"Bug Relay simply means a Bug-type relay team-a straightforward strategy where you use only Bug Pokémon to pass boosts along."
Qingyu smoothly launched into his explanation.
"As everyone knows, individual Bug Pokémon have pretty mediocre combat strength. Even the handful of heavy hitters can hardly turn things around."
"But what if we adopted a swarm mentality and treated the entire team as a single unit when fighting our opponent? How strong would this all-Bug-type team be then?"
In nature, insects were among the weakest creatures, yet their numbers and collective instincts allowed them to carve out their own ecological niches.
That was the power of a swarm!
[Bug Pokémon? Is the streamer finally willing to play Kricketune? All us decade-long Kricketune fans are collectively losing it and shedding tears of joy!]
[Seriously, does Kricketune even deserve to be in battles? I wouldn't even bother catching a Kricketot if I saw one on the road...]
[Go evolve one more time first. Come back when you've turned into Kricketune Man or something!]
[Kricketune Man? Haha, now that would be invincible!]
Qingyu's explanation immediately brought Kricketune to the viewers' minds.
Kricketune, a Bug type, the Cricket Pokémon.
It had first been discovered in Sinnoh, with some populations also found in Paldea.
It was a "popular" Pokémon that even Bug Catchers were reluctant to raise as their main battler.
Both in the world of his previous life and in the Pokémon world, Kricketune enjoyed considerable popularity online.
Of course, the reasoning was the same in both worlds-
Kricketune was so weak that almost no Trainers wanted to invest in raising one, and that very fact had ended up making it famous...
According to the National Pokédex data compiled by "Kricketune's number-one hater," Professor Oak, Kricketune had a base stat total of just 384. Despite