"...In short, this is a very rare Pokémon evolution, with an estimated race value of 493-496, which is similar to Rhydon's race value of 495."
At the battle field of the Tanigawa Gym, the commentator dutifully explained the rarity of "Knight Snail", allowing some viewers who are not Pokémon trainers to understand what others are exclaiming.
In addition, from the sentence "estimated race value 493-496", it can be seen that "Knight Snail" is rare because the race value is the data estimated by detection, so the larger the number of detections, the more accurate the result.
The race value of "Knight Snail" in the official illustration is still a range of "493-496". Although it is much more accurate than the "about 1200" of Xiaoshan, it is enough to illustrate its rarity.
Of course, Guan Liyuan knows very well that the race value of normal Knight Snail and Rhydon is the same, both 495, but his one is now 498 because of daily "maintenance"...
"Rhydon, use the 'electric grid'!" Mingbo commanded.
The "electromagnetic cannon" structure on the back of Rhydon began to gather electrical power, and the surrounding electrical force field was also driven by Rhydon, which began to accelerate the process.
At this time, Knight Snail silently knocked the "knight guns" of his arms against each other, and while making a "clang" sound, the "armor" of his whole body gradually changed from gray to a more metallic silver. This is the "iron wall" skill of the steel system, which can greatly improve the defense.
Guan Liyuan still has no habit of commanding Pokémon to fight, but everyone who has watched the Kanto Quartz Competition knows this, so it doesn't feel strange.
And there are still two groups of people arguing about whether Guan Liyuan has cultivated the fighting instinct of Pokémon, or has already communicated with Pokémon without speaking...
The next moment, the "electromagnetic cannon" on the back of Rhydon was fully charged, and the electrical power gushed out, and the electric light intertwined into a mesh, "covering" Knight Snail. At the same time,
the electrical force field of the venue is still constantly strengthening the "electrical grid", making it larger than under normal circumstances.
This kind of attack range... is difficult to avoid!
Snail Knight was somewhat jealous of this skill. It also wanted to learn this large-scale skill, so that it could prevent Bug from dodging.
However, if Bug saw this scene, it would probably say disdainfully: If it were me, I could still dodge it directly!
But Snail Knight couldn't dodge it, and there was no need to dodge it. It just took a bullet on the spot...
In fact, the "Iron Wall" just now was to enhance the defense against physical attacks. Mingbo and some other trainers who were watching even thought that Snail Knight was behaving abnormally...
However, after Mingbo's attack was really implemented, it was found that Snail Knight was motionless under the strengthened "electrical net", and it didn't seem to be hurt at all!
The "Dustproof lv1" special effect launched an attack like "dust", which could not cause any damage.
In order to effectively hurt Snail Knight, you must have an explosive attack skill to break the defense in one fell swoop!
The reason why Snail Knight used the "Iron Wall" is precisely because Rhydon is a Pokémon that excels in physical attacks. The "electrical net" used by Rhydon, a special attack, can be ignored by Snail Knight.
After a series of frightening "crackling" noises, Knight Snail seemed to have been shocked by static electricity when taking off a sweater. It did not react at all. However, there was some electric mist around it...
"What's going on? Mingbo's Rhydon is already over level 40, with a combat power of over 20,000... Although it is not good at special attacks, it should not cause no damage at all, right?"
"Although Knight Snail is good at defense, it should not be so exaggerated..."
"Then what level should this Knight Snail be now?"
"Knight Snail should not have the attribute of 'ground type', right? Did it mutate?"
The three core trainers of the Tanigawa Gym were puzzled, and the face of Shining Mu on the podium was not very good...
It took on the electric grid of Rhydon with a combat power of 20,000 and remained unscathed... Even a Pokémon that is good at special defense would need at least 30,000 or 40,000 combat power to do this, right?
"Don't be afraid! Rhydon, at least the electric grid has limited the speed of Knight Snail. Its speed is definitely slower than yours now! Now is the time to use 'Thunder Punch'!" Mingbo continued to give orders.
That's right, in addition to its ability to damage, the "electrical grid" also has the ability to slow down the opponent... To be precise, it creates an electric field that affects the opponent's speed after the attack.
And Knight Snail continues to use "Iron Wall", which is a tactic developed by Knight Snail himself, a pure defensive counterattack!
Because of "Dustproof lv1", Knight Snail has the highest benefit when increasing its own defense, and Rhydon is a Pokémon that obviously prefers physical attacks.
For example, "Electric Grid" is used entirely for its speed limit effect, so Knight Snail keeps stacking Iron Wall. As for special defense... Knight Snail feels that he can take it hard!
As for Rhydon's "Thunder Fist", it is indeed a real electric physical attack. Don't
think that you can't punch because of your short arms. However, it is impossible to punch with Rhydon in a normal posture. The arms of Rhydon in Kanto and Johto regions are so short that they are "barely enough to touch their faces" and cannot "applaud". Rhydon in Alola form gives people the feeling that it is more like a palm growing directly on the body, and it can't even touch its own face!
The "electromagnetic cannon" on Rhydon's back condensed a fist-shaped electric force, which looked about the same size as Rhydon's body. Then Rhydon itself "quickly" ran over and crashed into Knight Snail...
Well, for Knight Snail, it has some meaning of "quickly", but if it were replaced by Agile Bug, it would probably still be disdainful after all, Rhydon's speed race value is only 45.
Somewhat similar to Knight Snail, Rhydon is also a Pokémon with high attack, high defense and low speed, but Rhydon's high defense is more inclined to physical defense. In terms of special defense, the race value of physical defense is even slightly higher than that of Knight Snail, and the attack race is higher for Knight Snail.
Of course, Rhydon has a level advantage, and its attack is stronger than that of Knight Snail. At the same time, Knight Snail's "dustproof lv1" recovers its combat effectiveness, which means that Knight Snail's defense is much stronger than Rhydon!
Along with a loud crash, the "Thunder Fist" set off a dazzling flash of light...
"Another hard take?"
"Is it because it can't dodge? The Knight Snail is indeed not good at speed!"
"If the Knight Snail really has a combat power of more than 30,000, it should actually try to dodge..."
"Is the winner going to be decided?"
The trainers watching the game could not help but talk about it, while the commentator was faithfully introducing the battle situation. Beside the commentator, there was a female anchor specially invited by Shanmu, who could be responsible for asking and answering questions to stir up the atmosphere. However
... when the flash faded, people saw the Knight Snail, who stayed in place, using a pair of Knight Guns to firmly block the electromagnetic cannon pointed at him. Even the commentator could not help but be silent!
Then, the Knight Snail's pair of Knight Guns flashed with green insect power, and the green light made the Knight Guns look longer and thicker. Insect skill, double needle!
"Rumble Rock, continuous lightning punch!" Mingbo was a little flustered.
Shanmu couldn't help but frown. As a "gym student", he still lacked experience in actual combat. At this time, continuing the "Lightning Fist" would not have much effect, but would easily reveal flaws.
Sure enough, after receiving the command, the electromagnetic cannon structure on Rhydon's back began to condense lightning fists like a convulsion, and continuously attacked the Knight Snail in front of him, with a very fast frequency, but... the power was not as strong as the initial charged attack.
Therefore, the Knight Snail was just what he wanted. The attack was not strong enough, and one attack was the same as a hundred attacks. To deal with the awakened "Dustproof", it was necessary to increase the attack. Stacking the attack speed was a dead end!
The Knight Snail was also resisting the continuous lightning fists and constantly using double needles to counterattack...
However... because of the level difference, and Rhydon was also good at physical defense, although it could not ignore the attack like the "Knight Snail", the damage caused was not considerable, and it seemed to only bring some scratches on the rock's body.
[Sixty percent chance... No, too low, wait a little longer! ] The Knight Snail thought to himself.
At this moment, the Knight Snail's eyes became sharp, as if he had judged that the "defense counterattack" could reach the stage of creating the conditions for "counterattack".
The Knight Snail crossed his two guns, and the insect power completely connected the two guns together, and it was a circle larger than when the "Double Needle" was launched, as if forming a huge green pair of scissors, and the stronger insect skill "Cross Scissors" was launched!
The
Knight Snail used the huge "scissors" to clamp Rhydon. Although it looked like he was cutting rock with scissors, and according to the rules of rock-paper-scissors, he had already lost, but... Under the "Cross Scissors" that the Knight Snail put all his strength into, some small cracks appeared on the parts of Rhydon that were cut on both sides.
Although it was not "very effective", the reason why the Knight Snail used "Cross Scissors" was actually to fix the opponent...
[90% chance... Fight once? Fight? Wait a little longer? ]
After understanding the opponent's attributes and defense, the Knight Snail knew that he had only one chance to win except to drag the opponent to death... If he only used "that trick", even if Rhydon's speed was not fast, he might not be able to avoid it because of the level difference.
Even if the attack was stiff, Knight Snail estimated that he only had a 60% chance, but after clamping the opponent, Knight Snail had at least a 90% chance. Knight Snail felt that he could give it a try!
"Rumble Rock, retreat quickly!" Mingbo finally regained some sanity.
Rumble Rock relied on his strength advantage and brute-force hit Knight Snail, and then got rid of the "cross scissors"...
[80% chance... Forget it, let's see.] Guan
Liyuan was also a little helpless. He could probably sense Knight Snail's psychology.
Although it was Guan Liyuan who guided Knight Snail into the "defense counterattack" style, and the greatest secret of "defense counterattack" was "only counterattack when you are sure", otherwise you will be on guard against the opponent. Basically, if a counterattack fails, the chance of winning will drop sharply, but... Knight Snail is too cautious.
"Rumble Rock, use charging!"
Rumble Rock started from the "electromagnetic cannon" behind him, and gradually his whole body began to be illuminated by the light of the electric system...
When Knight Snail saw that the opponent had distanced himself, he couldn't help but secretly said: [30% chance... too small, continue to defend! 】
The
Knight Snail struck the Knight Gun, and at the same time, its "armor" was covered with layers of silver, gradually becoming as shiny as real metal.
Rhydon continued to stack the "charging" effect to increase the power of the next electric attack!
"Huh? There is no intention to interrupt the "charging" at all?"
"The combat power of this Knight Snail... may not be as strong as we imagined!"
"Yes, if it is really an elite Pokémon, its speed may not be weaker than Rhydon at this time... Rhydon's speed racial value is only 45."
"Could it be... characteristic awakening? If it is a Knight Snail with the "Hard Shell Armor" characteristic, when the characteristic awakens to lv1, around level 30, it is likely to show such defense!"
Among the many spectators present, there are naturally knowledgeable ones. Although characteristic awakening and attribute awakening normally only appear on high-level Pokémon, because Guan Liyuan's Dragonite's "Multiple Scales" has been awakened, some professional trainers have guessed close to the correct answer.
However, they did not know that Knight Snail had a hidden characteristic called "dustproof", instead of the ordinary "hard shell armor" characteristic...
"But letting Rhydon use 'Charge' like this is obviously not good for Knight Snail!" The trainers at the Tanigawa Gym were a little relieved.
Rhydon quickly reached his "Charge" limit of three times.
"Charge" is different from "Iron Wall". It does not form a time-limited buff, but strengthens the next electric skill. In the game, it is only useful for offensive electric skills.
But in the Pokémon world, "Charge" can strengthen any electric skill, which means that "Charge" can strengthen "Charge"!
The second charge is "enhanced charge", and the third charge is "charge strengthened by the enhanced charge"...
If the fourth charge is connected, not only is there a problem of too many words, but Mingbo's Rhydon will not be able to control the subsequent attack skills because the strengthening is too large...
At the same time, Knight Snail has already stacked Iron Wall twice, and a total of three Iron Walls is almost the limit.
"Rhydon, use 'Crazy Volts'! Get rid of it!" Mingbo issued a declaration like raising a flag.
Under Mingbo's command, Rhydon's accumulated electrical power completely burst out, and the whole Rhydon seemed to turn into a ball of lightning, rolling straight towards Knight Snail.
[The opponent seems to have tried his best and can't control himself too much? Ninety-nine percent! Fight! ] Knight Snail's eyes flashed.
"Crazy Volts" is a very powerful skill in the electrical system, but... Rhydon obviously only learned it reluctantly. After launching it, it just crashed into it under the stimulation and blessing of the electrical power.
Unlike Xiao Shan, after using "Crazy Volt", he can fight normally, just like "Lightning Chakra Mode", using it as a buff...
Facing Rumble Rock rushing towards him, Knight Snail still had no intention of dodging, but instead turned his body sideways and fell to the ground, facing the huge knight's crown on his head and a pair of knight's guns, and rotated violently like a drill!
Ground-type skills drill straight!
Although Knight Snail does not have the "ground-type" attribute, it can learn this ground-type attack skill. I saw a shallow groove left on the ground behind Knight Snail, and it also crashed into Rumble Rock. It
does not have the corresponding attribute itself, and cannot exert the maximum power of the skill, but... Alola Rumble Rock's rock-type and electric-type dual attributes are restrained by the ground-type, and it will appear extremely vulnerable when facing the ground-type attack.
However, at a long distance, even with the speed bonus of skill activation, Knight Snail has no confidence in using it directly on Rhydon. Its "Drill" is still barely usable, and cannot be used as a buff like "Double Needle". It has a maximum of 30% chance of hitting it head-on.
Before, when the two were close, it had a 60% chance of success, and 90% when it clamped it with the cross shears, but Knight Snail was still hesitant. When the opponent broke free of the cross shears and retreated, it only had an 80% chance of chasing after him, so it gave up...
And now both sides are unable to fully control themselves, and they are 99% sure of colliding head-on. Both sides can no longer stop themselves from colliding!
Bang,
accompanied by a violent collision, dust and lightning scattered, and the audience in the audience watched this scene quietly and nervously.
It was a head-on collision without any water. If nothing unexpected happens, the winner should have been determined...
Rhydon: Electric Grid, Thunder Fist, Charging, Crazy Volt.
Knight Snail: Iron Wall, Double Needle, Cross Shears, Drill.
Both sides' skill counters were full of four...
After the lightning faded and the dust settled, the audience saw a slightly dilapidated pit formed in the middle of the field where the two sides collided!
Obviously, the pit on Rhydon's side was deeper and larger, while Knight Snail withstood more impact.
More importantly, Rhydon had already fallen into the pit, and only the electromagnetic cannon behind him was still flashing a little spark from time to time, but he had lost consciousness.
And Knight Snail... although he looked very tired, he was supporting himself with two Knight Guns, but he was still trembling and floating!
The referee was the first to react: "The gym's Rhydon has lost consciousness. Please replace your Pokémon within fifteen seconds!"
Mingbo, who was originally stunned, came to his senses at this time and quickly took back Rhydon. At the same time, there was warm applause from the audience. Although many people were not used to Guan Liyuan's arrogance, in this case, people in the Pokémon world would not be stingy with applause, not to mention that the applause also included encouragement for Rhydon...
At the same time, Guan Liyuan also put away Knight Snail as the challenger, who could take the initiative to replace Pokémon.
However, because Guan Liyuan took the initiative to replace, he could wait for Mingbo to play first... Although no matter what Pokémon Mingbo plays next, Guan Liyuan is ready to use "Agile Bug".
"That Knight Snail doesn't have much physical strength anymore, don't give it time to recover... It's up to you, Photoelectric Flycatcher!"
"Photoelectric, Gah, Photoelectric, Gah"
a screaming golden two-legged lizard appeared on the field...