Chapter 697: Cattleya: The weak me of the past is dead!

March 26th, Thursday.

After a full day of preparation, the Psychic Master Tournament officially entered the main tournament stage.

Because the battle between Xiang Qingyu and Cattleya today was placed last, Xiang Qingyu was able to enjoy the duels between other contestants in the contestant lounge while resting and adjusting.

In the first battle, Sabrina gave a lesson to the newcomer Dexio.

Although Sabrina herself is not very old, about the same as Xiang Qingyu, she is clearly far ahead of her peers on the road of battle.

Even if her most terrifying Psychic power could not be displayed due to the tournament system, the powerful Alakazam and Wobbuffet in her hands still gave the opponent great pressure.

That's right, Sabrina's main force actually has a Wobbuffet...

When seeing this thing, Xiang Qingyu was stunned.

Is Wobbuffet strong?

Just looking at the ability, it is actually very average, the base stat is not high and it is particularly extreme, just light points on beating, basically it is a sandbag.

But what if it is combined with its hidden ability, and that ridiculous quality move pool?

Very terrifying, brother.

Especially in singles, it is a presence that can make opponents go crazy.

First of all, it is the first Pokémon in the Pokédex to have the "Shadow Tag" ability.

The gold content of this ability is not small, and it also appeared in Xiang Qingyu's live broadcast before, causing him a lot of trouble.

In singles, Shadow Tag pulls the opponent and it is almost endless, unless you use replacement moves or have the Ghost attribute yourself, otherwise you can only beat through Wobbuffet to run away.

In any case, this Wobbuffet can provide stable income.

Opponents who want to run away have to waste precious move slots, and opponents who don't run away can only bite the bullet and hit this "big sandbag".

Just like Dexio's choice.

And at this time, Wobbuffet's move pool came in handy.

Its Counter and Mirror Coat, as long as you bet right, can play a terrifying effect, and even directly use the mechanism of rebounding damage to solve the opponent.

It looks like this is like tossing a coin to guess positive and negative, leaving everything to luck, but in fact it is the opposite.

Because Sabrina is a Psychic.

Although she cannot directly use Psychic power to increase the combat power of Pokémon on the field, it is not difficult for her to keenly perceive the energy fluctuations of the opponent, so finally a bug-like terrifying prediction effect was formed.

You only need to read it right once, and then whether it is using Encore to force the lock, or continuing to repeat the play just now, it is a very easy instruction for Sabrina to do.

When Dexio finally beat this disgusting Wobbuffet to disability, he was taken away by a Destiny Bond...

As for his last Mega Alakazam, it is also showing off in front of Sabrina.

The Gengar who played back didn't even hand over Mega, and directly penetrated this "old opponent".

After one game, although the scene was 3:1, Dexio actually lost quite miserably.

After the first battle ended, Xiang Qingyu only had one feeling—

Sabrina is too quality!

Putting aside the Wobbuffet just now, the final Gengar was clearly the Mega hand she prepared, but she didn't show it in order to leave some backhands.

A total of three Pokémon, two are Shadow Tag, it is too perverted...

Xiang Qingyu couldn't help but hold his forehead.

Fortunately, he can't meet her for the time being, at least it is a matter of the finals.

What he has to do is relatively simple—

Advance to the finals first!

The results of the other two matches will be more one-sided.

As a Psychic Gym Leader, Olympia is the strength representative of the Kalos region. If she were not too old, she might be the best candidate for the Elite Four. Her battle experience is naturally not comparable to a kid like South.

Therefore, the battle between the two can be completely described as one-sided, so much so that Xiang Qingyu didn't see Olympia's tactics.

As for the battle between Lucian and Tulip before his battle with Cattleya in the afternoon...

It can only be said that there is indeed a gap in strength between the Elite Four and the Gym Leader.

Even if Lucian is just a newcomer, his talent is one of the best in the entire Sinnoh, and winning Tulip is not beyond Xiang Qingyu's expectation.

Especially when he really pulled out the Sunny Day Space system he had used when he was against himself in the online ranking, Xiang Qingyu called it stable.

Youth means stronger plasticity, and also more willing to use new tactics.

As the second strong enemy after defeating Cattleya, Xiang Qingyu's evaluation of his tactical ideas is very high.

However, before making targeted changes based on his tactics, he had to attack the first difficulty first.

After the three battles were over, Xiang Qingyu soon set off for the contestant tunnel.

At the same time, in the auditorium.

"Speaking of which, has Teacher Yu never revealed the second Psychic Pokémon? Will he use it when battling Cattleya today?"

"Small news, there is some private grudge between Teacher Yu and Cattleya. A long time ago, I met them in Mesagoza, and there was also the cute Champion Zhulan. At that time, Cattleya's eyes looking at Teacher Yu... were almost directly on the knife."

"???"

"Pass it on, Teacher Yu greened Cattleya!"

Various gossip voices were endless, making Champion Zhulan subconsciously frown slightly.

However, she did not expose her identity, but lowered her head and thought seriously about what they just said.

"Conflict between Xiang Qingyu and Cattleya? And it's because of emotional problems?"

"Why doesn't she, as a childhood sweetheart, know about this?"

Champion Zhulan shook her head angrily and laughingly.

Really, how come they are all messy speculations...

Clearly it is a very formal confrontation, but everyone's attention is not on the competitive state of the two people preparing to enter the field, but on some inexplicable gossip.

For the contestants participating in the competition, it is too disrespectful!

"Come on, Xiang Qingyu and Cattleya!"

Under the leadership of Champion Zhulan, most of the audience soon stopped gossiping about the relationship between the two, and turned to cheer for them.

Soon, Xiang Qingyu and Cattleya walked out of their respective half-field contestant tunnels and soon arrived in front of the battle field.

"The last match of the top eight, the heavy duel that everyone has been looking forward to has finally arrived!"

At the commentary table, Hu Tao, who had gradually adapted, started to output passionately again. ===== CHAPTER 699 =====

At the commentary desk, Hu Tao, having gradually adapted, began her passionate delivery once again.