Hippowdon's Rock Slide, with its 90 accuracy, missed Emolga, whose evasiveness had risen.
Vileplume's Venoshock was scattered by Air Slash, and Taichi covered Emolga's approach.
Chirp, chirp!
Emolga chattered, gathered a ball of green energy, and slammed it hard into Hippowdon's big butt!
A Grass-type move with 90 power: Energy Ball!
"What the fuck?!" Shen Qi was utterly stunned. "Can Emolga learn that move?!"
"No idea..."
Qiu Yan didn't know this obscure bit of trivia either.
Grass was super effective against Ground, and Energy Ball dealt heavy damage, but Hippowdon had a base HP of 108 and Special Defense of 72.
Emolga's Attack and Special Attack were both 65.
It wasn't enough to knock Hippowdon out.
The hit stunned Hippowdon. As part of a sandstorm team, he should actually have been using an Earthquake strategy, but both Sigilyph and Emolga could fly, so he could only keep using Rock Slide.
He attacked Emolga while keeping Sigilyph from approaching.
Vileplume took a Psychic. Weak to Psychic and Flying, Vileplume was nearly knocked out in one hit and hurriedly retreated.
Rock Slide landed squarely on Emolga, shattering the substitute that had only a sliver of HP left.
Vileplume had no time to recover HP with Moonlight. After moving away, Vileplume continued aiming Venoshock at Emolga.
"Sigilyph!"
Taichi gave the order decisively, and Sigilyph charged into Rock Slide's range. Unable to reach Vileplume, Sigilyph scattered Venoshock again to cover Emolga.
Rocks tumbled, blades of wind shot through the air, and venom splashed.
Before everyone's astonished eyes, Hippowdon's Barrier Points dropped to 87%, and Sigilyph left the field as well.
Remaining on the field were Vileplume, with 93% Barrier Points after taking the Psychic-type attack, and Emolga, with 97.5%.
Emolga... had taken down Hippowdon!!!
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The referee blew the whistle to pause the match.