Facing a Sharpedo whose strength on paper slightly exceeded its own, Frogadier defeated it relatively easily without much effort.
During the battle, it displayed outstanding reflexes, earning repeated praise from Crasher Wake.
"An incredible Pokémon," he marveled. "It's been a long time since I've seen one so nimble."
How could it not be nimble...
Frogadier's final evolution, Greninja, was based on a ninja, after all.
Although it wasn't very apparent in Froakie, that tendency had already begun to emerge in Frogadier.
"Your Sharpedo was impressive too. If it had fought in the water from the start, my Frogadier definitely couldn't have beaten it."
After a brief exchange of compliments, Xia You and Crasher Wake turned their full attention to the second battle.
Crasher Wake recalled his unconscious Sharpedo and took out a second Poké Ball.
He pressed the button, and the next second, amid a flash of blue light, a mostly blue frog standing around 1.3 meters tall appeared on another floating platform!
Xia You took a closer look. It was actually a Toxicroak!
Well, well...
Crasher Wake had sent out a frog too!
Many people might not know much about Toxicroak.
It was the evolved form of Croagunk.
In terms of appearance, Toxicroak's main design concept was based on Earth's blue poison dart frog. Compared with its unevolved form, Toxicroak was nearly twice as large. Of course, while it looked fiercer, it had also become uglier.
Few Pokémon became uglier after evolving, and Toxicroak was one of them!
It had yellow eyes and black lines connecting all parts of its torso. Beneath its chin was a red vocal sac resembling an airbag. Each hand had three fingers and crimson claws on its back. Its legs were muscular, with three toes on each foot, including a red middle toe, as