The two walked down the corridor and entered a small tactical analysis room.
The room was not large. A display screen covered one entire wall, while a dark long table and several chairs stood in the center.
Roxanne walked to the table, picked up the remote, and pressed a few buttons. The screen lit up, displaying a chart of Ever Grande Conference main tournament qualification data from the past five years.
"Sit." Roxanne pulled out a chair and sat down first. Only after Xinhai took a seat opposite her did she continue, "The problem you mentioned does indeed exist."
"However, the fundamental reason most Trainers cannot help their Pokémon advance to Gym level is not a lack of talent, but not knowing how."
She circled several data points on the screen with her finger and brought up the level distributions of the Trainers who had qualified for the main tournament and their Pokémon.
"Look carefully at this data. In every Ever Grande Conference, the core Pokémon of Trainers who entered the main tournament were indeed mostly above Gym level. But there is one detail that is easily overlooked—the average travel time of these Trainers was two and a half years."
Roxanne flipped to another page of data on the screen and pulled up a more detailed bar chart.
"If we count only Trainers who traveled for less than a year, having even one Gym-level Pokémon already puts them among the best. You reached this point in just over half a year. In terms of speed, you have already surpassed the vast majority of people your age."
Xinhai looked at the data on the screen, deep in thought.
He had seen bits and pieces of these statistics on Trainer forums before, but never such a systematic and complete version.
Roxanne had