Dual-career Pokémon trainer

"Next, the challenger Lin Jing will compete with the trainer Du Juan of the Kanaz Gym with badges as the stakes.

The rules of the game are three versus three.

Only the challenger can change Pokémon during a match.

The game ends when all of the Pokémon on either side lose their ability to fight first."

The red flag was waved, and Dujuan, as the challenged party, took the lead in throwing out the Poké Ball.

“Then I’ll make the first move.

Come out, Rumblestone."

White light flashed, and four strong arms waved vigorously, raising a cloud of brown dust. A huge and irregular brown-gray ball appeared on the battlefield.

Geodude's evolved form - Rumblebot, rock and ground type.

Before it evolved, it was a very common Pokémon found in mountains or rocky areas. (It is not uncommon after it evolved, though.)

Of course, don't underestimate it just because it's common.

As a rock-type Pokémon, although it has not evolved to its final form, its physical defense capabilities are still the best among most Pokémon.

"Although I'm a little embarrassed, the first battle is still up to you, Ball Sea Lion."

After confirming the opponent's starting lineup, Lin Jing also threw out a Poké Ball.

White light jumped out from the Poké Ball, and after a wonderful 720-degree backflip, the Pokémon Sea Lion with its fins spread out landed on the field.

"A sea lion from the Alola region, water attribute.

This Pokémon is often chosen as one of the new Pokémon there, and after evolving, it will have the Fairy attribute, which is one of the most recently officially added attribute tables.

However, it is true that its properties are very restraining against Rhydon.

But it's not that easy to defeat my Rumble Stone with it."

The moment he saw the ball-shaped sea lion, Dujuan took out his skills as a top student in Kanaz.

"Who knows.

After all, the damage that water can do to Rhydon is terrifying."

Lin Jing didn't mean to explain directly, but just shook his finger gently.

Water-type rocks and ground-attribute Rumble Stones can deal four times the damage, and even if the Sea Lion has not yet evolved, it will be very painful once it hits the opponent.

"Then let me see how powerful your ball sea lion is.

Rhydon uses Stomp to say hello first."

"Ball Sea Lion, Tidal Swirl."

The heavy rock foot was lifted up and stomped down hard, and the whole rock field shook slightly under the strong tremor.

Of course, the biggest impact is the location of the sea lion.

As if due to the impact of heavy stomping, the ground beneath the sea lion became soft.

Half of its body and tail were sunken, and its wet blue fur had taken on a few shades of brown.

However, the sea lion didn't seem to care about it at all.

As the raised nose turned slightly, the red nose tip swirled around like a baton, creating a huge stream of water.

With a strong swing forward, the azure blue vortex was already spinning towards the Rumble Stone.

Since Rumblestone was not good at speed, it naturally had no way to avoid such an attack.

But at this moment its body suddenly curled up.

The irregular spherical body actually rolled directly towards the whirlpool in front, as if it wanted to smash it to pieces with its huge physique.

“Let the ground and rock-type rumble stones enter the tidal current directly?!”

In the audience, Lukia called out subconsciously.

But what happened next was an eye-opener for her.

As the Rumbling Stone entered, it did not, as it seemed, break through the whirlpool's barrier with its own body.

Instead, it rolled directly into the constantly rotating vortex.

However, this seemingly self-destructive behavior of Rumble Stone did not seem to cause any harm to it.

Not only that, the brown-gray figure was circling in it at an extremely high speed, and even a brown ring appeared in the vortex.

“Rock grinding?!

Ball Sea Lion, just use Freezing Wind."

Lin Jing stared closely at the scattered rock fragments wherever Rhodon passed, and the next moment he immediately asked the sea lion to change its tactics.

"call!"

An ice-blue storm gushed out of the mouth of the sea lion.

Although the power that originally controlled the vortex has been interrupted, the vortex is still rotating continuously with the remaining power.

Although the speed was getting slower and slower, the speed of the Rumbling Stone in it was still increasing, and even countless splashes of water were constantly splashing at the edge of the whirlpool.

However, these splashes of water were completely frozen by the freezing wind in the next second.

Not only that, starting from the center of the whirlpool, layers of ice and frost began to solidify from bottom to top.

"It's no use. Shoot the rumble stones."

As Dujuan waved his hand, the round rumbling stone was thrown out like a cannonball.

The still gushing cold wind did not seem to pose any obstacle to the flying rock shell.

The heavy body with powerful potential energy fell heavily, and the skinny sea lion flew backwards.

The whirlpool that was originally rotating finally collapsed completely as the bottom was frozen.

Water splashes, rock fragments, and broken ice cubes continued to fall one after another.

The Rumble Stone, which now looks much smoother than before, seems to be showing a somewhat uncomfortable expression now.

“The speed is increased by the force of rock grinding, and the rock fragments that have been detached from it are used as isolation, which greatly reduces the contact between the rumble stone and the water surface.

It even uses the power of the whirlpool to increase speed, which is a really good trick."

Lin Jing looked across with a serious expression.

"Yes, attribute restraint is the most basic course for a trainer.

As a trainer who loves rocks, I naturally know their worst weaknesses.

In order to deal with the most common and most troublesome water-type moves, I put a lot of effort into it."

Du Juan nodded slightly and seemed very satisfied with the cooperation between them.

Originally, this move was to follow the opponent's water gun upstream, but unexpectedly, the whirlpool doubled the speed of the Rumble Stone.

"it is as expected."

Lin Jing looked serious.

In fact, he had originally guessed that the opponent had a way to resist water-type moves. After all, as a gym trainer, the most common Pokémon and moves they encounter in challenges are naturally those that restrain their gym's attributes.

That was why he did not let the Sea Lion use moves like Bubble Ray and instead used the more controlled Tidal Vortex.

As it turns out, it now appears to have had the opposite effect.

But...

"Ball Sea Lion, Bubble Ray!"

"Woo!"

The turquoise water gushes out with dreamy foam.

Longlongshi, who was totally unprepared for this, was even more shocked.

Unfortunately, given its bulky size and speed, there is no possibility of avoiding it.

The huge rock body was directly swallowed up by the combined attack of foam and water flow.

As for the direction in which the attack was launched, the sea lion looked a lot more embarrassed.

However, it didn't seem to have suffered much damage from the previous attack.

"how come?!"