The Lottery System
[First time receiving a Pokémon, get lottery frequency * 1]
[Lottery entrance as follows...]
After clicking the glowing dot, the messages that appeared before Ash were only these two: one informed him that he had received a lottery chance, and the other provided him with a lottery entrance.
Both prompts left Ash bewildered.
Lottery? What kind of lottery? Could this chat group actually have prizes for him?
[Champion Ash: You should have seen that you have a lottery chance, right?]
[Ash: I saw it. It says here that I received one lottery chance for claiming my starter Pokémon. What kind of things can be won in this lottery?]
[Champion Ash: You can win our abilities.]
[Ash: Your abilities?]
[Champion Ash: Yes, our abilities. This lottery contains everything except physical items, such as my battle experience, Breeder Ash's breeding experience, Tactician Ash's tactical thinking, and so on...]
Champion Ash's words shocked Ash. Even if he didn't have a concrete understanding of such things, just the idea of being able to acquire others' knowledge made this lottery an incredibly overpowered item.
[Champion Ash: Besides experience, the lottery also includes our abilities. We have many abilities within us. Some worlds have developed them, and some haven't. For example, Aura Ash has almost fully developed the Aura within him. He can contend with Legendary Pokémon using only his own strength.]
[Ash: Um... what are Legendary Pokémon?]
[Champion Ash: ...What exactly have you been learning? Do you know Articuno, Moltres, Zapdos?]
[Ash: No.]
[Champion Ash: ....]
Ash's statement even left Champion Ash a bit speechless. He had communicated with almost all the versions of Ash in the group, but he had never seen an Ash with such a beginning.
He basically understood nothing, knew nothing. It was one thing not to know Pikachu, but he didn't even know what Legendary Pokémon were, or even the local Kanto legendary Pokémon like Articuno, Moltres, and Zapdos.
This was beyond a normal newbie!
[Aura Ash: In short, you can think of Legendary Pokémon as Pokémon with the most top-tier strength in the world.]
[Ash: Really? Can humans really contend with Pokémon that have the most top-tier strength?]
If it weren't for everyone here being himself, Ash would suspect they were all playing a trick on him.
Humans competing with the most top-tier Pokémon? Was this really not some fantastical joke?
[Champion Ash: We have no reason to lie to you here. Anyway, go ahead and try the lottery first. See what your first draw brings.]
[Champion Ash: The chat group's lottery categorizes our abilities into S, A, B, C, D, and E, from highest to lowest. The probability of drawing an S-rank is estimated to be less than one in ten thousand. Among us, the average person has drawn at least over a hundred times, but only one or two have drawn S-rank abilities.]
Unlike the new Ash, all the versions of Ash in the group were 'finished accounts' upon joining. Basically, after joining, they would immediately receive over fifty lottery chances.
However, what they drew was mostly of little use to them.
After all, in their respective worlds, they were all figures standing at the pinnacle of their fields. General abilities and experiences were largely useless to them.
[Ash: The probability is that low? By the way, who are those one or two people who drew S-rank abilities?]
[Breeder Ash: That would be me, but this broken chat group might as well not have let me draw it! What use is it for a Breeder like me to draw all the battle experience of a Tactician Master! I laughed when I drew it!]
Breeder Ash got angry just thinking about the situation back then. He finally drew an S-rank, but it had absolutely nothing to do with his field!
However, it must be said that Breeder Ash found the tactics within that knowledge quite novel after seeing them. He even tried battling Johto Champion Lance, who was so disgusted by him that he declared he would never battle him again!
Experience was one aspect; the other was the transmission of Tactician Ash's meticulous observation skills, prediction abilities, and thought processes during battle. This was why the ability was valued at S-rank.
If this ability were given to a Trainer who couldn't battle at all, they would immediately become a Trainer with battle experience, eyesight, and abilities comparable to a top Champion!
It was just a shame that this ability was given to a Breeder...
[Tactician Ash: Hey! What's wrong with my ability? Ask the Champion, he can't even get my ability if he wanted to! Be content that you drew my ability!]
The difference between Champion Ash and Tactician Ash was that the former had stronger raw power, with generally high-level Pokémon, while the latter focused on defeating stronger opponents with various dirty tactics.
When Breeder Ash and Tactician Ash communicated, Champion Ash was astonished! How could such 'dirty' strategies exist in the world?
Putting other things aside, Toxic, Toxic Spikes, plus a tank Pokémon that desperately strengthens its defenses and then stalls the opponent to death—is that a tactic a human could come up with?
There were also things like Substitute + Toxic, Serene Grace Chansey, and so on... Even if it were Champion Ash, he wouldn't want to battle Tactician Ash. That wasn't a battle; it was pure torture!
Whether he could win was one thing, but the sheer annoyance factor was maxed out.
[Champion Ash: Anyway, go ahead and draw. There should be a lottery entrance in the notifications, just go in and draw.]
Hearing this, Ash put aside his desire to chat for a moment, opened the notification page, and entered through the lottery entrance.
After clicking the lottery entrance, a giant spinning wheel appeared before Ash.
On it were six sections, which were the six ability ranks Champion Ash had mentioned.
The S-rank section was so small it was almost invisible, just as Champion Ash had said, occupying roughly one ten-thousandth of the space.
Fortunately, the wheel was large enough. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a matter of using a magnifying glass, but a microscope.
"No wonder the probability is only one in ten thousand. Is it really possible to get it?" Ash grumbled, and his mind began to spin the wheel.
The wheel spun dizzily before Ash, making it impossible to see where it was going. Ash could only randomly stop it.
The wheel's speed slowed, gradually coming to a stop after a few seconds. The tiny pointer slowly moved to the almost invisible area.
The position of the area and the width of the pointer almost perfectly overlapped, finally coming to a steady stop.
Ash froze, then instinctively tried to rub his eyes, but being a consciousness, he couldn't actually rub his eyes.
But this also made him realize that it wasn't an illusion. The pointer had really landed on the S-rank area.
Immediately after, the disc in front of Ash disappeared, replaced by a prompt box.
[Congratulations! You have drawn the S-rank ability: Aura. The Aura within your body has been developed to an S-rank state. Various methods of using Aura have been infused into your mind and can be accessed at will.]