Lily of the Valley Island, Seaside Villa.
As agreed, Darkrai arrived at the villa at eight sharp that morning.
Ash's match would take place first, at ten that morning,
followed by Li Wei's match against Tobias.
This time, Cynthia hadn't used her authority.
Saving the more exciting match for later was standard practice, after all.
Before Ash's match ended, Li Wei needed to submit his official lineup to the Pokémon League.
Darkrai, Lucario, Metagross, and Zeraora went without saying.
Sending Darkrai out was Li Wei's idea of mischievous fun,
though a subtle anticipation also stirred within Darkrai.
Teaching the younger generation a lesson is our bounden duty!
The other three were mainly there because they were battle-hungry and loved fighting.
For his fifth Pokémon, Li Wei chose Diancie, primarily to deal with Latios.
After much deliberation, Li Wei chose Arcanine as his final Pokémon.
An Arcanine with Intimidate was still very useful.
As for tactics?
There were no tactics!
He was going all in on overwhelming them with levels!
The lowest-level Pokémon among them was Diancie, at Mid Elite Four level...
The rest needed no explanation, with Darkrai sitting outright at Battle Legend level.
All Li Wei could say was, how was he supposed to lose this?
Since Blue had come to Lily of the Valley Island specifically to set up a stall,
Yellow, who had come to the Sinnoh Region with Blue, had also made her way to Lily of the Valley Island to watch the matches.
As for Akin, Lt. Surge, and the others, they thought the Lily of the Valley Conference was too mediocre compared to the Master League and hadn't come.
Silver was busy with his work as an Investigator, though he would otherwise have loved to come.
But only by working hard now could he