The Biggest Dark Horse
On the battlefield.
Fang Yuan and Lin Sen looked at each other.
Fang Yuan could tell that Lin Sen might be prepared for his trash talk.
Too bad, Eevee and I have decided to go the opposite way in this battle. Since you're prepared to deal with trash talk, we'll refrain from it and fight seriously, Fang Yuan thought.
Walk your own path and let others guess.
Pitter-patter...
As the match began, Ivysaur took the initiative to inflate its flower bud. The next moment, a cloud of Sweet Scent was sprayed out, beginning to spread across the battlefield.
The deceptive Sweet Scent was mainly directed towards Eevee's location.
"Sweet Scent!"
Lin Sen was the first to issue the command. Ivysaur didn't hesitate, quickly using its extremely proficient Sweet Scent to seal off the battlefield.
Seeing Ivysaur use Sweet Scent, the guests and spectators observed carefully.
The battlefield was about to be covered...
With this, Eevee wouldn't be able to run quickly on the battlefield, right?
If it accidentally inhaled a bit of Sweet Scent, Eevee would definitely be restricted by Ivysaur's continuous attacks.
But just then.
Whoosh! Eevee remained calm and used Sand Attack. As the sand dust rose into the sky, the yellow sand directly went upwards, intertwining with the Sweet Scent. This was completely different from the Sand Attack Eevee had shown before.
In the previous battles, Eevee's Sand Attack was refined and distinct, the sand grains visible to the naked eye, like a sharp weapon that Eevee threw at the enemy's eyes time and time again.
But the current Sand Attack didn't show any traces of sand, like a small sandstorm, making the visibility on the battlefield extremely low.
Everything was turbid and hazy. Ivysaur and Eevee immediately lost sight of each other.
"This Eevee has a high degree of control over Sand Attack."
On the stage, a guest spoke in surprise.
"Indeed, its control over Sand Attack is quite skilled. I didn't expect that this Eevee, besides being very talented in speed, has also put a lot of effort into the Sand Attack move. It seems they have practiced a lot."
The turbid sand dust merged with the Sweet Scent, immediately blocking and covering the scent of the Sweet Scent, rendering the move ineffective.
"I'm afraid this Trainer Fang Yuan has already thought of a strategy, but... although the sand dust blocks the Sweet Scent, Eevee has also lost its perception of the enemy's position, which is not good. I remember this Eevee doesn't have any long-range moves, right?"
"That Ivysaur's Vine Whip is not so easy to dodge, its swing speed is very fast!"
The guests' guesses were correct. With his vision obscured, Lin Sen only hesitated for a moment before issuing the most suitable command.
"This is advantageous for us, sweep with Vine Whip!"
The powerful Vine Whip swung over, and a ripple was stirred up on the battlefield intertwined with sand dust and Sweet Scent, but Fang Yuan's expression was calm.
"Dodge it."
Eevee took a step, its body slightly sideways. Its speed wasn't as fast as in the previous match, but its movements were full of agility.
It seemed to understand the trajectory of the Vine Whip.
The Vine Whip lashed out along a line, striking the spot where Eevee had been standing, and continued to cut through, leaving a deep mark on the ground.
Unfortunately, the Vine Whip was extremely close, but it failed to hit Eevee.
"Take the momentum and rush to the opponent's side," Fang Yuan said.
He changed his previous battle style, and Eevee looked even more valiant, running towards Ivysaur in an instant.
Ivysaur's movement speed was not fast, but it swung its Vine Whip very quickly. The Vine Whip was as flexible as its hands, and it had used Sweet Scent to punish many faster Pokémon. This was the reason they were Seed Players.
Lin Sen could see that Eevee's speed had slowed down a lot, slower than the speed it had shown in the previous battle.
However.
Eevee was clearly running straight ahead, but Ivysaur's Vine Whip could not attack it.
"Eevee, Double Team," Fang Yuan continued.
In an instant while running, Eevee turned into three afterimages, further confusing the judgment of Ivysaur's two Vine Whips.
"Attack the one on the right!" Lin Sen immediately distinguished the real from the fake among the three Eevees, because only the one on the right was still moving. However, Fang Yuan's purpose was not to confuse Ivysaur and Lin Sen at all, but to control the enemy's position through Double Team.
Because Eevee's reaction speed was too fast, so fast that every time the Vine Whip fell, it could run to other places. Under repeated inducement, in order to have a larger attack and aiming range, Ivysaur had retreated to the corner of the battlefield.
At this time, Eevee's speed was not fast, but it gave people a feeling of being very fast. This feeling looked particularly strange to laymen, but in the eyes of experts, it was shocking.
"This Eevee's reaction speed is too incredible, it doesn't look like a Rookie Trainer's Pokémon at all."
"Yes, it seems to be able to predict the opponent's attack in advance."
"Not only that, its body can also cooperate with its consciousness very quickly, which shows that its control over its body is also quite excellent."
Some guests were secretly shocked. Reaction speed and movement speed were completely different things. A Pokémon that runs fast may not be able to dodge quickly, because it also needs the brain to react and judge the position of the enemy's attack.
Moreover, even if the brain can react to the opponent's attack, the body is difficult to react at the first time at this time, and this time difference is difficult to grasp.
Eevee's performance can be said to be quite amazing in the eyes of experts.
Facing Ivysaur's such dense Vine Whip strikes, Eevee did not attack, but was slowly suppressing the opponent, which caused great pressure in Lin Sen and Ivysaur's hearts, and they could only secretly worry.
"Shouldn't the opponent be a Trainer who wins by trash talk? Why is he suddenly so fierce?" Lin Sen panicked in his heart.
The original plan was disrupted all of a sudden.
"Something's not quite right."
"This reaction speed shouldn't appear on a Pokémon at this stage. Even among Psychic-type Pokémon, it's very rare."
Lu Student from Heavenly Heart Dojo, who possessed Psychic-type abilities, stood up and looked at Eevee suspiciously.
Several guests around him heard this and paid more attention to this Eevee.
They hadn't noticed before that reaction speed was the most powerful part of this Eevee. It was just that the previous opponents could not force Eevee to show such a fast reaction speed.
Or rather, in the previous battles, Fang Yuan didn't want Eevee to defeat the enemy with reaction speed at all.
The reaction ability and coordination ability brought by the Anticipation Ability and the Tree Stump Training Method, coupled with a period of group practical training, Eevee's reaction speed was its most monstrous place, and Fang Yuan and Eevee themselves understood this.
...
Now, it wasn't just the guests and audience who were amazed; even Lin Jing on the contestant platform, and Han Jia, who was eliminated by Fang Yuan yesterday, wore bewildered expressions.
A Seed Player... was being suppressed by Fang Yuan and Eevee? They rubbed their eyes hard, confirming they weren't seeing things.
"This Eevee's stamina is also quite outstanding, actually tangling with Ivysaur for so long." The representative from the Modu Trainer Association said in surprise.
In Fang Yuan and Eevee's overwhelming offensive, the advantage in reaction speed took a dominant position. Following that was Eevee's control over Sand Attack. It continuously used sand-like Sand Attack to break Sweet Scent and Sleep Powder, making Ivysaur and Lin Sen very troubled. This led to a stalemate for a long time. However, the one who looked tired first was actually Ivysaur.
"In less than a minute, Lin Sen will lose. Ivysaur is full of flaws right now."
"I didn't expect that we were all wrong. This Fang Yuan clearly still had hidden cards. As the first Trainer to eliminate a Seed Player... he can already be said to be the biggest dark horse in this competition." Lu Student smiled: "He's really slippery. His current fighting style is completely different from the image he cultivated before."
"I wonder what Lin Sen's psychological shadow area is."
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