Sunday, six thirty in the evening.
Like midnight on Monday, it was one of the two times when user activity on Poké TV peaked.
The reason was simple...
The former was when Qingyu streamed every week, while the latter was when he released his videos.
As Poké TV's only major streamer, Qingyu's influence online was plain to see.
Last week, he had streamed ranked singles with a Sunny Day team, leaving a preview before signing off-
This week, he would stick with the Sunny Day strategy and expand his tactics into doubles.
Naturally, some of his loyal viewers had been eagerly anticipating it.
There was actually quite a bit behind the distinction between these two formats.
Ranked singles offered fair battles with proper sportsmanship. Each side sent out one Pokémon and pulled out all the stops to defeat the opponent first. It was the primary format used in International Championships.
The doubles format, meanwhile, was thought to have originated from the more chaotic rules of wild battles. Controlling multiple Pokémon at once clearly demanded greater skill from Trainers.
As a result, doubles rules had never gained much traction in the Pokémon world. In the games from Qingyu's previous life, however, they had become the official format thanks to their greater strategic depth...
Still, there was a certain group of Trainers who genuinely needed Qingyu's doubles tactics.
They were-
The superhuman Trainers of the Kanto and Johto Regions, who used the ancient No-Rules Brawl format and had enough "sportsmanship" to break the meter!
Because "the ways of our ancestors must never change," most Gyms in these two ancient regions still included No-Rules Brawls as an option, even with the Master Rules of International Championships about to be introduced.
That went doubly for the International Police and Officer Jennys who regularly fought