Chapter 948: A Few Things About the Battle
Heath watched curiously. He didn't actually know much about Pokémon battles, but after gaining championship-level battle experience and skills, Heath is now considered a knowledgeable person. In his opinion, there is still a big gap between Mr. Qianli and the challenger on the opposite side. In the end, as expected, facing Qianli's Leave King, the opponent's specially trained Iron Palm Warrior was unable to produce any effect and was defeated miserably by Qianli's Leave King, although the Leave King was now Qianli's last Pokémon.
This is still a gym battle under the flexible difficulty level. Heath doesn't think that this is Qianli's strength. The King of Leave is indeed Qianli's trump card, but Qianli also let him win . Heath can see that Qianli's letting him win is very obvious, but even so, the opponent is no match for Qianli.
"Mr. Qianli didn't use his full strength." Heath smacked his lips. Of course he could see that Qianli didn't use his full strength. The Pokémon he used before were all very ordinary Pokémon, and their training was also very ordinary. But the last one, King of Absence, was one of Qianli's main forces. Even so, the challenger's Iron Palm Warrior was defeated by King of Absence, which shocked the people watching around.
Heath even heard a child in the back asking his old father why the Iron Palm Warrior with fighting attributes couldn't beat the Leave King with ordinary attributes. Their teacher said that attribute restraint is very important. Finding the restrained attribute will make the battle easier. He even recited an attribute restraint table on the spot.
Attribute restraint is a very important part. Heath remembered that this was what Xiaozhi said to him. According to Xiaozhi, attribute restraint is a required course after going to Pokémon School. As the leader of a Normal-type gym, Qianli is best at using Normal-type Pokémon, so most people would choose to use Fighting-type Pokémon to deal with Qianli. Iron Palm is a Fighting-type Pokémon, and it stands to reason that it should be killed by Ga Ga, but in fact, Iron Palm was killed by the Absentee King.
Although attribute restraint is very strong, it is not absolute. For example, Groudon is a ground-attribute mythical beast, and although it is restrained by water plants and ice, you can't let a Magikarp easily defeat Groudon. If this were the case, then there would be no need for this world to exist. Everyone would only need to prepare Pokémon of various attributes, and then see who goes last. The one who goes last will definitely win, as long as the prepared Pokémon can restrain the opponent's attributes.
"That King of Leave is very strong. He didn't use his full strength." Charizard expressed his opinion. Heath nodded. He also felt that the King of Leave did not use his full strength. After all, the other party looked too relaxed, quite relaxed, just like doing exercise in the morning, without any pressure at all. Even though he was facing an Iron Palm Wingman who had taken the opportunity to bodybuilding three times, the other party was still very relaxed. The strength gap was too big.
"Probably Mr. Qianli will only use his full strength when facing Mikoli and other gym leaders?" Heath touched his chin. Flexible difficulty is a way for novice trainers to improve their confidence and accumulate combat experience. After all, it is impossible to expect these newcomers to deal with full-strength gym leaders as soon as they come out. It is even a good thing if they can deal with novice gym apprentices.
Not every trainer can challenge the Rock Gym with Pikachu like Ash did, and finally get the medal, and even get the recognition of Brock. You have to know that most people will be discouraged by the gym apprentices if they can't even remember the attribute restraint. Being a trainer is also a matter of talent, unless you have a good family background, strict teachers, and rich training experience.
If Ash didn't have Professor Oak helping him take care of the Pokémon that were released, it would be impossible for Ash to use them whenever he wanted. Pokémon also need training. Even the champion, Sirona, often trains her Pokémon to keep them in competitive form.
A challenge was over, but Mr. Qianli still awarded the badge of the ordinary gym. The opponent was quite strong and had his own tactical ideas. The reason for his loss was only because his training was not in place. However, according to Qianli's judging criteria, the opponent was qualified to get this gym badge. It's just that he had seen the trainer card of this trainer. Apart from his own, the opponent only had the badge of the water gym that he had not collected. Looking at the opponent's eyes, Qianli knew that the opponent would definitely challenge the master of the water gym, Mikoli.
"The Water Gym Leader, Mikoli, is very strong, stronger than me. If you want to challenge him, you should train your Pokémon more first." Qianli said to the other party seriously, and the other party nodded seriously. After fighting with Qianli, he realized how ignorant and ridiculous he was before. But even so, he still wanted to challenge the gym leader. After all, this was a rare experience and he didn't want to give up.
After hearing this, Heath looked at Qianli and said frankly that starting from this year, anyone who challenges Mikoli will win. After all, Mikoli will become the champion of the Hoenn region in a while, and when he becomes the champion, he will not be able to be challenged casually. Every year, the first place in the league will get a chance to play against the champion, but there is only once a year, and only one person can challenge Mikoli at a time. Apart from that, only those who have challenged and defeated the Four Heavenly Kings can challenge champion-level trainers.
So if it were Heath himself, he would even want to download the video of his battle with Mikoli and save it. This is a video of himself fighting against the champion, which is already amazing.
However, Heath had no interest in the battle, otherwise he felt that he would not necessarily lose if he fought against Mikoli. Farfetch'd alone was enough to make Mikoli confused, quite like the feeling when Ash encountered Charizard. After all, Farfetch'd only takes damage from its weaknesses, and other damage has no effect on it. Heath even felt that if he had captured a Pokémon with ordinary attributes, he would have been even more invincible at that time.
"Let's go, the battle is over, and I guess the guests should come back for dinner." Heath yawned. After watching the battle, the guests probably needed to go eat something. So Heath took his Poké Ball and followed the crowd out of the Orange Gym and returned to his food cart.
