Huh?
"Great Ball?" Piers asked.
Xia Yan and Cynthia exchanged a glance.
The World Championships had only just begun. Those who could become Great Ball-ranked this quickly either started out at Great Ball rank.
Only a rare few, like Red, who treated battling as casually as eating and accepted every challenge regardless of rank, could charge into the Great Ball tier in such a short time.
So, this person was very likely someone who had started out as a Great Ball-ranked Trainer.
In the Galar Region, aside from Leon, there were eight Gym Leaders who started out at Great Ball rank.
It couldn't be helped.
The Galar Region had no Elite Four.
But its highly competitive battling culture meant that Galar's overall strength was actually not weak.
So Rose had directly assigned all Galar Region Gym Leaders Great Ball rank.
Naturally.
There were also considerable differences in strength among the Galar Region's Gym Leaders.
For example, Raihan, the Gym Leader of Hammerlocke, was someone who could compete with Leon for the Champion title.
Though he had ultimately lost, that did not diminish the strength of this Dragon-type Gym Leader.
Then there were people like Piers, who had only narrowly lost to Raihan even without using Dynamax, and Opal, who had once competed with Mustard, Galar's first Champion, for the Champion title.
They all belonged to the stronger group.
And then there were younger, relatively weaker Gym Leaders like Bea and Allister.
"Was it Milo?"
Cynthia checked the tournament device, which showed the ranking of the challenger.
Twenty-sixth.
Higher than Xia Yan, lower than Cynthia.
He probably had not battled much yet, or perhaps had not had the chance to battle a Great Ball-ranked Trainer.
They were currently in Turffield, and Milo was Turffield's Gym Leader, making him the most likely