Jupiter was just as annoyingly talkative as she had been when we met in White.
"Fine, we'll show you we're serious. Let's go! Lucario, Spiritomb, Milotic, Garchomp!"
"Us too! Piplup, Staraptor, Gallade, Jibakoil!"
We each chose four Pokémon, since any more might get in the way of our respective battles.
Now, which of their Pokémon would be troublesome?
"Gallade! Take down their Fuding with your claws! Everyone else, cover Gallade so no one can interfere! And you electric types, absolutely no Electric moves!"
Dawn wanted to take out Fuding first too.
Alakazam had extremely high Speed and Special Attack. Its height ranked tenth from the bottom among the 493 Pokémon, excluding one and Kalos. The various special moves it unleashed from there were a threat.
"Garchomp, hurry and cover Gallade!"
On the other hand, its other stats were, in Yuto's words, "paper-thin." Almost any hit could take it down, especially a physical move.
"Useless! No Pokémon can beat my Alakazam's speed! Alakazam, Seigo!"
Base stats, Individual Values, natures, and Effort Values-those were concepts I had learned in Yuto's lessons. It was too late to do anything about Individual Values or nature, but I had fed Gaburias berries and trained its Effort Values again from scratch. Its base Speed was lower than Alakazam's, but I had maximized its Speed Effort Values, so...
"What? It's faster than Fuding!"
"Now, Gaburias! Dragon Valley!"
It was entirely possible to outspeed a Fuding whose trainer knew nothing about Effort Values.
My Gaburias had a hardworking nature, so it received no modifiers, but its base Attack was high, and I had invested quite a lot of Effort Values in it too. On top of that, Dragon Claw was a physical move with a same-type attack bonus. With its paper-thin defenses, Fuding never got back up after