"Use Bounce."
Tetsuya naturally wouldn't choose to clash head-on with Ponyta.
It wasn't that he couldn't win; there was simply no need to.
Ponyta was indeed fast on the ground, but it had one not-quite-a-flaw flaw: it couldn't fly.
Watching Ponyta gradually approach, Combusken followed its Trainer's command.
It crouched slightly, then sprang into the air with a Bounce.
Though it didn't possess the terrifying jumping power of its evolved form, Blaziken, which could effortlessly leap over a thirty-story building, Combusken could still jump more than a dozen floors high at the very least.
Combusken leaped high into the air. After gathering strength for a moment, it used the feathers on its head and its physical strength to maintain its balance, diving toward the constantly moving Ponyta.
As an animal that could barely count as capable of hovering in the air, Combusken felt that being able to adjust its direction midair was perfectly reasonable.
Ponyta was currently at a loss after its Body Slam had failed.
"Then we'll use Bounce to dodge too." Kajiyama's command brimmed with confidence.
Ponyta immediately pushed off the ground with all four hooves and jumped up.
Tetsuya watched his opponent with a strange expression. Was this guy an idiot?
Using something like Flamethrower to wear it down would have been understandable, but what was this Bounce supposed to accomplish?
Ponyta had indeed used Bounce to jump into the air, and compared to others of its kind, its jumping height might even have been fairly impressive.
But compared to Combusken's height, it was like a world champion competing against a high schooler in the high jump.
And Ponyta was completely unable to control its body in midair after using Bounce. The instant it finished gathering strength, it could only fall toward the ground, practically landing where