"Alolan Ninetales, Aurora Veil!"
After some brief probing and maneuvering, Qingyu successfully commanded Alolan Ninetales to set up Aurora Veil.
By this point, he had shown the audience his entire approach to opening with a snow team.
"Aurora Veil is a move like Light Screen and Reflect, but its effect combines both. Whether an attack is physical or special, its power is greatly reduced by Aurora Veil."
"Also, since we're playing ranked singles right now, Alolan Ninetales only needs to worry about itself rather than protecting teammates, so the defensive effect is even better."
While waiting for Blue to switch, Qingyu offered a brief explanation.
Meanwhile, as Alolan Ninetales gathered its psychic power on the Battle Court, a faint, rainbow-colored veil soon appeared at the center of the field amid the drifting powder snow.
Like the auroras that only appeared in polar regions, light passing through the veil transformed into a unique golden hue with fantastical colors.
As the true soul of snow teams, Aurora Veil gave them an astonishing level of durability once it was set up.
"Sounds pretty overpowered, right? In fact, I can safely say that more than half a snow team's strength comes from Aurora Veil."
"Although it can only be used while it's snowing, once we successfully set up Aurora Veil, the scales of victory have already begun tipping irreversibly."
Alolan Ninetales could save frail snow teams thanks to three indispensable assets: its innate Snow Warning, high Speed, and Aurora Veil.
Combining all three allowed a team to set up snow and both screens on the very first turn without interference. That terrifying efficiency was what let it get so much mileage out of this one trick.
And in this battle, although Blue had interfered a little and cost Qingyu some time, things had still