[What's going on today? The moment the stream starts, it's legendary vs. legendary?!]
[This is insane—Zapdos vs. Regirock is actually happening!]
[What kind of trainer even catches legendaries… I'm so jealous I could die.]
The moment chat saw two legendary Pokémon facing off, everyone's brains basically short-circuited.
Zapdos vs. Regirock—how did these two even end up in the same place?
But being able to watch a match like this? Just thinking about it made people's blood pump.
Gifts started flooding in, flashy animations popping nonstop across the stream.
Click-click-click…
To the sound of mechanical gears turning, Grey looked up and saw the roof of the Battle Pyramid opening.
"Since it's a bird Pokémon, an open-air battle should make it easier for you to move around, right?" Brandon explained when he noticed Grey's expression.
"Then thank you, Brandon," Grey replied with a smile.
Honestly, indoor or outdoor didn't matter much to him.
But now that it was open-air, it definitely made it easier for him to really let loose.
The battle officially began!
Grey struck first. "Zapdos, take off! Use Thunderbolt!"
"Zaaap!"
Electricity crawled through Zapdos's feathers. A golden sphere of light formed in front of it, and a jagged bolt of lightning speared out like a serpent!
Boom—!
Thunderbolt hit Regirock dead-on. Regirock simply raised an arm in front of itself and took the attack head-on.
"Not bad," Grey narrowed his eyes. "Regirock's toughness is the real deal."
He raised an eyebrow when he saw that Regirock's rocky arm only had a few scorch marks.
Zapdos's attack had real power—most Pokémon wouldn't be able to tank it like that.
If Reggie's Drapion were here, it would've been half-dead from a hit like that.
"Regirock, our turn to counter!" Brandon shouted.
Regirock's H-shaped "eyes" flickered with light. It lifted its arms, both aiming straight at Zapdos.
"Stone Edge!"
"Regi!"
Regirock crossed its two rocky arms, gray-brown rock energy bursting outward.
Razor-sharp stones gathered and began orbiting it like little planets standing guard.
Then Regirock's eyes flashed again—those stones shot upward all at once, streaking toward Zapdos hovering high above!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The volley of Stone Edge wasn't something normal Pokémon could even dream of matching.
Just one glance was enough for the three spectators to judge how dangerous that attack was.
"Interesting," Giovanni said. As a Ground-type specialist, he had some familiarity with Rock too. Seeing Regirock's Stone Edge only earned a calm nod.
"Not bad," Steven said with one hand under his chin, watching with open interest. "Not wildly out of line."
He liked rocks, sure—but he wasn't going to praise blindly just because Regirock existed.
He preferred telling it straight.
Regirock didn't look like it had been caught for very long. Its strength was only at that early Elite Four level—just a bit stronger than ordinary Pokémon.
If it had any defining trait…
It was simply that it was hard.
…
Scott sat on the edge looking like he was sitting on needles, not daring to say a word.
These two were terrifying.
On the field, Stone Edge was closing in on Zapdos.
Grey responded immediately. "Zapdos—Discharge!"
"Zaaap!"
Zapdos drew its wings in, and thousands of lightning arcs exploded around it.
Wild electric currents intertwined into a massive net in midair, slamming into the incoming storm of stones.
Rocks shattered. Dust and fragments rained down.
BOOM—!
The shockwave flung grit in every direction. Sparks and surviving fragments scattered like a violent downpour.
Zapdos shifted position inside the smoke, its eyes catching the stones that scraped past it, and it gave a scornful little grin.
That's it?
It had thought Regirock would be something special—turns out it was only impressive in durability.
At this rate, as long as it didn't let Regirock find the chance to land a heavy combo, it might actually win without taking meaningful damage.
That thing looked heavy anyway—its movement had to be slow.
"Rain Dance!" Grey ordered.
With the smoke acting like a kind of temporary cover, Zapdos effectively had its "evasion" boosted. Setting weather now was the best timing.
"Zaaap!" (Rain, come at my call!)
At Grey's command, Zapdos lifted its head and cried out, the sound ripping through the air.
The crest feathers on its head flared with blinding light.
As it spread its wings, countless tiny lightning snakes leapt up into the clouds!
Boom—!
A dull thunder rolled across the sky. The previously clear weather darkened instantly.
Fat raindrops began hammering down, splashing into the dry ground and kicking up bursts of damp dust.
In the blink of an eye, torrential rain swallowed the battlefield.
Brandon frowned, but didn't dwell on it. He pressed the attack.
"Rock Blast!"
"Regi!"
Regirock aimed both hands into the smoke, its eyes scanning.
Not seeing Zapdos's exact position, it didn't hesitate—it launched a barrage of condensed rocks into the haze, the air rippling with each shot.
A sharp tearing sound screamed through the air. Zapdos felt the danger and surged electricity through its whole body.
Grey raised his hand, then dropped it.
"Thunder!"
BOOOOM—!
Almost instantly, the storm clouds overhead erupted with rolling lightning. A thick pillar of divine thunder slammed straight down, and the flying rocks were obliterated midair.
Stone dust exploded outward, only to be soaked by rain into a pale gray mist.
Even the fragments that hadn't been directly struck were erased under the sweep of leftover electricity.
One single strike was enough for Brandon to see the gap in the raw power of their moves.
"Zapdos's special attack is that high?" Brandon's mind raced.
Regirock's standout trait was its defense—absurdly hard.
Even physical moves that hit it super effectively, even critical hits, barely left visible marks.
But that also meant Regirock's offensive stats weren't anything special.
Its special attack, in particular, was… pretty bad.
And its physical attack was only "acceptable."
Brandon hadn't expected that in repeated exchanges, he'd be the one losing ground.
It seemed like he had to find a way to drag the battle down to the ground…
Brandon wasn't a trainer who relied on legendaries to make his name. The fact that he'd caught a legendary and still held Champion-level strength meant his fundamentals were ironclad.
This wasn't a one-sided beating—he was simply losing the head-on move clashes.
"Lock-On!" Brandon roared.
The next moment, a red flash lit up in Regirock's eyes.
A targeting reticle-like light appeared on Zapdos's body.
Like it was being stared down by a hunter—uncomfortable, in a way that made Zapdos's feathers prickle.
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