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Chapter 54 You call this abundant martial virtue?

Galer region, Mizushu town.

A dark-skinned girl wearing a Water Boat Town competition uniform and with her hair falling naturally to almost touch the ground walks along a path in the commercial street.

"Miss Lurina, do your best in next week's ranking battle!"

"Little Lurina, I'll be there for you! Let's take revenge on that Mr. Yalo from Grass Road Town and show them that the Black Pearl of Water Boat Town is not to be trifled with!"

"Hey, don't put pressure on little Lulina, let her focus on preparing for the match!"

As she walked along, most of the townspeople greeted her familiarly, and Lulina always maintained a gentle smile, waving back at their enthusiasm.

The Galar region has always maintained a strong battle culture. Even locals who have never caught a Pokémon are enthusiastic about watching the battles live, which has gradually led to the unique League system we see today.

For the residents of Waterfloor Town, Lurina, the new Gym Leader of Waterfloor Arena, is the soul of this small town.

After walking briskly through the shopping street, leaving behind all the cheers and applause, Lulina finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This is her first year participating in the league rankings.

The season is coming to an end, and my ranking is pretty good. At least I can stay in the top gym in Watertown next year.

However, before the start of the Champions Cup, her season finale match will be against Alo, the Gym Leader of Grass Road Town.

Thinking of this, Lulina couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Yalo is an expert in using Grass-type abilities, and both his type and command experience are advantages for him.

Last time, playing on home soil, he suffered a crushing defeat against Feng Milong.

Although everyone in Waterboat Town was looking forward to a magnificent revenge, to be honest, Lulina herself had no confidence at all.

"Now that things have come to this, I can't even bring myself to say that I can't do it..."

With her body completely submerged in the center of the pool in the arena, Lulina briefly abandoned her thoughts.

She has loved this way of relieving stress since she was a child. As long as her body touches water, she can relax both her mind and body and let go of all distractions.

"I can't let everyone down, so I need to work even harder."

After calming down, Lulina's eyes gradually hardened.

After walking back from the pool, she sat on a stall, soaked to the bone, drying herself with a towel while turning on the computer.

To become stronger, she needs to prepare more suitable tactics.

The wildly popular Pokémon Champions is a perfect platform for this.

League President Loz immediately recognized the value behind the game, finding it ideal for training tactics, and promoted it extensively within the league.

Therefore, almost everyone in the Galar Alliance has a high rank.

"If only I could meet a master who is good at Grass-type attacks."

"Lurina murmured."

With her ranking approaching Master Ball, she often gets matched with gym leaders and top players from other regions. Hopefully, she'll find a good opponent today.

After a successful match, the opponent's information immediately popped up.

"Ultramarine Feather...?"

Lulina whispered her opponent's ID and quickly noticed the Breath of Fire in his team.

A smile quickly spread across her face.

"Perfect match, a suitable opponent indeed~"

……

"The opposing team, the Rain Team, is so pure, their starting lineup will probably be Pelipper, right?"

"So we should just go for Breath of the Breath as our first pick!"

As he spoke, Qingyu swiftly determined his starting Pokémon.

A storm of question marks quickly swept through the live chat. 【??? Why did you still start with Pelipper knowing the opponent was using it? Weren't you afraid a single Hurricane would knock it away?】

[If the streamer wants to play Bream, just say so! Don't make up so many excuses!]

[Going all out against Breloom despite being four times weaker than Flying-type? Hagiwara, aren't you being a bit rebellious...?]

"Don't rush, it won't affect your scores, what are you afraid of!"

"Our Breloom Master has a lot of martial spirit, with an Attack stat of 130. A mere Rain Team is no match for him!"

Qingyu smiled slightly as he watched the screen finish loading and the trainer avatars of both sides enter the arena.

Both sides quickly threw out their Poké Balls.

Just as he expected, Lulina's starting lineup consisted of the weather setter Pelipper.

Because of the gull's tendency to bring rain, the sky was covered with a layer of dark clouds the moment it appeared, and soon a light drizzle began to fall.

In rainy weather, in addition to the power of water-attribute moves being amplified, thunder and storms become almost unavoidable due to the weather.

As the dojo master, Lurina was clearly aware of this, so she immediately gave instructions after the opening:

"Publicer, Storm!"

Breloom's fatal weakness is that it is four times weaker than Flying-type moves. Once hit by a Flying-type move, it is safe to say that even a hundred thousand lives would not be enough to save it.

So Qingyu spoke up almost at the same time:
"Parasol mushroom, mushroom spores!"

The hooded mushroom spread its arms and, along with the mushrooms on its head and tail, indiscriminately sprayed out spores that were barely visible to the naked eye in all directions.

As the beaked gull flapped its wings and took flight, preparing to gather strength with the help of the storm, it found itself suddenly overcome by an inexplicable drowsiness, and its movements came to a standstill.

A few seconds later, sleepiness overcame its will, and the bigmouth gull actually fell straight down from the sky.

【?? You call this abundant martial virtue?】

[This is so rude! They started by blatantly pressuring us!]

[Wait, this isn't hypnosis, it seems like it doesn't even require facial features...]

"This is certainly not hypnosis, but our Mushroom-type Pokémon's 'Mushroom Spore,' a special move that only the chosen ones can learn!"

[666, mushroom-type Pokémon are here! Are there also cute, cat-type, and dog-type Pokémon?]

[Such a dirty move, only an extremely sleazy Pokémon could learn it...]

Unlike hypnosis, which is easy to dodge, mushroom spores have a very wide range of effects, and once a target is identified, they are very difficult to dodge.

Of course, there are also blind spots where it has no effect on Grass-type Pokémon, Pokémon with the Dustproof ability, or Pokémon that wear dustproof goggles.

While the opponent was asleep, Qingyu gave another command:

"Hylocereus-mammoth, Substitute!"

By expending some of its stamina, the Bressilizer creates a clone that closely resembles itself and places it in front of it to protect against the opponent's next attack.

At the same time, due to the reduction in stamina, its poison healing property is also activated, and the lost health bar begins to slowly recover.

A highly poisonous gem combined with poison therapy—a classic and unpretentious combination.

But it is very useful.

Since the Stand could at least block one attack, and Pelipper couldn't wake up immediately, Lulina decisively chose to recall it.

The goal is to keep the weather setter alive as much as possible. Even if they fall asleep, they can still trigger the Rain ability and continue the rain effect when they reappear.

Just as she was about to throw the Poké Ball again, Qingyu smiled.

This is the moment he's been waiting for!
"Mussel, Chi Fist!"

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Diary of a Fallen Hero, May 5.10
Fun fact: Galar is based on England, so the Galar League's ranking matches and Champions League are comparable to the English Premier League. You can clearly feel the atmosphere of home football in the game. It's just a pity that the game and anime storylines are a bit lacking...

However, Sword and Shield and Diamond Re-run really put a lot of effort into the NPC tactical design, with many well-known tactics appearing in the game. For example, the vegetable farming tactic used by the protagonist in Diamond Re-run is an old one.
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