Chapter 258: with translation of chapter title

Diancie's normal Ability, the boost of Pure Body 3,

Made Diancie a super sturdy frontliner that can ignore pressure, intimidation, and status conditions such as poison, burn, freeze, paralysis, and confusion.

Added Water/Poison resistance,

Directly negated the Rock-type's weakness to Water.

The Poison type, which was already unrelated, is now resisted, so attacks against Diancie deal only half damage,

More importantly, Poison-type moves are often linked to poisoning,

Pure Body 3 grants immunity to status conditions, essentially shutting down Poison types completely.

However, saying it's invincible would be an overstatement,

After all, in this form Diancie's offensive power hasn't been increased at all, and its 4x weakness to Steel remains.

"Mega Evolve, Diancie! Let me see……"

Diancie obediently nodded and Mega Evolved on the spot, transforming from a little loli princess into a noble queen.

【Ability】: Magic Mirror 3 (Immune to opponents' stat-changing moves; reflects opponents' special-attack moves, with the reflected move's power affected by Diancie's Special Attack; Special Attack moves always hit a critical hit)

【Base Stats】: Total 700, HP 50, Attack 160, Defense 110, Special Attack 160, Special Defense 110, Speed 110,

Magic Mirror is Mega Diancie's Ability,

Immune to opponents' stat-changing moves, allowing Diancie to ignore taunts, Hypnosis, Stun Spore, Thunder Wave, and other harassing moves.

To inflict a status condition on Diancie, one must rely on abilities like Static.

This makes Mega Diancie's offensive environment extremely comfortable,

Although not absolute, it basically achieves the same effect as Pure Body 3's complete immunity to status conditions in its normal form.

As for reflecting opponents' special attacks,

It's easy to understand, like Magic Reflect,

still calculated using Diancie's Special Attack, producing an explosive Magic Reflect that further boosts Diancie's output and pressure against special attackers.

What truly surprised Ash was the last clause,

Special Attack moves always land a critical hit!

This clause is absolutely fantastic.

Before Ash's transmigration, the game version's critical hit meant the move's damage ×1.5.

However, in the early days from the second to fifth generations, it was damage ×2.

In reality, after Ash's measurements, it can be confirmed that the latter continues, a ×2 stack,

True critical hit!

Although double damage is impressive, it's not why Ash is happy,

The most extravagant aspect of a critical hit is that it ignores our own stat reductions and the opponent's stat boosts.

For example, if Diancie's opponent is Mewtwo,

Mega Diancie's Special Attack is -6, while Mewtwo has boosted its Special Defense +6.

After landing a critical hit, the resulting damage will directly ignore our Special Attack reduction and the opponent's Special Defense boost, proceeding to final calculation.

Combined with Mega Evolution, Diancie's base stat distribution shifts from a tank to an attacker!

This directly makes Mega Diancie a top-tier special attacker even among the boosted-three Pokémon.

Aside from being frail, it's nearly perfect!

Back in the Oreburgh Forest, if Diancie had this Ability, it could probably try to solo Yveltal.

The Yveltal in the Master Ball silently sneezed.

After Diancie's Ability enhancements were complete, Ash arranged for Diancie to continue leveling up.

Compared to Diancie,

the focus of this Gym battle still lies on the shiny Gardevoir and Snivy.

Gardevoir is currently level 44, Snivy level 25.

Ash, on one hand, asked Hoopa to summon suitable opponents for the two Pokémon to train, and on the other hand used Genesis God Power to boost their levels.

During this process,

Ash pondered how to increase Gardevoir's strength.

After all,

After obtaining Clemont's badge, Ash already had five badges in hand.

The minimum difficulty for Gym challenges has already been raised to 6-star Gym level,

meaning the minimum starting level is 51;

Gardevoir at level 44 is already lagging a bit and must be strengthened,

Logically, Gardevoir, unlike Greninja, does not inherently possess Waveguide Power to fire Wave Blast.

Trying to cut corners, overcoming higher-level opponents is difficult.

However,

upon further thought, there is indeed a way.

In the evening, after a day of training, Gardevoir's level rose by six levels straight,

reaching level 50, the peak of 5-star Gym level.

With Hoopa's help, Ash found the weakest 8-star Gym-level Pokémon, a Machamp.

Suddenly transferred to an unfamiliar place, with all its kin gone, Machamp instantly became extremely anxious.

"Sorry for rudely summoning you."

Ash is also reasonable.

Seeing Marill so anxious, he immediately had Hoopa open a passage to send her back.

After passing through the passage, he arrived at the familiar beach.

Upon arrival, Ash saw a group of blue water mice playing on the rocky beach, their faces lit with carefree smiles.

The waves gently lapped the rocks, producing a pleasant sound.

As the sun set, the sky was dyed golden.

Perhaps the water mice lived too comfortably, or perhaps they played too enthusiastically, so much so that they didn't even notice their leader's disappearance and reappearance.

Seeing that her kin were unharmed, Marill's anxious heart finally eased.

She began to ponder what had happened.

Finally!

"Riri~"

Accompanied by a startled cry, all the water mice finally noticed the arrival of a stranger.

But they weren't afraid; instead, they surrounded Ash in the middle.

It seems Marill took such good care of these little ones that they had no wariness at all.

While pondering,

Genesis Power swept over each Marill, Marill, and Azumarill, and the warm, comfortable feeling instantly lowered the hostility of these Pokemon to zero.

Needless to say, Ash then took out the food Serena had made.

The reason for the food has to do with leveling up.

Hoopa brought over a Pokemon to battle, then sent it back, making the watching Serena feel reluctant.

So she personally went to the kitchen.

She baked many little snacks for everyone, and even the researchers at the Oak Laboratory got to taste Serena's cooking.

"Riri~"

After eating the cream puffs Ash provided,

Each little one couldn't help licking their lips, widening their eyes, and gazing eagerly at Ash.

Fortunately, at this point, seeing Ash still not gone back,

Serena had long noticed the situation here, so she brought Ming yi and Tierno, each holding a woven wooden box, passed through the ring, and smiled as they opened the boxes to feed.

"Ding ding, everyone, there's more if you're not full!"

Nana, walking last, directly used telekinesis to levitate all the remaining wooden boxes from the Oak Laboratory's back courtyard table beside her in the air.

With Serena and others helping to steady the little ones,

Ash took the opportunity to look at the Marill leader and express his feelings.

"I mean you no harm, Marill!"

"The reason I sought you out is mainly to hone my partner,"

"You should have felt that energy just now; I can heal you, only hoping you can become a rival for Gardevoir."

Marill is a Water/Fairy type, meeting Gardevoir's enhancement requirements.

More importantly, it has a very powerful Strongman trait, making it easy to copy!