As Alex expected, Umbreon could do nothing after Gardevoir had strengthened itself to the max. With Gardevoir healing herself with [Draining Kiss], negating all the damage inflicted upon her, Umbreon lost.
Alex didn't think the Gardevoir had too big of an advantage either. If she didn't have the [Disable] on the Expert-rank, she would probably lose in a few exchanges with Umbreon spamming [Snarl] all the time.
He went to Umbreon, who was unconscious and healed her with a [Super Potion].
After Umbreon woke up, she gave a deep sigh.
"Umm... Umbreon, are you ok?" Alex asked with concern.
Umbreon shook her head and said with a wide smile and a cheerful voice, "Ahh, yes! I just feel relieved now!"
Alex was briefly surprised but instantly understood why.
Umbreon hates having to fight Alex's other Pokémon. Even if they are training sessions, she doesn't like it.
Now that she's lost, she doesn't have to fight one of Alex's Pokémon again.
Alex smiled kindly and said nothing more.
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"3,2,1, GO!"
Scizor and Ditto were facing each other this time. They immediately began to prepare their moves the moment they heard the signal.
Ditto transformed immediately in Blaziken, and because it has the ability [Imposter], it didn't need time to prepare this move for the first time.
[Imposter] works in this world very similar to the games. The only difference is that it resets every 5 minutes and not when Ditto goes back into its Pokéball.
This has pros and cons, but Alex thinks that it is more advantageous in the wild and dangerous position.
After Ditto transformed into Blaziken, it immediately started preparing a move.
But Alex noticed that Scizor still hadn't finished his move and couldn't help but think, 'Is he not using an Expert-rank move‽'
Scizor finished a little faster and used [Sandstorm].
The battlefield was suddenly engulfed in a small tornado of sand.
The Sandstorm still wasn't opaque enough yet, though. Thus Ditto could still see Scizor through the Sandstorm. Not to miss the opportunity, Ditto sent [Will-O-Wisp] in the direction of Scizor.
Scizor reacted immediately and used [Protect] as if he had foreseen it and calmly proceeded to prepare his next move.
Ditto was starting to get anxious as it prepared its next move.
Scizor finished earlier, and he used the move [Razor Wind] not on Ditto but on the ground.
It was the tactic that Alex had used with Scizor in the tournament. Just as in the tournament, Scizor combined the ground dust with the Sandstorm as the sand stream started getting denser and more obscure.
Ditto, who had finished a bit later, used [Will-O-Wisp]. But because it could not see Scizor, it sent the move in the direction of where it had last seen Scizor.
Alex, who has started training his Psychic powers for some time, could locate Scizor in the Sandstorm, but only if he tried very hard.
Compared to Gardevoir or other Psychic-type Pokémon who can easily do that, he's still a long way off, but he was able to keep it up for a bit at least.
He knew that Scizor had immediately started moving after he improved Sandstrom's obscurity.
Ditto, who still didn't know whether its move had hit or not, made a grim face.
He noticed that Blaziken didn't know an AOE Fire-type move.
Blaziken can use [Rock Slide], but that only deals a normal amount of damage Scizor. And considering that Ditto's moves are only on Normal-rank, it knew that it couldn't win against Scizor with that.
Ditto felt that it had no other choice left and turned back into its original form.
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Ditto didn't waste time and immediately started preparing another [Transform]. Fortunately, [Transform] is an Expert-rank move, so it didn't take Ditto as long as it did when using another move.
While Ditto was doing this, Scizor was using [Swords Dance]. But when he realized that Ditto was not using any moves into the hard-to-see sand stream area, he started speculating what Ditto was trying to do.
Gardevoir was fortunately easily visible to Ditto—standing outside of the battlefield—since it was not in the sand stream area where vision was too clouded.
After it transformed, it could feel where Scizor was and started preparing a new move.
Scizor started to prepare [Metal Claw], and he also ran out of the area of the sand stream where you can hardly see anything.
He wanted to see what Ditto was up to, to understand the situation better. He would surely be attacked when he goes out. He would also be counterattacking and inflicting damage so that he wouldn't have taken that damage for nothing.
Scizor didn't stop at all when he saw Ditto preparing a move as Gardevoir. He dashed in the direction of Ditto with a cold smile.
Ditto took too long to prepare the move. And since it couldn't move, it also couldn't kite Scizor.
Scizor was in front of Gadrevoir and aimed at the vital part of Gardevoir's head.
Not the whole head of Gardevoir is a weak point, but only a certain sensitive point that can only be hit either by luck or if Gardevoir's head is still.
Ditto knew that too and bent its neck to move its head, trying to avoid the critical hit. Although it cannot move its body, it can still move its head or arms while preparing for the attack.
But as if Scizor had foreseen it, he had aimed at the point where Ditto had moved its head.
He saw how Ditto reacted and responded accordingly, carrying out a perfect attack.
Alex already knew that Scizor could do that, but the fact that he still pulled it off surprised him. 'What a monster! No wonder Crobat doesn't like to fight Scizor in close combat.'
Even if Ditto had only moved its head, it was still very difficult to hit the particular spot on the head.
Alex has read that the Expert-rank [Transform] also copies the HP of the target and always thought that it was beneficial. But the HP of Gardevoir in this world is abusively terrible.
Ditto, who got a critical hit from a super-effective Expert rank move, used by a Pokémon who has the advantage of two levels, suffered unbelievable damage.
He lost almost 80% of HP from that one hit, and its head started bleeding profusely. Together with the slow damage done constantly by the sand stream, Ditto was in very bad shape.
Scizor stayed calm and immediately started preparing another move.
Ditto quickly used [Teleport] and immediately started preparing a move.
But when it saw that Scizor didn't move, it suddenly felt uncomfortable.
Scizor was faster because Ditto took a bit of time to use [Teleport], and he used his move right away.
Alex looked at Scizor with a smile as he figured out which move he had decided to use.
'Aerial Ace.'
Ditto, who was still preparing its move, couldn't use [Protect], and it also didn't have enough time to cancel the current move.
[Aerial Ace] met Ditto, who was already badly injured, and knocked out Ditto with this one final hit.
Scizor, who saw Ditto fall to the floor, just said, "I'm not so inexperienced that these tricks would work on me."
When Scizor was having this cool moment, Crobat suddenly yelled out, with a voice full of sarcasm, "Wow~ How cool you are to defeat a Pokémon with two-level disadvantages. Impressive, NUMBER 2!!!!!!"
Scizor's eyes twitched as he gave Crobat a deadly look.
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