"Lucario, go play with Blaziken over there!"
After sending Lucario off with a wave, Xu Mu turned his full attention to Garchomp.
Whatever else you said about Cynthia's signature Pokémon, whether this one was the same little guy from the anime or not, its talent was off the charts!
Pure, raw talent. You know the kind?
The basketball kind that let you touch a hoop standing flat-footed.
The sprinting kind that let you run a hundred meters in ten seconds without training.
Yeah, Garchomp had that kind of talent!
Its potential was beyond ordinary description.
Even on Xu Mu's team, aside from the Legendary Pokémon, only Charizard could match this Garchomp for talent.
Not even Greninja came close!
Charizard was the Starter Pokémon Old Principal Xiao Tianyang had handpicked and raised for Xu Mu years in advance.
Its talent was one in ten thousand, if not utterly unique.
And the same went for Garchomp.
Kale really did care about Cynthia. This Garchomp's parent was said to be a Pokémon reserved exclusively for a royal family.
Its bloodline was so pure that it was practically the last purebred of the Garchomp line.
Even so, Kale had risked the wrath of that Western European royal family and paid a tremendous price to breed their prized Pokémon with his Flygon just once.
That Garchomp alone showed how much Kale doted on Cynthia.
As for why Cynthia's Starter Pokémon had been a Gible, there was a little story behind it.
Cynthia had grown up with Riolu, but Riolu still didn't count as her Starter Pokémon.
Before long, Cynthia was nearly ten.
Kale spent every day worrying over which Starter Pokémon to give her.
He could obtain a Pokémon like Milotic, but he worried that one she hadn't raised herself would diminish her sense of