Pokemon: Master of tactics
Chapter 125 - Pokemon Master Of Tactics: 125

Gardevoir knew that she could probably dodge any attack at this distance if she was ready for such an attack and began to use Calm Mind.

Crobat showed no happy expression after that successful hit. He knew that only hit hits because he had successfully surprised Gardevoir and nothing more. ​​

He started preparing for Swift when he saw Gardevoir start reinforcing with Calm Mind.

Gardevoir's Calm Mind on the expert rank finished first and She started using Calm mind again. Her plan was pretty simple "Reinforce yourself with Calm mind while Crobat can't do anything and then defeat him with Psychic".

Although this plan is simple, it is very effective and well thought out.

Crobat uses Swift and begins to prepare Swift again while the attack flies relatively slowly towards Gardevoir.

Swift is a very strange move in this world because it works like a guided missile and chases a target even when the target is moving, making it almost impossible to avoid that move. Another special feature of this move is that it gets faster and faster the longer it flies, which makes it impossible for even very fast Pokemon to run out of this move with only speed.

The only way to avoid this move that Alex knows is either to go out of range (depends on the Move Mastery) of the move or to block the move with, for example, a tree or another Pokemon.

Unfortunately, Alex has used a straight surface with no hindrance as a fighting surface, which makes it impossible for Gardevoir to avoid this move in this way.

Gardevoir, who knew that she could not avoid this move, does not move and began to use Calm Mind.

She was hit by Swift, but it looked to Alex that she not have taken much harm from that hit. Alex thinks that she probably hasn't lost 10% of her Hp from this hit.

Gardevoir, who saw the Crobat preparing another move, knew that the Crobat would very likely want to use Swift again.

She gave a small smile as she prepared her next move.

Gardevoir who started preparing her move a little later than Crobat managed to finish her move first.

She doesn't wait and uses Disable on Crobat who was about to finish preparing his next Swift.

Gardevoir didn't waste any time and began to prepare Calm Mind again.

Crobat, who suddenly felt that his preparation was interrupted and that he could no longer use this move, knew immediately what had happened. As a big brother of Gardevoir, he knows of course that Gardevoir has the move Disable on the expert rank.

He didn't show an annoyed expression but a malicious smile as if he had foreseen it. Crobat's smile reminded Alex of a supervillain who successfully tricked the hero.

Crobat flew in the direction of Gardevoir which is at the edge of the combat area.

The fighting area was marked by Alex before the fight so that the Pokemon can easily see where they are allowed to fight. The area is about 80 meters long and wide which makes it as big as the area of ​​the Kanto rookie tournament.

Crobat, who was only about 25 meters away, suddenly stopped flying in the direction of Gardevoir and started preparing his next move.

Gardevoir who saw what Crobat was doing did not understand why he only flew up to 25 meters. Although it makes it much easier to chase after she teleports away, 25 meters is a bit too short to be able to safely hit Gardevoir when it is prepared to evade

She was using Calm Mind and felt that she is amplified to the maximum.

Gardevoir, who knows that 25 meters are not a very safe range, began to prepare Teleport in order to expand a large distance from Crobat. (better safe than sorry)

Although she can only increase the distance to ca. 55 meters, it is better than 25 meters for her fighting style that prefers medium and large distances.

Crobat who was done with the preparation of his move, to the surprise of Gardevoir, did not use Shadow Ball or another attacking move but the move Mean Look.

The move Mean Look that was used could not be avoided by Gardevoir and prevented Gardevoir from moving away from Crobat.

Alex who has already tested this move sufficiently knew that teleport cannot be used in the Pokemon concerned is hit by this move.

Although Mean Look looks strong, in reality, it is not a particularly good move because the requirements for successful use are very difficult to meet.

If Mean Look is not on the expert level, it can only be used on pokemon that are lower in level than the user and not too far away from the user.

In addition, the range depends on the level difference between the target and the user so it is also relatively useless against Pokemon with only 1 level difference.

This move is completely useless against pokemon who have the same level as Crobat or are too far away from Crobat.

Crobat gave a happy smile that looks very creepy to Alex as he started flying relatively quickly towards Gardevoir. Though Thunder Wave hit Crobat, it is still much faster than Gardevoir.

While flying in the direction of Gardevoir, he prepares the move Cross Poison.

Gardevoir, who saw that she was fooled by Crobat, showed a surprised expression. She didn't think she could be outsmarted by Crobat because she is the Pokemon with the highest IQ in Alex's pokémon group. Although she doesn't think that she is better than the other Pokemon just because she has a higher IQ, she always thought that at least she couldn't be outsmarted by other Pokemon.

She suddenly felt very naive about these thoughts.

Alex saw how Gardevoir showed a surprised and confused expression and understood why Gardevoir was confused.

He gave a sad smile when he thought, "Child it's time to wake up."

Although IQ is a good quality in pokemon fighting, it is not as important as many trainers believe.

Alex thinks that experience, the anticipation of the opponent, and creativity (etc) are much more important traits for a Pokemon than just IQ is.

Gardevoir, who saw Crobat only 5 meters away from her, suddenly woke up from her thoughts and began to prepare for her next move. She knew that she should concentrate on the fight now and not stand around thinking about it.

Crobat used Cross Poison and Gardevoir who was is not quite focused was hit in the head. A critical hit.

Gardevoir's head was bleeding profusely and had a nasty wound on it when she fell unconscious to the floor

Alex quickly ran towards Gardevoir with a worried expression and a Hyper Potion in his hand. He furiously yelled at Crobat when he treated Gardevoir even though he knew Crobat had done nothing wrong.

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For those who are interested in why Cross Poison did so much more damage than Shadow Ball, here is the explanation.

Shadow Ball and Cross Poison are expert rank moves and therefore do a good deal more damage. Although it doesn't matter for the comparison, I want to mention it.

Gardevoir gets 2x damage from Ghost-type moves and Poison-type moves, which are also relatively unimportant in this case.

the Damage difference comes from 2 reasons.

1: stab increased cross poison damage by 50%

2: Gardevoir has a bad Defense value of 65 and a good Sp. Def value of 115, which means that she gets more damage from physical-type moves like Cross Poison.

These are the 2 reasons why Gardevoir got a lot more damage from cross poison.

Together with the crit, she couldn't withstand this move.

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