Pokémon: The Paldea Retired Champion's Re-Employment
Chapter 711

Paldea Urban Legend No. 1: The Big Head Ghost of Los Platos Gym

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Is this even reasonable?

Corviknight's Special Defense might not have been as outstanding as its physical Defense, but it definitely wasn't paper-thin.

Not to mention that as a Steel-type Pokémon, Corviknight naturally resisted Psychic Type moves. It had even set up Light Screen to further reduce the power of special attacks!

And yet your Espeon turned around and one-shot my Corviknight with Psychic?

You weren't even pretending anymore!

Yamato was on the verge of collapsing as he watched Corviknight slide down the wall.

What about the promise that this was a newly opened Gym? That old man at the eighth Gym in the Kalos Region hadn't beaten me this badly!

"Miibu~" (It has nothing to do with me~)

Espeon elegantly swayed its forked tail and gave a low cry, looking utterly unconcerned.

Calyrex: "."

It had still been careless.

It often sparred with Pokémon like Luxray, whose strength could be considered extraordinary even among ordinary Pokémon, and that had caused it to misjudge the level of power involved.

Originally, it had estimated that, with the "tiny little bit" of psychic energy it had added, Espeon's Psychic should have barely shattered Light Screen and put tremendous pressure on its opponent.

But it had still messed up.

It had not only underestimated Espeon's psychic power, but also overestimated its opponent's strength.

Because of Calyrex's involvement, Espeon's total psychic energy after evolving was roughly on the same level as Oranguru's.

But in terms of actual strength, Oranguru could not even rank highly on the farm. Not to mention Luxray and the others, even Arcanine and Politoed, who had been trained later, had already surpassed it.

What made Oranguru formidable was its extensive experience in controlling psychic power, something even Calyrex found exceptional.

There was also its flexible mind and way of thinking, as

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