Brock and the Master of Inverse Attributes

"It's getting late, the gym challenge... It's good to proceed tomorrow."

Glancing at the setting sun that had already lowered to the sky, Aisha also moved his stiff body.

After patting the dust and blades of grass that had been stained by the dusty journey within the Viridian Forest, Aisha also straightened up his clothing and walked towards the direction of Pewter City.

Although it was true that at night, the number of fans watching the live broadcast would increase geometrically.

However, Aisha wasn't going to forcefully challenge the Pewter City gym for some traffic and popularity, regardless of his fatigue with Pokémon.

Winning was fine.

If he lost, he'll lose his followers.

It wasn't like he was Ash.

In the past few days within the Viridian Forest, Aisha and the Pokémon had consecutively challenged a number of high-level, large-scale wild Pokémon clusters, crazily brushing up a wave of experience.

Although, one by two of them were also exhausted right now.

However, the prolonged, high-intensity brushing of monsters still allowed the Pokémon who had participated in the battle to harvest quite a lot of things.

Before Aisha departed, he had specifically picked up a map that marked the wild Pokémon swarming places and occurrence records within the Viridian Forest from Nurse Joy's side of the Pokémon Center in Viridian City.

After that, he had thought about it for a while and ruled out some enemies that he really couldn't mess with at this stage, and then he selected an area with the most high-grade, large-scale wild Pokémon clusters and began some intense workouts.

Charmander, Marill, and shiny Beldum were the main force.

Rotom joined the battle occasionally.

Eevee and Caterpie watched from the sidelines.

Occasionally, Aisha would command the itchy-handed Eevee to deal with some weak and still-single Pokémon, honing his fit with the little guy.

Then, within these few days, Aisha and his Pokémon followed the map's guidance and almost finished clearing out the wild Pokémon clusters within the Viridian Forest with mid-level combat power.

After the fight, Aisha carefully took out the wound medicine and healed the injuries of these wild Pokémon.

Occasionally, he also took out Pokémon food to buy some.

So it was said that even after inexplicably receiving a beating, these wild Pokémon still had no complaints after obtaining the compensation of food.

Then... Aisha beat them up again the next day.

The Viridian Forest was too big.

Aisha had only selected an area even when he brushed the monsters.

A day was just enough time if he walked around all the high level wild Pokémon clusters in this area.

Then, the next day, he would do it all again from start to finish.

Aisha utilized his time to the fullest and accomplished the most efficient brushing of monsters.

His Pokémon were also high as hell.

But it was these wild Pokémon that suffered.

They were beaten by Aisha day after day, determined to fight back against the atrocities committed by this human and his Pokémon, but this despicable guy took out food and medicine for injuries that they couldn't refuse, and after enjoying the careful treatments and delicious food, this human beat them up again.

It was really a painful and happy experience...

Finally, after Aisha thought that the progress of brushing the monsters was almost done, he bid farewell to these wild Pokémon and walked out of the Viridian Forest.

These wild Pokémon also finally welcomed the time of relief, saying goodbye to the torment of the past few days of heaven and hell, and bidding farewell to Aisha and his Pokémon with tears in their eyes.

It's so shameless.

This human and his Pokémon.

These wild Pokémon that had lived within the Viridian Forest since they were young had never seen such a vicious human.

It's a good thing this guy is gone...

Well, unbeknownst to them, Aisha was still pondering as he left that he could re-assault the wild Pokémon in the Viridian Forest before he finished collecting the seven badges and challenged the Blue's Viridian gym, and there were still some high level Pokémon swarms left to be challenged this time around anyway.

Brutal.

Though it was said that the Viridian Forest had been given a run for its money by Aisha.

However, his Pokémon had also gone through this time of intense monster brushing, acquiring a remarkable progress.

Marill, which had completed its evolution some time ago, had completely stabilized the power of this form.

Nowadays, it could already accept more intense exercise, and its core moves such as Aqua Jet, Liquidation, Play Rough, and Belly Drum had also been practiced to the degree of perfection, and together with the strange power that this little guy was born with, Marill had become the most terrifying offensive attacker within the team nowadays.

Hmmm... Mainly because it was the only Pokémon within Aisha's team that specialized in physical attacks.

Charmander and shiny Beldum were also on the verge of evolving.

After all, before they became Aisha's Pokémon, they had been nurtured by Blue and Steven, two rich second-generation champions, and their backgrounds were higher than Marill's. Now, after experiencing high-intensity, high-frequency battles, their terrifying talents had been perfectly developed with the aid of sufficient nurturing resources, and evolving into their second forms was just a matter of course.

Charmander had also mastered the move Fire Blast.

The four skills of shiny Beldum belonged to the eternal, and it needed to evolve into a Metang before its talent in terms of moves could be displayed to the fullest.

However...

Speaking of moves, Aisha was indeed ready to collect some skill machines.

Marill's striking surface was a bit poor and needed to be replenished.

Rotom's skill pool was too clean, so Aisha was going to arrange for it to learn some "smile-inducing" moves.

Will-O-Wisp was good.

Moreover, Aisha bought a portable washing machine for Rotom before entering the Viridian Forest, and the delivery address was set at the Pokémon Center in Pewter City.

That meant that Rotom could rely on the Wash Rotom form to participate in the battle when Aisha was challenging the Pewter gym.

Not bad.

"Prepare for the challenge of the gym tomorrow."

Aisha sighed before the gate of the Pokémon Center.

It was now the time of night.

After Aisha and Pokémon settled for dinner at the Pokémon Center, they rented a single resting room exclusively, and then researched Brock's information within the room.

Brock's fighting style.

Brock's usual Pokémon.

Brock's tactical thinking.

All of these were information that Aisha needed to investigate and know.

The gym trainers in this world were not watered down.

They were the most powerful trainers within the city they were stationed in, and they were the strongest fighting force that needed to guard that city at all times.

The strength of each and every gym trainer is also guaranteed to be at a level that completely surpasses that of an elite trainer.

Although the strength of the Pokémon they used in the gym challenge depended on the strength of the challenger's Pokémon.

However, a gym trainer was still a gym trainer.

So even if the strength of the Pokémon was average, in their hands, they could still bring out a terrifying strength.

So the difficulty of the gym challenge was very high, it was not a level that any cat or dog could just stumble upon, and the strength of the gym Trainers was naturally unquestionable.

Of course, if the challenger shows some extraordinary talent and is recognized by the gym trainer, even if the battle is lost, the gym trainer has the same right to exceptionally give a badge to the challenger...

However, how many people have this talent?

Because of this, the League Conference, which could only be attended if eight gym badges had been collected, was indeed a literal gathering of strong players.

"It's kind of interesting..."

Waiting in front of the computer, Aisha roughly gathered some information about Brock.

Brock is known as the Rock-Solid Pokémon Trainer.

It was because his representative attribute as a trainer was rock type.

"Even so, he still used a Pokémon whose secondary attribute could make up for the weakness of rock during the battle?"

Browsing through Brock's usual Pokémon, Aisha also developed some interest.

This was the usual operation of trainers who specialized in one attribute.

Single-attribute trainers were easily targeted, so they usually used Pokémon with secondary attributes that compensated for the weaknesses of their primary attributes to avoid them.

"The Pokémon that Brock is accustomed to using are the Geodude family, the Onix family, and Kanto's Fossil Pokémon."

Aisha opened a webpage that showed a picture of Brock sending out Geodude, Graveler, Onix, Kabuto, and Omanyte to fight against in gym challenge.

Brock's main Pokémon were the final evolved forms of these Pokémon.

"His ace Pokémon is Tyranitar?"

Seeing the following photo, Aisha was also a bit surprised.

Tyranitar, as a famous Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon in the Johto region, the big brother of the Sandstorm Team, Aisha also liked it very much.

"Brock's configuration is good..."

After a little bit of reckoning, Aisha also decided on the Pokémon candidate for tomorrow's battle.

Of course, the possibility of Brock having a hiding place could not be ruled out.

After all, he was the gym leader of a city.

The resources that Brock held in his hands could completely allow him to keep all of the rock-type Pokémon within the Pewter Gym, outside of legendary beasts.

His Pokémon pool was not something that one could compare to his own degree.

One must not be careless.

"This guy's fighting style is to take advantage of his rock-type Pokémon to engage in a matchup that balances both defense and strong offense... Understood."

After checking the evaluations of several senior trainers on Brock, Aisha's heart had a plan.

Trainers who liked to fight head-on were the easiest to deal with.

"Good."

After that, Aisha began to watch Brock's battle video.

Know your enemy and know yourself before you can fight a hundred battles...

Adequate preparation did not say that it could make a Pokémon battle a sure thing, however, it could definitely add a bottom line to winning.

...

Within the Pewter Gym, after putting his siblings to sleep, Brock was sitting in front of the computer, preparing for the Gym Challenge.

Blue had sent him the news that a powerful trainer was going to train his brand new team in the Kanto region and broadcast eight gym challenges a few days ago.

Blue had specifically passed on the news, so Brock didn't dare to ignore it.

Especially the live streaming of the gym challenges.

Although the alliance supports the live streaming of gym challenges, generally powerful trainers are not willing to live broadcast their battles for others to watch, and weak trainers are even less willing to lose this person. In this case, those of them as gym leaders will naturally not be idle and cause trouble for themselves. Therefore, except for gym leaders like Iono who frequently broadcast due to professional reasons, most gym leaders are actually don't like to live stream.

Brock was a bit nervous.

So that was why he immediately collected Aisha's information.

"Uhm... A new trainer?"

The problem was that there were just too few matchup videos of Aisha circulating on top of the internet.

One of the few matchup videos was actually the live streaming video of the 'Rookie Tournament' that was held in the Dayan region some time ago.

"What the hell?"

Brock's already dark face became even darker.

He didn't believe that Aisha was a rookie trainer...

Someone that Blue valued so much must be ruthless.

Then, Brock found Aisha's channel and discovered that he was a UP master.

"Hiss..."

After watching some of Aisha's online battle videos, especially after seeing this teenager handcuffing fellow Gym Leaders Misty and Iono with his superior level of Pokémon battling, along with his treacherous and versatile tactics, Brock also sucked in a breath of cold air, revealing a serious expression.

"So it's an opponent who specializes in tactics..."

Brock was taken aback.

"However, if this guy is working out a new team... There shouldn't be any powerful Pokémon that can support the tactics."

Brock let out a sigh of relief.

If Aisha had put a Gengar-class Pokémon on top of the Gym Challenge and used tactics, he indeed didn't know how he should respond.

The new team, on the other hand, was much more relaxing...

"Good."

Looking at Aisha's information that was scarce to the point of being pathetic, Brock also went through a lot of meditation and finally was able to finalize the Pokémon to be used on top of the Gym Challenge.

...

The next day, Aisha woke up early.

The Gym Challenge was considered an important matter, so that being said, Aisha wasn't going to procrastinate.

After eating, Aisha ran to the Pewter Gym.

Then... he saw Ash's figure before the gym.

"Brock gym leader, wait for me to exercise my Pokémon, I can definitely defeat you!"

Holding Pikachu who had lost its fighting ability, Ash shouted his bold words to Brock in front of the gym door. Then, he turned around and saw Aisha.

"In- Instructor Ai?"

Ash shouted out Aisha's title in surprise.

"Uh... Ash?"

Meeting this not-so-smart child once again, Aisha also had a bit of mixed emotions - not realizing that he had been brushing monsters within the Viridian Forest for a few days, and Ash actually took advantage of this time to catch up with his progress.

A misstep.

"In- Instructor Ai, I..."

Ash didn't know what Instructor Ai was thinking, and when he saw the complicated expression on his face, he thought it was because Aisha was disappointed that he had lost to Brock, so he hastily explained the current situation, saying, "Instructor Ai, although I lost to Brock, however, I can definitely- "

"No."

Suddenly, Aisha interrupted Ash's explanation.

He took out a bottle of wound medicine and carefully sprayed it on top of Pikachu's wounds - in fact, Pikachu wasn't hurt very much, and Brock hadn't hit him much harder.

"Pi... ka..."

Feeling a coolness coming from the injured area, Pikachu's petite body also trembled a few times and opened its eyes.

"Pi, ka?"

As soon as he opened his eyes, Pikachu saw Aisha's face.

"Pi... pi?"

Pikachu recognized the teenager.

It had seen this good looking teenager at the Oak Research Institute.

Eevee seemed to say it liked this guy at that time, then, Eevee ran out, I wonder what's going on now?

"Pikachu?"

Ash also noticed Pikachu's movements and called out its name in surprise.

"Pi?"

Pikachu also saw the guilty looking Ash and slapped its small paw on top of his face, no blame or complaint within the call.

"Good..."

Aisha put away the wound medicine and said, "Pikachu's injuries aren't that serious, however, in the future, never ever remember not to be so impulsive."

"You should know where the Pokémon Center is, and my healing ability is a bit shallow, so that means don't waste time over here now, quickly take Pikachu over to Nurse Joy's side for a full treatment, and then rest for a while before you think about re-challenging the gym."

Aisha's voice was soft, as was the lack of reprimand.

"Uh-huh!"

Ash was instantly moved to tears.

"Thank you Instructor Ai, I know!"

Then he scurried in the direction of the Pokémon Center in a trot, and the words he had originally prepared to find Aisha to say were forgotten.

"..."

Looking at Ash's back, Aisha didn't know what to say.

The silly child indeed needed some experience.

But...

How was he going to get through the Pewter Gym this time, there was no way he could still use the way the water pipe broke, right?

"You're Aisha-kun, right?"

At this time, Brock also took the initiative to talk to Aisha.

"Yes, I'm Aisha."

Aisha then politely extended his hand and the two shook hands.

"Aisha-kun knows that kid just now?"

Brock was a bit curious.

"A one-sided acquaintance, he's a new trainer in Pallet Town, and then I paid Professor Oak a visit the other day."

"Oh..."

Brock showed that he understood.

That not-so-bright kid from earlier had nothing to do with Aisha anyway...

Challenging the Rock Type Gym with a Pikachu?

Although it was said that the rock type had no attribute restraint with the electric type.

However, rock and ground type are not separate.

In particular, the Kanto region's rock type Pokémon, with the exception of the three fossilized Pokémon, were all ground and rock type.

Brock seriously suspects that Ash might not even be aware of attribute restraints...

What Reverse Attribute Master?

"Aisha-kun, I'm clear about your intentions, please follow me for the Gym Challenge."

"Good."

Aisha followed Brock into the Pewter Gym.

"It's starting..."

The first gym challenge match, started!