Every Trainer new to Pokémon had to figure out team composition step by step. Though there were many approaches, they often led to the same destination. Whether a team initially revolved around a single core, two or three cores, or a strategy without any specific members decided on, the final lineup would feature multiple offensive and defensive combinations to provide a formula for victory.
The key was for the finished team to have an answer to "How do I win?" against all kinds of opponents. Compared to the initial concept, revising the team was even more important.
An initial team often had oversights, and actual battles would inevitably expose problems. After losing, you had to think about why you had lost.
Was it a misplay, an unlikely event, or a lack of answers in the team?
If it came down to execution or luck, was it worth modifying the team to give yourself more room for error?
If the team genuinely had no way to win, was the opponent you had lost to common enough in the current environment to warrant special consideration?
Then came another round of revisions to solve those problems, refining the team over and over until you finally gave up, deleted your own team, and copied someone else's.
Every player who got into Pokémon had to go through this, and raising a team was something the Pokémon Trainers of this world had to experience too. Fortunately, Chu Xin was different. He had played the Pokémon games and was a veteran player at that. He had his own understanding of team composition and had read plenty of guides, so he could easily come up with several popular lineups.
For Chu Xin, the real challenge was raising Pokémon, not choosing which ones to put together. Developing a powerful