During the Battle

Rope would still love to fight a flamethrower Erika.

"Growlithe, Flamethrower!"

Rope gathered the smile on his face and commanded in a calm and serious manner.

"Protect, then Leech Seed!"

Erika commanded in an equally calm manner.

The two Pokémon on the field obeyed their own trainer's commands and each made their own moves.Growlithe's Flamethrower blasted right into Vileplume's Protect light shield. Vileplume, on the other hand, scattered a green, translucent seed right after defending against the Flamethrower.

Neither Rope nor Growlithe panicked.

"Flare Blitz!"

At the same time as Rope's order, Growlithe had already finished building up his momentum. The flames around his body coalesced and then turned into a sharp arrow, charging in the direction of Vileplume at once. And those Leech Seed were licked up by the red-colored tongues of fire the moment they landed on the flames.

"Vileplume, dodge."

Erika didn't have any unnecessary commands, she just gave the command 'avoid'. This was a trust in Pokémon's ability.

And Vileplume clearly did not disappoint Erika's trust. With her bulky body, she was unusually nimble and avoided Growlithe's Flare Blitz. Rope now felt that if this Vileplume wasn't Erika's trump card, then I'm afraid that Erika's strength was really underestimated to a great extent.

But in this current state, Rope was still sure of winning.

"Sharp stop, Fire Spin!"

Growlithe obeyed Rope's command and completed a hasty stop, then a spinning ball of flame coalesced out of his mouth, followed by a ball of flame electrically shooting out and landing at the feet of Vileplume who had not yet gained a firm foothold, immediately turning into a Fire Spin that wrapped Vileplume in it.

The temperature of the red flame was extremely high, and it was also highly adhesive. Vileplume, who couldn't dodge the Fire Spin in time, was trapped in it and then fell into a state of burns.

"Aromatherapy!"

Erika ordered decisively, this Fire Spin didn't do much damage, but the negative status it gave was a headache. It was a good thing that the Grass Pokémon's various status skills and status-clearing skills weren't few and far between.

"Petal Blizzard!"

With Erika's command, countless petals formed by grass-type energy flew out in all directions, flashing with a gentle cherry-colored light, but Growlithe didn't dare to be careless at all!

He hurriedly wrapped his body in red flame to defend himself.

The red flame changed from a burning flame to a solid state. This way, the defense ability of the Red Flame was also guaranteed!

"Sleep Powder! Poison Powder! Stun Spore!"

Erika didn't hesitate to seize this opportunity then gave Rope a triple powder attack. Mind you, under normal circumstances these powders might not have much effect as long as they were inhaled sparingly, and as long as Growlithe left quickly enough then there was no harm done.

But can Erika's Vileplume really be underestimated?

Just look at the colors of the powders and you can see the power of these three powders.

Dark green Sleep Powder, dark yellow Stun Spore, purple-black Poison Powder...

Who dares to take this?

But Rope wasn't without a solution. And so...

"Growlithe, use the flame to burn out the powder!"

After Rope's command was issued, the solid red flame wrapped around Growlithe immediately swelled up, then reverted back to its state of jumping flames, then exploded violently, engulfing all the powder in it before relieving itself of its critical condition.

Erika wasn't panicking either, after all, she was now on the opposite side of the offense.

"Use Growth, then proceed with Petal Blizzard!"

Erika decisively used a status technique, then a Petal Blizzard hit towards Growlithe.

"Agility avoids it, then... full power Flamethrower!"

Rope had had enough after all, and to be honest, Rope and Growlithe hadn't actually used all their strength...

The current Growlithe, after Rope's reinforcement, could probably only hit the strength of a gym level. But this Vileplume's strength was at least that of a beginner Elite Four level.

The strength was strong, but it wasn't so strong that it was exaggerated, and with Rope's reinforcement, Growlithe could still be one point stronger than the Vileplume's strength, and with the advantage in attributes, Rope had the certainty to end the battle quickly.

Thus, the pink light in Growlithe's eyes flashed, and then with a single Flamethrower move, she spewed out a pillar of fire towards Vileplume. Both Vileplume and Erika were startled by the over-specified Flamethrower.

"Protect!"

Seeing that this Flamethrower had blocked Vileplume's space to dodge, Erika decisively ordered Vileplume to resist this move.

"Burst!"

A blasting sound rang out from Rope's mouth.

Flamethrower's pillar of fire decisively exploded after colliding with Protect's light shield. A rain of fire filled the sky and a curtain of crimson fire hid Growlithe. But although Erika and Vileplume were concerned about Growlithe's whereabouts, the rain of fire falling around them and the curtains of fire splattering out were also not to be underestimated.

"Ingrain!"

Erika knew she could only defend now, but the probability of Protect could not be gambled on, essentially the reason Protect energy could not be used consecutively was that Protect energy would fall into a window after it had been used, meaning that a second Protect energy used consecutively would not be enough defense in essence. Unless the opponent is not using their full power, or there is a large gap between their strength and yours.

For example, if it's Arceus using Protect, and then the opponent is a Rattata. Not to mention Double Protect, but even N Protect is possible.

Arceus would just stand there and let the Rattata fight until the end of time and the end of the world, and he wouldn't be able to break Arceus' Protect.

It's like Charmeleon when he was fighting Snow's Froslass, the last hand slash was meant to knock Froslass out. Who knew that Froslass had reflexively turned on Protect?

A light hand knife, can cut through Protect is a hell of a thing. However, this Protect skill also had a marvelous mechanism, that is, after using it, it would have a chance to return energy. That is to say, even if you attack at full power, there is a chance that you will be able to double-protect.

If you think about it, Rope wasn't particularly unlucky, at least his double bailing wasn't a low chance of energy return.

Vileplume's feet had a green glow flash underneath them, and then a green glow rose from them.

Suddenly Growlithe's surroundings burned with flames then broke out of the curtain of fire, then it bit towards Vileplume's petals.

"Hold on, then Solar Beam!"

However, just as Solar Beam blasted into Growlithe's body, the fire curtain fell and another Growlithe's mouth coalesced with a Large Character Explosion then a Large Character Explosion solidly blasted into Vileplume's body in front of Vileplume and Erika's surprised eyes.

Vileplume was knocked into the wall by the huge impact, and then fell down incapacitated...