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"I'm really too dirty."
"What a sinner~"
Kaito shook his head and sighed, but his upturned lips betrayed his true feelings. While verbally calling it "dirty," he selected the move Minimize. Minimize significantly increases the Pokémon's evasion rate.
The sinister strategy he wanted to play was the Serene Grace Minimize Chansey! It could also be called the Pink Devil strategy!
Long Yuling on the other side was clearly stunned. The game continued after a while, presumably because she thought he would still use the Level One Brute Force Strategy.
She decided to play defensively first. Garchomp used Stealth Rock. On the screen, brown rocks flew out and then scattered across the field, becoming an invisible hazard. Next, as soon as he switched Pokémon onto the field, they would take damage. On his world's Blue Star, this was called Stealth Rock, commonly seen in PvP, used to break the Sturdy Ability and Focus Sash item.
"Not bad, able to learn from mistakes," Kaito mused. "However, facing Chansey, Stealth Rock isn't very useful; it doesn't have the Sturdy Ability."
While lamenting, Chansey used Minimize, and its figure on the screen indeed shrunk quite a bit.
Long Yuling's Perspective
"Minimize?" Long Yuling murmured. "It's a move that can increase evasion, right? Does he want to win this battle by relying on luck? No matter how lucky you are, I'll still have a chance to hit you, so you'll still be out, won't you?"
Her eyes lit up, filled with confidence of victory. Surely, no matter how powerful a Master was, it was impossible for him to pull out two terrifying strategies in a row.
The next second, Long Yuling's smile froze on her face again.
Garchomp used the move Dragon Claw. It missed!
Was her luck really that bad?!
"Hahahahaha..." You Lian Yue looked at Long Yuling's gloomy expression and couldn't help but burst into laughter, tears welling up in the corners of her eyes.
Then Chansey used Minimize again.
This time, Long Yuling was lucky; Garchomp's Dragon Claw hit Chansey. But it didn't cause much damage.
Just as Long Yuling finally saw a glimmer of hope... Chansey pulled out an egg and ate it, restoring its health to full using Soft-Boiled (which restores half of its HP).
Long Yuling: ...
Just when she thought things couldn't get worse, the Chansey, with its evasion stacked to the max, countered with Toxic, inflicting the debilitating status on Garchomp. Garchomp continuously lost health, but couldn't reliably hit Chansey.
Long Yuling was completely silent. She was wondering why such a disgusting strategy existed. No, she corrected herself, why could someone come up with such a disgusting thing?
But what she didn't expect was that the disgusting aspects of this strategy hadn't been fully revealed yet.
In the next turn, a large pile of rocks fell from the sky, hitting Garchomp. Rock Slide, which has a 30% chance of causing the target to flinch, landed and caused Garchomp to flinch, stopping its action for one turn.
This situation kept repeating until Garchomp fell.
Long Yuling was on the verge of a breakdown. "Why is its Rock Slide's flinch rate so high?! Am I really that unlucky?!"
Taking a deep breath, Long Yuling recalled that Chansey had an Ability. She said through gritted teeth: "Se... rene... Grace..."
Serene Grace doubles the probability of a move's additional effects. In other words, the probability of causing the opponent to flinch with Rock Slide was now 60%.
Kaito himself also felt lucky; not only did all his attacks succeed, but he also hit the 60% flinch chance several times in a row.
Until the very end, Long Yuling's team lost again.
"Next time, I should just use a more normal strategy," Kaito sighed. "Or have someone else fight, so they don't get their Dao heart shattered."
Looking at the words "Battle Won" displayed on the screen, Kaito was full of emotion. Actually, the Minimize Chansey strategy also had quite a few limitations. Just the Toxic move alone had many loopholes (e.g., ineffective against Poison-type and Steel-type Pokémon). Minimize and Rock Slide seemed to have good effects, but ultimately it was a matter of luck; encountering an extremely lucky opponent would still render them useless. However, this strategy was more complete than the Level One Brute Force Strategy, and more importantly, it could be easily applied in reality.
Same old routine. Kaito had Rotom edit the video he just took and directly upload it to the PokéTube App.
Magic City
"Alright, don't take it too much to heart," You Lian Yue gently advised Long Yuling, who remained silent. "Facing an existence like Master, losing is not shameful; you've already done your best. Master is clearly an expert who has studied tactics for many years, probably very old, with a white beard."
Long Yuling was slightly moved. She raised her head, and a strong fighting spirit flashed in her eyes.
"No." Long Yuling said firmly. "I will take it to heart, and continue to challenge Master until I defeat him." Long Yuling clenched her right fist, indicating that she would fight to the end; this was her new goal! Her fighting spirit had ignited.
You Lian Yue couldn't help but sigh, pressing a hand to her forehead. Once her friend became like this, there was no pulling her back. She would most likely pester Master from now on.
In fact, You Lian Yue was half right. But what she didn't expect was that in the future, Long Yuling would not only pester Kaito in battles, but also "pester" him relentlessly in other aspects…
That night, many people held their phones, watching Kaito's videos over and over again. Kaito's two videos in one day made them exclaim at his high "output." However, what surprised them even more was that Master was able to quickly come up with a new strategy after the Level One Brute Force Strategy: the Minimize Chansey strategy! It was even more terrifying than the previous one!
Everyone who watched this video couldn't help but marvel at Master's ingenious ideas, and… his relatively "dirty" tactical approach. Amidst their shock, many people also sympathized with Long Yuling. She was clearly a favored child of heaven, yet she was used as video material by Master, abused again and again.
By now, Master had already unveiled two world-shaking, top-tier strategies, one per day. Many people were wondering if Master would release a new strategy tomorrow. The name of Master was gradually resounding throughout the world!
But Kaito didn't pay attention to that. He had more important things now. As he drifted into slumber, he only knew one thing: There was a faint fragrance in Gardevoir's embrace…
The legend of Master has been cemented! How will Kaito's fame affect his quiet life on the farm, and what new challenge will Long Yuling devise to defeat him?
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