Everyone knew Protect was also called Mini Dragon Dance

Burn Up combined with Surf—the intended target was obvious.

Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon like Dragonite were sturdily built and possessed the noble Dragon type, naturally resisting both Water and Fire type attacks.

Anyone with half a brain could see that the target of this combination was undoubtedly Volcarona.

Realizing this, Red immediately turned to Xia Chen. "Need Dragonite to help tank it?"

Xia Chen shook his head, refusing Red's offer to brave fire and water for him. "No. They'll attack Dragonite. Just go all out on Centiskorch."

Red frowned, not understanding what Xia Chen meant by the first half of that sentence. Still, he did not dwell on it and immediately ordered, "Stone Edge!"

Before Centiskorch could use Burn Up, it was still a Fire Bug Pokémon with a quadruple weakness to Rock type attacks. He needed to press that weakness as hard as possible.

Meanwhile, Volcarona, targeted by the scorching flames of Burn Up, looked panicked on the surface but was calm as could be inside.

Its three pairs of insect wings, marked with sunflare-like black spots, suddenly beat at high frequency. Then it shot upward like a rocket!

Gym Leader Tian Nan's heart tightened. That move was... Fly?

Fly was a Flying type physical attack, the Flying type version of Dig.

It allowed the user to rapidly climb out of range of moves on the battlefield before diving down upon its target like a bird of prey.

Without question, it was the perfect move for this situation.

However, Volcarona's initial ascent was not particularly fast. It still needed some time before it could completely leave the attack range!

Goodra's Surf had long been prepared, but Centiskorch's Burn Up was extremely slow to release because it had to gather all of its Fire type energy.

And Goodra could not use Surf