Elf: Start with small diamonds, then mutate into Diancie!

Despite his meticulous planning, Raichu was caught by a beam of light and was unable to recover. Countless seven-colored beams of light struck Raichu's body.

A violent explosion rang out, and Raichu's body, falling from the sky, was still clearly visible amidst the billowing smoke.

[Raichu is unable to battle. Milotic wins!]

[The winner of the Poké Ball-level battle is: Su Hao!]

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Chapter 61 Super Power, Level 5!

As an official tournament that leads directly to the top four, the ranking competition not only has a large number of participants, but also offers official benefits from the China League starting from the Super Ball level.

There are several types of benefits, which vary depending on the player's rank or level.

First, the usual spending at all Pokémon Centers under the League will be reduced by 10% to 30%, corresponding to players using Great Balls, Ultra Balls, and Master Balls.

Secondly, advanced and master level players can choose one of the three starter Pokémon bred within the league free of charge.

Third, the top 100 players at the Master Ball level will receive a late-blooming (pseudo-legendary) Pokémon from the League, and each player only has one chance to achieve this.

In addition, there are various provincial and municipal governments that provide rewards and benefits to local athletes, which I will not go into detail about.

Overall, the first benefit is more geared towards the large number of Pokémon trainers. Even if it's a 10% discount, it still means that all items in the Pokémon Centers under the League are discounted by 10%.

The second and third benefits are the League's efforts to attract talented trainers. Most trainers who receive this gift will give the League officials some face.

After defeating Chen Rui, Su Hao received a text message notification on his phone that he had been promoted to the Super Ball level.

His long, slender fingers with distinct knuckles tapped on his phone to access his real-name authentication information in the alliance's official communication tool, [Bogaman Fetion].

The information inside had clearly changed to:

Name: Su Hao

Age: 17

Pogaman: [114514]

Rank: [Super Ball Level 5]

Occupation: [Student]

After achieving a ten-game winning streak at the Poké Ball level, his rank automatically advanced to the Ultra Ball level.

The Super Ball has five segments, from lowest to highest: segment five, segment four, segment three, segment two, and segment one.

到达超级球级后对战就从单纯的1v1变成了3v3或者2v2双打对战了。

Whether playing singles or doubles, you can effectively improve your rank. Each match will be assigned by the League's 3D Dragon Rotom cluster computer. Each player will encounter either singles or doubles and cannot play only one type of match.

This leads to the issue that some players' team compositions are better suited for singles than doubles, while others are better suited for doubles than singles.

Generally, when these types of players encounter matches they are not good at, their performance often does not match their rank.

Most trainers start by planning their teams at the Ultra Ball level to ensure they can compete even against playstyles they are not good at.

As a result, various team styles flourished in the ranked matches, with combinations such as sandstorm teams, rain teams, sunny teams, snow teams, and space teams becoming popular.

At the same time, some people, with their outstanding skills, can break through various routines even with a team that is neither fish nor fowl.

All of this has had a positive impact on the development of trainers' strength within the Shenzhou Alliance.

A century ago, the Shenzhou Alliance officially reformed itself, suppressing and overthrowing the powerful families that monopolized most of the high-level positions by sending out a plethora of talented young people through a ranking competition.

Without the monopoly of the upper echelons, the overall strength of the Shenzhou Alliance improved every year, and finally, thirty years ago, they won the individual and team championships of the World Championship for the first time.

Since then, the Chinese League has dominated the World Championships, with even the once-dominant American League now relegated to second place.

Over the past decade, other alliances outside the Shenzhou Alliance have gradually discovered the superiority of this promotion mechanism and have begun to imitate it.

However, apart from the Shenzhou Alliance, the powerful families in these alliances still held sway, and the system was slow to be widely adopted.

Even though these leagues haven't been promoting a ranking system in recent years, their chance to dethrone the Shenzhou League has finally arrived.

Before Su Hao set off, Su's father told him that in recent years there had not been any outstanding young talents who were good enough to replace the current Four Heavenly Kings and champions and carry the banner of the entire league.

The four current champions and all four current members of the Shenzhou League will be past the age limit for participation after this year's World Championships.

The only downside of ranked matches is that if no truly talented trainers emerge within a certain period, the competition will falter.

At this point, the trainers trained by those powerful families who monopolize everything will have the upper hand.

At this point, Su's father let out a heavy sigh in front of Su Hao, without any attempt to hide it.

What should we do in the future?

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Chapter 62 Innocent Little Diamond (in a positive sense)

It's too early for Su Hao to discuss the things that his father is worried about.

Perhaps with the future of the little diamond that will become Diancie, Su Hao will be able to lead the struggling Shenzhou Alliance back to the top spot in a few years.

But right now he's just a high school senior who received his starter Pokémon three months ago and only has three elite Pokémon.

As he left the water boat arena, dusk faded and night slowly fell; it was already eight o'clock in the evening.

After returning to the hotel under the stars and moon, Su Hao released Little Diamond, Blazing Roar Tiger, and Milotic from the Luxury Sphere.

[Su Hao, Su Hao, quick! Give me your phone.]

As soon as the deluxe ball was played, Little Diamond couldn't wait to ask Su Hao for his phone.

Ever since he showed Little Diamond the movie "Pikachu and Her Knight Gallade", Little Diamond has fallen in love with watching animation, anime and comics.

In her spare time after training, Xiao Suizuan would start binge-watching anime series.

Today happens to be the update date for "Mizukage: Pineapple Head Chronicles," which she's been following. There are two chapters in total, including last week's, no wonder she's so impatient.

Meanwhile, Incineroar and Milotic rolled up on their own.

Incineroar was huffing and puffing as it performed various difficult fitness poses, while Milotic was using its psychic powers to float quietly below the ceiling, meditating and cultivating with its eyes closed.

Over this period of time, Su Hao has roughly figured out the personalities of the three Pokémon in his team.

Little Diamond is a lively and innocent optimist by nature. Her only hobby in her spare time is watching anime and reading comics. It seems that thanks to these things, she has a strong imagination and can often use her moves to create different effects.

The downside is that he often shouts out the names of various anime moves in a childish way in the team's waveguide channel maintained by Su Hao.

I wonder if Little Diamond will feel that this period of her life is an unspeakable dark history after she becomes Diancie in the future?

Su Hao had a wicked thought.

As a future mythical beast, Little Diamond possesses astonishing talent, allowing her to gradually grow stronger even while lying down.

So even though Little Diamond's training time was half that of Blazing Roaring Tiger, she could still steadily surpass Blazing Roaring Tiger in strength.

After completing the required amount of training, Xiao Suizuan usually doesn't do any extra training, but instead uses Su Hao's phone to watch various anime series.

Previously, Little Diamond didn't know how to use her superpowers, so it took her a lot of effort to click on the next episode. Occasionally, she would encounter situations where she couldn't click on the next episode no matter what she tried, and Su Hao, who was next to her, would have to help her.

He remembered that Little Diamond had once told him that she had a gut feeling that she needed to become stronger as soon as possible, but now Little Diamond was gradually becoming a bit lazy, and he didn't know who she took after.

However, Su Hao felt that there was nothing wrong with her having some hobbies, as long as she didn't become addicted to the internet, and he was happy to spoil her.

Blazing Roaring Tiger, the only hard-working member of the team without any special background, is constantly striving to surpass Little Diamond in strength.

Whenever he has free time, Blazing Roaring Tiger will give himself extra training.

Su Hao remembered that he used to enjoy taking naps during his Fire-spotted Cat and Hot Cat days.

Finally, there's Milotic. During the week they spent together in the wilderness training camp, Su Hao could clearly see her desire to become stronger.

Milotic is a second-generation god with Latios and Latias as his backers, and he himself is a scroll king.

Su Hao had a feeling that even the Blazing Roaring Tiger might not be able to keep its second-place position in the team anymore...

While pondering, his hands kept moving as he pulled a slim laptop from his backpack. Since Xiao Suizuan had taken her phone to read comics, he naturally had to use the laptop to look up information.

With everything in Mizuho City over, it was time to head to the second gym. However, Su Hao hadn't decided which gym to visit next. Just as he turned on his laptop, Diamond Smash's scream suddenly rang out.

“naaaaa——!”

???

With a look of three parts bewilderment, four parts shock, two parts curiosity, and one part doubt, Su Hao instantly jumped up from his chair.

"What's wrong?"

He trotted along in his slippers toward Little Diamond, who was lying on the hotel bed, using his superpowers to control his phone and read comics.

The Incineroar and Milotic, who were training nearby, were also startled by Little Diamond's loud scream and ran over to see what was going on.

"Na na na!"

[Waaaaah, Su Hao, why is Pineapple Head so abandoned by everyone?!]

It hurts, it hurts too much!

Little Diamond loves to put herself in the protagonist's shoes in everything she sees. As a result, when she sees the protagonist defeat the villain with a certain move, she will excitedly run to practice it. When she sees the protagonist suffering, she will also feel sad.

Looking at the little diamond that was blinking its pink eyes and looking at it with teary eyes, Su Hao sighed.

He patted her head and comforted her, saying, "It's okay, it's okay, things might turn out differently later."

Now that Litten has evolved into Incineroar, the cat's personality has matured considerably, not to mention Milotic.

On the contrary, Little Diamond's personality remains so innocent and naive. She should be the eldest sister, but now she seems more like Incineroar and Milotic's younger sister.

Is it really true?

Little Diamond's eyes were slightly red as she stared longingly at Su Hao.

I can't guarantee that either... Su Hao sighed inwardly again. This comic had almost clearly indicated from the beginning that Pineapple Head would become a rogue ninja wandering outside.

Su Hao suddenly had a strange feeling that he actually had three daughters and sons with very different personalities.

Not only do we have to worry about their training (studies) and take care of their daily lives (cooking), but we also have to care about their mental health.

How can you have time to date or have a boyfriend/girlfriend?

However, Su Hao felt from the bottom of his heart that this was quite good.