Chapter 34: Darkrai: I’m Standing Up!
Thursday night, 22:00, Training Ground 5.
Tonight’s training ground only had Fletchling and Electric Mouse, as well as a certain riddled-with-holes Mannequin A.
Because of the precedent of Zuo Rou training Piplup into the Pokémon Center, Zuo Hang stipulated that Zuo Rou could only train for two hours every night.
Of course, Fletchling didn’t have such good treatment.
Every night it was still four hours.
It wasn’t that Zuo Hang was strict, but all his Pokémon had gone through this. Fletchling was actually doing pretty well, because of classes, daytime training time was only Combat Class.
In the past, Zuo Hang’s Pokémon basically had to run with him in the High-Risk Zone every day. Not like now, leisurely training, and with Moo Moo Milk to drink when there’s nothing else.
He felt he was already very good to Fletchling.
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“pika~~pikapika~~~” Electric Mouse was explaining something to Fletchling.
Zuo Hang didn’t sit in the corner reading a book, but went alone to that small forest from yesterday.
About Darkrai training issues, it was time for him to worry about it.
He threw out two Poké Balls at the same time, Darkrai and Gardevoir appeared in the darkness.
Compared to last night, Darkrai was much more spirited. He didn’t go to the Pokémon Center, but the injuries on his body had mostly healed.
Zuo Hang said to the two Pokémon, “Tonight I’m grouping with Darkrai, Gardevoir, you just freely perform.”
He already knew about the Hypnosis failure.
It wasn’t that Darkrai’s Hypnosis failed, nor that Gardevoir’s resistance was too strong. Dark hits Psychic with double power, but Hypnosis is a Psychic Type skill, and not an offensive move.
Gardevoir also knew Hypnosis, and she also knew Seal. Gardevoir had a habit of putting Seal on the opponent before fighting.
—Skill Seal: If the opponent has the same move as oneself, then only the opponent cannot use that move.
Gardevoir with Intelligence as high as 16 points mastered many Special Attack and control skills. If facing an opponent who was also Fairy and Psychic Type, one Seal would make at least half or more of the opponent’s skills unusable.
Zuo Hang wasn’t at the scene last night, but the reason Nightmare God’s Hypnosis failed was most likely Gardevoir putting Seal on him in advance.
Stepping back, even without Seal, Psychic Type Gardevoir might not necessarily be put to sleep by Hypnosis.
This skill’s Hit Rate was only 60. When the opponent was intentionally guarding against it, Hypnosis was hard to hit.
However, Nightmare God’s best control skill wasn’t Hypnosis. Feeling lost because Hypnosis couldn’t hit was completely unnecessary in Zuo Hang’s view.
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Tonight was a half-moon.
A mass of bright pink Energy rippled in the forest, especially glaring in the darkness.
Gardevoir appeared without warning behind the Nightmare God.
—Agility + Moonblast!
Darkrai skillfully hid into Nightmare Space. Moonblast landed on the ground, kicking up a large cloud of dust.
Gardevoir’s pupils were covered by special red glow, Psychic extended toward Nightmare Space. Darkrai gave up hiding and jumped out from the space, while the Dazzling Gleam raised in Gardevoir’s hand just hit Darkrai’s landing point.
The situation was no different from yesterday. Nightmare God was at a disadvantage from the start, and was once suppressed by Gardevoir.
Zuo Hang frowned tightly.
Darkrai had been beaten into fear.
Psychic hits Dark ineffective, their strengths were actually not much different. Psychic could only crush space, which couldn’t cause actual damage to Darkrai.
And yet he was still being chased around?
Zuo Hang was furious.
“Act a bit like a Mythical Beast, okay? Use Double Team!”
Darkrai, who had been chased by Gardevoir across half the forest, paused upon hearing Zuo Hang’s command, suddenly shifted sideways eerily, pulling several Afterimages behind him. In half a breath, every Afterimage turned into an identical “Darkrai”.
“Disable!”
Dozens of Darkrai stopped fleeing.
“—Pa~” Crisp continuous finger snaps.
The red Energy in Gardevoir’s pupils suddenly disappeared.
Psychic couldn’t be used.
—Disable: The opponent’s previously used move cannot be used for a certain time.
Darkrai was delighted, a mass of dark black Energy similar to Dazzling Gleam rose in his hand. This was Dark Pulse’s dark matter!
Dozens of clones acted at the same time!
Double Team didn’t create real clones; it was merely a skill to raise the user’s own evasion rate. But top users of many Double Teams could often create “clones” infinitely close to real ones.
The clones’ skills had no Power, but could achieve good confusing effects.
And Zuo Hang’s Darkrai was a T0-level Double Team user!
Gardevoir couldn’t distinguish Darkrai’s real body for a moment, and now it was nighttime. Nightmare God’s natural Camouflage made her lose a large part of her judgment. Moonblast gathered in her hand, attacking the first Darkrai flying toward her.
The Special Attack Moonblast wasn’t thrown by Gardevoir, but kept shining in her hand.
—In the darkness, continuous attacking flexible posture. Without Psychic, close combat hadn’t become Gardevoir’s weakness.
“—Bang~Bang~” Double Team clones kept getting exploded by Moonblast. Gardevoir didn’t dare to bet, could only keep attacking nonstop. She didn’t know where Darkrai was hiding; the shadows in the darkness could completely pass fakes as real.
The last Darkrai captured in her vision attacked with Dark Pulse. Gardevoir raised her hand, Moonblast was about to collide with Dark Pulse, but a eerie Shadow suddenly appeared under Gardevoir’s feet!
Darkrai’s Shadow Sneak ability was also silent in the darkness!
The true Night Walker finally bared its fangs at this moment.
Dark Pulse exploded behind Gardevoir; this move’s Damage was maxed out.
“Dark Void!” Zuo Hang’s voice came from afar.
Darkrai complied, immediately condensing Dark Void in his hand, shadow-like claws pressing on Gardevoir’s head.
Hypnosis would fail because of Seal, but Dark Void wouldn’t. This was a skill unique to Nightmare God.
Gardevoir fell into sleep, Darkrai clapped his palms together!
—Nightmare!
Gardevoir frowned slightly, already trapped in the Nightmare woven by Darkrai.
But just one Nightmare wasn’t enough to end the battle.
Seizing the Opportunity, Nightmare God would absolutely not hold back!
“—Pa~” Another finger snap.
—Dream Eater!
Zuo Hang didn’t stop it, instead revealing a slight smile.
Gardevoir’s expression, which should have become more pained because of Dream Eater, didn’t change.
Dream Eater failed.
Seal’s effect still existed. Gardevoir also mastered Dream Eater, so Darkrai’s finger snap couldn’t come out.
Zuo Hang walked over from not far away, recalled Gardevoir, and said to Darkrai:
“For sparring, that’s enough here. Dream Eater this high Power skill, don’t save it for companions. If Gardevoir had used Future Sight from the start, the battle would have ended long ago. She went easy on you, you should also go easy on her.”
“You’ve always been a lone actor before, now you can be considered to have companions. Your past style can be kept, I won’t ask you to change anything, but you absolutely can’t go all out on companions. You should understand what companion means, right?”
“Forget it. Saying too much to you now is useless. You’ll understand later.”
Zuo Hang waved his hand and said: “Alright, that’s it for tonight. Let’s go back and check on Fletchling.”
Darkrai nodded.
Companion.
He felt he understood the meaning of this word.
Zuo Hang, Electric Mouse, Gardevoir, Fletchling these guys were probably his companions.
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