"Friendly" Exchange Between Sister and Brother

The inspiration for using [Psychic] as a shield came from the special animated episode "The Strongest Mega Evolution," where Steven's Metagross used this move to block Alan's Charizard's [Flamethrower].

Umbreon told Heiduo about this use of [Psychic], and Heiduo had Electivire put it into practice.

Calling it "putting it into practice" was really giving Heiduo too much credit.

Because what Electivire could currently do and what Metagross could do might have looked the same, but were actually completely different.

Metagross's method was to redirect [Flamethrower], using psychic power to alter its attack path. Electivire's method, meanwhile, was to use psychic power to influence reality, turning it into a round shield that blocked moves.

In other words.

Electivire's method could not block most physical moves. It could only block pure energy attacks.

That was an enormous flaw.

Back on the battlefield.

Heiduo had pretended to have Electivire use [Rain Dance], when in reality he was baiting Blaziken into attacking. He had also predicted that Blaziken would lack the strength to follow up and could only use [Overheat] against Electivire, which was why he played this card.

What was the goal?

The goal was still to bring on rain!

Blaziken frowned as it weakly fell to the ground, while Electivire in the sky smiled faintly and raised both hands high, swiftly summoning a pitch-black raincloud!

At its current move level, so long as nobody changed the weather, the rain could fall from the start of the match until the end!

And for Fire-type Blaziken, rain did not merely mean its Fire-type moves had their power halved.

As everyone knew, Fire-type Pokémon possessed extremely high body temperatures. Some could reach thousands or even tens of thousands of degrees, like Magcargo. But just as a sharp drop in body temperature was dangerous for humans,