Chapter 500: Gardevoir: Qingyu's guidance, it's really good! (4k)

Regarding the connection request sent by Qingyu, Gardevoir hesitated for a while before pressing the accept button.

Just as Qingyu said, the effect wouldn't be very good if she reviewed it alone.

From the opponent's perspective, one could see their own loopholes more clearly, and seeing Qingyu so confident, he obviously should have some skills, at least he must have discovered the problem with her lineup.

Soon, a sweet female voice came from Qingyu's live stream.

"Good evening, Qingyu."

Although because of Cynthia, the relationship between the two could definitely not be considered very good, Gardevoir still maintained her noble young lady persona in the live stream and took the initiative to greet him after connecting.

【??? Such a cute voice, Gardevoir is really cute!】

【I've long found Teacher Yu unpleasant, bullying cute ones like Iono and Gardevoir, you've done all the bad things!】

【Hmm? Wait... why is Gardevoir calling Teacher Yu by his name directly? Do they know each other before?】

【It's not impossible, isn't it rumored that Teacher Yu used to live in Sinnoh? Gardevoir is also from Sinnoh, and is also a good friend of our Champion lady...】

The audience's focus soon shifted to a strange angle, and the density of comments soon exceeded the peak during the battle.

Sure enough, as long as a beautiful girl appears, these comments will immediately become much more active...

Seeing this, Qingyu coughed lightly and then took the initiative to bring the topic back:

"Long time no see, Gardevoir."

"Since the main person has appeared, let's deeply review the Trick Room team you used just now."

Qingyu casually confirmed the fact that the two knew each other. There was actually nothing to hide about this, after all, their seats were connected during the Dragon-type Masters Tournament, and old viewers probably wouldn't believe it if he said they didn't know each other.

Of course, today's focus was obviously still on the transformation plan for Gardevoir's Trick Room tactics.

"Okay."

After Gardevoir replied with one word, she took the lead in raising her own confusion—

"If I had known earlier that you would use Venusaur and Charizard, shouldn't I have withdrawn Gardevoir?"

In Gardevoir's view, she withdrew Gardevoir at the start to avoid the side effects of Yawn, which gave Qingyu a chance to unfold his lineup.

Perhaps she should have been more decisive and trusted the bond between herself and Gardevoir?

After all, even if it was sleepy, it still had at least one chance to act.

And sleep is actually a very metaphysical abnormal status; it could wake up at any time.

"Hmm... hard to say."

Qingyu showed a confident smile and soon explained:

"If you caught other teams with insufficient firepower, you could indeed do that, but for a Sun Team, it's very easy to break through the durability of Gardevoir and Bronzong."

"Whether it's Torkoal's Eruption or Overheat after triggering the sun, or Incineroar's Knock Off, the threat to Gardevoir is very great."

"Even if you stubbornly stayed and set up Trick Room, Bronzong alone wouldn't be able to block the output."

Yawn itself played the role of persuading the opponent to retreat. In fact, even if you didn't use Yawn but directly used Eruption to suppress health, Gardevoir would also have a headache.

Torkoal is both a weather setter and has a certain ability to control the field, and its output is also very explosive.

How can there be such a perfect weather setter!

"If you use Gardevoir at the start, it's very easy to have this kind of stuck situation. Even if you step on the opponent's shadow, it's not easy to handle on your own side."

"So my suggestion is—, Gardevoir's appearance can be postponed, first probe the opponent's specific lineup and then find an opportunity to step on the field and break the situation."

Shadow Tag is indeed a very powerful ability, but the usage of each Pokémon with this ability is also different.

For example, the perverted Wobbuffet can force the opponent to play rock-paper-scissors with itself in Singles, which is very exciting and was also a presence that locked the ban list in unofficial rules.

Mega Gengar's usage is more suitable for Gardevoir's thinking; it is a stationary turret with extremely high output, and with its speed, it can also steadily gain the initiative in most cases.

It even has its own unique skills like Perish Song and Destiny Bond, and in most cases, it can at least trade one-for-one, which can be called terrifying.

As a result, the most common Gardevoir is slightly awkward, with its output and speed both lacking, and its positioning in Doubles is more inclined to be a Trick Room assistant.

It can cooperate with output players to control the field, and can also be paired with Perish Song to form the classic "Shadow Tag Perish Song" system.

After listening to Qingyu's words, Gardevoir thought it seemed to be the same truth, so she didn't struggle with this point anymore.

And Qingyu soon spoke again:

"Actually, I think your understanding of Trick Room teams is already very good, the only problem now is..."

"Single-attribute lineups are too difficult to defend, especially the relatively awkward Psychic attribute!"

Qingyu said earnestly.

It's not that he has any prejudice against these attributes; what he said are objective facts.

Looking at attribute restraint alone, the Psychic attribute is not very good, its offensive side is extremely weak, and it has no way to deal with the Dark attribute, and its performance on the defensive side can only be said to be average.

The characteristic of the Psychic attribute is that it has many auxiliary moves with powerful effects, such as Trick Room, dual screens, and even Hypnosis.

As an assistant, having such an attribute undoubtedly can greatly expand one's skill pool.

Of course, in fact, some Pokémon can learn a bunch of such moves even if they don't have the Psychic attribute...

For example, Grimmsnarl, with its Dark + Fairy attribute, not only can get dual screens for free but also possesses the god-level ability Prankster for assistants.

With the powerful psychic level Gardevoir was born with, her Pokémon can also get considerable strength enhancement in actual combat, and taking the Elite Four position for her is definitely not a problem.

But if Gardevoir wants to go further, relying only on her old partners with the Psychic attribute is not enough.

The Unova Elite Four that Qingyu knows, except for Marshal of the Fighting type, Shauntal who specializes in Ghost types and Grimsley of the Dark attribute are very restraining to her.

Let alone the Dark type, as long as she encounters Shauntal who specializes in Ghost types, she will immediately become honest!

"..."

Being told this by Qingyu, Gardevoir immediately fell into silence.

The reason why she configured such a lineup is very simple: most of these Pokémon are Pokémon she owns herself, and using them doesn't require other learning costs.

At the same time, she can also briefly improve their strength through psychic powers in actual combat.

Just this point alone is enough to make her more inclined to choose Psychic-type Pokémon.

Not to mention that they all have the ability to set up Trick Room, which can also play a role in confusing the opponent.

But at the same time, as Qingyu said, the disadvantage of single-attribute lineups in defensive coordination is very large.

While Gardevoir was thinking, Qingyu soon struck while the iron was hot and continued:

"What is the core of a Trick Room team?"

"In my opinion, the strength of a Trick Room team lies in allowing some Pokémon with powerful strength but weak speed to have the possibility of steadily gaining the initiative, which is very terrifying."

While speaking, Qingyu had already opened the lineup editor again and placed the Pokedex information of Torkoal and Reuniclus in the center of the screen.

"Can you see anything?"

Qingyu soon showed a smile and asked the audience a question.

【Except for the speed being particularly slow, it seems that the base stats of other abilities are not bad?】

【It's really true when you put it that way, if you don't look at the speed base stat, isn't Torkoal a small pentagonal warrior?】

【Is Reuniclus so numerical? It has output, and its durability is also very excellent, it's just that the speed is a bit of a drag...】

【But just like Teacher Yu said before, speed is not a disadvantage when it drops to a certain level. The strength of Pokémon with this kind of stat distribution in a Trick Room team is too terrifying!】

【Even if a late bloomer Pokémon comes, I feel it's not much better than them, it shouldn't be my illusion, right?】

After a period of training by Qingyu, the overall level of the audience is gradually coming online.

Therefore, they soon discovered the content Qingyu wanted to show them.

"That's right, this is the strength of a Trick Room team."

Qingyu smiled slightly and continued.

"After using Trick Room to turn the absolute disadvantage of speed into an advantage, even as slow as Torkoal can steadily gain the initiative and display all its combat power."

"Moreover, except for the assistants responsible for setting up Trick Room, the requirements for other output players are actually very low."

"If you don't just stick to the Psychic attribute, Pokémon like Torkoal, Rhyperior, or even faster output players used to save the situation are all possible."

"In short, just make good use of the advantages of every Pokémon, and everyone can play a Trick Room team!"

As soon as this was said, the comments were immediately happy.

【Understood, I will use my own super understanding to form a Trick Room team for ranked matches, and if I lose, I'll blame Teacher Yu for teaching it wrong!】

【Master, I understand, as long as you can set up Trick Room, it can be considered a Trick Room team!】

【No wonder Teacher Yu liked to bring an Indeedee in Doubles for a while before, it turns out there is such a reason, it's hidden so deep...】

【It seems to be true, if you encounter a team with obviously faster speed, setting up a Trick Room to reverse the initiative, won't the opponent explode?】

Regarding the teasing in the comments, Gardevoir, who was connecting in the live stream, didn't care.

Her focus was—

What Qingyu said was really right!

If you add a Pokémon like Torkoal, whose speed is ridiculously slow, to the Trick Room system, not only can you use the sun to gain more advantages, but the initiative is also more stable.

Just like the predicament she was in during the battle just now, if she used Trick Room at the start, even her whole team couldn't find anyone faster than it...

This is still the case where her team has deliberately slowed down. If it were other normal lineups, seeing Torkoal with the dual bonuses of Trick Room and sun, wouldn't they be directly stunned?

Gardevoir felt a trance in her heart.

She found that she had indeed been drilling into a horn just now.

Although it was just a sentence that anyone could think of, if there was no outsider to remind her, she might really not realize this point.

In fact, many Gym Leaders and Elite Four-level trainers are the same as her, because they have achieved good results in the development of one attribute, so they will subconsciously be more inclined to use these Pokémon.

But if the goal is to become a Champion trainer, they all need to be able to overcome the shortcomings of over-reliance on a single attribute in order to break through the Elite Four on the road to the Champion.

Except for a certain Hoenn acting Champion who often neglects his job to participate in Pokémon Contests but is terrifyingly strong, she really hasn't heard of any other single-attribute Champion in this era...

And as a Battle Frontier Brain, she herself has the ability to command various Pokémon.

As long as she understands this point, the optimization thinking of her lineup becomes incomparably clear.

More importantly—

Qingyu's thinking is not only useful in the game, but also effective in actual combat.

Whether it is her, who is widely known as a psychic, suddenly taking out a Pokémon of another attribute, or changing the lineup on the spot to use a lineup that targets the opponent's attributes, she can achieve unexpected results.

After opening her perspective, Gardevoir's eyes became a little brighter.