Wild Steelix! (Two-in-One)

From Ono.

Xia Yan obtained a useful piece of information.

No matter how many crystals he collected, they would be useless because he lacked the crucial Core.

A Rainbow Crystal.

Xia Yan had been thinking about it before. He had already collected over two hundred crystals, but he could not possibly put all of them on Latios, could he?

Latios could handle more than two hundred.

But clearly, just over two hundred was definitely not enough to reach the peak of Sky Pillar.

What if he collected over three hundred, over five hundred, or even over a thousand?

It was only after hearing Ono mention the Rainbow Crystal that Xia Yan realized.

So that was the key.

But with his current strength, defeating that Elite Four-level Hydreigon without using Dragapult was no different from a fool's dream.

Unless...

His main Pokémon all reached Sub-Elite Four strength. Only then would there be the slightest possibility.

And even that was only the slightest possibility.

If...

A group of Gym Leader-level Pokémon, combined with a sufficiently smooth and precise tactical system, could defeat a Sub-Elite Four Pokémon.

Then a group of Sub-Elite Four Pokémon trying to defeat an Elite Four-level Pokémon through teamwork and tactics would undoubtedly be far more difficult.

And that difficulty increased geometrically as a Pokémon's strength rose.

Xia Yan still remembered.

Back in Goldenrod City.

Even when Agatha had deployed her Ghost Legion, it had been difficult for her to deal with that rampaging Shiny Charizard.

Of course, that was because the Shiny Charizard had consumed a large amount of excessively stimulating Energy Cubes and medicine, raising its combat power beyond its true strength. On top of that, Agatha had needed to divide part of her attention toward dealing with another Elite Four-level Trainer's Pokémon, making the battle especially