Seeing that Empoleon could still keep its composure and remain hidden underwater, Xia You silently praised it, but he had no intention of continuing this stalemate.
"Push a little harder," he called to Snowman Snorlax. "Since it still wants to hide, force it out!"
Just as Crasher Wake had guessed, Snowman Snorlax's weight and characteristics naturally made underwater combat impossible, so if it wanted to keep fighting Empoleon, they would have to find a way to bring the latter above water.
At his command, Snowman Snorlax gathered its power again. From the stance it took, everyone could tell that it intended to use Sheer Cold once more.
Seeing Xia You attempt the same trick again, Crasher Wake could not help frowning.
This is bad...
To keep his Pokémon from being frozen underwater and losing all ability to move, he could only reluctantly call Empoleon back to the surface.
Splash.
Empoleon broke through the surface, leaped out of the water, and landed steadily on the ice.
Just as Empoleon left the water, Snowman Snorlax's Sheer Cold arrived.
A visible wave of freezing air spread outward from the icy flower formed by the earlier Whirlpool. Under that cold current, with creaks and cracks of freezing ice, the ice layer grew larger and thicker as though it were alive, freezing the entire pool solid in an instant.
Even the water underneath froze completely!
It went without saying that if Crasher Wake had hesitated a few seconds longer, his Empoleon would definitely have been frozen underwater along with it!
That was close...
Crasher Wake glanced over, then withdrew his gaze.
But he had to admit, that power was truly tremendous!
So this was Snowman Snorlax?
Now, Empoleon was back on the ice, facing Snowman Snorlax from a distance. Everything seemed to have returned to