Charmander gradually regained consciousness. Although it didn't know what had happened, it was a little angry now, and its handsome face was still aching.
"Charmander, are you willing to fail like this? Turn your physical pain into anger!"
"Haya!"
Charmander's eyes turned red, and its aura gradually rose. Even the flame on its tail burned more fiercely.
"Hmm?"
Wang Luo frowned, looking at the Charmander in front of him with some surprise.
"Is this anger? And it seems to have activated Charmander's Blaze ability, a double buff."
The Anger skill is a skill that Charmander can only learn after evolving into Charmeleon. It allows it to attack an enemy once and then gain a level increase in its stats each time it takes damage in subsequent battles.
Zhang Yao's Charmander being able to learn it should be due to inheritance, which indicates that Charmander's parents also have good potential.
The Blaze ability allows a Pokémon's Fire-type moves to increase their power by 1.5 times when its HP is low. However, in the real world, not every Pokémon can activate an ability; only a portion of Pokémon with high potential and post-natal effort can activate it.
The current Charmander can already be called a qualified berserker; it will only become braver the more it fights.
"Slowpoke, use continuous Water Gun."
Slowpoke's reaction was as good as ever. After Wang Luo gave the command, it continuously shot powerful Water Gun from its mouth.
But with the double enhancement, Charmander's speed was even faster, and Slowpoke's Water Gun didn't hit once.
"Charmander, use Fire Flower with maximum power."
After Charmander approached Slowpoke, it opened its mouth and spewed out a large amount of Fire Flower. With the Blaze enhancement, the power of the Fire Flower was already close to Flamethrower.
"Slowpoke, counter with Water Gun."
Slowpoke's Water Gun and Charmander's Fire Flower met in the air, stirring up a burst of steam.
However, the Blaze-enhanced Fire Flower was clearly no match for Water Gun. The high temperature of the flames instantly evaporated the sweat beads dripping from Slowpoke.
"Things are not looking good. Charmander is ridiculously strong now. It seems I can only reveal my trump card."
The reason Wang Luo had Slowpoke use continuous Water Gun was to allow Slowpoke to control the water flow on the field with Psychic, but Wang Luo didn't want to use it unless absolutely necessary. After all, always keeping a trump card is Wang Luo's principle.
But the current situation left him no choice. If he didn't use it now, he'd have to treat Zhang Yao to barbecue, which Wang Luo found even less acceptable.
Just as Wang Luo was about to give the order, the situation on the field reversed.
Charmander's Fire Flower, after maintaining for more than ten seconds, gradually diminished. Seeing the unharmed Slowpoke, Charmander took a deep breath, planning to hit Slowpoke with another powerful attack.
Slowpoke was anxious. One Fire Flower was enough, but it was endless, right? If you keep spewing, I'll turn into barbecue.
What Slowpoke was thinking now was to quickly make Charmander stop spewing fire. Unbeknownst to it, a strange power surged from within Slowpoke.
Slowpoke felt like making it shut up wasn't impossible.
This power slowly acted on Charmander, and the Fire Flower that was ready to be unleashed suddenly stalled.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
A puff of black smoke came out of Charmander's mouth. The feeling of a move being forced back was not pleasant.
"This is? Disable!"
Wang Luo was ecstatic. Disable is a Normal-type move that Slowpoke can learn, which prevents the opponent from using the same move for four turns.
Although Slowpoke can automatically learn this move as it levels up, Wang Luo didn't expect Slowpoke to comprehend it during battle.
Now, Slowpoke has many more tactics when facing enemies. For Electric-type moves targeting Slowpoke, it can directly shut them down; the same move is useless against Slowpoke.
However, Zhang Yao's knowledge base was insufficient for him to understand what was happening on the field. He thought Charmander had made a mistake and could only give the command again.
"Charmander, use Fire Flower again."
Charmander was in a predicament and couldn't express it. It didn't know why, but Fire Flower just wouldn't come out, making Zhang Yao anxious.
But Wang Luo wouldn't just wait for Charmander to recover.
"Slowpoke, use Confusion to send Charmander out of the arena."
"Yadon~"
Go out, little brother. If you're weak, practice more.
Charmander, still trying to spew fire, was effortlessly restrained by Confusion and flew out of the battle arena. The battle ended.
"Charmander, you did great."
Zhang Yao picked up Charmander and comforted it.
There are professional Pokémon doctors next to the arena, but since it was just a friendly match and the Pokémon weren't injured, treatment wasn't needed.
In the lounge area, the two were drinking iced happy fat house water, lounging on a soft sofa.
Slowpoke and Charmander were also drinking berry soda. The two little guys, who had just been battling, now had a good relationship.
After a while, Zhang Yao couldn't help but ask, "Why did my Charmander suddenly stop being able to use Fire Flower during the battle? Does Psychic have that effect?"
Wang Luo looked at Zhang Yao with disdain, a look that made Zhang Yao feel a bit guilty.
"I told you to pay attention in class, but you didn't listen. This is the Disable move, which prevents a Pokémon from using the same move for a short period."
"Oh my god, I wish I had studied more. I thought that with a powerful Pokémon, I could instantly defeat anything."
Wang Luo was speechless. Not to mention the importance of a Pokémon's ability and nature, if you can't even recognize all the moves during a battle, what's the point of fighting?
Moreover, tactics are also very important in battle. Take Charmander, for example, it had a double buff, but what happened...?
It just charged straight in! If I were commanding Charmander, I would never be so reckless.
"By the way, didn't your Charmander learn four moves? Besides Scratch, Fire Flower, and Anger, what else?"
"There's also Smoke Screen, but I didn't think it was very useful, so I didn't let Charmander practice it much."
"What?! You don't practice such a useful move?"
Upon hearing Wang Luo's words, Zhang Yao couldn't sit still. He quickly sat up straight and perked up his ears.
He knew Wang Luo was a good student, and that Wang Luo could train Slowpoke to be so strong. Wang Luo must have his own training secrets. If he could learn even a little, let alone the Pokémon department, even a key Pokémon university wouldn't be a dream.
"Wang Luo... Ah no, Lo Ge, do you have any pointers? Your humble servant is all ears."
Zhang Yao said, while fawningly massaging Wang Luo's shoulders.
"I do have some ideas, but..."
Wang Luo deliberately drew out his words. Seeing this, Zhang Yao massaged even harder.
"I'm a bit hungry."
"Oh, how did it get to be noon already? Let's go, Lo Ge, let's go eat some barbecue."
"Yadon!"
Slowpoke raised its small paw, indicating that it wanted some too.
"No problem, I'll cover Slowpoke's portion too."
Zhang Yao declared grandly, patting his chest with a resounding thud.
Wang Luo nodded. Seeing Zhang Yao being so sensible, he decided to broaden his horizons. Pokémon battles aren't fought like that.
What they didn't know was that in the lounge area, on a sofa by the window, a man in his thirties wearing glasses adjusted his spectacles, looking at Wang Luo's departing back.
"A Slowpoke with Psychic talent, interesting. He's a good prospect."
