[Whoa, Lao Shui actually used Dragon Tail to knock Ampharos back into its Poké Ball?]
[Mega Ampharos: Sceptile, you coward! Come on, fight me! (impotent rage.jpg)]
[But Miss Elesa actually sent out a Hydreigon? Is this a newly trained mainstay? I've never seen her use one before!]
[Probably. Hydreigon evolves pretty late, after all. This one definitely has plenty of training, but who knows when she secretly raised it.]
[My blind guess is after that humiliating first-round loss to Iono in the Electric-type Experts Tournament earlier this year, or after Lao Shui proposed his "team defensive synergy theory."]
[Honestly, Hydreigon pairs pretty well with Electric types. Levitate gives them perfect defensive coverage against Ground-type moves!]
[A "fully mature Late Bloomer" against a "growing Late Bloomer"? Isn't that just bloodline suppression? How is Dragonair supposed to fight that?]
[But with both Mega Ampharos and Hydreigon, why does Elesa's Electric-type team have a higher concentration of Dragon types than that Flying-type master from the Johto Region? lol]
[No insulting Lance!]
[.]
Hydreigon's appearance surprised Xia Chi as well.
His original plan had been to use Dragon Tail's forced switch to drive back the enormously threatening Mega Ampharos and make Elesa send out another Electric-type Pokémon-
Whether it was Emolga, Zebstrika, or Luxray, none would have a type advantage over Dragonair.
That would give the nearly exhausted Dragonair a precious chance to catch its breath, and perhaps contribute a little more.
He hadn't expected Elesa to send out a Hydreigon instead. The pressure immediately shot through the roof!
With a headache brewing, Xia Chi looked at the savage, menacing behemoth before Dragonair.
His fingers instinctively brushed the Poké Ball at his waist, but after a moment's consideration, he lowered his hand.
Forget it. Letting Dragonair experience a little more adversity would be good.