Chapter 108

As an official event that leads directly to the position of the Elite Four, in addition to the large number of participants, from the Great Ball tier onwards, one will enjoy the official welfare treatment of the Shenzhou Alliance.

There are several types of welfare, which will vary according to different tier levels.

First, the usual consumption at all Pokémon Centers under the Alliance is reduced by 10%–30%, corresponding to Great Ball, Ultra Ball, and Master Ball tier participants.

Second, Ultra Ball and Master Ball tier participants can choose one of the starter Pokémon cultivated within the Alliance for free.

Third, the top 100 of the Master Ball tier will receive a late-blooming (pseudo-legendary) Pokémon provided by the Alliance, with only one opportunity per person.

In addition, there are rewards and welfare treatments from local provincial and municipal governments for local participants, which will not be listed one by one.

Overall, the first welfare is more aimed at the large base of mass Trainers; even a 10% discount means that all goods in all Pokémon Centers under the Alliance are 10% off.

The second and third welfares are olive branches from the Alliance to attract Trainers with strength; most Trainers will give some face to the Alliance's public officials after receiving this gift.

After defeating Chen Rui, Su Hao receives a short message notification on his phone that he has been promoted to the Great Ball tier.

His slender and well-defined fingers tap on his real-name authentication information in the Alliance's official communication tool, 【Piplup Messenger】.

The information inside has clearly become:

Name: 【Su Hao】

Age: 【17】

Piplup ID: 【】

Tier: 【Great Ball tier, 5th rank】

Occupation: 【Student】

After completing a ten-game winning streak in the Poké Ball tier, his tier was automatically promoted to the Great Ball tier.

There are five small ranks in the Great Ball tier, from low to high: 5th rank, 4th rank, 3rd rank, 2nd rank, 1st rank.

After reaching the Great Ball tier, battles change from simple 1v1 to 3v3 or 2v2 double battles.

Both singles and doubles can equivalently increase one's tier; each battle will be assigned by the Alliance's Porygon-Rotom cluster computer, and each participant will encounter singles or doubles and cannot only play one of the battle modes.

This leads to the problem that some participants' team configurations are suitable for singles but not for doubles, and some are suitable for doubles but not for singles.

Generally, the strength shown by such participants when encountering battles they are not good at often does not match this tier.

Most Trainers will start to conceive and match their teams from the Great Ball tier to ensure that they have the strength to fight even if they encounter a playstyle they are not good at.

Therefore, various schools of teams have blossomed in ranked battles, and combinations such as Sandstorm teams, Rain teams, Sunny teams, Snow teams, and Trick Room teams have become popular.

At the same time, there are also some people who, relying on their solid strength, can break through various routines with a hodgepodge team.

All of this has brought a favorable influence on the development of Trainer strength within the Shenzhou Alliance.

The Shenzhou Alliance officially reformed a hundred years ago, suppressing and overturning the aristocratic families that monopolized most high-level positions through the ranked battle system, which sent out young talents who emerged like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

Without the monopoly of the upper class, the overall strength of the Shenzhou Alliance has improved every year, and finally, thirty years ago, it won the singles and team championships of the World Championships for the first time.

Since then, the Shenzhou Alliance has dominated the World Championships arena to this day, and even the once-first United States Alliance can only rank second now.

In the past ten years, other alliances outside the Shenzhou Alliance have also gradually discovered the superiority of this promotion mechanism and have followed suit.

But in the end, except for the Shenzhou Alliance, the aristocratic families in these alliances are still entrenched, and this system has been slow to promote.

But even if these alliances have not been able to promote the ranked battle system in recent years, the opportunity for them to pull the Shenzhou Alliance off the throne has finally come.

Before Su Hao set off, his father told him that in recent years, no outstanding young talents have appeared who are good enough to replace the current Elite Four and Champion and carry the banner of the entire Alliance.

The current Elite Four and Champion of the Shenzhou Alliance will exceed the age limit for participation after this year's World Championships.

The only pain point of the ranked battle system is that if there are no talented Trainers produced within a period

of time, it will be powerless to continue.

At this time, those Trainers cultivated by aristocratic families who monopolize everything will gain the upper hand.

When talking about this, Su Hao's father sighed heavily in front of Su Hao without hiding it.

In the future, what should be done?

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