While Brine was training for his Unova region and getting ready for the tide battles, Axel was doing the same with his team.
Axel started to look around his Pokemons and now he had 27 Pokemon with him.
They were:
Kanto Region
Shedinja (king rank tier 3)
Nidoking (king rank tier 3)
Beedrill (king rank tier 3)
Gyarados (King rank tier 1)
Gogoat (king rank tier 2)
Venusaur (king rank tier 2)
Alakazam (king rank tier 3)
Charizard (king rank tier 3)
Absol (king rank tier 2)
Tauros (king rank tier 1)
Mamoswine (king rank tier 2)
Pidgeot (king rank tier 2)
Steelix (king rank tier 2)
Johto region
Slowemperor (pseudo-champion rank)
Togetic (elemental rank)
Salamence (elemental rank)
Feraligatr (elemental rank)
Aerodactyl (elemental rank)
Primeape (Elemental rank)
Lucario (Uncommon rank)
Magemite (Common rank)
Magnemite (Common rank)
Magnemite (Common rank)
Wartortle (Common rank)
Aron (Common rank)
Staraptor (Uncommon rank)
Pawniard (Baby)
All of the Pokemon that he had caught in Kanto region had reached king rank and they had become very powerful. Most of them were training in different places right now.
He was surprised to realize that among the 13 Pokmemon that he had caught in Kanto region, only 9 of them were with him right now. The rest of them had gone to train in various places. Even among them, Absol was here to just train with Nidoking.
For this tide battle, he was concentrating on the Pokemons that he had caught in the Kanto region except for a few exceptions like Slowemperor and Togetic. Togetic was really close to reaching pseudo-king rank and it just needed a little nudge to get there.
It had already received its rank-up condition and now it was trying to achieve it.
Looking at his Kanto Pokemons, Axel realized that only Alakazam and Nidoking were near to rank up. The rest still needed some time.
Alakazam was busy with its weird experiments and Serena had said him to leave it alone.
So, he thought to concentrate on Beedrill first. In these few months, Beedrill had upgraded some moves and it had recently reached tier 3 king rank.
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The Army (Beedrill) (Level 40): Can summon 20 Beedrill for 20 minutes.
(Level 45): Can summon 20 Beedrills for 40 minutes.
Poison armor (Level 40): The armor is solid now and the poison could revolve around the armor to make a certain part of the armor stronger sacrifising the defense of other other parts.
(Level 45): The armor has a property of heal itself with time.
(Level 50): Can also slowly heal the user while it is inside the armor.
Bug Knight (Beedrill) (Level 40): Can only use status and defensive moves to protect itself and the user.
(Level 45): Can create another bug knight who only focuses on attacking moves.
(Level 50): Beedrill can call out its knights during the battle. This will increase its speed and attack power to a new level for 5 minutes.
(Level 55): Each of the 2 bug knights could either use poison moves and bug moves respectively. Can summon Bug knights for 20 minutes with a cooldown of 1 hour.
(Level 60): Can create another bug knight and can summon the bug knights for 40 minutes with a cool-down period of 30 minutes.
Bug House (Beedrill) (Level 40): Beedrill could now meditate and gather bug-type energy and hold it for 2 hours.
(Level 45): Beedrill could now meditate and gather bug-type energy and hold it for 10 hours.
(Level 50): Beedrill could now meditate and gather bug-type energy and hold it for 15 hours.
(Level 55): The storage capacity has increased and it could hold that energy for 24 hours.
(Level 60): This can be used as a central move to power substitutes and bug knights and they can stay for 10 more minutes.
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The upgrades were crucial as these upgrades would heighten its power and even move. Just like Nidoking, it was also focusing on only one core right now but unlike Nidoking, Axel didn't want it to focus on the poison core right now.
Beedrill needed to improve its bug powers even more if it wanted to last in the tide battles. Axel had a feeling that the next tide battle would not be so easy to handle.
"Beedrill, I think that it is time for you to improve your 'Resolve' to the next stage."
Saying this was easy but doing it was extremely hard. Resolve was already at Stage IV and it was very powerful. Most of the move of Beedrill had improved a lot and it was not difficult to further improve the move.
So, Axel decided to concentrate on its passive move 'Resolve'.
However, the initial plan of using 'Minimize' would not be so effective this time. They had to come up with a new strategy.
"Upgrading 'Minimize' and 'Calm mind' would be hard now. Before you used these moves with 'Laser focus' to achieve 'Resolve (Stage IV)' but now I don't think that those will be enough."
"Then what should I do? You said that this passive move might reach to stage IX in the future. But it is already hard to reach Stage V."
"I think we should concentrate on your move 'Bug house'"
"'Bug house'?"
"Yes, 'Bug house'. Till now, 'Bug house' is just a move that will help you store more power inside your body and transmit that power to your substitutes and bug knights. But what if this was not just a move but an organ inside your body."
"A body part? But is that possible?"
"Why can't it be possible? If you can create a core inside your body, then you can also do this. If you are able to do this, your power would increase by a lot and you might reach pseudo-champion rank in an instant.
But of course, it will not be so easy."
"But it will not also be impossible.", came a voice from behind.
Both of them looked behind to see Absol walking towards them.
"I have also been doing the experiment with a similar theory. But I would like to call it 'Dead heart' instead of 'Bug house'.", said Absol.
"And how far you have reached?", asked Beedrill clearly interested in this.
"Not far enough. But if we work together, we might be able to do it in these 3 months.", replied Absol.
"This is good. Why don't both of you work together?", suggested Axel and both of them agreed to it.
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After making plans for Beedrill, Axel started to look for Steelix. Gogoat, Venusuar, and Gyarados already had their training plans for the next 3 months.
Mamoswine was also training on its new concept and now only Steelix was felt.
Frankly, it took him some time to get used to Steelix's new behavior. The guy had 5 girlfriends and all of them were strong. And they were ready to defend and protect it.
Steelix was now a tier 2 king-rank Pokemon. When he met it after such a long time, he just told it to train with its girlfriends and nothing more.
Now, he needed to think about its training plan.
"Sigh, let's look at its status page first."
Axel had seen its status page before when he met with Steelix but he wanted to see the improvement.
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Pokemon's name: Steelix
Pokemon Nickname: NA
Pokemon rank: King rank (Tier 2)
Ability: Sturdy (Mastered)
Hidden ability: Sheer Force (100%)
Potential: Brown
Health : 13000/13000 Attack: A+
Agility: B++ Defense: A+
Sp. Atk: A++ Sp. Def: A
Moves:
Active Move: Heavy slam (E) (Lvl 51), Iron Tail (E) (Lvl 53), Earthquake(E) (Lvl 60), Rock Slide (E) (Lvl 43) , Crunch (E) (Lvl 44), Stealth Rock (E) (Lvl 55), Stone edge (E) (Lvl 52 ), Screech (G) (Lvl 39), Head smash (E) (Lvl 50), Wide guard (G) (Lv 39), Hyper beam (E) (Lvl 53), Rock polish (E) (Lvl 48) , Sand tomb (E) (Lvl 53), Sand trap (E) (Lvl 61), Iron Defense (E) (Lvl 47), Dig (E) (Lvl 52), Sand Storm (E) (Lvl 57), Sand Hardening (E) (Lvl 62), Autotomize (E) (Lvl 62), Magnet Rise (E) (Lvl 46), Sand Domain (E) (Lvl 57), Sand Construct (E) (Lvl 42), Mud bombs (E) (Lvl 45), Bone club (E) (Lvl 45) , Swamp (G) (Lvl 32), Sand armor (G) (Lvl 33)
Passive move: Resistance (Stage II)
Core: Ground (Mastered)
Ancient Power: 45%
Hidden power: Water (0%)
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Steelix's progress was a bit complicated. Its stats had risen a lot and it had improved and upgraded almost all of its moves. It had also learned some new moves like 'Bone club' and 'Mud bombs' and also created some new moves like 'Swamp' and 'Sand armor' but there was no synergy in its battle strategy.
Taking an example of Beedrill, it had moves like 'Bug house', 'Bug knight' and its 'Bug domain' to further improve its power. But Steelix didn't have such a thing. It was still a very strong defensive Pokemon.
Yet, it had not been able to improve its passive move and it had not even mastered a single water-type move. Water type was its hidden power typing. This was very unusual because it was weak to water type.
Axel had not concentrated on its water-type moves before and it had not even bothered to learn any in all these months.
Axel looked at the upgraded moves:
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Heavy slam (Steelix) (Level 40): Steelix would wrap the opponent and then use Heavy slam which would pressure the opponent to move.
(Level 45): After wrapping the opponent, the weight of the Steelix would start to fall toward the opponent. The move is very slow but it is very deadly.
(Level 50): With the power of steel-type energy, the weight of the user would increase by 70% while using the move.
Iron Tail (Steelix) (Level 40): It has a more piercing effect now.
(Level 45): The move has become more destructive. The destructiveness would depend on the weight of the Pokemon.
(Level 50): The speed of the move has increased rapidly. It is swift and deadly.
Sand trap (Steelix) (Level 40): The power of the attack is more solid and can be able to hold the Pokemon for a long time.
(Level 45): With the help of 'Sand hardening', the sand could now be solid and Pokemons could be trapped inside it. The pressure of the sand is very high.
(Level 50): It could be combined with 'Sand Tomb' which would totally trap the Pokemon. However, could only be used for 1 minute.
(Level 55): By combining it with 'Sand hardening' and 'Sand trap' and then concentrating on a small part of the opponent's body, the move would be very destructive.
(Level 60): Can use this on multiple Pokemons at the same time. The area effect of the move has increased.
Stealth Rock (Steelix) (Level 40): Can produce 7 stealth rocks and keep them for 5 minutes.
(Level 45): The stealth rock is now more invisible and it would be very difficult to locate now.
(Level 50): These stealth rocks could move around to hurt the Pokemon. However, the opponent could figure it out and it could only do that for 1 minute.
(Level 55): Can create 20 stealth rocks and all of them would be filled with ground-type energy, increasing the penetrating power of the move.
Stone edge (Steelix) (Level 40): The stones are very fast and they are pointy and have a high penetrating power.
(Level 45): Can create small pointy stones all over the area which would disrupt the opponent's movements.
(Level 50): Can rain the large stones like a meteorite. Consumes a lot of stamina and is very deadly.
Head smash (Steelix) (Level 40): The recoil damage has been reduced.
(Level 45): The recoil damage has been further reduced. Now, Steelix would suffer only 1/3rd of the damage. Previously, it was 1/2nd the damage.
(Level 50): The speed of the move has increased, increasing its overall power.
Sand storm (Steelix) (Level 40): More powerful and higher speed.
(Level 45): More powerful than before. The enemy could hardly see in the sand storm.
(Level 50): With the help of 'Sand hardening', it could severely hurt the opponents.
(Level 55): The speed of the user will increase while using this move. The user can also use the move 'Dig' more proficiently.
Autotomize (Steelix) (Level 40): Can separate a 1/3rd of its body to increase its speed very highly.
(Level 45): Can reattach its separated body part after some time.
(Level 50): When it separates its body part, it could use 'Heavy slam' with its separated body part to the opponent.
(Level 55): The separated body parts now can act as separate entity and attack the enemies.
(Level 60): The separated body parts could now use ground-type moves to attack and support the enemy.
Magnet Rise (Steelix) (Level 40): It would rise up from using electrically generated magnetism and then would increase its speed very highly for a short period of time.
(Level 45): Can use this move for 10 minutes. The user can fly at a fast speed while using this move.
Earthquake (Steelix) (Level 40): Can focus on one direction making it more deadly
(Level 45): It would affect a larger area.
(Level 50): The effect of the move is fast which would not let the opponent run away from it.
(Level 55): It can use this move from the underground which would double the power of the move.
(Level 60): The user is now capable of using the move to affect a larger area and the power of the move has increased.
Sand Hardening (Steelix) (Level 40): Sand could now be transformed to semi-solid form with enough power.
(Level 45): During the sandstorm or sand tomb, small grains of sand could also be hardened individually. However, that would take a lot of concentration and power out of Steelix.
(Level 50): Sand could now be converted into fully solid form. This move would consume a lot of stamina.
(Level 55): The user can use the move to create shields and swords for itself and its allies.
(Level 60): The stamina consumption of the move has decreased.
Dig (Steelix) (Level 40): Steelix would now know the position of the opponent when it is underground increasing the accuracy.
(Level 45): It can stay underground for 6 minutes now.
(Level 50): Can stay underground for 10 minutes and can attack from underground too.
Sand construct (Steelix) (Level 40): With the help of Sand hardening, the user can create nonliving constructs made of sand and manipulate them.
Bone club (Steelix) (Level 40): With the help of sand construction and sand hardening, the user can create 3 long pointy bones and throw it at the target to deal damage.
(Level 45): Can create 6 bones.
Mud bomb (Steelix) (Level 40): The user can throw 3-4 solid bombs made of mud that would explode upon impact.
(Level 45): The speed of the mud bombs has increased and has a chance to flinch the target.
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