Chapter 597: Too Brutal
"My god! Arthur's young Charizard is fighting into the third round!
"She still has combat power! She's still fighting!"
In the Kubfu Alliance livestream, The Oracle was completely hyped up.
Evenly matched battles were certainly good to watch, and back-and-forth games were indeed exciting, but when facing foreign opponents, sometimes a satisfying crush could stimulate the audience's adrenaline even more!
Especially given the generally poor performance of Kubfu teams in the first two match days, the Kubfu Alliance audience and fans desperately needed such a victory!
Even if it wasn't that competitive;
Even if the layers of strategy involved were minimal;
Even if the same Pokémon was used for three consecutive rounds, using the same moves...
As long as it felt good, that was enough!!
For foreign matches, the audience enjoyed watching a mindless crush just the same!
Some people might say "this match has no quality" or "there's no process of strategy and competitive tension."
But their bodies honestly typed a line in the chat—
Arthur is awesome!
So, the audience never hated mindless crushes.
They only hated when the one doing the crushing wasn't one of their own.
And this time, on the third match day of the Champions Cup, it was finally the Kubfu team's turn to deliver a satisfying crush!
In the third round, Arthur sent out Lina again!
Yudan clenched her fists, but there was nothing she could do.
Her strongest ace, Goodra, had fallen...
And before falling, her ace hadn't even managed to inflict heavy damage or exhaust the opponent.
Lina wasn't Old Flame; she was still young and didn't have stamina shortcomings.
On the contrary, the stubborn little dragoness had developed a personality of becoming braver with every setback after taking so many beatings in the past.
Stalling and consumption tactics were useless against her!
Goodra's output before leaving the field had actually helped her burn her Blaze ability even brighter!
In the second round, Yudan thought hard and had to send out a main player-level counter-pick Pokémon: Primarina.
Primarina, like Azumarill, was Water/Fairy type, resisting Fire and greatly immune to Dragon. This resistance advantage couldn't be greater!
However, even with such a huge type advantage, she crumbled completely.
Yudan's ace Azumarill couldn't withstand Lina's firepower, let alone a main player-level counter-pick.
She was pierced straight through by Fire Punch!
However, Primarina wasn't completely useless. After three consecutive Rain Dances, she finally turned the weather over the field into rain!
Then, in this round, Azumarill came back on stage!
Yudan commanded confidently: "Azumarill, attack proactively!"
Under the rain, the power of Fire-type moves would be suppressed. She believed Arthur wouldn't be able to suppress Azumarill as easily as at the beginning of the first round!
Yudan also considered the possibility of the opponent stealing the weather back, but if he chose that, the Charizard would fall into a cooldown period. In that case, this was still a precious attacking opportunity for Azumarill!
Either way, she had the initiative!
The cooldown for Sunny Day was very long!
However, the result caught her off guard.
Arthur easily neutralized her calculation with just one sentence.
"Lina, re-evolve into Form Y!"
He didn't even need Lina to waste a cooldown using Sunny Day!
The sunny light source originally came from Lina's Drought ability in Mega Charizard Y form. Since that was the case, why not just change back?
This kind of pseudo-weather ability generally wouldn't take effect consecutively in a short time, but the duration of two small rounds wasn't short—mainly because the intermission was relatively long, as the ice layer needed to be re-frozen each time.
The most important advantage was: for other Pokémon to refresh this kind of ability, they had to exit the combat state first, letting their internal energy calm down, and then trigger the ability again when re-entering combat.
Therefore, they could usually only trigger the ability effect once per match.
But Lina miraculously bypassed this restriction!
Because she could switch forms freely!
When fighting in Mega Charizard X form, her Mega Charizard Y form was essentially offline and out of combat.
Perfectly skipping the restriction!
So when Lina reverted to her base form, tanked a Play Rough attack from Azumarill, and then ascended again to radiate white light for the second time.
Yudan on the opposite side was completely dumbfounded...
The local Regal commentator slapped the table excitedly.
"Overpowered!! Foul!! This is ridiculous!! Too much!! How can there be such a game-breaking Pokémon?!"
Drought ability activated again!
Dark clouds were dispelled at light speed, and sunlight returned to the earth!
Arthur didn't immediately have Lina switch forms again.
"Use Flamethrower!"
A pillar of fire hit Azumarill!
The opponent immediately screamed in pain, fire patterns instantly eroding her entire body.
She was burned again...
Because the Misty Terrain she cast at the start had long expired.
Yudan's mentality collapsed.
And off the field, countless players paying attention to the Kubfu team and this battle of Starlight and Frost fell silent.
Their exchanges involuntarily became hushed and bitter.
"It seems that against this player Arthur, it's basically impossible to steal the weather back from him. We might have to prepare to fight him under the sun forever."
"My god... I don't want that!"
"Any ideas on how to break this?"
This question was met with an awkward silence as soon as it was thrown out.
"Currently... no."
The answer from others was dry and helpless.
Just like Yudan's mood on the field right now.
Collapsed...
Completely collapsed...
Not long after, Azumarill fell too.
And until this moment, Arthur's Charizard still retained combat power.
Not exactly lively, but fighting another half-round wouldn't be a problem!
The reason for saying half a round was that after taking three points first, Arthur had obtained the second mid-battle switch authority.
In rules not involving move slots, the T1 League and the Professional League were the same.
So next, Arthur could completely let Lina fight the fourth round, consume or even heavily injure Yudan's fourth Pokémon, and then switch her out.
She was almost certain the opposing Kubfu player would do this!
This match so far had been completely a solo show for this Charizard!
A complete crush, she had gone berserk!
Yudan couldn't find a reason for Arthur not to continue using Charizard in the next round...
Similarly, she couldn't find a way to break this desperate situation herself...
In this satisfying match, she became an emotionless background board.
Despair!
In the fourth round, it was Arthur's turn to send out a Pokémon first, and sure enough, he sent out Lina again.
Just as Yudan expected.
At this moment, even The Oracle on the Kubfu commentary desk couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
"Sigh, this match is really too brutal."
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