"Taunt!"
Marlin's choice made sense.
After all, Slowbro might have had Own Tempo or Regenerator rather than Oblivious.
The only way to know was to test it. Marlin had reason to suspect Ayana was trying to bluff her by sending out Slowbro, so she took the chance.
Unfortunately for her, Slowbro really did have Oblivious.
Ayana used the opening to have Slowbro summon another round of Rain Dance.
In an instant, rain fell for the second time on the Battle Arena, already fractured by Earthquake. Mud formed in several places, and pooled water slowly ran off the field.
Baimu could feel that the air in the Arena was no longer as dry as before.
Three of the five matches had already been decided. Pyrite Town led two wins to one loss, and the outcome of Ayana and Marlin's battle might affect both sides' morale for the afternoon matches.
Just as Silver Ape and Zhengyi's warm-up match had that morning.
On the field, the two Pokémon began their first fierce exchange.
Gothitelle tried to pin Slowbro down with Telekinesis, but as had been noted before, sufficiently powerful psychic force or moves strong against Psychic types could break it.
Slowbro countered with Psychic. Two invisible waves of psychic force collided violently, forcing even the falling rain aside.
It was as though a vacuum had formed in the center of the field.
Boom!
A heavy, muffled impact rang out.
The vacant-faced Slowbro took half a step back. Gothitelle swayed and let out a stifled grunt.
Ever since Gothitelle had defeated Quagsire with that move, Ayana had been on guard against it. Besides being immune to Taunt, Slowbro had been her choice because she hoped it could resist Telekinesis with its own psychic power.
Thankfully, Slowbro had not let her down.
Those two failed