Chapter 472: Stealth Rock Tactic
"Emboar, huh?" Basalt raised an eyebrow.
Emboar always keeps a beard of flames; the flames burning on the beard are a manifestation of mental concentration. This is a Fighting Pokémon with both strength and speed, capable of skillfully using many moves. It burns its fists with the flames of its lower jaw to continuously use Fire Punch, but is very considerate to its companions. Crucially, Fighting-type moves are quadruple super effective against Tyranitar.
"Want to take the type advantage route?"
Basalt smiled, seeing through the opponent's tactical intent at a glance.
Soon, the match began.
"Tyranitar, Stealth Rock!" Basalt spoke first, his voice calm.
"Emboar, Flame Charge to get close!"
Yu Wei's eyes lit up, sensing an opportunity. With Tyranitar's huge size, movement and turning must be clumsy. As long as Emboar got close and hammered fiercely with Fighting-type moves, maybe the winner could be decided in one move!
"Youngster, ultimately still too young. The grasp of timing is not experienced enough!"
Yu Wei thought happily. As long as he defeated the pseudo-legendary Tyranitar, he would definitely be on the league daily news tonight. Fame and fortune, right now!
Tap tap tap!
First, scorching flames erupted from its nose, and soon Emboar, wrapped in flames, began to increase speed and slammed fiercely into Tyranitar.
At the same time, Tyranitar happened to condense several incomparably huge dark rocks, over a meter high, floating around Yu Wei's half of the field.
"This is Stealth Rock? Isn't this size a bit excessive?"
When Tyranitar's Stealth Rock appeared, it immediately caused quite a stir. Not to mention the audience, even the battle-hardened and knowledgeable club members were dumbfounded one by one. Too big! Who can withstand this?
Especially on the Fire God Club side, Rong Shan shivered directly. Because his ace Pokémon Volcarona and main Pokémon Charizard were both quadruple weak to Rock. If they encountered Tyranitar's bug-level Stealth Rock, they would probably be in critical health as soon as they entered the field.
Rong Rong's expression was similar to Rong Shan's because they were both important members of the Rong family and cultivated similar Pokémon.
Probably the only one not shocked was Yu Wei, because his mind was full of thoughts of punching Tyranitar to death, becoming famous, and reaching the pinnacle of life.
"Right now, Emboar use Superpower!"
Yu Wei's eyes bulged, unusually excited.
Then the next second, his expression froze. Because the sandstorm fluttering in the air suddenly gathered in front of Tyranitar, instantly condensing a huge and heavy sand shield, just blocking Emboar's sandbag-like fist.
Boom!
Emboar's strength was formidable, and with the STAB move Superpower, the explosive power was even more astonishing. Under the penetration of terrifying fist power, deep cracks appeared directly on the sand shield. The cracks spread and finally shattered, revealing Tyranitar behind the shield.
Coincidentally at this time, Tyranitar also looked down at Emboar. Their eyes met, and Emboar's heart trembled slightly.
"One more time, Superpower!" Yu Wei got fierce. Even your turtle shell is broken; let's see how you block this time!
Correspondingly, Basalt's voice was very indifferent: "Roar!"
"Ty~ran~"
Tyranitar's thunderous roar of anger sounded, like a living green Godzilla, exceptionally terrifying. Just before Emboar's fist was about to land on Tyranitar's rock armor, Roar took effect.
Everyone saw Emboar pause, involuntarily turning into a red light and returning to the Pokéball on Yu Wei's belt, completely unable to resist.
"Sure enough, it's the Stealth Rock forced switch tactic!"
In the Sanctuary Club, Zhang Dongliang showed an expression of "as expected." Stealth Rock is meant to force the opponent to switch frequently to produce effects. But... there are actually many ways to break Stealth Rock or switch. So this low-level tactic rarely appears in the First Division League where trainers are increasingly mature.
However, Zhang Dongliang also knew that geniuses liked to slap ordinary people in the face, so he just waited and watched, not rushing to conclusions.
"Go, Darmanitan!"
Yu Wei was helpless and could only switch Pokémon.
Darmanitan, a gorilla-like Pokémon, mainly red in color. Its face, hands, and the ends of its legs are orange. It has three orange dots on its belly, flames extending upwards like eyebrows above its eyes, and two orange seagull-shaped markings on its back.
The moment Darmanitan appeared, the "Stealth Rock" floating on the field instantly swarmed towards Darmanitan like sharks smelling blood.
Rumble!
After the rocks collided and closed, Darmanitan paused, curled up directly into a ball, and its body turned blue. Darmanitan entered "Zen Mode." This also indicated that Darmanitan's HP had reached an extremely unhealthy level below half.
"Hiss... double weakness took away most of the HP? If it were quadruple weakness, wouldn't it be possible to take it away directly?"
The faces of everyone in the Fire God Club were somewhat gloomy. Because all the Pokémon of their members were Fire-type.
"Don't panic! Watch more!" Rong Shan calmed everyone down. Because he knew that next, Yu Wei would definitely start to break the Stealth Rock tactic.
"Darmanitan, Taunt!"
Taunt, a move that prevents the opponent from using status moves. In this way, Tyranitar could no longer use Roar to force switch his Pokémon.
Soon, Darmanitan's Taunt landed, and Tyranitar entered the "Taunted" state. However, as a price, Darmanitan had to endure a "Stone Edge" from Tyranitar. Under type disadvantage, Darmanitan fainted directly with swirling eyes.
"Go, Emboar!"
Yu Wei released Emboar again. Quadruple weak to Fighting; not seizing this opportunity would be a waste of heavenly gifts.
However, before launching an attack, Emboar also had to endure a Stealth Rock attack, HP draining frantically. No choice; although Emboar looked majestic and unparalleled, in fact, its stats were focused on Attack, Special Attack, and HP; its defenses were actually very fragile.
And Tyranitar's Stealth Rock happened to be extraordinarily large; it hurt very much when hitting. Even Emboar was a bit overwhelmed.
But overwhelmed or not, it still had to go up. So the flames on Emboar's neck and beard became more vigorous, rushing straight at Tyranitar.
"Quicksand Domain!"
Basalt folded his arms, looking indifferent. If it were Blaziken, he would definitely be more cautious. But Emboar? It definitely couldn't escape Tyranitar's control.
Rustle rustle rustle~
The ground of the field was originally normal soil, but under Tyranitar's "resonance," it desertified directly. With Tyranitar's current sand control power, even if there was moisture in the soil, it didn't matter. Strength breaks all techniques! This was the confidence from a fully evolved pseudo-legendary.
The Quicksand Domain appeared; Emboar had just run a few steps when its thighs sank into the sand and soil, unable to extricate itself, and showing signs of sinking deeper. At the same time, the sandstorm hitting Emboar was also continuously taking away its HP. Stalemate was very disadvantageous for it.
"Emboar, Focus Blast!"
Since melee didn't work, then ranged attack. Fortunately, Emboar's Special Attack wasn't weak either. Emboar's aura began to rise, fists clenched loosely, gradually condensing an energy ball shining with white light in its palm.
"Too slow!"
Basalt sneered repeatedly: "Tyranitar, Sandstorm Prison."
Under Tyranitar's control, the sand began to sweep out frantically, instantly imprisoning Emboar, forming a round opaque cage.
"What move is this? Simply unheard of, unseen before!"
When the Sandstorm Prison appeared, it triggered a collective exclamation on the scene. Only the head coaches of the two major clubs twitched their mouths slightly, recognizing this as a special application of "Sand Control Power."
Because knowledgeable as they were, they knew this set of moves had been demonstrated by a Huaxia Heavenly King Tyranitar decades ago. This stuff wasn't rare! The only thing that moved them was that these specially developed and applied moves required very strong control ability. But Basalt's Tyranitar was only Pro-level!
"It seems this Tyranitar must have swallowed some heavy treasure of Rock attribute, or obtained some fortuitous encounter. Otherwise, just by inheritance alone, a Pro-level Tyranitar absolutely cannot have this level of sand control power."
Rong Shan's mouth twitched violently. As far as he knew, this Tyranitar seemed to have just evolved, right? Unknowingly, Rong Shan had placed Basalt on the same level as himself.
"Eh? Why does Xiao Rong seem very excited?" Rong Shan suddenly noticed a strange phenomenon.
At this time, Emboar's Focus Blast on the battlefield finally took shape, but it couldn't break through the cage wall to attack the opponent, only detonating inside the prison.
Boom!
The Sandstorm Prison trembled, cracks appearing on the outer surface, and wisps of black smoke escaped from inside.
"Tyranitar, Earthquake!"
The earth began to shake violently, while the Sandstorm Prison turned into flying sand under Tyranitar's control, reintegrating into the sandstorm and continuously strengthening its power.
Conversely, Emboar had already lost the ability to battle.
"This Basalt indeed has some tricks!"
On the Sanctuary Club side, Dong Lin'er and Hua Duo looked at each other, seeing the shock in each other's eyes.
For the third Pokémon, Yu Wei sent out a tortoise-like Pokémon. Its body was mainly orange-brown, with a black-gray ring stripe on each of its four limbs and long neck. Each foot had three claws, and there was a short tail on its back. The shell was mainly black-gray, with five fire-red depressions around it and a small hole at the top.
Torkoal!
When Torkoal appeared, Basalt clearly felt the sandstorm pause and jam for a moment.
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