Double Battles.
They were not very widespread in this world.
Just like Pokémon Contests.
Although they had begun to be promoted, trainers had long grown accustomed to the original battle and competition formats. As a result, neither Double Battles nor Pokémon Contests had achieved much popularity.
However.
Relatively speaking, Pokémon Contests were still somewhat more widespread than Double Battles.
After all.
The Pokémon Contest Association had accurately found its spokesperson: Wallace!
Wallace had given up challenging the Elite Four and even the Champion. Coupled with his outstanding appearance and temperament, he was an exceptionally fitting representative for Pokémon Contests.
And Wallace, after all, had quite a loyal group of fans.
As for Double Battles.
They were in a much worse situation.
The Pokémon League allocated funds every year to promote Double Battles, and every region held some Double Battle tournaments, yet their popularity remained low.
Bertha of the Sinnoh League had, to some extent, taken on this work as a side responsibility.
Still, most people who entered Double Battle tournaments were trainers with relatively decent strength and ability.
Why?
On one hand.
Double Battles themselves placed higher demands on trainers. Trainers with merely average experience already struggled to command one Pokémon, much less two.
On the other hand.
These people had more or less realized the importance of Double Battles.
Because.
They had all carefully noticed that, as trainers grew stronger, there was a type of battle they could not avoid.
That was field combat!
When it came to true life-or-death battles in the wild, who cared how many Pokémon you sent out?
Naturally, the more, the better—provided you could command them.
So.
Some people might not understand why the Pokémon League wanted to promote Double Battles, but at Xia Yan's level, the reason could not have been clearer.
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