Heh heh heh, the old geezer finally handed over the Flame Mantra! (5k monthly ticket bonus 394)

[Holy shit, God Chi, stop, please stop! Any more and I'm gonna lose it. I only raised one Grimmsnarl, and all I ever had it do was coast along with Soul Impact and Foul Play. I've really let it down, waaah!]

[This theory is incredible! It's that feeling of... everything suddenly clicking, even though you could never put it into words yourself!]

[I have a feeling this will be the most influential battle theory since Professor Oak's "Pokémon Type Theory"!]

[Honestly, most Trainers can more or less sense when a particular Pokémon plays a crucial role in a battle. What makes Xia Chi so amazing is that he's brought all of it together under a consistent set of principles!]

[Reviewing battles through this theory makes everything so much clearer. Like Cynthia's total victory over Diantha-wasn't that Togekiss perfectly fulfilling the roles of a "disruption type" and a "utility type," securing the win in one fell swoop?]

[Exactly. Goodra was just too clumsy. With any Pokémon that knew [Taunt], Diantha wouldn't have been slaughtered!]

[Holy shit, Lao Shui's tactical theory is a whole patch ahead of the Champions!]

[A patch? A whole era!]

[It's okay, now I know it too!]

[Heh heh heh, the old geezer finally handed over the Flame Mantra!]

[.]

Beyond their screens, the Champion-level figures quietly watching the livestream were no less shaken than ordinary Trainers.

This had nothing to do with a Pokémon's raw strength or the finer points of issuing commands midbattle.

It was a leap in understanding on a higher level, concerning the very essence of team building!

Indeed, broken down in detail, the entire theory contained no incomprehensible jargon.

But just as before Professor Oak proposed classifying Pokémon by type, no one had ever thought such a thing existed!

That was what a