I haven't decided on a name for my Pokémon trainer yet.

TMs are also categorized by quality, depending on how well the recorded Pokémon has mastered the moves.

The quality levels are: Common, Excellent, Fine, Perfect, and Epic.

TMs (Move Makers) can be reused until a Pokémon masters a move, at which point they are automatically destroyed. Ye Feng has never quite understood the underlying principle. Different quality TMs will result in different learning times and proficiency levels for the Pokémon in mastering a move.

Ye Feng was not short of money. In order not to waste time and energy, he used Ning Xian's mother's advanced trainer privileges to buy the best quality move discs he could get, along with the best matching materials.

Learning moves using a TM is not as simple as in the game, where you can just slap the disc on a Pokémon's head and learn it. You also need the corresponding materials.

The Dark Stone allows Pokémon to learn Ghost-type energy, and Pokémon that carry it can slightly increase the power of Ghost-type moves.

The cold, dark purple gemstone had a faint, eerie glow flowing across its surface.

The original Dark Stone was an evolution stone used to evolve Pokémon such as Misdreavus and Murkrow.

However, this Dark Stone is a defective Dark Stone. Although it has sufficient dark energy, it is not pure and is not enough to allow a Pokémon to evolve. It can only be used as a supplement for Ghost-type Pokémon or as an energy core for learning Ghost-type moves.

To learn Shadowball, you need a material with ample dark energy, whether it's a gem or anything else.

The Dark Stone is the best choice.

Kirlian took the Dark Stone, thinking it was food, and was about to put it in her mouth, almost scaring Ye Feng to death.

If it were a Pokémon like Gengar, then eating it would be fine. But if Kirlia, being a Psychic-type Pokémon, were to foolishly swallow the Dark Stone, the clash between the two opposing energies could easily turn Kirlia into a completely clueless Pokémon.

The correct way to use it is to sense the energy in the Dark Stone, and then, with the help of other materials, use the TM to learn Shadow Ball.

To be honest, Ye Feng was still a little apprehensive. He was worried about whether Kirlia could successfully learn Shadow Ball, especially since Ghost-type moves are super effective against Psychic-type moves. He wondered if learning Shadow Ball would cause any harm to Kirlia's body. In the game, Kirlia could naturally learn Shadow Ball using a TM, it was just a matter of tapping the disc, but he didn't know if anything unexpected might happen in reality.

Fortunately, Kirlia not only didn't encounter any problems, but it went very smoothly, making Ye Feng sigh at how clever his Pokémon was.

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Ye Feng was still taken aback when Kirlia successfully conjured a Shadow Ball between her hands.

Hey, isn't this head a bit too big?

Ye Feng stared at the Shadow Ball, which was about the same size as Kirlia's head, and fell silent.

Are regular Shadow Balls this big? No, you're a Psychic-type Pokémon, and you're not even using your own move, so why is it so big?

However, after the shadow ball was thrown out, Ye Feng realized something as he watched its slow speed.

It turns out that the problem was that the user wasn't familiar with the power and couldn't control it properly, resulting in too much energy being inputted, which caused the shadow ball to become too large and its speed to be affected.

Ye Feng remembered that the shadow ball in the animation flew out in a flash, not this slow.

After figuring out the reason, Ye Feng began to teach Kirlia to try to control her energy and use less energy to gather the Shadow Sphere instead of pouring in a lot at once.

"Whoosh!"

With Ye Feng's reminder, Kirlia successfully used the normal version of Shadow Ball.

Seeing Kirlia launch Shadow Balls at him as if she had discovered a new continent, Ye Feng's eyes lit up.

The shadow ball was large and slow just now, but now its size has returned to normal and its speed has returned to normal.

If Kirlia further reduces its energy output, can the Shadow Ball's flight speed be increased even further? You know, in martial arts, speed is the ultimate weapon. As long as I fight fast enough, the power of a slight sacrifice can be made up for by sheer numbers.

Thinking of this, Ye Feng immediately asked Kirullian to verify his idea.

Unfortunately, when Kirlia reduced her energy output to release the Shadow Ball, the Shadow Ball's flight speed increased, but it became unstable, exploding after flying only a short distance.

I tried it several times, but the result was still the same.

"Could it be that this amount of energy is the minimum required to maintain the shadow sphere? Any less and the sphere's structure will become unstable?" Ye Feng stroked his chin, making a bold guess.

What if we don't reduce energy output, but instead compress energy? By increasing density, the same volume will contain more energy. Since we can't increase speed, we can increase power instead.

“Kirullian, try compressing the energy of the Shadow Ball? Like compressing Nen with ‘Strong’.”

Kirlia tilted her head, pondered for a moment, and then showed a look of sudden realization.

Dark energy slowly gathered between her hands, forming the size of a normal shadow ball. Then, Kirlia attempted to compress the energy inside, and the shadow ball began to shrink little by little.

Soon, Kirlia showed signs of strain, and the Shadow Ball shrank by one-third in size.

"Release it." Seeing that he could no longer compress it, Ye Feng decisively chose to have Kirlia release Shadow Ball.

"Whoosh!"

The shadow ball flew out much faster than before, at a speed almost invisible to the naked eye, and hit the target.

Ye Feng nodded in satisfaction. After the volume shrank, the energy inside became more concentrated, and the flight speed increased without any decrease in power.

After having Kirlia experiment a few more times, they discovered that this method of energy release actually took longer to compress the energy, making it difficult to say which was better compared to a regular shadow ball. Perhaps it would be possible to compress the energy directly during the formation of the shadow ball?

After several trials, it was found that this method was not very practical, greatly affecting Kirlia's actions and becoming a major weakness in battle.

Ye Feng changed his approach again. What comes to mind when you see a ball? Naturally, it's the famous Rosen Gang!

Chapter 39 The Conjecture of the Spiral Shadow Sphere

After countless attempts, Ye Feng came to a conclusion.

The method of reducing the energy boosting speed is indeed wrong. To ensure the stability of the shadow ball, sufficient energy is needed. If there is too little energy, the basic shape of the shadow ball cannot be maintained, and it will naturally explode.

The idea of ​​compressing energy is feasible, but it takes too long, making it easy for the opponent to exploit a weakness in combat.

For Ye Feng, such a gap was enough for Kirlia to secure victory, so other Pokémon could do the same. Novice trainers didn't have it, beginners didn't have it, but what about intermediate? Advanced? Or even master trainers? He couldn't guarantee that Kirlia's speed and reaction time would maintain an advantage throughout the battle.

Some things, such as racial differences, cannot be overcome no matter how much training is done.

In the game, there are many Pokémon with a Speed ​​base stat that is much higher than Kirlia and Gardevoir. Some Pokémon, like Ninjakamaru, even have a Speed ​​base stat that is twice that of Gardevoir.

In reality, Speed ​​stat represents innate reaction speed and agility. Kirlia's ability to surpass other Pokémon in these two aspects stems from several factors: firstly, their natural talent in these areas is inferior to Kirlia's; secondly, it's the result of their daily training; and finally, it's due to its "Elysium" shape. However, there are Pokémon with even greater talent than them.

While base stats cannot be taken as the sole standard in reality, high base stats do indicate a high potential for growth. If the opponent's Pokémon has put effort into training in this area, the difference brought about by its base talent will be magnified infinitely.

At that point, Kirlia or Gardevoir will lose this advantage. If they don't gain an advantage in other areas, such as moves, they will be in a tough fight and may even be defeated.

Even a circle cannot be a panacea.

This is why Ye Feng has always focused on training his mental strength in addition to his reaction speed and reaction time.

The strength of a Psychic-type Pokémon's moves is closely related to the strength of its mental power.

The only solution Ye Feng could think of for the compressed shadow ball was to practice more. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, and the release speed would naturally increase after becoming proficient.

Secondly, it is to refer to the Rasengan and give it changes in form or nature, such as the simplest rotation, or to add energy of other attributes to the Shadow Ball.

However, the original Rasengan was essentially a ball of chakra, a non-attribute attack. Later, other chakra attributes were added to it, creating various Rasengans with additional attributes. Adding attributes to a non-attribute attack is the simplest approach.

However, Shadow Ball is different. It's a Ghost-type move. If other types are added to it, will it be compatible? It's worth noting that in games and anime, moves with multiple types haven't appeared. The only known examples are Multi-Type Attacks and Light Smash, which change their type by holding an item; essentially, they are still single-type moves. These two moves are exclusive to Legendary Pokémon, so Kirlia cannot learn them.

Another move is Flying Slam, which is considered both Fighting and Flying attributes when calculating damage. However, only Fighting attributes are affected by buffs and debuffs during the calculation; the Flying attribute simply adds a type advantage, but it is essentially still a Fighting attribute move.

In the game, the setting of such single-type moves is actually understandable. Many Pokémon have dual types. If a move also has dual types, then the move will be affected by the type twice. Even if only one type of effect is considered, such as Flying Slam, the extra type advantage is already very powerful. Too many moves like this would seriously disrupt the game balance.

But what about in reality? Why don't we have multi-attribute moves in real life?

Ye Feng asked Ning Xian's mother about this issue; the perspective of this advanced trainer was far beyond what he, a newbie, could compare to.

Upon hearing this question, Cao Xuemei remained silent for a long time before saying, "I don't know how you came up with this idea; others have suggested it before. However, the control methods and requirements for each type of energy are not fixed. For the Shadow Sphere to achieve the best effect, it can only have a stable structure. The method of compressing energy that you tried before did not actually destroy the structural form of the Shadow Sphere, so it can still be used normally."

However, while water and ice might be able to change the shape of a Shadow Ball, that doesn't mean Ghost-type energy can. Furthermore, adding other types of energy—each with different properties—is impossible for any trainer's Pokémon to fuse together, at least so far.

What you need to do right now is help Kirlia get used to using Shadow Ball as quickly as possible, instead of having such unrealistic ambitions. You can consider these things later when your Trainer level increases and you have more knowledge.

Ye Feng nodded to indicate that he understood.

A stable structure? Come to think of it, the scene in the anime where Pikachu sits on a Shadow Ball and flies around on it seemed absurd at the time, but it turns out it was because the Shadow Ball was stable?

If what Cao Xuemei said is true, is it impossible for him to complete his design of the Spiral Shadow Ball and the Multi-Attribute Shadow Ball?

Not necessarily. Kirlia can even use moves like "Round" and "Solid," so a simple Spiral Shadow Ball shouldn't be a problem for her.

Ye Feng then realized that maintaining the stability of the shadow ball while allowing it to rotate was the initial theory behind the Rasengan. If that was the case, then the development of the Rasengan shadow ball should be entirely feasible.

If we could create a clone like Naruto in the anime, one to control the energy and the other to control the sphere's rotation, wouldn't that be... no, wait!

Ye Feng suddenly realized that his thinking was wrong. Naruto needed to use clones to cast Rasengan because the Nine-Tails' interference made his chakra control relatively poor, so he needed to use clones to do so. Later on, Naruto was able to use Rasengan on his own.

However, Kirlia doesn't have this problem with poor control at all. Therefore, Kirlia can completely control the energy to stabilize and make the Shadow Ball rotate...

If the Ghost type isn't a native type, which might cause a lack of control, but Psychic doesn't have this problem, then you can use Psychic to create a spinning sphere of Psychic Power...

At that point, combined with teleportation, wouldn't that be the Spiral Flash Super Wheel Dance Roar III... Style 2?!

Ye Feng's eyes slowly brightened, and he felt that he had found a completely feasible path.

Chapter 40 Teaches You a Peerless Martial Arts Technique

Thinking of this, Ye Feng immediately ran to the basement—since the energy cube experiment was successful, Ye Feng had renovated it and turned it into a small training room for daily training.

"Kirullian, use Shadow Ball, hold it in your hand and don't launch it."

After closing the door, Ye Feng released Kirlia and spoke to it.

Kirlian nodded, and a dark sphere quickly formed between her hands.

Ye Feng leaned closer to observe it carefully. Indeed, as Cao Xuemei said, the ordinary Shadow Ball was in a very stable state. When Ye Feng got closer, he could only feel that it was a black ball with Ghost-type energy, emitting a slight coolness.

"Try to compress it, take it slow..." Ye Feng instructed.