On the field, after the two had discussed, Kabu extended his hands, holding the red and green flags level.
"Both sides, please send out your Pokémon simultaneously!"
Clair seemed to have already decided who to send out. Without much hesitation, she took out her first Poké Ball, then stood still, holding the Poké Ball, and looked at Natsui with an eager expression, waiting for him to make his choice.
Natsui smiled faintly.
She looks radiant. It seems… she's quite impatient!
Although Clair was full of confidence for the upcoming battle, for Natsui, it wasn't difficult to guess which Pokémon she would use.
Although it was a blind battle, Clair was, after all, a Dragon Tamer, and as a Dragon-type Pokémon expert, and this being the Blackthorn Gym, she wouldn't use any other type of Pokémon for battle besides Dragon-types.
Furthermore, many Dragon-type Pokémon also had the Flying type, and with a pool in the center of the field, her lineup would certainly include Water/Dragon-type Pokémon.
And this allowed Natsui to continuously narrow down his guesses and preemptively exclude his Pokémon with type disadvantages.
So… for the first round, who should I use to battle?
Natsui pondered for a moment. Finally, he took out the Poké Ball placed first in his right waist pouch.
"I choose you!"
Seeing that Natsui had made his choice, the two simultaneously threw their Poké Balls. As blue lights flashed, two Pokémon appeared on the field.
Clair's first Pokémon was the Charizard that had performed excellently in the battle against Vicious in the Dragon's Holy Land. And Natsui had sent out his starter Pokémon—Gardevoir.
Gardevoir and Charizard stood on opposite sides of the pool, watching each other. Just like their trainers, the battle spirit in their eyes began to burn simultaneously.
In terms of typing, Gardevoir's Fairy-type moves would only deal half damage when facing the Fire-type Charizard. But besides that, the two Pokémon had no other type advantages or disadvantages.
Fortunately, Natsui rarely used Fairy-type moves anyway. Overall, the impact wasn't significant. However, in this situation, raw power became especially important.
Kabu looked left and right. Seeing that both sides were ready, he decisively waved the flags.
"The match officially begins!"
And the moment the flags dropped, both trainers issued their commands almost simultaneously.
"Gardevoir, use Confusion!"
"Charizard, fly into the air!"
Gardevoir unleashed Confusion, attacking from a distance, but the Charizard, which had just flown into the sky, nimbly dodged it with a sideways turn.
And Charizard, circling high in the air, seized the opportunity, opened its mouth wide, and used Flamethrower on Gardevoir.
A large ball of flames surged towards Gardevoir. Faced with the rolling heat wave, Gardevoir immediately used Teleport, blinking to a safe location.
This exchange could be seen as an initial probing by the two Pokémon, but unfortunately, neither managed to hit the other.
On the other side, seeing that her attack had missed, Clair frowned slightly and began to order Charizard to launch continuous attacks, trying to wear down Gardevoir and force it into her rhythm.
However, despite Charizard's continuous attacks, Gardevoir always managed to safely dodge with Teleport.
"Tch, Psychic-type Pokémon are really troublesome!"
Clair muttered her complaint. In fact, it wasn't just her; many people had similar complaints when facing Psychic-type Pokémon.
Unlike in the games, psychic power in reality was very powerful. Whether it was Confusion or Teleport, it always caused great trouble for opponents.
And most importantly, because she couldn't predict where Gardevoir would teleport, she couldn't issue commands in advance.
Unable to hit it, unable to touch it. It's really annoying!
She gritted her teeth and commanded again, "Charizard, use a wide-area attack! Don't give it any room to escape!"
The battle continued.
Compared to her, Natsui's expression was as usual, looking calm and composed, showing no signs of panic.
In truth, Natsui was extremely familiar with Charizard.
After all, he had one himself, and having spent every day and night with it, he already knew all its moves and tactics inside and out.
Although Clair's Charizard and his own Charizard differed in temperament and physique, they were both Charizard, and their moves and strategies were essentially similar.
All he had to do was mentally put himself in Clair's shoes, think from her perspective, and consider how he would attack Gardevoir with Charizard. Then, Gardevoir, reading Natsui's thoughts through telepathy, would be prepared for Charizard's next attack.
Subsequently, Gardevoir would launch a defensive counterattack, causing Charizard to take quite a bit of damage.
And because of this, Clair felt increasingly frustrated. It was as if Gardevoir could predict the future, always anticipating Charizard's next move.
This is troublesome…
It could only be said that it was only after personally experiencing a battle with Natsui that she could feel how incredibly strong Natsui's Pokémon were.
As expected of the undefeated Indigo Conference champion. He's really tough.
And what was most terrifying was that she had never experienced this feeling of powerlessness, not even when battling Lance.
Could this person be even stronger than Lance?
Finally, when the severely exhausted Charizard, its breathing ragged, exposed another opening, Gardevoir used Psybeam, causing Charizard to suffer temporary mental confusion. Then it followed up with Psychic, paralyzing its body, and finally delivered a Hypnosis, knocking it out of the sky.
Hit by Hypnosis, Charizard's eyes grew extremely heavy, and its consciousness became increasingly blurry. In an instant, it seemed to lose all its power and plummeted headfirst into the pool in the center of the field.
Whoosh!
Dozens of meters…
Over ten meters…
A few meters…
"Charizard!"
Seeing the altitude getting lower and lower, but Charizard showing no signs of waking up, Clair's face changed.
If it were another Pokémon, perhaps falling into the water and getting a shock would break the hypnosis. But Charizard was extremely afraid of water, and its tail flame absolutely could not be extinguished.
She quickly took out a Poké Ball and, just as Charizard was about to fall into the pool, recalled it.
And this meant she had voluntarily surrendered.
Kabu, with a complex expression, raised the green flag.
"Charizard is unable to battle! The first round goes to Gardevoir!"
Looking at the Poké Ball in her hand, Clair sighed, a hint of unwillingness on her face. "I lost."
Natsui smiled and shook his head, saying nothing.
In truth, after Hypnosis, he had planned to use Dream Eater to completely finish off Charizard.
But it seemed he had already won before needing that move.
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