[Defeat!]
A glaring red icon flashed on the screen, and the score froze at an almost humiliating 4-0.
Yet Elesa barely reacted in front of her computer. Not only had her eyes completely lost focus, but her body had stopped moving too. She simply sat motionless at her desk.
Only after a long while did she snap out of it and let out a weary sigh.
"That was way too targeted..."
She had lost, and without the slightest hope of turning things around.
It wasn't that Elesa couldn't accept defeat. She had never cared much about winning or losing in a game.
To her, Pokémon Champions was merely a stopover between her regular work as a Gym Leader and a model.
Whenever she finished a modeling job, she would use the game to quickly reawaken her instincts as a Trainer, ready to greet the next day's challengers in top form.
So Single Battles and Double Battles made little difference to her. Losing didn't matter either; she had never studied the game's tactics in much detail anyway.
But today, someone had completely shut her out. She hadn't been able to put up any resistance from start to finish, and had been steamrolled with ease...
Anyone would have struggled to shrug that off.
Still, what was done was done. Elesa could only accept reality.
This Trainer named Azure Feather really had brought out some Pokémon that caught her eye.
Amoonguss, and...
"Manectric has the potential for Mega Evolution, doesn't it?"
Elesa paused, then instinctively opened the game's Pokédex and quickly confirmed her suspicion.
"I see. Before Mega Evolution, Lightning Rod can cover its teammates' Electric-type weakness. After evolving, it can use Intimidate to further limit the opponent's damage."
After looking up the Pokémon's basic information, Elesa immediately understood her opponent's