Xue Tong was genuinely feeling the "Muggle" vibe now. She had never regretted a decision more than this.
Why the hell did she agree to be a guest judge?
A judge is supposed to use their professional expertise to explain things to the audience, right?
She thought her years of high-level experience would make a rookie tournant a total breeze.
After all, she had been a guest for major tournants and handled them flawlessly.
Was she seriously about to have her professional reputation destroyed by a bunch of kids?
Don't make laugh. Is this a "fail"?
No... this is called "interacting deeply with the audience and perfectly blending in with the common folk."
Okay, fine. I can't even bullshit myself anymore.
She admitted it: this boy, Lorze, was a total enigma. She still hadn't figured out his Ralts's Ability, and now this unscientific Thunder Punch was making her brain short-circuit.
Why can an Electric move flip a Ground-type Pokémon on its head?
How the fuck should I know?!
But if she didn't provide an answer, her undefeated, omnipotent image was going to be shattered by a teenager.
This is exactly why you don't do caos for rookie matches.
If you explain it well, it doesn't prove anything. If you fail, you get slapped in the face. Sigh...
"A Thunder Punch naturally cannot affect a Ground-type. There must be sothing hidden beneath the electricity. Didn't you notice the power of that punch was significantly lower than in his previous matches?" Xue Tong finally spoke, forced by the relentless spamming in the live chat.
Even though it sounded like a non-answer, the audience realized she was right: Frogadier hadn't been one-shot.
In fact, after standing back up, it didn't even look that badly injured. The Ground-type immunity had clearly mitigated most of the damage.
But even so, the fact that a Thunder Punch did any damage to a Ground-type was enough to shake the world!
"What did you do?!" Shi Fan had lost all of his previous composure. With his limited experience, he couldn't see through the trick.
"Confused? Good. Stay confused. Ralts, keep beating the shit out of him!" Lorze had zero obligation to explain. The more confused and panicked his opponent was, the better.
Explanations are for after the trophy is in my hand. Following the principle of "striking while the iron is hot," Lorze ordered Ralts to resu the brutal assault.
Shi Fan had indeed lost his rhythm. He didn't even know if he should stay in Ground-type to tank the punches anymore—it clearly wasn't working perfectly.
Plus, the move 'Mud Sport' has a base power of 0. Aside from changing his type, it provided zero offense. He was just a sitting duck.
Ralts landed another punch. The tiny, lightning-wreathed fist slamd into Frogadier. It wasn't a one-hit kill, but it sent the defenseless Frogadier flying like a pathetic punching bag once again.
The damage was minor, but the humiliation was absolute.
If she did this a few more tis, the "scraping" damage would eventually kill it anyway.
No, I can't let this continue!
"Frogadier, forget Ground-type! Use Quick Attack and Dark Pulse to trade blows with her!" Shi Fan gritted his teeth. Faced with an unknown threat, he chose to abandon his type-advantage and turn this into a war of attrition.
Thinking back, Pikachu almost beat Ralts by stalling. Frogadier had more stamina than Pikachu, so there was no way he'd lose an endurance match!
Plus, they had an advantage Pikachu didn't: Dark Pulse.
Ralts was still a Psychic-type. If she got caught in a Dark Pulse, it wouldn't even be an attrition match anymore—it would be a one-shot execution.
In the previous match against Murkrow, Ralts had used Thunder Punch to block a Dark Pulse, but the exploding Dark energy had still visibly injured her.
In other words, while her Thunder Punch might ignore Ground-type resistance, her physical body was still vulnerable to Dark-type damage. Let's see you "ignore" that!
So, Lorze ignored it right in his face...
When Ralts went in for another Thunder Punch, Frogadier didn't hide in Ground-type this ti. It roared and countered with a Dark Pulse, trying to trade damage exactly like the Murkrow did!
The result? Ralts's tiny fist literally tore through the Dark Pulse. Despite the Dark energy swirling and lashing out around her, she remained completely unfazed. Her Huge Power Thunder Punch slamd down with undiminished force.
A asly Dark Pulse?
A pathetic type-advantage?
I'll tear through it with one punch!
Frogadier's eyes went wide. It had never seen anyone cheat this blatantly. Who is supposed to be countering who here?! Terrified, it used Quick Attack to retreat, its entire worldview on the brink of collapse.
But then Ralts received Lorze's order to end it quickly, Teleporting right back into its face. She didn't give it a single heartbeat to think, relentlessly pressing the attack.
The arena descended into a truly farcical scene: a Frogadier that had transford into a Dark-type was being chased and bullied by a Psychic-type Ralts. It had to use Dark Pulse just to slow down the speed of her punches. This is fucking insane!
In the broadcast booth, Xue Tong couldn't even look at the screen anymore. She seriously began to wonder if her world was just a video ga and Lorze had found a ga-breaking bug. Otherwise, how could this be happening?
I can't comntate this. Is this ga even playable anymore?
In the VIP room, Xue Yi and Anna noticed that even Mother Xue had gone silent. The more soone understood the laws of type-effectiveness, the more speechless they were right now.
Is there a possibility... that Psychic-type actually counters Dark-type?
If the Xue family was confused, then Lorze's mother and Roxanne—who slept in his bed every night—were even more baffled.
They thought they knew little Lorze's limits. They knew exactly how strong Ralts was supposed to be.
She was strong, yes, but even strength has to follow the rules. You can't just ignore the fundantal logic of the universe to use a cheat code.
Is this really the sa little Lorze we sleep with?
Unbelievable. They felt that from now on, nothing this boy did would ever surprise them again.
Actually... nothing he does to them "later" would be a surprise either~.
...
Unfortunately, despite the shock everyone else felt, Lorze wasn't celebrating yet.
He hadn't expected Frogadier to be this slippery. If this continued, the situation would turn against him.
In reality, Lorze hadn't broken a single law of type-effectiveness. Who told you Ralts's Thunder Punch was actually damaging a Ground-type?
Sure, Frogadier was sent flying, but that had zero to do with the electricity.
Lorze's one-shot combo was built from [Huge Power Thunder Punch Strength-style power generation].
While the Electric damage of Thunder Punch was nullified by the Ground-type, the physical impact of [Huge Power Strength technique] still remained.
However, the "Strength technique" wasn't the actual move 'Strength'; it was pure, unadulterated physical force. It contained zero Normal-type energy, which is why Xue Tong couldn't analyze the "hidden elent" in the punch.
Pure physical force without an energy move doesn't have the sa "delete" power as a real skill. It was enough to knock Frogadier back, but it couldn't deal significant damage. It was purely used to mind-fuck Shi Fan into thinking type-immunities didn't work against Ralts.
As for why Dark Pulse didn't hurt Ralts? The reason was even simpler. Who the fuck told you Ralts is currently a Psychic-type?
The mont the match started, Ralts had Traced Frogadier's Protean Ability. By using Thunder Punch, she had transford her own typing into Electric.
The current Ralts was an Electric-type Pokémon. Why the hell would she be countered by a Dark Pulse?
But that created a problem: if she copied Protean, her Huge Power Ability would be overwritten. How did she get Huge Power back?
By cheating, obviously!
Cough, cough. I an, by using Telepathic Resonance Mode.
Don't forget: in this mode, while Ralts has Huge Power, Lorze's body also gains the effects of Huge Power.
Even if Ralts's Ability is overwritten, the Huge Power buff on Lorze's body persists for a few seconds.
Before that residue faded, Ralts used the opponent's Protean to swap her type to Electric, then instantly used Trace to copy Huge Power back from Lorze.
The result: An Electric-type Ralts with Huge Power.
Yes, it was a blatant exploit!
Go ahead and report him to the referee if you've got the balls!
You don't?
Then eat my Huge Power Thunder Punch!
Relying on this impossible-to-predict Ability swap, Lorze demonstrated to the Frogadier what real Protean looked like.
You call that Protean?
Now that she was an Electric-type, Thunder Punch gained the 1.5x STAB (Sa Type Attack Bonus) buff. Tearing through a Dark Pulse was child's play.
Regrettably, Shi Fan had been completely mind-fucked by the combo. He refused to trade blows anymore, having Frogadier use Quick Attack to maintain a distance and play for ti.
Lorze was back in the sa trap as the Pikachu match. The problem was, he had barely outlasted Pikachu, and this Frogadier's stamina was significantly higher.
The situation was still grim. This was where the gap in cultivation ti beca obvious.
Lorze had only had Ralts for two months. Shi Fan had likely been prepping this Frogadier for an entire year. Their stamina pools weren't even in the sa league.
As the energy consumption for both sides reached critical levels, Shi Fan realized Ralts was slowing down. He doubled down on his stalling strategy.
Slowly, both sides began to flag, but Ralts was clearly in worse shape.
Lorze was only keeping her going by using Telepathic Resonance to share his own ntal energy, but he wasn't a Pokémon. How much energy could a human mind actually provide?
Eventually, the "inco" couldn't keep up with the "expenses." Lorze's mind was running on absolute empty. His eyelids felt like lead, a heavy, unstoppable wave of exhaustion washing over his brain. His body began to sway, barely able to stand. Even the referee looked worried.
Lorze felt a surge of bitter resentnt. He had done everything perfectly. Was he really going to lose just because he hadn't been a Trainer for long enough?
No... forget the promise with his mother; this was his debut match. He couldn't lose!
He wanted to challenge the achievent of Goddess Xue Tong—to remain undefeated from the very start.
But even Ralts could feel that sothing was wrong. The massive drain on Lorze's ntal energy was putting an extre burden on his brain. She began to panic.
If this keeps up, will it cause permanent brain damage to Lorze?
Ralts didn't know. Lorze was still screaming for her to continue, but she could barely feel his ntal presence anymore...
What could she do?
"RAAAAALT!!!"
In her desperation, to protect her Trainer's brain, Ralts began violently extracting energy from deep within her own life force.
Feeling this surge of searing, white-hot energy, Lorze's mind received a sudden, violent jolt. His eyes snapped wide open, and then—finally collapsing under the weight of the ntal drain—his vision went black, and he collapsed to the floor.
My dear Ralts... what the hell did you just cook up for ?
He never expected that the "Egg Move" he had been unable to unlock for months would reveal itself like this...
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