"Rhyperior! Watch your back! Excadrill is much faster than you. When your eyes can't keep up, use the vibrations in the ground to sense where it is!"
"That's right! Pay attention to what's beneath your feet! The vibrations will keep getting stronger..."
Bang!
As Excadrill burst out of the ground, flying fragments of rock struck Rhyperior's body.
Those impacts barely tickled Rhyperior, but Excadrill's keen claws slashed through the air. Boosted by Rapid Spin and Dig, this Metal Claw was clearly not something to take head-on!
"It's aiming for your neck! Turn sideways and take a step back!"
Rhyperior obediently twisted its body and stepped back to the left, evading Excadrill's claws.
Yong nodded in satisfaction and spoke again.
"Good! Now! Counter with Hammer Arm!"
"Hah-woah!"
Having narrowly dodged its opponent's attack, Rhyperior was clearly excited. It swung its arm, crimson fighting spirit surging as a savage aura came rushing forth!
Excadrill needed no instruction from Yong to react.
It twisted its body in midair and crossed its arms. Amid gleaming silver light, the solidity and resilience of the Steel type immediately manifested.
Bang!!!
Swinging its thick arm fiercely, Rhyperior smashed straight into Excadrill's chest, but its opponent's Iron Defense greatly reduced Hammer Arm's power.
This was something Yong had deliberately emphasized.
Although the system's support gave his partners exceptionally high resistance to Fighting-type moves, essential defense and reaction skills could not be neglected.
Especially when they were about to face the Pokémon League's Elite Four and Champions, whose strength was on an entirely different level from that of their previous opponents!
Their Pokémon would be stronger, their combat techniques more sophisticated, and even the gap in the level of their energy would not be particularly large.
At times like these, against opponents who had grasped "origin power," relying solely