Chapter 688 Water Boat Arena
"It was only for a short while. Mr. Daigo was the right person to be the champion. I didn't take his place."
Zhou You really didn't expect that even Lurina from Galar knew about his business.
But he guessed that his fighting style might not be well-received... For example, the most evil trainer in the world.
In fact, on the contrary, in the Galar region where fighting is extremely popular, Zhou You's fighting style based on basic knowledge is very popular.
It is precisely because fighting is highly respected here that Lurina will learn about the new trends in other regions across the ocean.
Zhou You, who was planning to fight with her, immediately accepted Lurina's challenge and went to the Shuizhou Arena located in the north of Shuizhou Town with her.
This is one of the three basic attribute arenas of Galar, grass, fire, and water, which is equivalent to the gyms in other regions.
However, due to the existence of "Gigantamax", the arenas in the Galar region are generally the size of a football field, which is enough to accommodate super ancient behemoths for fighting.
The loss rate and repair cost are also the highest in the entire league, which means that the arena will not open battles casually under normal circumstances.
There are not so many trainers with wishing stars and Dynamax wristbands.
The Shuizhou Arena is full of annoying water pipe puzzles, which once made Zhou You wander around for a long time when he first came here, and he was confused, "I'm not Mario, why do you ask me to fix the water pipes!?"
Fortunately, he was not a challenger to the gym this time, and Lurina was also eager to fight, so the two of them tacitly ignored the puzzles for gym challengers.
After a while, they came to the battle site in the arena.
Generally speaking, the gym challenge in the Galar region will sell tickets to the public and conduct a series of commercial activities, but this time the situation is a little special. There are basically only internal staff and Aqiu watching outside the venue.
"That's Aqiu..."
Zhou You plans to go to the opponent to get a free Poké Ball after the battle.
Eden: Can that mysterious uncle also become the mascot of the league?
Strictly speaking, it is "want to be", and that is why the other party wears the Galar League mascot as a puppet costume and moves around in various arenas in Galar.
Shaking his head to get rid of the somewhat dirty image in his mind, Zhou You followed Lurina to the battle field and stood in the trainer's seat.
Unlike the general rule in other regions that trainers generally stand in the outside seats, there is no exclusive trainer seat in the battle field in the Galar region.
This means that trainers on both sides must stand in the battle field and command near the Pokémon.
There are even some trainers who are obsessed with Dynamaxing, who will stand between the Pokémon on both sides after both Pokémons have Dynamaxed.
Zhou You feels that this form of joining the battle with Pokémon is more suitable for him.
The style of the Shuizhou Arena is similar to that of a swimming pool, and Lurina's bold competition uniform like a swimsuit makes her step into the battle field like a catwalk.
Zhou You, who has no competition uniform, has to wear a casual uniform, and with his large backpack in the style of a sword and shield, he looks like a backpacker who has broken in.
"Thank you for accepting my challenge, Qiao Qiao. No matter what tactics you use, my elves and I will do our best to break it down!"
"Go, gull!" "Nuo Mi Ci, it's you."
The water-attributed gym owner will first launch the gull with the "rainfall" attribute, which is an obvious choice.
The water-attributed energy in the arena due to the environment turned into heavy rain in an instant under the guidance of the gull's attribute.
And in the rain, there were also huge hailstones condensed by the "snowfall" attribute of Nuo Mi Ci.
After nearly a year of treatment, the Vulpix (Alola), which was weak due to the conflict between ice and fire attributes, has recovered.
The fire-attributed energy in the body has been completely replaced by the harmless fire of life, which gradually makes the ice-attributed talent suppressed by the fire attribute show up.
Although it has not received systematic training and is not outstanding in combat, it has a good foundation because it eats candy and rare tree fruits all day long.
During this trip to the Galar region, Zhou You planned to find an opportunity to train Nuomici and use the ice stone provided by Xia Bo to complete the evolution.
But before the evolution, Nuomici still couldn't beat the big-mouthed gull...
"A different-colored Vulpix?" Lurina quickly realized the hail mixed in the heavy rain, "Is it a subspecies of the ice type?"
"Yes, it is a regional form of ice attribute."
Hearing this, Lurina, who was originally surprised to see the other party send out an unevolved Pokémon, suddenly became alert.
The flying water-attributed big-mouthed gull is afraid of the ice-type "freeze-drying", and she doesn't think Zhou You's Pokémon has never learned that move.
"Tailwind!" "Nuomici, Aurora Curtain."
The possible existence of "freeze-drying" forced Lurina to take the lead in improving speed, and the well-known durability of the ice type made Zhou You choose to consolidate defense.
While the opponent manipulated the power of wind in the rainstorm and hail, Nuomici also used the ice and snow transformed by himself from the water attribute in the venue to create a brilliant light curtain like the aurora.
The hail, aurora and rainstorm complemented each other, covering the blue floor of the water boat arena with a layer of polar fog, making it difficult to see the whole picture inside.
When the gull completed the "tailwind" in extremely bad weather, it found that it could no longer find the opponent's position.
The hunting of Magura and the living in the snowy mountain environment gave Vulpix a protective color of ice and snow, which was quite confusing in such weather.
But for Lurina, who loves fighting, she soon found a way to deal with it.
"Surf, surf!"
When facing an unknown opponent, a large-scale AOE move can always work wonders.
Just as she declared before the battle, Lurina chose to literally use the huge waves to break the tactics...
However, after riding the huge waves through the rain and snow area, the sir did not rush out the ice Vulpix hiding in it, but was hit by hail several times.
The ice attribute energy of the glutinous rice cake is not enough to condense hail that poses a threat to it.
But continuous scraping will also accumulate damage, and once it is attacked secretly, it may even suffer heavy damage.
When Lurina sacrificed herself to experience the underworld fighting method that does not judge by level, her competitive personality became more and more excited, and her offensiveness increased significantly!
Could it be that she used a move like "supernatural power" to float herself into the sky to avoid the waves?
Thinking of this, she immediately instructed: "Use the storm this time!"
The storm brewing in the wind and rain broke through the polar fog and finally revealed the figure of the ice six-tailed beast.
It was neither hiding on the ground nor floating in the air. Instead, it stayed in a place that no one had expected... (End of this chapter)