[Holy shit! Even Elite Four member Aoki is playing dirty now! He read Iono like a book!]
[He held off on Tera Ground through both Thunderbolt and Electroweb. Has Aoki beaten a drug addiction or something?]
[It doesn't seem that impressive to me. How much difference could one less Volt Switch make? Wouldn't using Tera Ground earlier have saved him more HP?]
[Bro, you're missing the point. On the surface, she just missed out on one move, but she actually lost all her momentum. That brief window while Iono recalled and sent out her Pokémon gave Staraptor time to do all sorts of things!]
[And Staraptor used Roost, so it barely lost any HP at all.]
On the battlefield, Iono unconsciously bit down on her lower lip.
The sudden reversal made her heart sink, but she had no time for regret.
At this point, her only choice was to recall Manectric manually.
Otherwise, she had no good moves to use against this Tera Ground Staraptor.
First of all, her Electric-type moves definitely wouldn't work.
Overheat's drawback was too severe, while Flamethrower had neither a same-type bonus nor a type advantage. Its damage was too low.
Even with Staraptor's Attack lowered one stage by Intimidate, the current Mega Manectric was no match for it in a head-on fight.
Forcing it to stay in just to preserve a moment's momentum would truly mean sacrificing the greater good for a minor gain.
Having weighed the pros and cons in a flash, Iono moved like lightning, raising her hand to recall Mega Manectric into its ball.
And in that single second of downtime, Aoki's command rang out.
"Tailwind!"
Staraptor beat its wings fiercely, unleashing the Flying-type energy it had already gathered. A powerful current rapidly formed and spread above the battlefield, swirling over Aoki's