Of course.
The Spiritomb sealed within the Qi Stone only possessed Elite Four Level strength.
So there were bound to be some minor issues with its effectiveness.
This was what Tetsuya had been agonizing over before.
He had been considering whether to try synchronizing its training with Spiritomb, allowing it to play a greater role for the future Drakloak.
There was no need to worry too much about time.
Although the pace of improvement slowed considerably upon reaching the Elite Four Level,
compared to the long growth period of Dragon Type Pokemon, Tetsuya was fairly confident that he could raise Spiritomb to the Quasi-Champion Level before Dreepy evolved.
That would be more than enough to hone a Drakloak that would not evolve into Dragapult until it reached Level 60 and crossed the threshold into the Elite Four Level.
And it would accomplish several things at once.
A Quasi-Champion Level combatant would be a solid near-first-string core member even in the teams of most Champion Level trainers.
Not to mention for Tetsuya as he was now.
The only thing that concerned him was Spiritomb itself.
As a conglomeration of grudges, Spiritomb was an extremely difficult Pokemon to capture.
Throughout humanity's rather lengthy history, there had been very few cases of such Pokemon becoming a trainer's partner.
That was partly because they were exceptionally rare.
But more importantly, they were simply too difficult to tame and would harm people at the slightest provocation. Thus, most trainers who encountered them adhered to a single principle: eliminate them.
Even in the Pokemon World, certain rare Pokemon were treated differently.
Spiritomb was one such kind.
Take Cynthia's Spiritomb, for instance.
Had she not been powerful enough, it might have killed her the moment she discovered it.
As for how she had captured it afterward, that