Training plans
It had been 2 weeks since he restarted to personally train his Pokemons. Nowadays, he started to realize that he didn't have much time. He had a lot of extra things to do. First was himself with his aura training. He was also given the responsibility of teaching Frank who was set to come to him tomorrow, 3 noisy little girls, his own sister, looking after his own family business, and many other things.
But now, he wanted to get away from all of them and focus on the progress of his Pokemons's training. That was why he chose to participate in the 'Rising Star Tournament'.
'Rising Star Tournament' might look small but it was actually a very big tournament. It might be the biggest tournament in the whole world because it not only encompasses the Kanto region but all other major regions.
'Rising Star Tournament' was the baby of collaborations of kings and queens of all major 8 regions. In the world of Pokemon, there were still kings and queens but the actual power was held by the league and the gym leaders with elite 4 and champions and finally the Pokemon master.
This was a world where actual power was appreciated. It was not that the kings and queens didn't have their army of powerful trainers with them but since the establishment of the league, their influence had been very limited. The number of powerful trainers under them paled in comparison to the league.
They were just the kings and queens under a name. All the influential and impactful decisions were taken by the league and gym leaders. So, all of the kings and queens of the major regions came together and came up with the idea of 'Rising star tournament.'
'Rising star' was a student program where the students would learn at a discounted rate. After learning for a couple of years, there would be a test, and then first, second, and third would get some prizes.
It would not end there. Every 5 years, every region would hold a rising star tournament where the first, second and third students would get to participate. So with being held every 5 years, would there only be 15 trainers in the tournament? The answer is No.
There would be a lot of trainers in that tournament. The tournament was not only for the top 3 students but also for those who had shown exceptional qualities as a trainer. The students that had participated in the tournament before and had lost could also participate but there were 2 conditions attached to it.
First, the student would have to swear loyalty and be a soldier under the king and secondly, the age of the student should not exceed 30 years. Many would choose to do it cause the winner of the tournament and the runner-up would get exciting prizes, money, and resources.
This would let the kings and queens have sizable trainers under them who are ready to defend them at the time of their need. But why would the league not intervene on it?
The answer was simple. The league was very massive and it would not bother to do anything cause they knew that even with all this, the king and the queen would not have the power to shake them off.
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The winner and the first runner-up of every region would gather together and fight in separate tournaments every 10 years and the winner of that tournament would also get exciting prizes. As of right now, Axel was going to fight in the regional tournament.
The winner of the tournament would not only get prizes but also would be famous around the whole region and it was considered to be a very tough tournament.
So, why would Axel consider registering for such a tournament? He had the money and the resources and he was also very famous. He didn't need to go there.
He was doing it for only one reason and that was the Pokemon battle. It was not every day that Axel could have multiple Pokemon battles with many trainers.
The trainers there also had rare rank Pokemons, so his young Pokemons could also fight and have some experience. Since this was not the gym battle or league battle, he could use any Pokemons that he wanted.
That was why he had been training his young and old Pokemons for the past 2 weeks and had been concentrating on them. 2 weeks would not make them exceptionally powerful but Axel wanted to remove at least one of their problems.
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2 weeks ago,
After reading the tablet for a couple of hours, Axel looked at the stat of Togetic.
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Pokemon's name: Togetic (Age- 8 months)
Pokemon Nickname: NA
Pokemon Rank: Rare rank
Ability: Serene Grace (80%)
Hidden ability: Super luck (50%)
Potential: Black (Monstrous)
Health: 3500/3500 Attack: D+
Agility: C++ Defense: D++
Sp. Atk: B Sp. Def: C++
Moves: Stored power (G) (Lvl 39), Future sight (G) (Lvl 43), Wish (G) (Lvl 35), Metronome (G) (Lvl 38), Extrasensory (C) (Lvl 37), Head butt (G) (Lvl 34), Charm (G) (Lvl 32), Dazzling gleam (E) (Lvl 46), Nasty Plot (G) (Lvl 35), Sunny day (G) (Lvl 37), Flamethrower (E) (Lvl 44), Tackle (G) (lvl 37), Egg defense (G) (Lvl 39), Crafty Shield (G) (Lvl 34), Moonlight (U) (Lvl 19), Ancient power (U) (Lvl 19), Aerial ace (C) (Lvl 23), Fairy wind (C) (Lvl 26), Thunder wave (C) (Lvl 27), Play rough (C) (Lvl 28)
Hidden power: Fairy (25%)
Fairy Dew: 28% consumed
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Togetic really was a monster. It had only been less than a month since it ranked up but it was already so powerful. This was also mainly due to 'Fairy dew'. 'Fairy dew' was one of the most coveted resources for a fairy-type Pokemon as it didn't have an instant effect. It would take a lot of training and time for Togetic to consume all the essence of 'Fairy dew'. As of right now, it had only consumed 28% of it.
Togetic main focus was on its special attack and so it had been training on a lot of it. Due to 'Fairy dew' and Axel's talent it was able to rank up special attack to B rank which was pretty huge. If it went on like this, then after 2 weeks it would have its rank-up condition. However, Axel was not going to let it rank up too fast.
After talking with Cody and looking at his Venusaur, Axel had come to a painful realization that early rank-up was not going to be good for any Pokemon. The Pokemon would have to have a decent amount of experience to rank. Only then, could they show their true powers when they reach king rank.
"Togetic, first you will train hard on the move 'Ancient power'. Now, all of you must be wondering, why should you train on this move? Now, look at Charles and Mamoswine.
Do you know that both of them normally didn't look like this? They powered up and got a new form due to 'Ancient power'. The move is difficult to master but if you do, you will have more power at your disposal.
So, I want all of you who could learn this move to concentrate on it. Now, don't feel down. For those, that could learn this move, I have other things for you too.", said Axel to others and then concentrated on Togetic.
"Togetic, in these 2 weeks, you will level up 'Extrasensory', 'Stored power', and 'Egg defense' to level 40. You must also have realized the power of leveling the move to level 40. The relevance of it would increase when you increase the move's level further. Just look at your 'Dazzling gleam'. It could now be used to give you some breathing time during a time of need.", said Axel as he himself looked at the moves description.
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Dazzling Gleam (Togetic) (Level 40): Surround yourself with a compressed fairy aura that can defend against all attacks and after holding it for some time, the user could let it go for the explosion.
(Level 45): Flares up an intense light that would make the target blind for a few seconds if the target didn't close its eyes.
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Togetic had leveled up this move while training for the gym but since it didn't fight in the gym battle, it could not show its brilliance. That was why Togetic made Axel promise that it would fight first in the next gym battle.
"You will also be learning a new move and yes, I have already thought of what it would be. Finally, you will fight against different Pokemons from our family to know about your weaknesses and strengths and know to make some battle strategies."
Axel then looked at everyone and said, "I want all of you to know that you have come out of your baby stage. So, now you will also have to think about strategies yourself when you are in battle. Of course, I would be assisting you in the battle but I cannot do that all the time. What if something happened during the tide battle when I was not around?
You are adults now, so you will have to think about it yourself."
He wanted to make them independent from a young stage. Axel had thought of a couple of fighting strategies for all of them and they would use the same during the battle. After it accustomed to it, they also start to think about how to battle different Pokemons in different terrains and conditions.
Togetic came near Axel and asked what its new move was going to be. It was extremely existed to know about it. It wanted to learn new moves so that it could crush its opponents.
"Now listen to me very carefully. You should know that your species can tell if any life form is happy or sad. You can tell the basic emotions. I want to capitalize on this and increase your battle sense to a very high level.
Of course, it would take a lot of time, but if you could tell what they are going to do before they even do it, you would be invincible. Don't you think so?"
Togetic started to listen to Axel very intently. It had been told by its mother that their species would bring joy to anyone's life. They could even tell what that species was feeling. But as far as it could remember, it was not proficient in it. It was not that it was a defective piece but it never thought to train on this power. Its mother had always told it to train in this but it was thought to be a waste of time.
Now, hearing Axel, it started to think that it had missed a chance to learn this move from its mother. If it could tell what others were thinking, it could dodge their moves and even defend against them. This might be the best move that it would ever learn.
Togetic immediately started to think of what its mother had said to train it. It was not very vague to remember, but since it never concentrated on a word that its mother had said thinking that it was the ultimate boss, it was hard to remember all of them.
Axel began to say that it would have learned this move on its own as this move was more biological than just training on it.
Togetic said that it would learn this move with determination and went right into it.
He had finally told his Togetic to concentrate on its new training plan. It was now time to look for others.