Pokémon: Join Team Rocket at the Beginning

Generally speaking, there are only a few ways for Pokémon to recover from injuries and physical strength during battle.

The first is to use the Pokémon's own recovery skills to heal injuries, such as self-regeneration, feather perch, healing wave, wish, etc. Most of these recovery skills can only heal one's own injuries, while healing wave can only be used to heal teammates' injuries, and wish can be applied to both oneself and teammates at the same time, but there is a time difference. These three types of skills have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Recovery skills have the best recovery effect, and can usually restore more than half of a Pokémon's physical strength, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, when using recovery skills, the Pokémon cannot use other moves, and it is easy to fall into a passive situation without the cover of teammates.

The second way to recover is to use the Pokémon's own characteristics to recover, such as regeneration, dry skin poison treatment, rain disk, frozen body and other characteristics all have the effect of continuous recovery. Although they cannot restore physical strength as quickly as recovery skills, they do not affect the Pokémon's own actions and can recover while fighting.

But in the final analysis, these characteristics can only be possessed by specific Pokémon, and some of them are hidden characteristics that are extremely difficult to obtain. For example, Yang Ming himself owns a Slowpoke with the regeneration characteristic, which is a great opportunity for a trainer without a big background.

Moreover, except for the strongest regeneration characteristic, other recovery characteristics need to meet specific conditions to be activated. For example, Dry Skin and Rain Bowl need to be triggered on rainy days, Poison Healing characteristics require the Pokémon to be in a poisoned state to be triggered, Frozen Body requires snowy days to be triggered, etc., so it is not so convenient to use in practice.

Yang Ming has a Parasite with dry skin, but he hasn't used it in battle for a long time because there is no suitable place for it to fight.

The recovery speeds of these characteristics are also different. Among them, the regeneration characteristic has the strongest recovery ability, followed by poison treatment and dry skin. Rain Basin and Frozen Body have the worst recovery ability and are the most useless.

In addition, some characteristics can be restored by absorbing specific attacks, such as storing water, drying skin, storing electricity, and eating soil, but this recovery method is not stable and can only be used occasionally to attack the opponent.

In addition to the two recovery methods mentioned above, there is another recovery method that all Pokémon can use - that is to use items to restore physical strength.

Battles between Pokémon are extremely dangerous, so trainers generally cannot use recovery potions to heal Pokémon in battle - because doing so will easily affect the battle. However, if Pokémon carry items such as Nuts to recover, there will be no such problem.

Just like its characteristics, when a Pokémon uses items to recover, it will not affect its use of other skills. It can completely recover from injuries while fighting, especially when facing an opponent without recovery ability, it can more easily consume the opponent to death.

The most powerful recovery item is naturally the "leftovers" in Yang Ming's hand.

Unlike berries that will be consumed once eaten by Pokémon, the leftovers can be used continuously as long as the Pokémon carries them, continuously restoring the Pokémon with no side effects at all.

Yang Ming had experienced the power of the Shield Sword Monster in the Alufu ruins. The Shield Sword Monster used its own resistance and the leftovers to fight against three masters at the same time with ease. This shows how powerful this item is.

Of course, the recovery effect of leftovers is far from comparable to the regenerative properties, and is far inferior to poison therapy and dry skin. At best, it can only be compared to the frozen body, but as an item that has no conditions for use, can be used by all Pokémon, and has no side effects, it is already powerful enough.

If it were a little stronger, Yang Ming would probably not be qualified to own it...

"It's indeed a good thing. Although Rattata needs to carry the Fire Orb and Slowpoke is more suitable for the Assault Vest, it will be beneficial for my other Pokémon to carry it." Yang Ming seemed to be thinking about something.

Since the battle on Whirlpool Island, Yang Ming has also been analyzing and reviewing the lessons learned from that day. According to the original battle plan, Yang Ming first formed an alliance with Tie Xian and fought a four-on-four confrontation with Qing Mulin and others. After eliminating Qing Mulin's group, he would then cross the river and destroy the two worthless "allies".

This plan was originally perfect, but because Tiexian and Qingmu Lin had colluded with each other, the situation eventually became that Yang Ming was outnumbered by four. The situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and if it weren't for Slowpoke evolving at the critical moment, Yang Ming would have no way to turn the tables.

Yang Ming naturally reviewed this point after the battle, trying to turn the tide by bringing different Pokémon and using different tactics. But no matter how much he reviewed, as long as Slowpoke didn't evolve, he had no chance of winning.

After all, under the premise that teammates can only hold back one enemy, Yang Ming has no way to fight three alone when Slowpoke has not evolved into an emperor.

So Yang Ming had to continue strengthening his Pokémon to make up for his shortcomings in the previous battle.

Since elite-level Pokémon are quite valuable, Yang Ming obtained four elite-level Pokémon from Copperhead and Lady Flower through the battle on Whirlpool Island. In addition to the points reward from this mission, he now has no shortage of points, so he can naturally buy the skill machines he wants at will.

However, after looking around, Yang Ming closed the redemption interface in disappointment.

Yang Ming had already acquired almost all the useful skill machines that he could get at his current level, so he now had nothing left to exchange.

However, the skill machine he currently needs cannot be exchanged now, so Yang Ming can only guard his huge amount of points but cannot exchange them for what he wants.

In the end, Yang Ming only exchanged the skill machines of Poison Bomb and Ice Fist for Stinging Jellyfish and Swamp King respectively. These are the only two skill machines he has the authority to exchange and can use for himself so far.

"Everything that needs to be exchanged has been exchanged. The rest requires the authority of level six or even cadres to exchange." Yang Ming looked at the exchange interface in distress.

This means that he has no other means of temporarily enhancing Pokémon for the time being.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came into his mind.

"I haven't used points to exchange for items yet," Yang Ming thought, "Since there are no more skills to exchange, I might as well exchange them for powerful items!"

Using items to strengthen Pokémon is also an alternative way of enhancement.