"I found a way to break Octolock!"
After several days of special training, Ash spoke excitedly to Lu Ze.
"Since that's the case, it's about time for me to leave as well."
Lu Ze smiled, gently rubbing the Riolu beside him on the head as he spoke to Ash.
A few days ago, after arriving here, he had followed Ash and Goh to deal with the mysterious Pokémon in the Sandstorm.
It had been Flygon.
After that, he had continued giving Ash's Riolu and Farfetch'd special training.
Though calling it special training was a bit much. Lucario and Sirfetch'd had merely been teaching the two of them battle techniques and how to use certain moves.
Riolu, for example, particularly liked and excelled at moves like [Vacuum Wave].
Ash was good at fast attacks and liked using moves like that.
Quickly and continuously launching attacks at the opponent.
Lu Ze was different. He preferred finishing an opponent with a single strike, using high-powered moves to attack.
However, those two styles did not conflict.
"Ash!"
Just as Lu Ze mentioned wanting to leave, Goh hurried over.
"Let's go to Johto together!"
As he spoke, Goh raised his Rotom Phone.
Bea was displayed on the Rotom Phone's screen.
"She's ranked 193rd already?"
Lu Ze was somewhat surprised. The last time Ash and Bea had battled, Bea had only been ranked somewhere in the seven hundreds.
In just a few days, Bea's ranking had already surpassed his.
Lu Ze had also gone through several challenges over the past two days, but because his opponents had not been ranked very highly, he was still hovering around rank two hundred.
Bea had clearly surpassed him.
Seeing Bea's ranking, Lu Ze became interested as well.
He could also take the chance to battle Will.
A few days