Chapter 648: You Are Not Allowed to Play Pokémon! Chapter 326

At first, when welcoming challengers, he would indeed learn from other gym leaders in his impression and say a few words.

However, after facing a massive number of challengers, ranging from a dozen to dozens every day, Qingyu decisively gave up this habit.

The reason is very simple—

He ran out of words; he really couldn't say so many different lines!

And if it was too formulaic, it would appear very insincere, which felt like it would lower the impression score instead...

Plus, he was getting more and more familiar with the students, so there was no need to go through these red tapes, so he gradually gave up the pre-match trash talk session later.

However, this time it seems quite commemorative.

Thinking about it, Qingyu finally looked at Poppy, who was waiting nervously, and only said two simple sentences:

"Remember when I accepted your challenge for the first time, I once told you that type advantage is not absolute; sometimes it turns into a trap that paralyzes the opponent."

"Now that two months have passed, this sentence is still applicable. In the upcoming battle, please keep this in mind at all times."

After speaking, Qingyu smiled slightly and looked at Rika.

"Then—let the battle begin!"

Rika understood instantly, and her right hand, which had been held high, slammed down, signaling the start of the battle.

At the moment she spoke, Qingyu and Poppy immediately threw out their Poké Balls respectively.

"I choose you, Corviknight!"

"My lead Pokémon is—Lucario!"

"Lucario..."

The black crow covered in steel feathers, making a sharp bird cry in the air, appeared, and its momentum made Lucario on Qingyu's side subconsciously narrow its eyes.

A powerful opponent, compared to the lords he usually encounters in the wild, its strength is even better!

Must treat it seriously.

Rika, acting as the referee, had already retreated to the sidelines at this time, squinting her eyes to carefully examine Qingyu's Pokémon.

She has an impression of this one.

When she initially assessed Qingyu as an examiner, he only had two Pokémon, Eevee and Riolu, which had not yet evolved.

And more than three months later, Riolu has long since evolved into Lucario, and its strength is bound to be much stronger than before.

That Eevee seems to have grown into Sylveon.

When it hadn't evolved before, these two Pokémon relied on exquisite cooperation to solve her main force, Clodsire.

Although she wasn't too serious at that time, she could also see that their strength was not simple. It was also at that time that Rika first intuitively felt Qingyu's unconventional command thinking.

However, compared to these two...

It is said that Qingyu also caught a "Ogerpon" with extremely terrifying strength in Kitakami?

Must hold on, Poppy!

At least let Qingyu's Pokémon all appear once!

Regarding whether Poppy would win, actually Rika already had the answer in her heart before the battle—

It's very difficult~

So compared to the option of letting Poppy win against Qingyu, which is almost impossible, Rika's idea from the beginning was to hope that she could force out all of Qingyu's Pokémon as much as possible.

In this way, she could also have an estimate of where Qingyu should be placed in the champion assessment in the future.

If Qingyu's strength is too strong, and he handles all the students when they enter the door for the champion assessment, that would be a major accident on this year's Champion Road... ===== CHAPTER 650 =====