Rayquaza Is Difficult to Capture

The thirteenth day of surviving on the deserted island, cloudy.

Last night, while looking at Poliwag's proficiency panel, he fell asleep without realizing it. He hadn't checked Poliwag's proficiency panel in a long time, and Poliwag was about to reach level nine again.

After sleeping for a night, it should have broken through to level nine. He immediately opened Poliwag's proficiency panel.

[Poliwag]

[Type: Water]

[Gender: Male]

[Potential: 31.01%]

[Level: 9.01%]

[Ability: Damp/0.53%][Hidden Ability: Swift Swim/1.53%]

[Learned Moves: (Mind Reader/0.21%)(Ice Ball/0.31%)(Soothing Mist/0.81%)(Water Gun/1.31%)(Hypnosis/0.72%)(Chain Slap/4.12%)(Tackle/0.91%)(Water Gun/6.01%)(Play Nice/1.61%)]

As expected, Poliwag reached level nine, one step closer to level twenty-five. It was still sixteen levels away from evolving into Poliwhirl. He was really looking forward to it.

The ability was the same as before, no changes, but the move proficiency had increased significantly.

Before, Poliwag had used its tail to knock out five Caterpies, and one of them was hit twice.

In these recent battles, the moves used were Water Gun and Chain Slap. Chain Slap had broken through from the previous 3.1% to 4%, and it even boosted Tackle.

And Water Gun, from the previous 5.5% to 6%, a considerable improvement.

"Huh? Soothing Mist also increased quietly. It didn't increase much. Did Poliwag use it quietly?" Yu Hai looked at Poliwag's tail, which indeed had quite a few scratches.

They should all be recoil damage from using Chain Slap, but they were minor injuries that Soothing Mist could heal. If its stamina was full, it could even heal them.

And what was this move Play Nice?

As Yu Hai was looking, he noticed a new move added to the Learned Moves section. Could it be that bathing in a water bucket could also teach new moves?

[Play Nice: A Water-type status move. Using Play Nice can put the field into the Play Nice state, halving the power of Fire-type moves.]

"Heh, how useless," Yu Hai clicked on the move description and found that this move was quite lame. Poliwag already had resistance to Fire-type moves, taking half damage.

Halving it again would mean a quarter of the damage. It was better than nothing.

Not every Trainer was a master of type-disadvantage battles, insisting on using disadvantageous types to confront opponents head-on.

He wasn't a ten-year-old kid just starting out who didn't even know water conducts electricity.

As a veteran Pokémon player, memorizing the type chart was basic knowledge.

He wouldn't recklessly engage in type-disadvantage battles unless absolutely necessary.

After closing Poliwag's proficiency panel, he left the treehouse. The early bird catches the worm, and persistent training was his top priority now.

"Wake up, little tadpole," Yu Hai came outside the treehouse, stretched lazily, and then turned to urge Poliwag inside the treehouse.

"Yo yo," Poliwag blinked its eyes. There was still sleep crust in the corner of its eyes, making it uncomfortable. It couldn't get rid of it even when blinking. It didn't have hands, which was very annoying.

To get rid of the sleep crust, Poliwag jumped into the water bucket to wash its eyes clean before jumping out to run with Yu Hai.

Before running, Yu Hai released Caterpie again. It wasn't good to keep it cooped up all the time; it should be let out to roam when it's time.

He hadn't completely captured Caterpie yet. This Caterpie still had the risk of turning on its master or running away.

If it really ran away, he wouldn't be able to do anything. After all, in the vast jungle, he couldn't risk searching for a single Caterpie, even if this Caterpie was the highest potential Pokémon he had encountered.

Bang--

The Poké Ball opened, and Caterpie came out. It still had a haughty demeanor, looking up at Yu Hai with a dismissive attitude, its demeanor very unpleasant.

"Caterpie, do you want to join us? We'll provide food and lodging, and guarantee your safety from being eaten by Flying-type Pokémon. What do you say?"

Yu Hai knew this Caterpie was very smart, so he got straight to the point and laid out his conditions.

"Hmph hmph hmph," Little Green let out a few cold snorts, neither agreeing nor refusing.

It was like a stubborn pig that wasn't afraid of boiling water, no matter what Yu Hai said, it was completely unresponsive. It tilted its head to the side, holding it high, clearly not wanting to look at the bad guy, Yu Hai.

"Yo yo, yo yo," Poliwag got angry when it saw Caterpie being so uncooperative.

How dare it give Yu Hai, whom it liked, such a cold shoulder? Who did Caterpie think it was? It couldn't stand Caterpie's attitude, and its anger couldn't be suppressed. It wanted to teach Caterpie a lesson.

"Woo woo, woo woo," Caterpie naturally retorted to Poliwag's questioning, calling Poliwag a bad tadpole too. Caterpie was simply fearless.

"Yo yo, yo yo," Poliwag got hot-headed when it got angry and immediately stood up for Yu Hai.

"Woo woo, woo woo," Caterpie's attitude at this moment was, "No matter what you say, I won't listen, I won't listen..."

"Yo," Poliwag got angry and wanted to raise its tail to use Chain Slap on Caterpie.

But as soon as Poliwag was about to move its tail, Yu Hai stopped it. "Poliwag, hold on..."

After stopping Poliwag, Yu Hai looked at Caterpie and said, "I'll give you time to consider. We'll provide food and lodging, guarantee your safety, and you'll have meat like last night every meal..."

"Meat?" Caterpie's spirits immediately lifted upon hearing the word "meat." But then it thought about joining these two bad guys just for meat, and it refused. "Hmph hmph hmph..."

This temptation was great, but not great enough. It could resist such temptation. It was Little Green, don't underestimate it.

Caterpie ignored Yu Hai's promises and found a large tree to climb. It started chewing on leaves and looked around, looking for an opportunity to escape.

If it had the chance, it didn't want to stay in this den of thieves forever; it longed for freedom.

Seeing that Caterpie wasn't paying him any mind, Yu Hai didn't care. Instead, he started running around the treehouse with Poliwag.

He managed to calm Poliwag's Rage as well. That was the downside of Poliwag – its emotions could get the better of it.

This personality had its flaws, but also its strengths. With the right guidance, Poliwag's initiative could be channeled effectively.

As for Caterpie, he paid it no mind. If it wanted to run away, so be it.

If he could encounter one Caterpie like this, he could encounter a second. Caterpie were plentiful and not rare at all.

After starting his running exercises, Yu Hai stopped paying attention to Caterpie. He had already invited it twice.

The outcome no longer mattered.

"Yo yo, yo yo..."

But Poliwag was still a bit upset and wanted to teach Caterpie a lesson.

"Forget it, don't mind it. Focus on training," Yu Hai said with a smile, reaching out to pat Poliwag's little head. He urged Poliwag to keep up and not pay attention to extraneous things, as they would only affect its mood.

"Yo," Poliwag understood Yu Hai's comfort. Looking at Yu Hai's gentle smile, it responded with a sound and focused on training.

Thank you to the 250 book coins from the self-reliant one [Good heavens, it's you again, big brother. Stop the donations, I beg you, please stop. I'm scared...]

Thank you everyone for the many votes.

A notification for the second round of recommendations arrived this afternoon at 6 PM. I'll make a note of the extra updates and won't forget.

If it advances again in the second round of recommendations, I'll add two more chapters. I'll make a note of it now, and when it's put on the shelves...

Finally, follow-up reads, follow-up reads, still follow-up reads. Even for those who like to stockpile books, please flip to the latest chapter. It's okay if you don't read it, the key is the follow-up read. Little Poliwag is crying and begging for follow-up reads, sob sob sob...

If you don't follow up with reads, I'll make Little Poliwag cry, hahaha, just kidding, just kidding.