Understand How to Cherish a Pokémon's Growth

[Psychic] ultra-long-range attrition tactics succeeded.

Under the relentless psychic assault, Piloswine held on for only a minute and a half before letting out a pig-slaughtering scream and passing out.

Electivire dropped from the sky, panting heavily. White vapor billowed continuously from its mouth like steam from boiling water. Making it maintain Psychic the whole time was simply asking too much; it wasn't even a Psychic type.

Heiduo unconsciously tightened his clothes around himself. The temperature inside Mahogany Gym had initially been quite comfortable, but once the Pokémon began using Ice-type moves, it had entered full winter mode.

Fortunately, Heiduo had come prepared. Otherwise, he would probably have frozen to death.

"Not bad, not bad. I haven't seen a Trainer as capable as you in a long time." Pryce still did not open his narrowed eyes. With a kind expression, he drove his electric wheelchair around the Earthquake-ravaged battlefield and the snow-covered field, arriving before Heiduo with remarkable agility and speed.

Heiduo recalled the exhausted Electivire and lowered his gaze. "You're too kind. You're the strongest Gym Leader I've ever faced."

Although none of them had fallen in the three-on-one battle, all had suffered varying degrees of damage. Scizor, for instance, had not only had Instant Burst sealed, but its entire body had nearly turned into an ice sculpture. If it had dragged on any longer, it might have been frozen past the cold-resistance limit of its steel body, only for someone to mock it with, "Why do you shatter as soon as you're touched?"

Pryce was fundamentally different from the young Gym Leaders Heiduo had encountered before. Whether in battle experience or Pokémon training methods, Pryce's Pokémon bore a strong personal imprint. From Seel to Piloswine, all of them possessed an extremely high degree of control over Ice-type energy. If