Chapter 8 – Not Only High HP but also High Damage
"I'll just take a slight peek."
This was Rikuno's original idea.
But after opening this document, Rikuno was instantly attracted by the use of technical jargon and training experience and was deeply immersed in it.
It's like a novice who has just walked out of the starting point in a game and knows nothing about the future, suddenly receiving a detailed guide from the leader of the top guild.
From the diets and habits of the ghosts to the training of moves, everything on the document is more detailed than an academic paper.
At the bottom of the document, the citations are also carefully noted-
Samuel Oak's "Should Ghost-types be Included in the Investigation of Zoology";
Agatha, "The Source of fears: From Gastly to Gengar";
In the acknowledgments, Blue mentioned that there seemed to be a relationship between Agatha, the ghost master of Kanto, and his grandfather, Samuel Oak.
The training methods that Blue come up with were derived from Professor Oak's scientific research method but summarized it with Agatha's experiences.
Blue seemed express a want to publish this paper under the name of Samuel Oak, aiming to put the conflict between the two to rest.
But in the end, it didn't work out, and Rikuno was benefited.
"Such a filial grandson."
Rikuno was a little moved.
"If this was an auction, this training method would be worth a lot of money!"
The training manual produced by "The Trainer" Blue is at least of a purple epic quality in the system's terms.
Although may not be at the level of Giovani's "The Mysteries of Earth", it is also a rare treasure for ghost trainers.
"It's a pity." Rikuno sighed, "This thing is not worth much to me."
"Some of these methods are pretty much what I hypothesised... Forget it, I'll let Gastly play with it himself."
Rikuno's interest in training Pokémon was lacking.
So, he better to let Gastly take care of it himself.
A red light flashed, and the ghost of a black mist blinked his eyes wide and looked around curiously at his new home.
"Just stay here for now and don't go anywhere."
Rikuno avoided ghost's outstretched tongue, "I'm going to start broadcasting!"
"Gas Gastly?"
"Bored, hmmm... Take this little book and read it! "
Gastly looked at Rikuno as if he was an idiot.
Your book does not have a single illustration, is dense, is full of small print and is also full of jargon?
"Huh? Are you literate? "
Rikuno placed the newly printed "The training methods of Gastly" in front of Gastly's face.
"Then I will test you, How many ways did this paper mention about the uses of confuse ray?"
Confuse ray is one of the moves that Gastly can learn in its early stages.
Blue believes that ghosts born from nothingness have a natural affinity for confuse ray.
Therefore, ghosts have quite a few versatile method they can be trained in to use confuse ray —
Rikuno was too lazy to train though.
Can't let Gastly interrupt the stream, but can't keep him locked in the Pokéball, so it's alright to let it learn some knowledge!
"Gas!?"
Gastly, overwhelmed by Rikuno's question, suddenly turned pale and floated in the air.
After a moment, Gastly lifted his spirits and focused his eyes on the paper.
"Gas Gas Gas!"
I'll understand this paper no matter what!
Rikuno nodded with satisfaction.
"By the way, there's some berries in the cupboard, so if you're hungry, go take some!"
After explaining this to the ghost, Rikuno went to the computer and opened the streaming platform.
"Huh? There are already 60 thousand subs."
Rikuno rubbed his chin, "I should be able to complete that mission in a few weeks then!"
[Mission "I'm really not a aesthetic streamer!"]
[Description: Complete the small goal of 100 thousand subs]
[Mission Rewards: 1000 BP Points, Random Skill lv1, TM 'Substitue'(Can be read as Stand in Chinese)*1]
Rikuno also asked, this so-called substitute (stand), is it reliable?
The system replied that it was not a question where there it was unreliable or not, rather it was the kind of... dirty and available to be used in a combination with other moves.
Rikuno was slightly disappointed.
"I thought I could awaken Killer Queen, a Star Platinum or something, but I didn't expect it to really be just a Substitute."
After logging in to his stream , the audiences started to swarm in.
"It's time to eat!"
"Just asking, is this the stream of "Fighter"?"
"Rikuno-sensei please continue to teach us about Substitute Protect Toxic!"
Rikuno glanced at the chat, "Today I give you a whole new strategy."
Opening the team editor, Rikuno dragged a cute mushroom into the team, which immediately attracted a few question marks from the chat.
"What is the use of Breloom?"
"It's species strength is not high, it have low resistance to other types and overall is not practical!"
"It's not as good as Venasaur that's for sure! Change it to another Pokémon Rikuno-sensei!"
Rikuno was indifferent and started the match-making.
"RIP, Rikuno-sensei is going to start feeding!"
In the virtual image, Rikuno matches up with a player from the Sinnoh region, and there is an official certification next to the ID.
[Sinnoh's gym leader of the Eterna City Gym, Gardenia.]
"Holy shit, it's a gym leader!"
"This is an actual grass-type specialist! Rikuno-sensei's using of Breloom…? "
"The opponent is also using a Breloom!?"
Obviously, Gardenia used her appearance in reality as her avatar.
On the verdant grassy field, with orange short hair, a blue shawl and brown shorts, with an exposed navel, the girl took out a Pokéball.
The red light flashed, and one large and one small two Breloom appeared on the field.
However, Gardenia's Breloom was in better condition that Rikuno's!
"It's over, GG!"
"It's not even with a hidden ability, how is he going to win this!?"
In the virtual stadium, the Breloom of the Gardenia launched a first attack.
Rushing at a fast speed, Breloom's claw launched into Rikuno's Breloom's abdomen, pushing it to a distance of 3 meters away!
"GG!"
"I guess that's what you get for using Breloom instead of Venasaur?"
The situation was worrisome, but Rikuno calmly explained:
"The opponent's Breloom should be have the ability 'Technician'."
"And my Breloom's ability... Is 'Poison Heal'!"
The Bullet Punch hit its target, but Rikuno's Breloom did not fall.
With its body trembling, the Breloom let out a scream, and its injuries started recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye!
"Holy crap, the item it's carrying must be leftovers right? If not how could it recover so quickly!"
"It's a Toxic Orb! Rikuno-sensei's Breloom carries a Toxic Orb!"
With the Poison Heal ability, Pokémon will continuously recover their stamina when they are poisoned.
And the Toxic Orb allows Pokémon to stay in a state of being poisoned.
Pair the two together, and you'll have an almost BUG-like recovery speed!
The two Brelooms continued to attack each other, but the stamina of one doesn't even match the rate of recovery of the other.
A series of question marks flashed on the chat.
"？？？"
"Scary!"
"?!"
After nearly a hundred rounds, seeing that there was no hope of victory for Breloom, the tortured Gardenia took initiative to surrender.
In a series of question marks, the popularity of the live broadcast room jumped to 60 thousand.
"Rikuno-sensei is not a human being!"
"How retar... Courageous and smart! "
"This is the legendary perpetual motion machine!?"
In the game, Rikuno recalls the Breloom and smiles.
"The Toxic of Substitue Protect Toxic, is not the toxic of toxic, but the Toxic of Toxic Orb!"
A large number of presents popped up on the screen as the number of subscribers continues to grow, together with these the system's BP point of increases rapidly.
"Listen to yourself, do you know what you are even saying?"
"Holy shit, even a gym leader surrendered?"
"Rikuno-sensei Niu Bi (awesome)!"
AN: Hello and thank you for the people who are reading this story. Especially thanks to those who took the time to review, favourite and follow. All these small gestures may not mean much to you guys but has been a great support for me to keep going on with this story. That's basically all I have to say (≧W≦).