After taking that earlier Mach Punch to the head, Tyranitar was only about sixty to seventy percent as alert as usual. His reactions were nowhere near those of the freshly deployed Ambipom.
Already poised to strike, Ambipom concentrated all his strength into the fists formed by his tails and drove them into the blue patch on Tyranitar's belly!
The belly was Tyranitar's weak point. Combined with the type advantage, the blow was too much even for a Pokémon as powerful as him. He roared skyward, then collapsed.
"Tyranitar is unable to battle! Ambipom wins!" The referee raised the red flag in his hand.
"Yes! We finally took Tyranitar down!" I cheered for Ambipom.
"Bobby, you're up!" After Tyranitar fell, Hiroshi sent out his Butterfree, Bobby.
With Hiroshi bringing out Butterfree, who could ignore the cracks in the ground, the battle turned against me again.
Ambipom had to watch for attacks from above while avoiding a repeat of our earlier mistake-falling into a crack.
"Bobby, use Air Slash to knock Ambipom into a crack!"
Hiroshi intended to repeat his old trick and trap Ambipom in a muddy pit.
Ambipom was too busy finding intact patches of ground between the cracks to dodge the attacks. He had no attention to spare for counterattacking Butterfree.
"Come back for now, Ambipom!" If this kept up, exhaustion would eventually make him slip, so I decided to recall him first.
"Altaria, it's up to you! Use Round!"
By switching to Altaria, I could use Hidden Power to freeze the muddy pits while also taking on Butterfree in an aerial battle.
I planned to put Butterfree to sleep first and finish him off, then freeze the muddy water with Hidden Power.
"I won't let you get your way that easily! Safeguard!"
White light shone over Butterfree's entire