I Don't Own Pokemon
I wasn't sure, as I stood up on the platform, who I was going to send out, I mean I've already used everyone once, while the themed fields had something I could go off of, then I only had to decided between two of my team. After a moment, I noted the referee made the sign for us to send out of team members. Reaching down to my sash, I grabbed the last pokeball and took it off. Why bother rethinking it when I could just use the same pattern I already made.
Tossing the ball into the air the same time my opponent, Simon, did I watched as the ampharos appeared in front of Lycanroc. Not the best match up for my opponent which is good for me. Looking over towards the referee I waited until the arms came down before calling out to my Wolf.
"Earth Power" Lycanroc slammed his palm into the ground, and quickly after as the yellow Pokemon tried to jump out of the way, though the ampharos still took damage as the ground exploded underneath them, throwing them back further than they were planning on jumping to. I was about to call out another move but Simon beat me to it as he called out.
"Get close then Iron Tail" The Pokemon rushed forwards as they swung their tail as it got a familiar white shining glow to it. I just frowned as I noted I crossed my arms as my Wolf took the hit right across the body, I really wasn't comfortable with this move as I called out.
"Counter" He had the tanky-ness to use that move to its full capability, though free hits don't really sit well with me. As Lycanroc pulled his head up and through it forwards and slammed himself into the back of the ampharos sending them into the ground, right after I called out.
"Now Earth Power, then Stealth Rock" The ampharos who was still on the ground didn't take well to the ground exploded underneath them, tossing them up into the air. As they were up there, Lycanroc placed his paw on the ground before ripples spread out from the point of contact, I should look into finding a way for him to use moves like those through his feet instead of his paws. Looking up as the ampharos was on the way down I called out.
"Rock Slide keep them up there until they're unconscious" It didn't take long before the Pokemon was down, well up, but down in the air, which didn't make sense. Well now they were down on the ground now that Lycanroc stopped his onslaught. As the red light of the pokeball contacted with the downed Pokemon, I waited as Simon returned his team member. Lycanroc seemed ok but from the amount damage the Counter did, he must have taken at least some damage which was notable.
As the next pokeball was up in the air, I frowned a small bit as the azumarill appeared. Water type, Lycanroc has gone up against Vaporeon in a few mock battles, but he still doesn't have that much experience against Water types. Not to mention azumarill is a highly psychical based attacker, well with Huge Power unlike the mix that Vaporeon is, I just hope that this one doesn't have Belly Drum, or else that'll just be a headache. Still has the flags came down I didn't bother to hesitate as I called out while the Stealth Rock activated.
"Iron Defense, Lycanroc, then Thunder Punch" My Wolf seemed to gain a light shine to his form as his defenses increased, before he charged forwards as his paws started to spark up with electricity.
"Belly Drum then Aqua Tail!" Damn it, of course they would have that move, it's suppose to be a rare egg one. As the punch connected, the Pokemon taking the damage actually barely budged, before spinning around and slamming their tail into the side of Lycanroc's head. I felt myself frown a little bit,as he recoiled from the super effective move, though I quickly called out right after, as I wasn't going to let them get away with that attack for free.
"Counter once more Lycanroc" He seemed to freeze as he was still tumbling away from the blow, before twisted on his feet and slamming his body into the Pokemon in front of him, this time I felt myself wince as I could hear the sound of the impact as the air seemed to ripple through the form of the azumarill before they were launched a good couple dozen feet backwards and didn't stop until they had slammed into the wall behind their trainer.
Simon was planning on taking down Lycanroc with one move, he already knew about Counter, so he was trying to negate that by taking my Wolf down before he could attack back. After all four times base strength times stab and super effectiveness, I'm very surprised Lycanroc stayed up at all. Though it clearly had taken a toll on him, he was breathing heavily and looked close to exhausted, the only reason he was still up was because of that Iron Defense he managed.
I won't be winning this one with a sweep, which is good, it would be sad if I didn't have at least someone who could do something to me before losing. Still, Lycanroc was more than fine with continuing on with the battle, he, while not as bad as Charizard, in the heat of the moment completely forgot about the fact that he is normally one of the more peaceful ones on the team, or at least the most lax. But in battle he simply put can't stay calm.
As the fainted Pokemon was returned I continued on ignoring everything the announcer said, as per tradition at this point. While my opponent grabbed out a new pokeball and tossed it into the air. This time it was a heracross, I'm getting the feeling that this trainer isn't from Kanto, though Johto wasn't as remote as Unova it was still a interesting note to make.
Still a Fighting type, another good match up against my Rock type, which is unfortunate. Lycanroc can't take to many more hits without going down, so range is what I'll have to switch to for a bit until he can get some time for his body to get a bit of a break. Moving my eyes over towards the referee, I watched for a bit before the flags came down once more.
"Get back, and max out for Iron Defense" My Wolf moved backwards before his body seemed to shine a sliver glow before cooling down, while his white and grey fur seemed to still contain some of that shine. Good, he'll need it to last for the next few rounds, as Lycanroc moved backwards a little bit more. That's when my opponent decided that I had been given to much time to plan as they called out.
"Bullet Seed Heracross!" He doesn't see as well as I do about the damage that Lycanroc has taken. Which means he doesn't what to try again with close ranged attacks, in case my Wolf can get another Counter in on him. We were both playing it safe, but I was the one that couldn't afford to keep playing it that way, to long with this and Simon will figure out that Lycanroc is much lower on health than he thinks. Though actually I could work with that.
"Keep on the move and don't get hit no matter what. If you can, use Rock Slide" I was putting it on a little much, considering I've only used short commands so far. But it seemed to work as Simon seemed to gain a grin on his face, as he realized that Lycanroc couldn't take a hit in his current state.
"Get in close Heracross! Then use Brick Break" I didn't say anything as the Bug type rushed towards my Wolf, as they got closer I waited on it until it was just close enough for me to be a bit to uncomfortable with, before calling out to Lycanroc.
"Protect" The shield came up right before the Brick Break would have slammed down onto my Wolf's head. I waited until the power behind attack seemed to die down a bit before calling out quickly.
"Quick Reversal" It was a bit of a risk, but Lycanroc was hurt pretty bad, which meant Reversal would make the opponent hurt bad. As the bruising and other more clear hurt spots on Lycanroc seemed to glow before my Wolf dropped the Protect and punched the heracross straight in the face, launching it back a good bit. It didn't go as much as I would have liked but it wasn't very effective so I could understand it, still I was going to capitalize on it as I called out.
"Stone Edge, then charge forwards" The ground piked upwards as the attack rushed forwards toward the Bug type, who managed to get out of the way of the attack but that was mostly to be a distraction, as Lycanroc got close enough that I knew he wouldn't miss, as I said to him a word to one of his favorite attacks.
"Outrage" He was about ten feet away from the heracross as his form exploded with the Dragon type energy as he slammed his body into the Pokemon with the avatar of a beast which the energy around him formed to show. Though Simon didn't seem to want to take it lying down as he called out to his Pokemon.
"Hammer Arm now!" The resulting explosion covered the field up a bit so no one could really see what was going on, until the smoke cleared up to reveal the downed form of the heracross, with Lycanroc looking like he was barely standing up. I could already see it was a pride thing for him, he wouldn't last another hit, I wasn't really sure he would last long on his feet even without being hit. I was proven right as he swayed on his feet for a moment before collapsing onto the ground next to the heracross.
The announcer was making a big deal out of it, while I sighed to myself as I pulled Lycanroc's ball out and aimed it at him. As he returned I shook my head a bit before placing his ball back onto my sash, it had to end sometime, it would be stupid to think that I would go undefeated during this tournament but it would have been nice to achieve that.
Pulling out my next pokeball as Simon did the same, I tossed it into the air as Vaporeon appeared on the field at the same time the houndoom did. I got type on my side this time which is a nice bonus. Looking on as the referee swung his arms down, I moved my focus back onto the battle field as I called out to Vaporeon.
"Vaporeon, Water Pulse rapid fire" I was going to play this at long range, while houndoom might not be that big of a threat type-wise, but I know that they can learn Thunder Fang, and getting caught in that would lead to a point blank Flamethrower, which would just lead to unnecessary damage. My oppeont gave out the command to dodge but Vaporeon was quite good at tracking where the houndoom would be going next. So while a few missed most hit dead on.
"Keep up the pressure Vaporeon" She seemed to be slowing a little, but my words got her to stop slipping the power of the attacks down. She was quite good with power and adaptation but consistence in her attacks was something she wasn't the best at yet. It only mostly showed up after using a good like this in longer stretches, I got to the this houndoom was very bulky to take so many hits.
"Houndoom Flamethrower!" He was desperate to get some damage in before his Pokemon faints, smart but not exactly the best plan, like I said, well thought, monologue? Something like that, anyway he was desperate for some damage to be done he wasn't thinking smart on as to how to do it. Well he shouldn't be panicking, he should be feeling good and happy not panicked, I mean he's the first one that knocked one of my family out, that should give some pride.
At least I think it would, I'm not exactly an expert on people or emotions in general, but that's normally how someone reacts to doing something no one else has done before. Whatever, not my concern, Vaporeon does have some big reserves but this constant attacking is just wearing her down, I need to finished this.
"Time it out then Hydro Pump" She stopped her attack for a few moments as the houndoom took that as a chance to charge forwards to get a hit in, when the torrent of water shot forwards and shot the houndoom off their feet and onto the ground, this time not being able to take the hit. Getting returned by their trainer, I listened on as announcer commented on something about me being ruthless. Was I? I don't thin I am, but outside view and all that.
The next Pokemon that was sent out was a umbreon funnily enough, an eeveelution battle, haven't had one of those since that girl with a leafeon and glaceon challenged me to a battle in the middle of the path between Fuchsia and Saffron. Never did find out what a Sinnoh inhabitant was in Kanto, then again I never asked but that's besides the point. Looking out on the field as the battle started once more I called out.
"Vaporeon Double Kick" My Water Fox rushed forwards and as she got close, the umbreon's eyes glowed faintly as a familiar looking orb of Ghost type energy, Confuse Ray was a weird move, one that I didn't want to deal with, even as the Stealth Rocks activated and got a a bit of premature revenge for the Confuse Ray. Still it would go to not revenge as I called out to Vaporeon.
"Dodge it, and then continue on with Double Kick" She jumped around the orb of light that seemed to almost try and move towards her, but as it was one of Mismagius' favorite moves for messing with us all, it wasn't hard at all to get around for her. Charging forwards she jumped and slammed her paw down onto the umbreon even as they tried to move out of the way. Then the next paw came down, afterwards I called out to her.
"Point blank Hydro Pulse, Vaporeon" She held her head back before shooting forwards her high powered specialty attack right into the face of the umbreon sending them backwards, though that was mostly the force that came with the attack not because it did that much damage. This Pokemon from the eevee evolution line has very high special defense, so the Double Kick did more, I'll need to focus on close range.
"Get close Vaporeon, focus on Double Kick, use a mix of Aqua and Iron Tail if you need a break, but don't give them one" She rushed forwards as I watched on as she seemed to almost dance around the umbreon, every second one of the three attacks connected against the Pokemon. The Double Kicks did the most with Aqua doing the runner up in most damage done, but that didn't matter as the umbreon went down.
As the Pokemon was returned I barely noted the announcer was still talking as the Dark type was removed from the field. Waiting as the next Pokemon was sent out, a granbull, I ignored my instinct to keep going for Double Kick, gen six really messed up my Pokemon type chart, still I just refocused on what I knew to go for, Iron Tail was still a good move to use. I watched as the flags came down but before I could call out, Simon called out.
"Outrage now!" He really doesn't have any sense of composure does he, actually looking at him he seemed almost scared. Ignoring that, I watched on as the Outrage using Pokemon rushed forwards and was getting close, a little to close to be comfortable. So I called out to my Water Fox to use her own strongest move.
"Tidewave Vaporeon, try not to rush it" The air around Vaporeon seemed to become heavy before drops of water started to dip from the air itself around her. It quickly escalated until the ground was soaked, and not long after that a wave of water was moving forwards, a few moments after that the water jumped in height upwards of nearly twenty feet as it collided into charging Fairy type.
I frowned as I watched Vaporeon, who was behind the massive wave of water, she was panting hard. This move really did need a big source of water to not burn through her stamina. But it was either that or risk blocking this high powered move with an Aurora Beam, which would just need up hurting her more than this, if it wasn't blocked, even if it did make her tired. I waited as the air seemed to mist up in the middle of the field, even if I couldn't see it over the wave of water.
Fun fact, most people assume Dragon type moves would be hot, like a dragon's fire, at least in my old world, but as it turns out it's cold, the reason why Ice types are strong against Dragon types is because the two sources of cold energy cancel each other out, with ice usually being the winning by being the more natural element of the two, that actually has no barring on what is happening.
Back to the battle I watched as the battle of attacks continued on, Vaporeon would normally win, but she had already used some pretty intensive attacks, and Outrage is a move that is made to keep on going as a normally self-sustaining attack on the emotion of rage the Pokemon feels naturally while using it. That didn't mean the granbull wasn't burning through energy themselves.
After all a Fairy type using a Dragon type move, conflict of the type chart was their. It could be done obviously or else I wouldn't be dealing with it, but it was very hard concentration wise for a Pokemon to not naturally cancel out their own attack. So they were both going through their reserves fast, and because I didn't know much about the granbull line in general, I wasn't sure about their natural levels of stamina. It was a guessing game as to which would give up first, and I don't like guessing, so after a few more moments of debate I called out.
"Stop your attack and wait there" She seemed confused from her body language but didn't say anything as the water from the massive attack subsided as the Outrage rushed forwards, not as strong as it started off as, which was good for me. I waited a few moments before hoping I wasn't cutting this to close as I called out.
"Iron Tail Vaporeon" She jumped into the air as her tail glowed before bringing it down onto the head of the granbull, cutting through the Outrage with some slight resistance but that's what the Steel type move was for in the first place. That and when the Steel type move hit onto the head of the granbull, it did a lot of damage as the Outrage was cut off as the granbull was slammed face first in the ground. No matter how tired they would have gotten from using that attack. The Stealth Rock damage along with only one Iron Tail wouldn't take them out so I called out once more.
"Hydro Pump" And like that is was over, the crowd was cheering a bit to loudly as the announcer started up their normal talk, well not so normal, they seemed very talkative about the new record I just set.
"And with that ladies and gentlemen Kyu has broke a record! And he only has one more battle to go through to break another one as well folks! This mysterious Unovan trainer has taken the League by storm, I can say with certainly along with everyone else, I can't wait to see what the next battle will be like!"
They kept talking I just stopped listening, as I watched the teenager across from me turn and almost run out of the stadium. I was confused as to why he seemed so scared, I noted Vaporeon was talking up to me, looking down at her I smiled as I waved her along as I turned and made my way out of the stadium as well. I'll think on it later.
Just one more battle, until then, I don't really have that much to add at the moment, so I'll leave off here. See ya.
