Chapter 167: Eevee's Substitute-Protect-Toxic

"Rush up and use Shadow Claw!"

Seeing Mimikyu rush up again, Qingyu couldn't help but smile.

Still too young, young man.

Since I can give you a chance to strengthen, naturally I have prepared a corresponding follow-up move!

"Eevee, Protect and then use Substitute!"

Before the pitch-black claws condensed by Mimikyu attacked, Eevee had already made defensive preparations.

A transparent barrier blocked in front, and after unloading a lot of the power of Mimikyu's Shadow Claw, it shattered with a bang.

And taking advantage of the gap where Protect blocked the opponent, Eevee had already repeated the old trick, retreated a few steps again, and escaped Mimikyu's attack range.

At this moment, Eevee acted again, quickly using energy to condense a clone exactly the same as itself.

According to Qingyu's practice in training, in the case of little difference in strength between the two Pokémon, even if Protect cannot completely block the opponent's attack, it can drag enough time for the Pokémon to escape to a safe distance.

That's why he dared to use this famous tactic in actual combat.

Substitute-Protect-Toxic!

It is not difficult to see that Substitute-Protect-Toxic refers to the three moves of Substitute, Protect, and Toxic.

Each move taken out alone may not show anything, but if they are combined together, it is a set of incredibly classic simple defensive team tactics.

Because after the Toxic move hits, it will continuously erode the opponent's physical strength over time, and both Protect and Substitute can delay time with minimal cost as much as possible.

Protect is the embodiment of the instinctual reaction of Pokémon, and learning Substitute is not difficult for Eevee.

Only this most important Toxic, theoretically it cannot be learned.

However, as everyone knows, as long as the brain hole is big enough, anything is possible in the Pokémon world.

Using the residual energy of the Poison-type Terastal shards, plus the Sketch move Eevee learned, made it possible for it to temporarily master Toxic.

And the final result is...

This Mimikyu of student Okamoto is now very difficult to cause any damage to Eevee!

While Eevee successfully used Substitute, Okamoto also realized this, and his face turned gray instantly.

First use Terastallization to attract attention, then deliberately not report the move name to let me relax my vigilance, and it was too late to react until the poison broke out!

Although Protect is difficult to use continuously, because Gym Leader Qingyu seized his command gap in the previous command and decisively made two steps of command in advance...

Directly leading to his next command inevitably being a beat slow, it is difficult to interfere with Eevee using Substitute.

Apart from tactical design, even the command was completely crushed by him again.

Even if Eevee's Substitute is broken next, it will be delayed by the Protect move.

This, this is too disgusting!

The more he thought about it, the more rich Okamoto's expression became.

He subconsciously looked at Qingyu, the other party was still smiling, relaxed, as if waiting for his next move.

But at this time, he could only hold on and take a deep breath, trying to think of a solution.

Calm down, must calm down.

According to Gym Leader Qingyu's Gym philosophy, it is absolutely impossible to use an unsolvable tactic to test challengers.

Therefore, there must be a way to break the situation.

Dead brain, turn quickly!

Under huge pressure, Okamoto really thought of a way out.

"Mimikyu, use Taunt continuously!"

While Okamoto spoke, his originally low head was raised high again.

Yes, as long as you use Taunt to make Eevee temporarily unable to use status moves, you can only decide the winner with Mimikyu!

Even if there is a Substitute as an obstacle, it is useless, the Substitute formed by energy cannot block Taunt at all.

So Gym Leader Qingyu is testing my proficiency in moves?

After hearing Okamoto's command, Qingyu nodded slightly, which was his recognition of his quick wit.

Wanting to force Eevee to have to fight Mimikyu hand-to-hand in this way, the idea is quite good, it seems that his progress during this time is really not small.

However, this move Taunt also has risks!

"Eevee, use Protect to block it, and then use Encore on Mimikyu!"

Qingyu laughed, watching Mimikyu and Eevee attack at the same time.

Although poisoned, Mimikyu can still hold on with perseverance.

It looked at Eevee, skillfully hooked its tail, condensed invisible Dark-type energy, and quickly spread towards Eevee's direction.

Taunt is a relatively common status move in battles, and many Dark-type Pokémon will use this move to interfere with the opponent's rhythm.

If controlled by this group of energy, the Pokémon will temporarily be unable to use status moves, which is very troublesome.

However, Substitute is indeed difficult to block this move, that's true.

But the airtight Protect can easily do it!

Eevee unfolded the barrier again, blocking Mimikyu's first Taunt move.

Before the second identical move following it hit, Eevee gave up resistance and condensed a burst of energy at the fastest speed.

"Mimikyu, dodge quickly!"

Okamoto's eyes widened instantly, trying to use a battle cry to let Mimikyu dodge this fatal move.

However, the god-level skill "Dodge quickly" is not something everyone can use well.

Mimikyu and Eevee hit each other at the same time.

Although neither caused any damage, they had some "small" effects on each other.

All of Eevee's status moves were directly sealed, and neither Protect nor Substitute could be used normally next.

As for Mimikyu...

When hearing Qingyu shout "Encore", Okamoto's heart went cold by half.

If there was still a little hope of victory before, then after Mimikyu couldn't dodge and was hit by the light wave, it could basically be declared dead directly.

Encore is also a Normal-type status move mainly for interfering with opponents.

The effect is to make the hit Pokémon repeat the last move used for the next few rounds.

And the last move Mimikyu used was...

Taunt!

So even if Eevee couldn't defend, Mimikyu could only stare at it, completely unable to attack Eevee.

Because of the poison, it is impossible for Mimikyu to hold on until the next time it uses Shadow Claw.

"I lost..."

Okamoto sighed silently and chose to admit defeat voluntarily.

It was the same feeling of powerlessness as facing that Breloom last time.

I thought my strength had improved very quickly, and even if I couldn't win this time, I should be able to fight back and forth.

But I didn't expect that in front of Qingyu, it seemed that there was no difference, all were easily manipulated by commands and tactics, completely failing to cause any threat to his Pokémon...

"The challenger voluntarily admitted defeat, so this battle is won by Mr. Qingyu!"

Nemona cast a sympathetic look at this student Okamoto, and then made a judgment according to the rules.

Hope he's okay...

"Bui!!!"

After harvesting a victory, Eevee couldn't stand for even a second, and jumped directly into Qingyu's arms with a kick of its hind legs.

At the same time, Qingyu also felt the clanging heartbeat coming through physical contact, and couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

"Why are you scared like this, it's just a Mimikyu, it shouldn't be that bad, right?"

Qingyu scratched its little head a little funny.

Although the reason was a bit far-fetched, Qingyu only thought that his Eevee was scared by the battle.

After all, its personality is indeed quite timid, and the strong "Imperial Engine" before every battle has explained everything.

"Bui..."

Eevee shook its head repeatedly with lingering fear, while stretching out its little claws to grab Qingyu's sleeve, and then pointed to the other side of the battle field.

Qingyu looked in the direction it pointed.

Perhaps because of the effect of the poison, Okamoto's Mimikyu was lying quietly on the ground.

And its skin, which was made to imitate Pikachu, had unknowingly broken a clear big hole under the erosion of the poison effect.

Through that big hole that emitted a pink-purple charming light and was incredibly mysterious, Qingyu saw...

The appearance that some unspeakable creature should have. ===== CHAPTER 169 =====