Xia You, who was in the middle of a battle, had no idea that a public opinion war and trending topics centered on him were making enormous waves online.
He was still inside the Virbank Gym, fighting his final Gym battle, completely unaware of what was happening outside.
After several rounds of exchanging attacks, this battle was now drawing to a close as well.
Cheers filled the underground venue.
Under the gaze of hundreds of eyes, Snowman Snorlax once again demonstrated its tremendous strength in this battle.
Although Garbodor had displayed extremely powerful offensive capabilities early on, attacking constantly to wear its opponent down, all its efforts and attacks came to nothing against Snowman Snorlax's powerful Ice-type moves, either blocked by hard ice or snuffed out by bitterly cold frost and snow.
It simply had no way to inflict any effective damage on Snowman Snorlax!
This development was completely different from what Roxie, her band, and even a large number of her die-hard fans had expected.
In their imaginations, as Roxie's ace Pokémon, its formidable strength should at least have allowed it to trade blows evenly with this unusual Snorlax, rather than be suppressed like this.
But the way things actually unfolded forced them to recognize just how great the gap between the two Pokémon was.
They had no choice but to accept it.
And just as Garbodor exhausted every move it had without managing to do anything to Snowman Snorlax, Snowman Snorlax launched its counterattack, defeating it with simple, brute force in just two rounds.
The dust settled.
As Garbodor fell onto its back, the surrounding audience's applause and cheers reached their peak. After blinking, Roxie gave a helpless smile as well.
There was simply no beating it...
She truly accepted her defeat wholeheartedly.
After recalling the unconscious Garbodor,