Night
Back at the hotel, Roy immediately opened the system.
Two days ago, a single Dragon Ascent in the Arena earned him nearly 800,000 Popularity Points, which, combined with his previous scattered Popularity Points, brought his Popularity Points to almost 1.2 million.
Roy didn't Tractor his Ghost Power anymore; 7% and 8% weren't that different for his Pokémon. What he needed now Technical Machine that could provide immediate combat power.
Roy opened the System Shop and began frantically refreshing and shopping.
Skill: [Earth Power]
Effect: Unleashes the Earth Power beneath the opponent's feet. May lower the opponent's Special Defense.
Required Popularity Points for redemption: 2000
Buy it, teach it to Misdreavus, and complete Misdreavus's attack coverage.
[Disarming Voice], [Charge Beam], [Energy Ball]... Roy can directly exchange for any Technical Machine.
As for Evolution Stones, Roy skipped them all unless they were of perfect quality. What he needed now was the Technical Machine, and Roy frantically clicked the refresh button.
This is...?
Roy farmed for a while and then got a terrain-related skill.
Skill: [Misty Terrain]
Effect: For 5 turns, Pokémon on the ground cannot be afflicted with status conditions. The damage of Dragon type moves is also halved.
Required Popularity Points for redemption: 20000
The skills related to terrain and the Swords Dance and Nasty Plot that Roy exchanged for all require ten times the Popularity Points of a normal Technical Machine.
This Misty Terrain is also good; it's a good place to deal with Cade, who Taunt him before. With 20,000 Popularity Points, Roy can easily take it down.
After his shopping spree, Roy also managed to replenish the Shaderoot Carrot that the Dusclops had been eating half of every day. The Dusclops was very happy to see the new Shaderoot Carrot.
As Roy kept refreshing the page, he found two more items.
Item: [Chandelure Mega Stone]
Effect: A magical Mega Stone that allows Chandelure to Mega Evolution during battle when held by Chandelure.
Required Popularity Points for redemption: 2 million
Item: [Malicious Armor] (Perfect)
Effect: A magical armor that can Pokémon Evolutions. It contains Curse emotion.
Required Popularity Points: 40w
Chandelure's Mega Stone?
He finally got some good stuff.
However, the Evolution Stone costs 2 million Popularity Points, the same price as the Booster Energy that the Flutter Mane.
Although it's a bit pricey, Roy definitely can't miss it.
My own Lampent has already reached the Pseudo-Elite Four level. Once Lampent reaches the Beginner Elite Four, I can take the Dusk Stone to Mt. Pyre to complete its final evolution.
Chandelure's Mega Evolution is a done deal.
"Lampent, you need to level up quickly so I can help you Mega Evolution too."
"Lamp!"
The Lampent shook its two small iron hands in response.
As for the purple armor covered in runes in the back, that's the Malicious Armor.
Isn't this the item Charcadet needs to evolve into Ceruledge?
How did this thing even appear in my feed?
Forget it, the Popularity Points isn't high enough anyway, let's talk about it later.
The exchange and refresh just now used a total of 500,000 Popularity Points, leaving Roy with only 800,000 Popularity Points now.
Roy didn't refresh again. Who knows when he'll get Mega Stone again? He couldn't possibly ruin Lampent's future for the sake of a single battle.
Furthermore, if we can defeat Tobias this time, the Popularity Points should be enough to directly exchange for these two items.
After shutting down the system, Roy turned on his Communicator and looked at the comforting messages from Cynthia and Phoebe.
Even his cheap apprentice, Iono, made a special Holographic Communication to comfort him, saying:
"Master, in my heart you are already the champion."
Roy felt that his current situation was similar to Ash's at the Lumiose Conference in the Kalos League.
The wind was so strong that day that nobody thought they would win.
His approval rating on iQ plummeted, and even some of his previously supportive fans fell silent.
Roy put down the Communicator. He wasn't disappointed by this situation, because if he could defeat Tobias now, he would actually increase the Popularity Points even more.
The prerequisite is that you have to defeat Tobias's three Pokémon.
Roy began to think about how to deal with Tobias.
First, there's the question of how to deal with Darkrai. If Darkrai can be dealt with, then the Psychic/Dragon-type Latios won't be a problem at all.
Primeape is only level 51. Even though it has a super advantage over Darkrai, the level difference is still quite significant. Moreover, given that Primeape needs to drink blue Potions every day, Roy doesn't dare let Primeape take any risks.
Therefore, Roy still intends to use Flutter Mane as the main attack. Although Latios is very fast, it is definitely not faster than Flutter Mane.
For support, Roy plans to bring Dusclops. Although Dusclops high resistances, its stamina is low, and it will likely be severely damaged if it takes a hit from a powerful Sucker Punch from Darkrai.
However, the Dusclops still has Memento; as long as the Trick Room can be opened, the Memento can also be released.
Roy had never allowed Dusclops to use Memento in previous matches because no opponent had ever forced him to make Dusclops Self-Destruct.
While munching on Shaderoot Carrot, the Dusclops, upon hearing Roy's battle plan, stuffed the radish tendrils into his mouth in one gulp and patted his stomach with his bandaged hand.
"Night!"
This shows that he's not someone to be trifled with.
Isn't it just Self-Destruct?
Explode him yourself!
Roy knew that although Dusclops was usually unserious, he had never messed up when it came to serious matters like this, so he entrusted the task to him from the start.
Dusclops uses its Memento, Darkrai's Attack is lowered. Then, its own Misdreavus Transforms into Flutter Mane the field. It should be able to take down two Darkrai and Latios with their Attack and Special Attack lowered.
Of course, it would be even better if the Dusclops could cast a Will-o' -Will-O-Wisp on Darkrai.
The last one is Drakloak, which can make U-turn and Baton Pass, and can be replaced by Flutter Mane at any time.
The only uncertainty now is what Tobias's third Pokémon will be.
Roy remembered seeing Heatran's silhouette when Ash participated in the Heatran of the Sinnoh Region Lily of the Valley Conference. He thought that if a Heatran appeared, it would be quite troublesome.
The Flutter Mane weak to Steel type, but if it weren't for Fire Steel...
What exactly is it?
Primeape was also sitting on Roy's bed. Seeing a group of people coming to comfort Roy through the Communicator, he felt a strange sadness in his heart.
Moreover, he also had his own Communicator, and seeing Roy's approval Communicator plummet to rock bottom, almost no one believed Roy could win.
Primeape looked up at Roy and noticed Roy's furrowed brows, indicating that Roy was also under a lot of pressure.
Forget it, we'll deal with whatever comes our way.
This is the arrangement for now. Start with Dusclops, then Baton Pass with a power-up followed by either Drakloak or U-turn, and finally replace it with Misdreavus evolving into Flutter Mane.
As for why Misdreavus can evolve into Flutter Mane, well, Agatha is here, so he has a backer. Moreover, Agatha's presence is equivalent to Professor Oak's presence, giving him two backers.
Seeing that he wasn't on the list of players being arranged for tomorrow's match, Primeape's eyes dimmed, but he quickly recovered and looked at Roy very seriously.
When it's time for dinner
Roy started distributing the Pokéblock to each Pokémon. As for Palossand's Pokéblock, Roy simply stuffed it into a Poké Ball so Palossand could eat it inside.
"Extremely popular!"
Primeape tugged at Roy's sleeve. He had already finished his daily dose of Pokéblock and patted his stomach, indicating that he was still very hungry.
Still hungry?
But the amount I gave Primeape was the usual amount!
Perhaps the Primeape is growing?
Although he didn't know why, Roy was sure he wouldn't let his Pokémon go hungry, so he took out another Pokéblock from his Spatial Bracelet and gave it to Primeape.
Primeape took another Pokéblock and went to a corner of the room. Instead of eating the Pokéblock Roy had given him, he quietly hid it after Roy left.
After Roy went to wash up, Primeape found Dusclops.
At this moment, the Dusclops had finished eating his Pokéblock and was now eating the Shaderoot Carrot that Roy had just exchanged for; he hadn't eaten Shaderoot Carrots in a long time.
This time, Roy gave him three at once.
That's enough for him to eat for three days.
Primeape approached Dusclops and pointed to the Shaderoot Carrot in Dusclops's hand.
"Very popular."
"Night?"
The Dusclops was a little confused. Primeape never usually ate Shaderoot Carrots, so why was he suddenly eating them today?
The Dusclops actually has a pretty good relationship with Primeape, since Primeape and Roy have to drag him along during their daily training sessions, so they spend a lot of time together.
Dusclops broke off a radish root from the Shaderoot Carrot and handed it to Primeape, but Primeape completely disregarded the radish root and instead pointed to the whole Shaderoot Carrot in Dusclops's hand.
Can you finish this whole thing?
"Night?"
"Extremely popular!"
Seeing that Primeape was not satisfied, Dusclops very generous to its own kind, simply stuffed a whole Shaderoot Carrot into Primeape's hand.
After obtaining the Shaderoot Carrot, Primeape sensed the Shaderoot Carrot -Ghost-type energy contained within it.
This much should be enough for my needs.