Divine Plan? But I'm a Pokémon trainer.

Chapter 345 Xiao You: A Mechanical Monster Emerges from a Group of Number Monsters

Regardless of whether it's a celebrity effect or not, Ashida thought that the promotion of the brand and the conference was about to take off like a rocket.

Link had no time to pay attention to this; he still had to prepare for his match against Xiaoyou, and there were many problems to solve.

Back at the ranch, he let the elves relax and forget about the battle, as was his custom, while he pondered the points to note for the next battle.

Firstly, the only way to defeat Groudon in its current state is through the "Zeroing" mechanism of Talebagos. Groudon in its normal state is also not easy to deal with.

A normal weather setter cannot steal the weather from Groudon, meaning that once Groudon appears, it will be a perpetual sunny day.

Dolphin, who can even briefly contend with Kyogre in his All-Powerful Transformation, is greatly exhausted in this environment, making it difficult to achieve results based on the principle of mutual restraint.

Other spirits will also suffer burns due to the high temperature, affecting their physical activities.

However, if you use a Fire-type Pokémon that is more resistant to high temperatures, it will be countered by Ground-type moves.

Water and fire types will both struggle against Groudon.

Both the Ground-type Sunny Day Hand and the Fighting-type Sunny Day Hand are just too funny...

Meanwhile, the Lizard King from Grass Dragon has been significantly strengthened, and is expected to be able to defend against Dolphin Man.

"This Lizard King is really tough to deal with, and I don't know much about his lineup."

Fortunately, he had many classmates.

After compiling data from Porygon, we have compiled a list of the Pokémon that Yoyo has sent out so far in the Rainbow Tournament.

The character with the most appearances is the Lizard King, followed by Regidrago and Latios.

Apart from that, he had never used any other spirits even once.

"What mythical beast man? But quite a few players have used legendary Pokémon in this tournament. I even saw someone use Heatran and Darkrai before."

These were mostly contestants from another region, and they were all eliminated by Xiaoyou.

Porygon seemed concerned: "It looks like a strategy to deceive the opponent and hide your true lineup. Does it require hacking into the Pokémon Center's database?"

There are ways to easily obtain information about the opponent's Pokémon.

"No, no, no, this is going beyond the limits of a regular battle," Link quickly stopped Porygon, then pondered, "But what exactly will his lineup be?"

Unlike May, who helps Professor Birch collect information on Pokémon everywhere, May focuses on battling, and her movements over the past few months are not difficult to predict.

Aside from Sceptile and Groudon, there are four other slots. What will he bring?

If we're not planning to rely on Talongos to counter Groudon this time, then we really need to focus all our efforts on analysis and strategy...

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Meanwhile, at the Pokémon Center in Sootopolis City, Hoenn region, Sootopolis was also struggling with what to do with her team for her next battle.

Because the damage caused to the field by Kyoka and Talebagos was too severe, the repair work will be extended by one day, giving him three days to decide on his lineup for the match against Link.

However, no matter how he thought about it, that turtle-tower-like Pokémon remained an insurmountable obstacle for him. How could Link suddenly pull out such an unbelievable Pokémon?

The crystallized Talebages possessed incredible power.

Although the recorded broadcast seemed to forcibly revert Kyogre from its original form, according to May's description, it was actually a power similar to "time reversal".

Talebagos pushed Kyogre, who had absorbed the energy of the Indigo Orb and recovered to his full strength, back to a state of severe injury. Even that energy returned to the Indigo Orb.

"Time reversal for a specific event... No, the rain that Kyogre brought down was also dispelled."

Xiao You seemed to be deep in thought. This ability not only involves time reversal, but can even reverse the time of different events to different locations?
What is this Talebagas? This is clearly Dialga!
Furthermore, the ability to absorb energy and convert it into a shield is very similar to the abilities of the spirits in the Taijing Node that the parents mentioned when they went on a trip to Beishang Township and Dujuan mentioned.

Unless a spirit with exceptional superpowers and computing power can break through it, only crystallization can cause normal damage.

But he simply couldn't make the elves crystallize.
Talebagos can force opponents into a crystallized state, but according to May, Kyogre said that when he entered that state, the damage he received from opponents' attacks increased significantly.

"This is so strange, it's like a mechanic-based monster suddenly popping out of a group of number monsters."

It's like when everyone is passionately battling it out with Pokémon, someone suddenly plays a "Boss's Command" card, dragging your low-health Pokémon back to the battlefield to finish it off after you've retreated to the preparation zone.

Or perhaps everyone was playing with X-type moves that increase power by 20 points or deal 40 damage each time a coin is flipped, and then suddenly you get a Pokémon whose move deals damage to Pokémon in the preparation area.

Xiaoyou naturally realized that if she couldn't crack the mechanics of Talebagos, she wouldn't be able to win the battle.

The problem is that--

1. If it is not properly crystallized, it cannot cause damage.

2. Excessive crystallization will result in double the damage;
3. Cracking the crystalline force field requires a high level of time, computing power, and superpowers.

Could Latios, who had absolutely no experience, do it?
Mega Latios should be able to do it, but if the Mega slot is given to Latios, what will happen to Sceptile?
After much deliberation, Xiaoyou concluded that to avoid making the same mistake as Xiaoyao—pulling out Kyogre at the last minute, which led to being surrounded and severely damaged—she had to include it in the rotation.

For example, you can switch to Groudon during Link's cooldown period and immediately eliminate one Pokémon.

If Groudon remains healthy until the end, and your Pokémon can reduce Talebages' HP as much as possible, you might be able to defeat it in an offensive one-on-one battle.

In addition, you should prevent the fire fox from stealing too many items and try to avoid it getting the branches left by your teammates.

Having Latios steal the scarf that supposedly allows Pokémon to temporarily evolve into their final form is a good idea, otherwise, apart from Groudon, no one can withstand that "Supreme Psychic Wave" attack...

Is it possible to steal something from the Fire Fox?
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"Putting aside Taleborg, Fennekin is also difficult to deal with. Even if Groudon catches it, it can use moves like Teleport to maneuver until the cooldown ends. So, do I really have to Mega Evolve Latios?"

But if Sceptile doesn't Mega Evolve, pure Grass build is really...

Alternatively, the Fire Fox could use an unexpected, swift attack to defeat it, while the Crystal Field could be dealt with beforehand, thus freeing up a Mega slot for the Lizard King.

With this in mind, Xiao You had no time to rest at the center any longer and immediately packed her luggage to prepare for departure.

"Let's go, Latios, let's fly to Kitakami Village now!"

(End of this chapter)