Possible Difficulties Ahead

At this point.

Of Loa's six Pokémon, only one remained.

Darmanitan with the [Zen Mode] Ability.

It could be used to catch Scizor off guard, since they all thought Heiduo didn't know Darmanitan's moves, but against Garchomp?

Sorry, was this a joke?

Loa hesitantly recalled Drapion, then slowly sent out Darmanitan.

The audience, seeing Loa dragging his feet like this, began complaining in dissatisfaction.

Come on, man, hurry up! Stop dawdling!

Heiduo started cracking sunflower seeds. He had forgotten to earlier, mainly because the first half had been fairly exciting.

Seeing Heiduo start snacking, Loa felt angry, helpless, and a little frightened. He realized he truly had no way to deal with Heiduo!

"...Flare Blitz."

He only wanted to end this as quickly as possible.

Yet Darmanitan remained very "loyal," gathering Fire-type energy around its body and enveloping itself in flames as it charged wildly toward Garchomp!

The flames scorched the ground, making Darmanitan look like a blazing high-speed train as it crashed thunderously toward Garchomp!

Naturally, Garchomp wasn't going to stand there and let it ram into him. Taking Krookodile's attack head-on earlier had been to mess with Loa's mentality. Now that Loa no longer had any mentality left to mess with, why would he keep standing there?

He leaped into the air, using the tiny vents hidden on his body to hover five meters above the ground.

When Darmanitan jumped under Loa's command, changing direction to ram Garchomp, Garchomp smashed a rapidly condensed, massive rock straight into its forehead!

[Rock Tomb]!

How could Darmanitan dodge in midair? It was immediately knocked out of the sky by the rock!

Bang!

Its flaming body and the rock slammed heavily into the ground together. The rock instantly shattered, scattering fragments around Darmanitan!

But before it could rise, Garchomp in the sky