Pokémon: Simultaneous time travel, this Ash is too versatile!

Chapter 226 The Eternal Ace, Gym Leader Clefairy! Blastoise Learns Aura!
Besides Xiaoxia, Xiaogang has also made significant progress. His unicorn rhinoceros has reached the peak of advanced level. When he first tamed it, it was just ordinary high-level. Now, in less than two months, it has crossed a major stage, which is quite an impressive rate of improvement.

However, it will be a long and arduous journey before they can become a major fighting force.

Xiao Gang's main fighting force is no longer the Pokémon in the gym, but his Onix and Golem. Both Pokémon are currently stuck at the advanced level of their respective classes and are still some distance away from breaking through to the gym level.

After all, these two Pokémon are equivalent to Brock's second team of Pokémon. Although they have been by his side since childhood, they have been neglected in training. He puts more effort into training the main Pokémon of the gym in his home, and those main Pokémon are actually his parents'.

Xiao Gang focused his training on his two Pokémon when he went on his trip, but one of them was only at the Normal level and the other was only at the Advanced level.

Now, it's only one level and one class away from Xiaoxia's Starmie. If that's not fast, then what is? You have to know, Starmie was originally an elite-level creature, and it was far superior to Onix and Golem.

The reason these two Pokémon were able to catch up step by step is because of their hard work, and Starmie was stuck at its peak for a while. It's uncertain how long it will take for these two Pokémon to reach the Gym level bottleneck.

However, Brock had a backup plan: Onix's evolution.

Onix needs a metal membrane to evolve through trade, and cannot evolve through normal leveling up. Therefore, Brock plans to evolve Onix into Steelix to break through the bottleneck when Onix reaches its peak and gets stuck.

This is also why Brock has never evolved Steelix.

Besides these two Pokémon, Brock also has Zubat and Wartortle. These two Pokémon have already evolved: Zubat evolved into Golbat, and Wartortle evolved into Blastoise.

The former has reached the peak of elite strength, while the latter has reached the beginner level of professional, on par with Xiaoxia's Blastoise.

These two Blastoises were Ash's Blastoise's underlings back then, with similar talents. They always trained together, and were inseparable when eating, drinking, and playing. They followed Ash's Blastoise around happily, still regarding Ash's Blastoise as their boss.

Therefore, their progression is remarkably consistent, including evolution and skill learning.

This is Xiaogang's improvement over this period. In terms of overall combat strength, Xiaoxia is still better. After all, Xiaoxia brought out her main Pokémon, while Xiaogang did not bring the Pokémon he had been training since taking over the gym with him.

If Xiaogang had brought out the main gym leaders like Xiaoxia, those leaders should now have the strength of high-level gym leaders or even the peak gym leaders.

Under normal training conditions, Xiao Gang would never dare to think that way, but training with Xiao Zhi is like never encountering a bottleneck. Even if he gets stuck, he can quickly overcome it. Xiao Zhi will also come up with some training methods that are particularly suitable for their Pokémon from time to time, as if they were tailor-made for them.

In terms of nurturing talent, Ash is also an outstanding and unique super trainer!

But in reality—these are all the results of the ideas devised by Ash from another world. However, in the end, it's still Ash's own achievement. What? Isn't the parallel world version of himself the same as himself?
Isn't that all his fault?

Finally, there's Ash's improvement. Charizard reached Gym Level a month and a half ago, and now it's already at Gym High Level. It seems a bit meager that it only improved by two small levels in a month and a half, but we have to look at what level it improved by!

Ash usually levels up a little every seven days and a little every month, but that's before reaching the professional level. After reaching the professional level, the Pokémon's leveling speed will slow down.

No matter how Ash improves the quality of the food, adjusts the recipes, or learns from the experts in the group to acquire new training methods, the Pokémon's level is fixed. To level up quickly, unless you cheat and use the power of Ages to possess it, it's impossible to make such a big improvement in a short period of time.

Therefore, it is quite impressive that Charizard was able to raise its level by two in the gym within a month and a half.

Charizard's level-up is inherently slower than other Pokémon because it needs to raise its stats to S-rank before leveling up to maximize its abilities; otherwise, it will fall behind in every step.

Charizard has four abilities that reach S-rank, so training all of them to S-rank would naturally take longer to level them up.

However, the advantages of doing this are obvious. As long as it doesn't encounter a Pokémon with the same S-rank aptitude and trained to its limit, Charizard can be invincible among its peers!

Furthermore, Charizard is now able to skillfully use Sacred Fire on its own, making it no match for ordinary Elite Four level monsters.

Gardevoir also improved, and it's even more outrageous than Charizard. All of its stats are S-rank, but its leveling speed is about the same as Charizard's, and it's now a Gym Leader.

Because there is Mewtwo's spiritual essence in her mind, as long as the power can be developed from the spiritual essence, Gardevoir's spiritual power can be rapidly enhanced. The enhancement of spiritual power is equivalent to Gardevoir's power being amplified in all aspects!
The areas that need to be trained hard in are physical fitness and attack speed. Everything else is enhanced by the spirit source. Gardevoir may not be as good as Charizard in terms of the ability to fight against opponents of higher levels. There is only one skill that can enable Gardevoir to fight against opponents of higher levels, and that is Mewtwo's exclusive skill, Psychic Break.

Using it once will drain all of Gardevoir's power. It's a skill that's all or nothing, with an extremely low margin for error.

However, Gardevoir is much stronger than Charizard in terms of leveling up. Although they are at the same level now, Gardevoir reached the Gym Leader level seven days ago, while Charizard only reached it two days ago. The gap between them is gradually widening.

The most important reason is that Mewtwo helped Gardevoir develop her spiritual essence. That essence originally belonged to Mewtwo, so it was incredibly easy for Mewtwo to bring it out. There was no need for Gardevoir to repeatedly undergo Mega Evolution to activate it.

The power drawn from Mewtwo is simpler, more direct, and purer, and can be absorbed more quickly.

None of Ash, Gardevoir, or Mewtwo ever imagined such a day would come. Mewtwo would actually help the 'enemy' who stole its spiritual essence, actively helping the other absorb its power—it was like seeing a ghost. Compared to Gardevoir, who had a cheat code, Charizard could only work even harder to activate the power of its rainbow wings; it had a cheat code too!

However, this cheat didn't provide any help to the cheater (Ho-Oh). It would be extremely difficult for him and Ash to unleash the power from Rainbow Wing, that stubborn mule.

Charizard did come up with a plan, but Ash sternly rejected it: beat him half to death to force the rebirth power within the Rainbow Feather to be activated.

Putting aside the likelihood of that happening, Ash couldn't possibly just stand by and watch his Pokémon get beaten half to death, let alone do it himself—that's absolutely impossible!
Using this method to improve oneself is just a way of getting angry with Gardevoir, isn't it?
Charizard is indeed not afraid of hardship or fatigue, but the method of improvement he used goes beyond just being tired or suffering; it's pure self-torture! So Ash would never agree to it.

Charizard had no choice but to abandon the idea of ​​using that method to improve itself and obediently continued to improve step by step. Unless it could find Ho-Oh and have it guide the power of the Rainbow Feathers out, Charizard would only be able to unleash the power of the Rainbow Feathers in some desperate battle.

Aside from these two older brothers and sisters who are constantly being compared, Pikachu, the eldest brother in the team, has already reached the pinnacle of the gym.

Ash finally understood why Pikachu's reincarnation was called an S-level lottery. Originally, Pikachu's level had become lower than Charizard and Gardevoir because of reincarnation, but now it has actually surpassed them!
While his aptitude in six dimensions far surpasses that of a typical Pikachu, he still lags behind Gardevoir and Charizard. Theoretically, his level increase might not be as good as those two Pokémon.

But Pikachu inexplicably overtook them at rocket speed. Now at the peak of his gym, with his full power unleashed, he can easily defeat the Elite Four level. If he were to add two buffs, he could definitely go toe-to-toe with the Champion level!

This is Teacher Da Pi, the eternal ace.

The improvement of the three giants is very gratifying, and the improvement of other Pokémon is not slow either. Ash treats all Pokémon equally and gives them special training. He even gave some Pokémon extra training, such as Blastoise.

Compared to Charizard and Venusaur, Blastoise's growth rate is really slow, and its combat power is far inferior to the two of them. Unlike other Pokémon, the relationship between the three of them is different.

The name of the Kanto starter families is deeply ingrained in everyone's mind, and this influences the Pokémon as well.

Blastoise was naturally aware of the term "starter Pokémon," especially since Charizard and Venusaur joined the team around the same time as him, no more than ten days apart.

In this situation, their strengths shouldn't be too far apart, even if they're not exactly evenly matched.

As a result, Charizard and Venusaur have now left him far behind, and no matter how hard he tries to catch up, it will be difficult for him.

Blastoise even became withdrawn for a time, but fortunately Ash gave him extra help and helped him get back on his feet.

Blastoise's Mega Evolution has a new ability called Super Launcher, which increases the power of all of Blastoise's Pulse-type moves by 50%.

It looks like just a pretty powerful buff move, but Ash noticed a key point in it.

Waves, also known as auras, are a field that Ash is familiar with. In terms of auras, there are probably few people in the entire world who are stronger than him. Blastoise has the potential to learn auras, and after learning to control the power of auras, Ash will be able to use his power to help Blastoise improve.

For Blastoise, having a support that can boost its Water-type power is naturally the best option, but if there's no other choice, then prioritizing increasing its strength is the top priority.

Compared to Charizard and Gardevoir, Blastoise's disadvantage is that the power it gains is not Water-type power, but Aura power. Combining Aura with moves can certainly greatly increase the power of moves, such as Water Pulse. If the wave inside is enhanced, then the overall power of Water Pulse will increase, and the probability of confusing the opponent will also increase.

The problem is that Blastoise learning Aura is essentially starting from scratch, making this path extremely difficult and unsuitable for the current Blastoise.

However, compared to Charizard and Gardevoir, Blastoise's advantage is that it has a god-level personal mentor who adjusts, enhances, and fuses its power without reservation.

The two of them only had divine matter to enhance their abilities. Although Mewtwo was also helping Gardevoir, it could only help Gardevoir develop its own spiritual essence. Ash, on the other hand, could directly merge with the Pokémon's mind and body, and his help to Blastoise far exceeded Mewtwo's help to Gardevoir.

With Ash's special help, Blastoise's level is only at the peak of its profession, but its strength has improved by leaps and bounds. Without Ash's intervention, Mega Blastoise can go toe-to-toe with Charizard without using Sacred Fire.

Fire-breathing Dragon VI.

Well, after all, he was a professional at his peak fighting against a high-level gym. Even with Mega Evolution to reach the gym level and the factor of type advantage, it was still too difficult for him to fight against a Pokémon like Charizard, which has the ability to fight above its level.

If Ash hadn't taught Blastoise the incredibly powerful Aura technique, Blastoise's chances of winning wouldn't have even reached 40%, maybe 20% at most.

The last of the starter Pokémon, Venusaur, has also reached the intermediate level of the Gym Leader. Like Charizard and Blastoise, level does not represent its true strength. If it goes all out, Venusaur can still compete with the Elite Four level without relying on Ash's Aura Fusion!

Blastoise will have some difficulty catching up with the two of them, but with Ash's help, there is at least some hope. In the past, Blastoise could only watch helplessly as the gap between them widened until they were completely out of sight.

Blastoise is currently able to keep up with Charizard and Venusaur thanks to Ash's help. Once Ash finds the right item for Blastoise, that will be the time when he can completely catch up with them!
(End of this chapter)