"Dodo, there aren't many cars around. Cancel Leaf Guard for now."
Abilities were equivalent to passive skills, and maintaining them consumed far less energy than ordinary moves;
a copied Ability was different. It wasn't innate, so keeping its effect stable took some mental effort.
With some attention freed up, Dodo began using Agility to raise their speed, leaving Shen Qi with less to worry about in Wild Princess.
He switched to the younger Porygon brother and activated the Ability: Download.
When an opponent's Defense was less than or equal to their Special Defense, Dodo's Attack rose;
when an opponent's Defense was greater than or equal to their Special Defense, Dodo's Special Attack rose.
Within the Ability's detection range, there would always be Pokémon whose Defense and Special Defense differed, allowing Dodo's Download to keep renewing its power boost.
At first, Shen Qi hadn't quite dared to use it this way. The boosts were simply too random, and an unstable start would affect the entire race.
Now that Chansey had stacked Work Up three times, they had a baseline of power, so fluctuations from subsequent Ability boosts wouldn't be too great.
The rushing sound of water came from ahead. One of this course's artificial obstacles: Small Waterfall.
Water poured down continuously over a stretch more than fifty meters long. Its force was nowhere near as extreme as the great waterfalls found in nature, but it still disrupted visibility and made the ground slippery.
The water fell from roughly three meters above the ground. Even with [Global Eye], Shen Qi couldn't see the entire obstacle clearly and could only proceed cautiously.
He adjusted the [Adaptive Tire], deepening its grooves and adding more protrusions to turn it into a knobby off-road tire.
"Dodo, Protect!"
The younger Porygon brother had a troublesome moveset, with