Chapter 98: Will He Mind That You’re Dumb?
“Got it, what Pokémon were you ordered to buy?”
After caring for Yu Yixian like he was caring for someone with intellectual disabilities, Li Wei asked this most unreliable friend.
“Sort of, my father gave me two choices.
The first is for me to pick a Pokémon myself, but he only specified that I have to buy a Psychic-type one honestly, can’t just pick good-looking ones, and after picking the Pokémon, I have to submit a manual of at least 900 words for them.
The second choice is to buy the Pokémon he specified.”
Seeing Yu Yixian’s depressed look, Li Wei suddenly became a bit curious about what Pokémon Yu Yixian’s father made him buy.
“Specifically…?? What did he want you to buy?”
“Alakazam and Spoink.”
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After a brief moment of eye contact and silence, Li Wei unceremoniously burst out laughing.
“Hahahahaha, it really suits you, what’s wrong with that!!”
As a bad friend, Li Wei of course laughed loudly without holding back, and several people around who heard it were also doubled over laughing.
It had to be said that Yu Yixian’s father was skilled at messing with people’s mindset.
This whole operation of his was probably just to mess with Yu Yixian.
After all, he was the one who was wrong first, directly buying a Ponyta without permission.
This matter had probably almost made his parents’ heads explode with anger.
Although the first Pokémon didn’t have to be a powerful one, for the healthy growth of the Pokémon, considering the entrance exam, credits and such, most trainers would choose ones with some combat ability in the early stage and relatively low nurturing threshold.
Psychic-type Pokémon already have a high nurturing threshold, requiring mental communication with the Pokémon and mutual recognition before a friendship bond can be formed.
Although Ponyta’s appearance is very cute, how many Psychic-type Pokémon are easy to handle?
But who knows if it’s because the Ponyta was hatched by Yu Yixian, it more or less picked up some of his habits.
As a Psychic-type Pokémon, it should have an innate proud demeanor, but it didn’t; instead, it was unusually lively, quickly hitting it off with Yu Yixian, which avoided the common newbie mishaps with Psychic-type Pokémon like running away or injuring people.
“How about buying a Slowpoke instead, it pairs well with you, pink and tender and dumb, just don’t know if it would dislike you for being dumb, hahahahaha.”
As he said it, Li Wei laughed even harder.
His movements were so big that he accidentally flung the sleeping Eevee off his head.
If Riolu hadn’t noticed in time and caught the falling Eevee, Li Wei would probably have had his scalp gnawed off by Eevee today.
“Do you have any ideas yourself?”
After laughing enough, Li Wei asked him.
“I want to buy a handsome, elegant, beautiful one·····”
“Jynx then, evolves into a big wavy beauty.”
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Seeing Li Wei’s utterly insincere recommendation, Yu Yixian put on a sorrowful expression.
“Sure enough, I’m just too popular, so heaven gave me this trial.”
“Speak human.”
Very familiar with Yu Yixian’s communication style, Li Wei completely ignored his narcissistic behavior and unceremoniously interrupted him.
“What I mean is, buying Pokémon is no big deal, after all the range of Psychic-type Pokémon available isn’t small, and I have plenty of funding, it’s just this 900-word manual I can’t write·····
Li Wei, help me out······”
As he said it, Yu Yixian clasped his hands together in a ‘pear paste’ gesture.
“That’s easy to say, use your brain to normally pick two Pokémon, I’ll give you a direction and writing 900 words will be a breeze.”
“Really??”
As he said it, Yu Yixian’s eyes actually lit up with little stars.
“Then I’m counting on you, recommend two for me.”
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Clearly just now he said it was only the 900-word manual he couldn’t write, now he doesn’t even know what Pokémon to pick??
“To be honest, I wanted to buy a Snivy, after all its appearance is great and matches me, and I also want to buy a Feebas, someone as excellent as me can definitely train it into a Milotic~
But it specified only Psychic-type Pokémon, I’m really suffering!!!”
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At this point, Li Wei was truly done with Yu Yixian.
Psychic-type Pokémon have an extremely long nurturing cycle, and the chance of wild Psychic-type Pokémon being captured to become partners is the lowest among all attribute Pokémon.
In other words, if conditions allow, to make the ability growth curve of the team Pokémon normal, the optimal solution is to choose a Psychic-type Pokémon as partner during the newbie period.
Li Wei didn’t know if Yu Yixian really understood this, but looking at him, Li Wei felt like his brain was all mush except for ‘ah, I’m really handsome’.
“I say brother, have you ever thought about your future?”
“I have.”
Yu Yixian answered seriously and righteously.
“Pick good-looking, powerful Pokémon, win top prize at the Grand Festival, then get the beauty.”
Yu Yixian said this in a very frivolous tone.
No different from his usual joking and laughing, but Li Wei keenly caught the emotion he failed to hide.
After some contemplation, Li Wei said to him.
“I’ll recommend a Pokémon for you, listen to your dad and pick Psychic-type, then after a year, whether it’s Fighting or Grand Festival at the same level, you can dominate.
Get the ones you should nurture done early, it’ll benefit you for life, how about it.”
Li Wei said.
Melancholy.
This was the emotion he read from Yu Yixian.
Why a cheerful dimwit would have this emotion, he didn’t know, but beneath the melancholy was a refusal to lose.
Since that’s the case, the reasons for all this could be ignored, what he needed to do now was reignite this dimwit’s flame of struggle.
After all, as a Pokémon Trainer, how can you mope around every day like an autistic kid??
Only if you’re confident will your Pokémon be confident! This is the positive emotion indispensable for a Pokémon Trainer!
“Given your current situation, you can consider these Pokémon:
Abra.
One Teleport is basically invincible, it’s a battle bug, newbie killer, surprise attack weapon.
Of course, correspondingly, before the second evolution, there will be a tough period.
Medicham, training in Fighting and Meditation suits you pretty well, has power later on, and when Psychic isn’t strong enough, you can bluff through with Fighting skills.
Slowpoke, logically you can try raising one, even try buying an exotic form one.
Whether strength or skill coverage, it’s all great, plus the Pokémon is really smart, I recommend it quite a bit.”
