Rotating Sand Attack
Fang Yuan took Eevee downstairs and headed straight for the nearest Public Battle Arena.
The Public Battle Arena had a park for resting, but there weren't many people or Pokémon, which was exactly Fang Yuan's destination.
"This is the place."
Fang Yuan found an open space and said to Eevee, "Let's experiment here first."
Eevee glanced at the surroundings, and just as it was about to use the Sand Attack move, it suddenly felt that something was not quite right...
"Eevee?" It hadn't even asked Fang Yuan how to use it.
"Just like I said before, you spin around while using Sand Attack," Fang Yuan said.
Eevee: "???"
Eevee lowered its head, looked at the ground, and then tried to spin around twice...
Pa!
Its paw pads slapped the ground, and Sand Attack was indeed used, but it was no different from a normal Sand Attack.
"Spin around while using it," Fang Yuan repeated.
Eevee was very obedient, sitting on the ground while spinning... while using it, but the Sand Attack still didn't change much. In the end, Eevee became dizzy and stopped spinning, falling down with stars in its eyes.
Fang Yuan: "..."
Seeing Eevee like this, Fang Yuan began to think, this mode of using moves by spinning the body was not very suitable for Eevee.
It wasn't as simple as it was in the anime at all.
First, Eevee's sense of balance still needed to be trained, and second, Sand Attack was not like Water Gun or Flamethrower, it was very scattered and not easy to condense.
This led to the fact that during Eevee's spinning Sand Attack, the Sand Attack was difficult to condense into a force and then cooperate with its rotation.
"Awake?"
After a while, little Eevee got up again, leaning weakly against the lamppost.
Eevee: (＠_＠）
"Okay, okay, we always have to try..." Fang Yuan embarrassedly took out a bottle of drink and handed it to Eevee.
"Eevee!" Eevee said to Fang Yuan.
It didn't think this would work.
"It's not that it won't work, most of what Sand Attack stirs up is dust. Although sand is mixed in, it is, after all, an unstable state..."
"If your control over Ground-type energy is stronger, so that the dust and sand are no longer so scattered, but condensed together, it will be easier to manipulate."
"Eevee!"
Eevee said that it was just a Normal-type Pokémon, not a Ground-type Pokémon, which was asking too much.
"I know, I know..." Fang Yuan rubbed his head, he also felt that using body rotation to make the move rotate for Counter Shield was a bit too limited.
"It's okay, this is just one mode of Counter Shield, no need to fixate on this one usage."
Fang Yuan recalled.
The essence of Brock's Geodude's Gyro Ball Counter Shield is still through its own rotation to use it...
The only exception was Shinji's Gastrodon, which pioneered another Counter Shield mode.
During the Lily of the Valley Conference, Shinji's Gastrodon unleashed a rotating Muddy Water, but it didn't rotate significantly itself, only its neck swayed slightly with the rhythm. This was clearly a different usage from Ash's Pokémon, which coordinated its entire body to rotate for Counter Shield.
From this point of view, Shinji is more adaptable than Ash.
"That Gastrodon, through precise control of Water-type energy, made the move rotate on its own, forming several rotating streams of water, perfectly enveloping itself. Can Eevee use this mode..."
Fang Yuan looked at Eevee. In this mode, Counter Shield eliminates the body rotation process, and its own movements will be more flexible.
However, as a Water-type Pokémon, it is not difficult for Gastrodon to play Muddy Water in various ways. How can Eevee do the same?
Without relying on its own rotation, directly making the released Sand Attack spin on its own, forming a Sand Tomb-like shield, is definitely not that easy to do.
If Eevee was a Ground-type, Fang Yuan wouldn't be so tangled. He would just let it practice continuously, and with an idea, it would be able to achieve the goal sooner or later.
But in reality, although Eevee's control over Ground-type energy is excellent, it has not reached the level of a monster. It is still very difficult to complete something like "Rotating Sand Attack".
I'm afraid it will take strict special training.
"There is a special training method for controlling energy to rotate at high speed... but..."
Fang Yuan's mouth twitched, feeling that his thinking was a bit jumpy, but maybe it really works... Otherwise, should he give it a try?
"Eevee?"
Looking at Fang Yuan, who had been in a daze, thinking, and smiling, Eevee drank the last sip of the drink, and then pushed the empty bottle to Fang Yuan's feet.
It can't reach the trash can yet, and it doesn't know how to classify it.
"Let's try it, it's better to have a ready-made method than to bury your head in hard practice." Fang Yuan took a breath, beckoned to Eevee, and said, "Fill the empty bottle with sand, no, leave a little space."
Eevee looked at Fang Yuan in confusion.
"I'll explain it to you later, come and help first." Fang Yuan picked up the empty bottle and started filling it with sand.
Three minutes later.
Fang Yuan held a drink bottle almost filled with sand and placed it on the ground.
"These are all the sand you created. Listen carefully, your next task is to stably and continuously control these sand... You can also hold the bottle, no matter what you do, the ultimate goal is to make the sand rotate at high speed and irregularly inside the bottle until the bottle expands and cracks, understand?"
"Eevee..." Eevee nodded, seemingly understanding.
What kind of sao operation is this again?
However, Eevee understood Fang Yuan's request this time, which was much more humane than releasing Sand Attack while rotating its body.
Gently touching the bottle, Eevee tried to use Sand Attack, sensing the Ground-type energy in it, but the sand in the bottle only shook slightly, as if nothing had happened.
"Remember, you must stably and continuously control the sand, in other words, find a feeling of continuously using Sand Attack."
"Also, the speed must be fast."
In fact, these sands were indeed not very lethal. Fang Yuan scratched his head, watching the sand slowly rolling in the bottle, Well, let's just practice blindly like this for now.
The scene he envisioned was Eevee using Sand Attack to make the sand in the bottle rotate at high speed in an irregular manner, and then relying on the power of rotation to burst the bottle.
Once this step was completed, Eevee should be able to understand what Rotating Sand Attack feels like.
The second step is to let Eevee use this feeling to perform Rotating Sand Attack, forming a protective shield similar to Sand Tomb to hide itself within. Although it won't have the binding and destructive power of the Sand Tomb move, the unique deceptiveness of the Sand Attack move will definitely become a unique feature of this technique.
The main point is, as long as there is sand and a bottle, Eevee can practice even at home...
Fang Yuan looked at Eevee, who was having fun playing with the bottle, and showed an expectant expression. If it succeeds, this modified Counter Shield might exert a better effect than he imagined.
Whether or not Eevee can learn Counter Shield depends on how effective the Rasengan's training method is!
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