The fifth day of the Masters Tournament.
The audience's enthusiasm for the Masters Tournament showed no signs of waning.
Instead, it only grew more fervent.
Because starting today, the first round had ended.
They had entered the second round, where the contestants' overall strength was far superior to that of the first round.
Among Xia Yan's group, the first person to compete today was finally not Xia Yan.
It was Lorelei.
Her opponent
was Erika, the Gym Leader of Celadon City, also from the Kanto Region.
A gentle girl dressed in a kimono who specialized in Grass-type Pokémon.
Erika was also quite well-known in Kanto.
Anyone who had challenged the Celadon Gym
knew that Erika was the sort of person with an exceptionally good temper.
Whether challengers lost or won, Erika would offer constructive opinions and advice based on their abilities.
And to hold steady as the Gym Leader of Celadon City, Kanto's second-largest city after Goldenrod City, Erika's strength was quite considerable.
She was a little weaker than Lt. Surge.
But compared with some Gym Leaders from other regions, she was undoubtedly much stronger.
Unfortunately,
she had run into Lorelei, who specialized in Ice-type Pokémon.
She was completely countered in terms of type matchups.
There was no fighting it.
That was also the most awkward part for Trainers who specialized in Pokémon of a single type.
When they encountered someone who completely countered their type, they almost had no chance of turning things around.
Even someone like Lance found it exceptionally troublesome when facing Lorelei, who countered him by type, though that was also because Ice-type Pokémon countered him too severely.
Still, it demonstrated the awkwardness of relying on a single type.
The result naturally unfolded just as Xia Yan had expected. They were all working from an "easy