Tetsuya carefully went over his own command decisions in detail, and sure enough, there were far too many problems.
After all, he had not actually had much experience with formal battles before this.
Many methods used in wild battles simply could not be applied in formal matches.
Although he had battled other Trainers during regular training, it had never felt like this, and their strengths had not been as closely matched as they were now.
Sometimes, when you were crushing weaker opponents, you could not see the problems in your own commands at all, because the Pokemon's abilities covered them up.
In a sense, this competition had also served as a wake-up call for Tetsuya.
His own strength was still insufficient. If he were strong enough, he could have simply powered through.
"Next, please welcome contestant Reiji from Cerulean Gym and contestant Hayata from Saffron Gym!"
Ten minutes quickly passed as Tetsuya pondered, and the two contestants on the field had already made their preparations.
"Go, Swalot!" "Go, Hypno!"
Completely different from Tetsuya and Kajiyama's choices, the two on the field had coincidentally both chosen to lead with their weakest Pokemon.
Perhaps it was just his imagination, but Tetsuya felt that Reiji's face had darkened somewhat.
It probably had. After all, Psychic Type Pokemon heavily countered Poison-type Pokemon.
As he carefully observed their abilities, seeing the poison and toxic mist sprayed by Swalot melt even part of the stone, his expression turned extremely grave.
Such potent poison—and this was only Swalot. Once it evolved into Swalot, would its toxicity not become even stronger?
Combined with the three-move combo of Stockpile, Swallow, and Spit Up, its future strength would be no less formidable.
And that Hypno was no ordinary Pokemon either.
Watching Hypno continuously torment Swalot with Disable, Confusion, and Hypnosis,