you know roughly where it is."
Alex, hearing thismand, showed a slightly surprised expression. He didn''t expect Gary toe up with such a brilliant n in such a short amount of time to minimize [Attract]''s threat without sacrificing attack power.
[Surf] had a very wide range and stoise doesn''t have to be looking at ziken all the time to hit with this move. it is enough if he knows roughly where ziken is to hit with this move, even if that gives ziken a small chance to dodge [Surf].
ziken began running away from stoise at the start of the fight as she prepared her move.
stoise, who wants to look at ziken as little as possible, didn''t always run in the most direct way to ziken, and he didn''t manage to get within range for his move after he''d already finished preparing it.
ziken finished her move a good whileter when she used finally her move, [Sunny Day]. At almost the same time stoisees within range for his move.
Gary quickly said, "stoise you can aim now. ziken doesn''t have enough time to prepare [Attract] right now."
ziken, hearing Gary''s words, shed a small smile. Especially when she saw stoise looking her way.
She immediately [Attract] and direct hits stoise who is looking at her.
Gary wore a shocked expression as he simply said, "What? how?"
Alex said with a smile, "Gary you didn''t disappoint me. You saw the weakness and immediately tried to exploit it."
Gary wore a shocked expression as he said, "You nned that? What''s that nonsense? That''s impossible?"
Alex said with a serious expression, "No it''s not impossible. It''s just a bit risky. I knew you saw myst fight or at least I thought you saw it with a high probability. It''s not hard to guess that you''ll adjust yourbat style around this move"
Gary gave an incredible expression, "It still doesn''t make sense. How did you know that I would use this moment to attack?."
Alex shed a smile as he said, "Because at that moment your Pokemon suddenly came into attacking range and this situation looked like a perfect chance to do something like that. What a coincidence or maybe..."
Gary showed a speechless expression he heard the words of Alex.
Alex continued, "Any good trainer would do that and I have to say, you didn''t disappoint me, Gary."
Although he said to himself, ''Although an extremely good Trainer would have noticed that ziken had started preparing a move before your stoise, but she had taken longer to use her move even though both moves are on Expert rank. If you think about it, you would conclude that ziken likely also prepared a Master rank move at the same time. Of course, finding that out in 1 or 2 seconds isn''t easy.''
ziken, who by now had her next move ready, used [Sr Beam] and hit stoise, who still had a stiff expression. She started preparing the same move immediately afterward.
Gary started screaming loudly to wake up stoise when he saw that his Pokemon had a rtively big wound from this hit.
stoise suddenly started to have a slightly surprised expression and he started moving again.
Alex show an unhappy expression as he saw how briefly this stoise was incapacitated.
"stoise use [Surf] + [Dragon Pulse]"(nobo move)
After a moment, ziken got her next [Sr Beam] ready and she shot stoise with it again.
stoise''s body was covered with multiple wounds and the [Toxic] continually damaged his body. it didn''t look like he wouldst much longer.
Alex said telepathically, "ziken use [Protect] and start to prepare [Overheat] immediately afterward."
stoise finished and he used the move [Surf], which was almostpletely blocked by ziken''s [Protect]. But stoise used [Dragon Pulse] basically immediately after [Surf] and he hit ziken with the entire force of this move.
ziken was hit by [Dragon Pulse] and lost more than 40% of his HP.
Alex thought, ''hard to believe it wasn''t a solo [Dragon Pulse].''
(It has been implied a few times in the story that if you prepare two moves at the same time, the effectiveness and power of the two moves is weaker than if you prepare a solo move)
Gary said as fast as he could, "stoise use [Dragon Pulse]"
But ziken started preparing her move earlier than stoise, due to Alex''s earlier instruction.
Alex saw stoise''s condition and he was pretty sure that after an [Overheat], stoise would be defeated.
ziken finished her move first and she immediately used [Overheat].
stoise didn''t try to dodge it, he kept a calm expression as his whole body hurt and as this body suddenly felt incredibly exhausted.
Gary, who thought that stoise was about to fall unconscious to the ground, suddenly saw how stoise''s eyes radiated an strong willpower and how stoise managed to take the hit.
Even though stoise knew that his body will copse after one moment, he still show a smile. there was enough time to use his next move.
Alex saw that and he said, "Quick, dodge"
ziken tried to dodge but couldn''t make it and she was hit by stoise using [Dragon Pulse].
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