The Elite Four Ranking Match was still ongoing, with each participant fighting twice a day.
Everyone had been in fairly good condition during the first week, but by the second and third weeks, most of the young Trainers had begun to show signs of fatigue.
Among them were Itsuki and Kikuraku, both of whom had attracted considerable attention.
Most of Itsuki's other Elite Four level Pokémon had only broken through recently. Under normal circumstances, they could not defeat other veteran Elite Four level Pokémon of the same level, and Slowbro always had to turn the tide in the end.
But no matter how strong Slowbro was, there were times when it struggled to carry a group of weak teammates.
So, aside from his high-profile three-match winning streak at the beginning, Itsuki's win rate had hovered around fifty-fifty. His matches had been extremely difficult.
Kikuraku, one of Elite Four Agatha's most outstanding juniors, faced circumstances similar to Itsuki's.
It had become an Elite Four level Trainer too recently and had only barely qualified to participate.
After stunning everyone at the beginning, Kikuraku's win rate plummeted once its tactics and patterns had been figured out. It nearly lost every battle and had almost been beaten into a mental collapse.
In the end, everyone realized that aside from Sato, that monstrous talent who had already revealed nine Elite Four level Pokémon, two dark horses among the younger generation had gradually emerged.
Sasaki Ippei, the Sasaki Family's new-generation Genius Trainer! Tajiri Ii, son of Nintendo Co., Ltd.'s president.
Before the Elite Four Ranking Match, Sasaki Ippei had never participated in any major public event hosted by the Pokémon League, leaving every contestant completely blank on his information.
Even Sato, in his previous life, had never heard of the Sasaki Family producing such an outstanding