Classy. Haunter was just so classy!
Bang!
Green Grass-type Energy solidified.
Silver had summoned Meganium.
With one troublesome Fire-type down and the other waiting to go down, Silver finally brought out his Grass-type starter Pokémon.
Now, if Blue sent out Rhyperior, Sandshrew, or another Ground-type combination, they would have a hard time breaking through the bulky Meganium.
Biiii-
A piercing bird cry rang out. Blue had sent out... Pidgeot?!
"He even brought out Pidgeot..."
A base stat total of 479, with Speed just over 100 and everything else in the seventies or eighties. It was a stat distribution that left it struggling at just about everything.
Shen Qi's first reaction was that Blue still had his two Ground-type buddies, who would struggle against Meganium, leaving him no choice but to send out the statistically lackluster Pidgeot.
On second thought, that wasn't right. Blue had far more Pokémon than that, so he shouldn't have been forced into this choice.
Real Pokémon couldn't be judged by game stats. Pidgeot was one of Blue's old partners, after all. Perhaps it had something special to offer.
Pidgeot beat its wings, sending a gale toward... Arcanine?!
Awoooo-
Arcanine didn't resist. He was blown off the ground, then turned into a streak of light and returned to his Poké Ball.
"Whirlwind!"
It blew a Pokémon off the battlefield, and as Arcanine was blown away, Blue recalled him.
The Normal-type move Whirlwind ignored binding effects.
Once a Pokémon returned to its Poké Ball, status conditions such as Curse and confusion were removed.
Arcanine... had 92% barrier durability remaining, theoretically equivalent to around 20% HP.
He had been saved!
Letting Arcanine get away left endless trouble ahead.
After Silver's Meganium set up both Light Screen and Reflect, Blue threw out a Poké Ball, sending Arcanine back onto the