While Qingyu and Nemona were matching wits, the students watching found themselves filled with respect for Nemona.
"I don't know her very well, but I have to say, this Nemona girl is seriously brave!"
"Teacher Yu hates challengers using moves that wreck the battlefield... his eyes looked different after Orthworm used Dig. So scary!"
"But does anyone know what Teacher Yu is trying to do?"
"Hmm... I remember Teacher Yu's Sylveon has Pixilate, right? Even if Hyper Voice can penetrate the ground and hit Orthworm, it shouldn't do much damage..."
"Anyone else might have made a mistake, but if it's Teacher Yu, we must just be too inexperienced to understand his plan!"
"Honestly, true. I hope Nemona survives this."
Ignoring other factors and looking only at the Pokémon and moves involved, the situation was indeed just as the students thought.
Hyper Voice was a Normal-type move.
It attacked opponents with loud, deafening sound vibrations, covering an extremely wide area and even penetrating Substitute.
Under the influence of Sylveon's Pixilate Ability, the move gained a boost in power and became the coveted Fairy type.
Since Sylveon was more adept at using Fairy Type Energy, the actual increase in power was more pronounced than the numbers suggested.
As a result, Pixilate offered considerable benefits in many situations.
But not this one.
Orthworm was a Steel-type Pokémon with excellent natural resistance to Fairy Type Energy. With the ground also dispersing some of the move's power, it should barely have felt a thing.
Still, since Qingyu had chosen this move, he naturally had his own reasoning.
Sylveon immediately understood when it heard Qingyu's command.
It promptly trotted onto the opposing side of the battlefield, opened its mouth wide, and roared with all its might into the hole Orthworm had left behind.
"Syl!!!" ヽ(#`Д)
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