Blaziken, a powerful offensive Pokémon known for its strength.
However, in terms of speed, it is slightly inferior to other Pokémon.
With its Blaze Ability paired with Blaziken's formidable strength, it can even stand a chance against a behemoth like Aggron.
But if it's a Blaziken with the Speed Boost Ability…
[Speed Boost: Speed increases more and more during battle.]
This means that the longer the battle drags on, the more advantageous Blaziken becomes.
Once Speed Boost stacks up, the opponent will face a Boss with both A-tier power and A-tier speed.
Even though Kawaki wasn't a Trainer, he could still see the young man's intention at a glance.
But its opponent was a Slaking!
The battle officially began.
The young man had Blaziken use Flame Kick as a test.
However, the opposing Slaking merely lay sprawled on the ground, propping its head with its hand, yawning lazily, letting Blaziken's attack land on it.
The young girl showed no panic; she keenly observed the situation on the field. After hitting, Blaziken quickly flew back, attempting to create distance from Slaking to avoid being caught at close range.
Although Slaking usually appears lazy and harmless, lying motionless on its side.
In reality, it is a Pokémon with terrifying strength; once hit by its attack, it will surely be severely injured.
Unfortunately, the retreating Blaziken inadvertently exposed an opening.
The young girl seized this opportunity directly and loudly commanded: "Slaking, Body Slam!"
The next second, the Slaking, which had been sleeping on the ground, moved.
Its massive and cumbersome body now leaped high with an incredibly exaggerated speed, its entire frame lunging towards Blaziken.
What an agile fatty!
"Blaziken, dodge!" The young man tried to stop it, but it was already too late.
Blaziken was completely pinned down by Slaking, flattened into a "paper-thin" sheet.
One-hit KO!
"H-how could this be?!" The young man was utterly astonished. "How could that Body Slam have such immense power?!"
The young girl curled her lips: "You lost the first round!"
In fact, the move Slaking just used was not a simple Body Slam.
It was a Body Slam infused with "Counter."
People's stereotypes always assume that Slaking lies motionless in battle, but in reality, it is accumulating power for a counterattack.
And she had developed this ecological habit of Slaking, keeping it in a constant state of readiness for Counter.
Once someone attacks first, what awaits them will be Slaking's full-power strike!
"Truly magnificent!"
Kawaki led the applause, and at the same time, he noticed the small light bulb on the Exp. Share worn on Growlithe's head flashing rapidly.
Immediately after, Kawaki saw a line of text float above Growlithe's head.
EXP+2681!
Hmm? Is that… experience points gained after battle?
Kawaki quickly checked Growlithe's data.
[Pokémon: Growlithe]
[Gender: Male]
[Ability: Intimidate]
[Moves: Tackle, Sleep Powder, Baby-Doll Eyes, Swords Dance, Glare, Ember, Morning Sun, Howl, Flame Wheel, Bite]
[Status: Healthy]
[Mood: ❤️❤️❤️ Happy]
[Pleasure Value: 30]
[Friendship: 100 (It considers you its closest family)]
[Description: Woof woof woof! — Growlithe]
Compared to before, it directly gained three more moves!
This means that this high-level battle directly boosted Growlithe's strength significantly; in gaming terms, it leveled up!
One battle plus two thousand six hundred experience points… And according to Kawaki, in games, a Pokémon needs over a million experience points to reach max level.
Doesn't this mean that Growlithe could reach max level by simply observing five hundred Pokémon battles of this caliber?
No… probably not.
Because Growlithe hatched less than a month ago and is still a beginner-level Pokémon.
Because the power gap between that Blaziken and Slaking and its own was too large, it was able to gain so many experience points this time.
If Growlithe's strength increases, the experience gained from battles with Pokémon of the same level will definitely decrease sharply.
It's understandable that the later on, the harder it is to improve.
To verify this hypothesis, Kawaki took off Growlithe's Exp. Share and put it on Bewear.
As Blaziken lost its battle capability, the young man sent out a Beautifly for the second round.
But facing that well-trained Slaking, Beautifly was quickly defeated again.
Kawaki stared intently at Bewear's head.
Sure enough, the moment Beautifly was defeated, a line of numbers floated above Bewear's head.
EXP+69!
For Bewear, this kind of Superior-level Pokémon battle could no longer teach it anything.
To continue improving, it would probably only be by observing Elite-level, or even Champion-level, or perhaps even battles between Legendary Pokémon.
Kawaki put the Exp. Share back on Growlithe, then continued to watch the arena match.
As time passed by minute by minute, numbers representing strength increases continuously popped up above Growlithe's head.
EXP+2961!
EXP+1565!
EXP+1186!
…
By the end, one battle's experience points could only add over two hundred experience points for it.
In the evening, as the sun set, the arena match finally came to an end.
The ultimate winner was a young Trainer about the same age as Ash.
His strength was neither particularly strong nor weak, but undoubtedly, he shared a deep bond with his Pokémon.
Because he almost lost several times, but his Pokémon persevered at critical moments for their Trainer and successfully counter-defeated their opponents.
Having won the arena match and successfully stood until the very end, the young man grinned, revealing a set of white teeth, his face full of brilliant smiles.
"This is great! Beautifly, Azumarill, Pelipper! We won!" The young man said to the Pokémon behind him.
The Pokémon also responded in kind.
After the match, the other defeated Trainers did not leave, as they wanted to see what the final grand prize would be.
And Kawaki did not keep them in suspense.
He directly had Bewear bring out the last Trapinch egg and handed it to the young man.
The young man held the egg, his face filled with joy.
"Congratulations on successfully winning the championship. This egg is the Champion's reward!" Kawaki said with a smile.
"Boss, what Pokémon is in the egg?!" the young man quickly asked.
"That? It's a Trapinch!" Kawaki smiled.
The Hoenn League sent him two Trapinch eggs, one of which had already been sold.
The remaining one was an egg laid by two Flygon of Gym Leader level strength.
For an ordinary Trainer, this was already a very good reward.
Especially since Pokémon like Trapinch can only be found deep within dangerous desert interiors, making them very rare.
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