Chapter 205: The Final Counterattack

Chapter 205: The Final Counterattack

After Nidoking took a full-force "Water Pulse," Asher could no longer care about saving face.

"Why the hell aren't you helping me yet?!"

He turned and roared at Fang Weihua beside him.

Water-type was Nidoking's weakness.

At the same time, the current Greninja was no longer the amateur it once was; the power of its Water-type moves was already quite considerable.

Being continuously suppressed like this, Nidoking's body was soaked, and its heart was about to be lost…

However, on the other side, Fang Weihua could only smile wryly.

Bella had taken the Best Rookie award after just one year since her debut; how could she be so easy to deal with?

"Hold the position, use Yawn!"

Even though her main task here was just to stall, Bella was able to firmly control the rhythm of the battle.

Togekiss perfectly blocked Lickilicky's path to support Nidoking and used the sleep-inducing skill "Yawn."

"Turn your head, don't look at it!"

Fang Weihua was forced to have Lickilicky turn its head and give up on providing support.

Otherwise, if it witnessed Togekiss's cute stretch and yawn, Lickilicky would simply fall asleep and not wake up.

"F*ck!!"

Asher looked completely dejected at this point.

"Looks like the winner is about to be decided," someone in the audience commented.

Even Bella's mouth was starting to curl up slightly at the corners.

Only Arthur, looking at the LCD counter next to the referee on the sidelines, had a thoughtful expression.

"Use your tongue to try and tie it up, use Slam!"

At the same time, Fang Weihua's side made another move.

At first glance, it seemed unremarkable, a move he had used before.

Bella's response was also almost unchanged.

"While you're tied up, use Mystical Fire!"

Mystical Fire, as the name implied, was a magical flame. Although it was a Fire-type skill, its manifestation seemed closer to that of a Psychic-type.

While causing high-temperature damage, this flame could also cause terrifying mental erosion, giving the enemy a splitting headache for a short time and reducing the efficiency of their energy condensation.

It was a rare damage-dealing skill that also had a weakening effect, and its damage wasn't low either.

The previous few times, Fang Weihua hadn't dared to let Lickilicky tank the searing heat of this flame. Lickilicky had only tried to bait the opponent into using the flame a few times before backing off, purely as a way to trick out a skill.

But this time, just as Bella thought the opponent would do the same, Lickilicky's tongue, without any hesitation, broke through the flame barrier, forcibly enduring the searing heat to tie up Togekiss, then pulled it down from mid-air and slammed it hard onto the ground!

At the same time, however, the spiritual orange flames, like maggots clinging to bone, also rapidly burned along the tongue towards Lickilicky's main body, making it unable to resist letting out a painful roar.

Strictly speaking, Lickilicky didn't gain anything from this exchange; it even took a loss.

"Why didn't it dodge?" someone in the audience asked.

Even Bella herself was a little surprised, wondering if this rookie had already given up on himself.

But at this moment, it was as if Arthur suddenly understood something.

He gave Greninja a command through his thoughts, without speaking it out loud—

"Go save Togekiss!"

Then, everyone saw Greninja suddenly abandon the Nidoking it was beating on without any warning and retreat rapidly.

The audience hadn't even had time to react to what had happened or to voice their questions.

The next second, they saw Nidoking raise its foot and stomp—

Followed by a huge bang!

"BOOM!!!!"

A terrifying roar was accompanied by a violent tremor, causing the surrounding audience to nearly lose their footing. Many of them almost fell flat on their faces.

"Holy crap?! Is this an earthquake?!" someone cried out in alarm.

Then, someone next to them gave an affirmative answer: "Yes, Earthquake."

However, the "earthquake" they were talking about likely did not refer to the same thing.

The former was probably just using an exaggerated tone to express shock, while the latter was actually referring to a classic ultimate move of the Ground type: Earthquake!

Only then did Bella's expression change drastically, a cold sweat almost breaking out.

So that's how it is!

She finally understood why Lickilicky hadn't dodged "Mystical Fire" just now and insisted on trading a move with her.

"I was really tricked by you, Asher!" Bella gritted her teeth in frustration.

This was a brilliant combo played by the opponent—

Togekiss, flying in the sky, was completely immune to "Earthquake." Pokémon skills also had to obey the laws of physics; an earthquake obviously couldn't shake the sky.

But once it was slammed to the ground by "Slam," its Flying type could only help Togekiss greatly reduce the energy damage from the Ground-type move. However, in the real world, there was never 100% damage immunity. Most of the shockwave and impact from "Earthquake" was physical damage, against which energy-based damage reduction had little effect.

In other words, after being slammed to the ground, Togekiss would also have to suffer the heavy damage of "Earthquake"!

This was clearly the opponent executing a brilliant setup play.

Looking back now, Asher's gloomy and pained expression, including his loud reprimands towards his teammate, were probably all an act.

This kind of deception was also part of professional competition, just like shouting out a skill name but having the Pokémon feint and not release the move. These were all battlefield tactics within the scope of the rules.

However, there was a saying that went: people who play mind games have dirty hearts.

So even though she knew it was a tactic, Bella still gritted her teeth in frustration.

But fortunately, she then broke into a smile.

"Unfortunately, it seems you've miscalculated."

At this time, cries of surprise came from the sidelines.

Because it wasn't until they had completely steadied themselves that the spectating crowd could clearly see the result of that thrilling gamble—

Asher had exhausted all his schemes, but he had still failed…

At the last moment, Greninja had abandoned its pressure on Nidoking and instead turned back to rush to the aid of its teammate, Togekiss, helping it escape and, at the last second, both of them leaped into the air!

At this moment, Greninja was gently landing while holding Togekiss's body.

From its composed posture, one could see that it hadn't been seriously injured.

"Holy crap! That... at the end, that Arthur completely predicted that Nidoking was going to use Earthquake, didn't he."

This sentence from a spectator was the only explanation for this scene.

At the same time, a phrase couldn't help but pop up in everyone's mind: This Arthur... it's like he saw straight through to Asher's underwear.

"Sigh..."

With a long sigh, Asher, who had exhausted all his schemes and put on a convincing performance, was truly out of options this time.

The energy and stamina consumption of an ultimate move, as well as its post-cast cooldown period, were all more severe than for ordinary skills. Wasting an ultimate move was extremely fatal in a high-intensity professional match!

Especially since "Earthquake" was an indiscriminate attack. Greninja and Togekiss had saved each other by leaping into the air, but no one had gone to save Lickilicky.

The ultimate move Asher had ordered Nidoking to use had ended up becoming: support my enemy, and attack my teammate!

How the hell could they fight now!

"I... concede."

Subsequently, as Greninja landed and was about to draw its water daggers to bleed Nidoking again, Asher, full of unwillingness, raised his hand—and surrendered.

His final counterattack, a gamble that involved all his acting and coordination, had failed at the last hurdle.

This time, he was truly depressed, not acting.

After the referee blew the whistle, Asher didn't speak for a long time. It wasn't until the post-match handshake that he finally asked, extremely unwillingly.

"How on earth did you read that I was going to use 'Earthquake'?"

(End of Chapter)

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