By sending out Infernape, a fellow Fire-type Pokémon, Xia You was telling everyone through his actions that he had no intention of winning through a type advantage.
Naturally, he did this to silence the spectators.
After all, this man had already won more than nine hundred consecutive battles here. He must have been here for quite some time and had probably earned many people's admiration and approval.
If Xia You really used a Water-type Pokémon or another team with a type advantage to break that winning streak, people might accuse him afterward of winning through type advantage rather than defeating the man fair and square.
Although Xia You did not care at all what these people thought and would put this incident behind him once he crossed the bridge, he still wanted everyone to accept his victory wholeheartedly!
After all, as a powerful Trainer, he had the confidence to win with any lineup!
Of course, no one besides Xia You could have known that.
With both sides' Pokémon decided, everyone turned their attention to them.
Without any particular command, the battle began.
Contrary to what these people had imagined, however, Infernape seized the initiative and the advantage from the very start.
Most monkeys were not even-tempered creatures, much less one with a nature as hot as fire.
Although both were Fire-type Pokémon, one was a baboon and the other a monkey, and baboons were just as active, making this seem like a battle between primates, there were still fundamental differences between them.
Those differences directly affected their fighting styles, to say nothing of the influence of their respective Trainers.
The instant the battle began, both Pokémon charged at each other.
But in their very first exchange, Infernape gave Darmanitan a taste of what was to come.
The tremendous offensive power