Chapter 52: Perpetual Princess
The most important point in learning Shadow Claw is to absorb Ghost-type energy through shadows.
The world’s setting couldn’t help but make Li Wei feel a bit fantastical.
Every time he looked up data and made training plans for his Pokémon, he felt a strange sense of ‘regret’.
Regretting that he hadn’t transmigrated into a Pokémon back then.
If that were the case, he wouldn’t be wearing blue-light blocking glasses now, holding pen and paper in hand, staying up until ten-thirty late at night, sitting at his desk staring at the computer to look up various data, searching for the occasional useful info on forums, posts, and experience-sharing threads.
If given a chance to transmigrate into a Pokémon, he would definitely become the flashiest kid.
Absorbing essence from the sun and moon, constantly seeking ways to absorb energy, using the memories of all sorts of wild operations in his brain to become the flashiest one in the arena.
Hah, but unfortunately now.
He could only silently stand on the first-class seat（ podium）, watching his Pokémon show off the results of his hard work.
The sense of participation is still different from the firsthand experience.
“Sigh, give me a chance to not be human!!!!!!”
If that were the case, he wouldn’t have to face the hellish Trainer Qualification exam either.
Those full thirty textbooks, is that something a person can memorize?
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Being human means being arrogant, but you still need to keep some trump cards.
From the most basic perspective, there are at least dozens of trainees in this Zone 1 training camp from Magic City, so without a doubt, in the upcoming provincial competition, they will become his opponents.
The things trained in the afternoon class definitely couldn’t expose all the trump cards of his Pokémon.
And because of excessively destroying the venue, being forced to move to the open Zone 12, in a sense, was actually a big help.
Riolu’s two punches and one claw were practiced here for ‘secret training’.
And at the same time, during training, because they needed to test power without destroying public facilities and the environment, Eevee’s ‘Reflect’, ‘Light Screen’, and ‘Guard’ these three moves were also put on the agenda, placed at the top of the training list.
In this real world, the classification of these three moves is quite subtle.
In the game, Reflect targets physical attacks, Light Screen’s damage reduction targets special attacks, and Guard completely blocks the opponent’s attack but fails easily if used consecutively.
Clear division of labor, single-target defense, with a clear concept of ‘turns’.
But in reality, after asking some questions over the phone to his father and having a long WeChat chat late at night with Mime Jr., who is proficient in ‘walls’, Li Wei came to the following conclusion.
These moves have no clear concept of turns, no clear release target, no clear range size, no clear 100% block of the opponent’s move, and even the boundaries between these three moves have become somewhat blurred.
Summarizing this information came after Li Wei was forced to watch Mime Jr. perform nearly an hour of pantomime over video call.
No clear turns because using a move requires energy, and the amount of energy depends on the Pokémon’s own strength.
For example.
A Reflect made with full power by Mime Jr., even if Magikarp rams it for a day, probably won’t break it.
So no turns.
The release target is even easier to understand.
Just like when Gallade used Guard on Li Wei back then, to happily hold a ‘swimming pool party’ at home, Mime Jr. laid several layers of Reflect in the swimming pool.
Direction arbitrary, target arbitrary, wherever you want it.
Compared to the game, it has much more realism and fewer limitations.
The range size is as easy to understand as the release target.
As long as energy allows, Mime Jr. says he can even release a Reflect that’s a hundred meters long and high.
Guard is the same.
Even for single-target release, if protecting a teammate, protecting Delibird and protecting Swampert, the size of the protective shield produced by the Guard move is different.
Since there’s a difference in size, there must also be a difference in capacity.
No reason a skill circle big enough for Swampert couldn’t fit three Delibird, right?
A skill circle that can guard Groudon can definitely fit at least five or six Swampert.
The diversity of moves in reality is still plentiful, and that’s exactly what makes Li Wei want to become a Pokémon even more.
Even if the trainer is a traitor, it doesn’t matter, he can become the overlord among wild Pokémon, he can train himself!
He can do it, he wants to become the king of the world!!!!
Unfortunately, born in the wrong body.
Besides the boring and tasteless stench of copper, he has nothing.
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The subsequent ‘not 100% blocking moves’ statement is similar to the first point of no turn limits.
His own Eevee’s Guard can’t withstand one Precipice Blades from Groudon.
Even if Eevee can fly, it can’t block it.
Under the absolute gap in power, the psychological tactic of Guard’s 100% defense has also changed accordingly as the game became the real world.
The three moves have no clear boundaries in that Reflect is a transparent wall made based on air, Light Screen is a wall made by condensing light, both can block attacks in reality, whether shockwaves or a straight punch, it won’t happen that you can pass through the wall barehanded because of different defensive walls, or ‘energy clash passes through the wall while the wall remains intact’, such things that defy common sense.
Through long-term practice, the range of Guard can be infinitely amplified without changing the shield’s intensity, thereby achieving the effect of ‘wide-area defense’.
True wide-area defense is a Rock-type move, and after looking up relevant data, Li Wei found that not many people in this world study this move.
After all, with a more perfect substitute, no one would start learning this unappealing group defense move that costs a lot of power.
Mastering one move to the peak is enough.
After a night of precise research and inquiries, carrying a stack of data, Li Wei began inhuman special training for Eevee and Riolu.
The benefit of having two Pokémon with Great Emperor potential is that, with daily nutrition in place and food energy nearly overflowing, combined with the perfect training plan（ personally formulated by Master Li Wei）, in just one short week, the special training had already shown small results.
At this moment in the venue, three Riolu rushed toward Eevee from different angles, and each Riolu’s left hand had a long hooked claw condensed from black shadows.
Extremely fast, in less than two seconds, Riolu had already rushed in front of Eevee.
“Bu Yi!”
Eevee didn’t sit idly by either; Normal-type energy instantly gathered, and a protective shield suddenly appeared around her.
Sizzle.
Continuous, ear-piercing sounds like nails scraping glass rang in Li Wei’s ears.
He subconsciously rubbed his arm, alleviating the physical discomfort from his OCD.
“Very nice! Riolu! Of course Eevee too!”
“Riolu!”
【Still not enough, the last two Shadow Claws had insufficient power due to too short charge time, basically no damage.】
Riolu remained humble and cute.
And seeing Riolu in contemplation nearby, Eevee slanted her little eyes, shook her tail somewhat annoyed.
“Bu Yi······”
【Well, if there’s a problem······ probably, if the reaction is a bit faster, I can make him get blocked by the Guard shield one meter away······】
Unwilling Eevee reflected on her shortcomings, ran to the side with a resentful face, and began reaction training and energy gathering speed training.
This was already the fourth move practice today.
Riolu side was Double Team and Shadow Claw, Eevee side was random Reflect and Guard.
Li Wei’s conception of the Lord of Shadow Flow wasn’t a joke.
Double Team, throw transparent shuriken condensed from Aura, plus close-range continuous shadow clones’ Shadow Claw.
The transparent shuriken needs extra refinement, but now Riolu using Aura to control airflow for basic ‘invisible wind blades’ is no problem; making it cone-shaped shuriken can be postponed, practice after achieving Double Team Shadow Claw.
As everyone knows, Double Team creates clones through rapid movement to disrupt the opponent.
Visually, countless Riolu appear, but not actually countless Riolu.
In common understanding, only one Double Team is real, only one attacks, but if through even faster movement, forcibly achieving three ‘Double Teams’ attacking simultaneously within two seconds, what effect would that have?
Li Wei didn’t know.
He only knew it was called Instant Hell Murder Array.
This was what he was currently training.
Not only cultivating two moves, but also involving Aura and speed training, it’s simply a perfect plan.
Theoretically, if Riolu learned Substitute, there wouldn’t be need for such trouble.
But Substitute consumes a lot of stamina and energy; for current Riolu, mastering Substitute and applying it in actual combat isn’t cost-effective.
This tactic suits Eevee.
After Substitute, change to Leafeon, Synthesis then change back, continue Substitute.
Repeating this can form a perpetual motion machine.
If later unable to continuously control so many clones, can add the 2.0 patch.
Become Sun Eevee, control with Psychic Power, can achieve one Substitute per form, with Sun Eevee as the core with highest mental power and control, eight Eevee appearing together in the venue for physical and mental double attacks on the enemy.
Current Li Wei has already started laying the groundwork for this tactic; having Eevee learn moves this time is to wait for that day.
His current plan is to brew for a year to become a Professional Trainer, sign up for the school team in university second year, and when turning 18 to participate in national and world tournaments, let those ‘ignorant’ humans feel the fear from transmigrator ace genius tall rich handsome Trainer Li Wei.
Timo’s Flop Diary
July 24
【July 23, 800 votes, no extra chapter】
Misjudged the plot a bit, tomorrow is Bu’s day to dominate.
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Perhaps the description of ‘Reflect’ ‘Light Screen’ ‘Guard’ was a bit too comprehensive.
I’ve been argued with too much.
Even discussing urban pm with similar writers occasionally feels tense, thinking about the occasional nitpicks in my book.
I chose to explain as comprehensively as possible.
Personally, I think urban pm isn’t rigid game data, moves aren’t like divine revelations that are whatever they say and unchangeable.
Such a Pokémon World isn’t the Pokémon World in my imagination.
Take Zenitsu as an example.
He only knows one form.
But if used properly, one move can be used in countless ways.
Groudon can’t fly.
But if he uses one Precipice Blades plus on the ground, due to reaction force, he can fly.
Moves aren’t rigid either.
Can only use Guard on oneself, Guard must 100% guard or the move has no meaning.
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I don’t agree with this statement.
In reality, moves’ energy determines defensive moves’ strength, and size is controllable through training.
In the real worldview, self-consistent stuff should be good.
That’s what I firmly believe.
Anyway, I try to make every setting perfect, even for a single idea, I give practical examples.
For example, the diagram of Lingbo Weibu.
Did my best
That’s it
See you tomorrow
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