Salt Cure was Garganacl's signature move.
Its effect could be summed up in one brutally simple sentence:
It dealt damage while inflicting the Salt Cure condition on the opponent, causing damage over time similar to poisoning.
If that were all it did, Salt Cure would have been nothing special. The only difference between it and poison would have been that one was a volatile condition and the other a status condition.
What made this move stand out was that Steel-type and Water-type Pokémon suffered even more.
In numerical terms, its damage simply doubled.
A brutally straightforward signature move, combined with an extremely, extremely specialized and powerful base stat spread, made this Pokémon terrifyingly lethal in Single Battles.
It easily ranked among Paldea's top three must-try dishes.
And it was the star of today's stream.
As viewers continued pouring into the stream, Qingyu quickly launched the game and instantly locked in Garganacl in the team builder.
Then the smile on his face gradually became impossible to suppress.
[No Double Battles today, streamer?]
[Knowing Teacher Yu's style lately, this isn't going to be another toxic strategy, is it...]
[Streamer, your laugh is terrifying. Mom asked why I was watching some creepy uncle's stream!]
[Has Teacher Yu been letting loose more and more lately?]
Ignoring the chat's jabs, Qingyu quickly put together a lineup that looked completely devoid of damage output, returned to Single Battles, and began his journey to "climb the ladder" for the day.
Incidentally, his lineup was:
Garganacl, Gliscor, Toxapex, Clodsire, Glimmora, and Chansey.
As far as Qingyu was concerned, the moment he picked this lineup, winning or losing no longer mattered.
One of them had to come out of this laughing, and it would most likely be him.
With his rating climbing and his win rate so high, finding