"What!"
Sui Yan, Tang Yunqin, Mo Qiancheng, and Ji Qianyi all looked at Lu Ze in shock.
"Yeah, that's how it is."
Lu Ze spread his hands. There really was no way to explain it.
Ash was one thing, since he had already trained many Pokémon to Elite Four level before.
But it wasn't just Ash. Lu Ze, Sui Yan, and the others were the same.
Once they had trained Team One's Pokémon to Elite Four level, training Team Two became much easier.
They just needed to make plans, arrange the logistics, and bring them along for battles.
As for routine training and sparring, with the experienced Pokémon guiding the newer ones, it was easy for them to reach Senior level.
But once they reached that stage, they needed their Trainer.
Internal team battles alone were ultimately not enough.
To truly break through the Elite Four level threshold, they needed to experience battles alongside their own Trainer.
No matter what kind of battle it was or who the opponent was.
They needed to challenge the Elite Four level threshold step by step under their Trainer's guidance.
Only then could they successfully break through to Elite Four level.
It could be said that Team Two developed much faster than Team One.
After all, they had experience, and Team One's Pokémon could help train them.
But the problem was that Ash had only ever brought along one veteran Pokémon from beginning to end: Pikachu.
Well, or perhaps Pikachu had the ability to train others too?
And Ash wasn't the only one.
Although Alain had previously been a researcher, it was also his first time training Pokémon.
Even so, within a year—or at least within the year Lu Ze had spent in Ash's world—
he had gone from starting with Charmander to having