At that moment, the debate in the livestream chat grew increasingly heated.
[Floragato, what are you doing? Cosplaying Spider-Man?]
[Awesome, Lao Shui straight-up turned a perfectly good Pokémon battle into a shooter!]
[Shooting? I wanna shoot at Gardevoir too, hehe.]
[Honestly, both of them are giving amazing commands. This is way better than that last match between two meatheads!]
[Exactly. The other contestants should take notes on how to use the terrain!]
[But Lao Shui is way stronger than I expected. He's actually got Ruby's Milotic pinned down.]
[That's just an illusion. Look at how many times Bullet Seed hit. How much damage did Milotic actually take?]
[.]
Although real Pokémon battles had no visible health bars, a Pokémon's physical condition could reveal plenty.
Just as some of the viewers had said.
Despite Floragato's seemingly fierce offensive, Bullet Seed's base damage was simply too low.
Even with its double effectiveness, it posed little real threat to Milotic's impressive health and durability.
Ruby had clearly realized this too.
As soon as Floragato began spraying Bullet Seed, he had ordered Milotic to use Aqua Ring-
A Water-type status move that created a veil of water around the user's body, continuously restoring health and stamina!
That was its description in the games.
In reality, however, Aqua Ring's veil could also obstruct and weaken ranged moves with physical trajectories to a certain extent.
The reduction was slight, but against a multihit move like Bullet Seed, whose individual hits were weak, it could hardly have been more useful.
Thus, Bullet Seed's already unimpressive damage became even weaker under Aqua Ring's effects.
Perhaps Floragato was tired of firing, or perhaps it had realized Bullet Seed was useless. At last, it stopped shooting.
It also dropped out of its "flight" and returned to the ground.
At that