"The winner!!! Misdreavus!!!!"
After checking, the Referee immediately announced the final result.
"Mis..."
Misdreavus blinked, casting a lingering, frightened glance at the pitch-black abyss below. If she really had been knocked down there...
She looked back at her Trainer, once again feeling that her own Trainer was indeed a cut above the rest... when it came to being devious.
"Mold Breaker didn't take effect?"
Courtney considered the possibility, but how could that...
Did that mean Earth Power, which carried some of Thousand Waves' effects, hadn't worked?
But... she couldn't make sense of it...
Suddenly, a possibility struck her!
"You... when did you?"
Courtney gave a wry smile.
"I never trust the answers other people give me."
Dian pointed at the ground. "But... at first, I really did think it was sheer force. It wasn't until I had Misdreavus secretly use Confuse Ray that I realized..."
"Your Druddigon actually had mold breaker, and you'd developed it to an extraordinarily advanced level. It could even negate moves' additional effects..."
Even Dian sounded a little astonished as he said this. As an expert in Abilities, he naturally knew about mold breaker, but an Ability that could defy the usual rules to this extent was simply...
From the start, while he was still unsure of his opponent's Ability, he had kept Misdreavus ready to use two moves.
Dazzling Gleam, the decisive finishing move!
Skill Swap, the strike that would turn the tables!
At the same time that her opponent used mold breaker to negate Misdreavus's levitate Ability, Misdreavus used Skill Swap to obtain mold breaker. With Breaking Swipe, she escaped Earth Power's restraints by a hair's breadth and ultimately dodged the lethal Fissure attack.
Immediately afterward, the various pulses gathered in the shadows wrapped around Druddigon, wiping out any hope of a comeback. Finally,