Hardly any viewers noticed that Qingyu had ordered Onix to lash out with its tail right at the start of the battle.
Strictly speaking, the move it had used was called "Rage."
Rage was a Normal-type move with a mere 20 base power in the game.
With Onix's physical Attack, even landing this move on Arcanine would only inflict negligible damage, possibly less than a single tick of Leftovers recovery.
But the move actually had an additional effect.
"Because of that Rage move earlier, Onix has been holding its anger in. Until it uses Rage again to vent all that fury, every attack it takes will only make it angrier!"
"And our Cinccino has the Skill Link Ability, so with the right technique, it can land the maximum number of hits with moves whose damage normally depends on luck."
"Every hit makes Onix burn with rage while also triggering its Weak Armor Ability."
Qingyu offered a brief explanation.
"And when it's angry enough, Onix can even go toe-to-toe with Legendary Pokémon!"
[Legendary Pokémon, huh? Interesting. Does Onix know it can beat them?]
[Onix: Teacher Yu is right. I actually have the strength of a Legendary Pokémon. Teacher Yu really gets me!]
[Okay, but that hit just now really was ridiculous. So cool...]
Any strategy that could give Onix, whose damage output was normally pitiful, such terrifying burst power had to be considered a success.
With no interference to stop it from attacking, Cinccino had landed far more than five hits. Despite Arcanine's opening Intimidate, it had pushed Onix's Attack and Speed all the way to their limits...
Even the opponent was left stunned by this instant-knockout strategy. Only after a long pause did they send Arcanine back out, trying to weaken Onix with another Intimidate.
But this time, with its