Chapter 340: Pokemon master of tactics: Chapter 340
After a few seconds, Gary calms down as he remembers who his opponent was. He knew the main reason Misty lost to Alex was that He had successfully provoked her and Gary didn't want to make the same mistake.
After he calmed down again, he realized that the situation is not as bad as he thought.
Even though he lost 2 Pokemon for just one Pokemon(+a bit damage to Scizor), his next Pokemon can quickly defeat Alex's Scizor.
Without waiting for 30 seconds, he calls his next Pokemon.
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Pokémon: Arcanine
LV: 52
Type: Fire
Abilities: Flash Fire
Gender: Male
Potential: Deep Gold
Moves:
- Bite, Roar, Ember, Leer, Helping Hand, Flame Wheel, Reversal, Fire Fang, Take Down, Flame Burst, Agility, Retaliate, Flamethrower, Crunch, Heat Wave [E], Outrage, Flare Blitz [E]
- (Innate Talent) Solar Beam [M], (Innate Talent) Sunny Day [E], (Innate Talent) Giga Impact [E],
- (TM) Protect, (TM) Safeguard [E], (TM) Will-O-Wisp [E], (TM) Dig, (TM) Facade, (TM) Aerial Ace, (TM) Substitute
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Alex showed a calm expression as he looked at the information from this Arcanine.
'Hmm, worse than I expected. Although his three Innate Talent moves are good, none of those moves are Fire-Type moves. This makes it much harder for Gary to train a fire-type move on the Master rank and takes a lot of time. no wonder he prefers to train more moves on the Expert rank.'
Alex showed a calm expression as he was sure that his new tactic for Scizor could cause a lot of problems for Gary and his Arcanine.
"3,2,1,Go"
Without saying a word, Scizor started running away from Arcanine as he prepared a move.
Alex guessed there was a very good chance that Gary would send Arcanine against his Scizor if Gary can so that he had a plan specifically against this Pokemon. It didn't take a genius to see that.
Although planning against this Fire-Type Pokemon without information is much harder than predicting that it will fight against Scizor if Gary has the Chance.
Gary, who felt the arena was still warm thanks to [Sunny Day], immediately wanted to take advantage of that.
"pursue Scizor and use Heat Wave as soon as you are in range"
Alex knew of course that Arcanine is faster than Scizor and can't outrun him.
He just wanted to delay a bit before Arcanine gets in range and not allow him to immediately use his move once he's ready.
Although this tactic has the disadvantage that Scizor is also out of range for his attack moves, it's extremely effective if Alex doesn't plan to attack at all.
Because of the speed disadvantage, the distance got smaller and smaller after every second, so that this tactic barely made a difference. though this small-time advantage was extremely important for Alex's next plan.
Scizor, who started preparing a move sooner as Arcanine got ready with it first and he doesn't was waiting to use his move.
The heat from the arena slowly began to dissipate and a small stream of sand began to appear around the arena.
This [Sandstorm] from Scizor wasn't as dense as it usually is and is more of a standard version of the move [Sandstorm].
Alex wanted the Scizor to use this version because recently, he noticed something interesting, that he hadn't noticed before about this Move.
The dense [Sandstorm], which uses most of the energy from the move to obstruct the enemy's vision, was many times weaker in terms of damage than the normal version of [Sandstorm].
It was just a theory he had at first after seeing how much damage Pokemon got from the normal [Sandstorm] and how little Scizor's [Sandstorm] does, but after several tests, he could confirm his theory.
So against Pokemon that can perceive Scizor even in The dense [Sandstorm], the normal version is much more effective and more useful.
Arcanine is well known for his extremely good sense of smell, so Alex knew that limiting Arcanine's vision wouldn't do much against this Pokemon.
In comparison, better damage is much more useful. Especially considering that Scizor doesn't have to be within Arcanine's attack range for this move to use it effectively.
Alex said telepathically, "Get ready, Scizor."
Arcanine got in range for his move in just a second later than Scizor used his move and he immediately used [Heat Wave].
[Heat Wave]'s range on the Expert rank is not good. but it has a great advantage that few moves have.
It hits everything in its range and it also has a quick travel speed when used. [Heat Wave] would be a perfect AOE attack if it doesn't have the downside of a below-average range.
Arcanine, who had used this move frequently, knew exactly from which range Scizor had no chance of evading this move. Although Scizor has to run less than 3 meters to dodge this move, it's almost impossible to do, even for extremely fast Pokemon (on a similar level).
Extremely fast Pokemon would have trouble dodging this move, let alone Scizor.
Scizor has been waiting for this moment and immediately uses [Quick Attack] which hardly needed any preparation time.
[Quick Attack] was used without a target and Scizor briefly accomplished a considerably faster Speed than Crobat. Even though Scizor barely dodged Arcanine's attack.
Alex saw how effective his new tactic was and he smiled as he thought, 'It's even better than I thought with the right timing. It's defensive very similar to [Protect] and that without the offensive that this move can bring. Especially that Scizor has two such moves is really helpful.'
[Bullet Punch] and [Quick Attack] are extremely ridiculous moves in Alex's opinion, even though they can practically only be used once per fight.
Gary looked surprised at Scizor who dodged this extremely fast attack. He remembered all the fights (all the documented fights) from Alex's Scizor and he doesn't remember Alex using such a tactic even once.
He thought with a slightly drained expression, 'is this a joke? Why am I always at a disadvantage no matter what I do? This is the most disgusting fight I've ever had'
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