Ace vs. Ace

Steel Valley.

As the name implied, it was a place where Steel-type Pokemon gathered and lived.

Before the Steel Type had been officially identified.

People in the Pokemon World had actually possessed some understanding of Pokemon with this type.

After all, many of the outward traits of Steel-type Pokemon were quite obvious.

Take Aggron, for example.

Its abnormally powerful defensive capabilities were plain for all to see.

It was only after the type matchups related to the Steel Type had been clearly established that this received a reasonable explanation to some extent.

Steel Valley was also officially named only after the Steel Type had been confirmed.

Before that.

It had merely been an ordinary rocky valley in the Hoenn Region.

At most, the Pokemon living within it were more varied and had more distinctive traits.

Like Skarmory, Magnemite, Mawile, and even Aron.

Without exception.

Aside from having features of steel in their bodies, these Pokemon all had rather bad tempers.

Moreover, they possessed an exceptionally strong sense of territory.

Especially when outsiders tried to enter Steel Valley, they would be met with obvious hostility and swiftly driven away.

Every year, Trainers who did not know their own limits tried to pass straight through the valley.

Their outcomes were generally far from pleasant.

But this also proved something else.

The Wild Pokemon in Steel Valley were all quite formidable, or they would not have been able to accomplish such things.

Where there were powerful Pokemon, there would inevitably be Trainers.

This was a common phenomenon in the Pokemon World.

Therefore.

Quite a few Trainers had stationed themselves near Steel Valley and even developed their livelihoods around it.

Tie Xiangping came from one of the families living nearby.

For generations, his family had raised the Pokemon of Steel Valley as partners for