Chapter 771: Sure enough, he is a confident man

After taking back the unconscious Metagross, Zhe thought for a long time. When he was about to take out a new Poké Ball, he saw that Xia You on the other side had also taken back Dragonite.

Ok?

He also wants to change Pokémon?

This was the second time in this game that Xia You took the initiative to replace his Pokémon when he was in an advantageous position.

Seeing this, although he didn't know why he did this, Zhe hesitated for a moment, then put the Poké Ball in his hand back into his waist bag and replaced it with a new one.

The choice he just made was based on the optimal deployment of Dragonite among the Pokémon he carried. Now that Dragonite has been taken back, he has to face another unknown battle. There is no point in targeting Dragonite before it comes on the field.

At the referee's signal, the two released their Pokémon at the same time again.

As two blue lights flashed at the same time, the lineups of the two sides for the third round of battle were also presented at this moment.

Xia You's Pokémon was his Gigantic Mantis, and in the other half, a Cunning Tengu appeared in front of Tetsuya.

Needless to say, the Giant Mantis was very familiar to them. Xiaozhi and the others in the stands just took a quick glance at it, then turned their gaze away from it and focused their attention on the cunning Tengu.

The cunning Tengu is mostly brown, with long, furry white mane covering most of its face. It has pointed ears, a long nose, and a big mouth with teeth that are always clenched. Its eyes are a cloudy yellow. In terms of appearance, it looks like a little old man with long white hair and wearing wooden clogs!

Because he didn't understand, Xiaozhi took out the Pokémon Guide and pointed it at the cunning Tengu.

The Pokémon encyclopedia reacted quickly, and Misty and Haruka, who were beside Xiaozhi, also looked at the encyclopedia with curiosity.

Pokémon Encyclopedia: "Damn, Tricky Tengu, an evil Pokémon with Grass and Evil attributes. It is said that Tricky Tengu lives quietly in the depths of the forest without being disturbed by the outside world. It is a mysterious Pokémon. There is even a legend that it was originally a bird Pokémon, but because it did bad things, it was punished by the gods and its beak and wings were replaced. It has the ability to read the opponent's thoughts and act one step ahead. It is said that it will appear on the cold wind. It has been regarded as the god of the forest and revered since a long time ago."

Before Xiaozhi could take back the Pokémon Deck, Masamune on the side had already asked tentatively: "You don't still want to say that Xia You is still the winner of this battle, right?"

But Xiaozhi seemed to be sincerely against him. When Masamune asked this, he shook his head.

"I don't know about that. Although Xia You's Giant Mantis is very strong, judging from the description in the illustrated manual, Cunning Tengu is also very powerful. If two Pokémon like these fight, I don't know who will win."

Indeed, judging from the introduction given in the illustrated encyclopedia, a Pokémon that can be punished by divine punishment sounds very mysterious, and it is reasonable to be afraid of it.

Therefore, after hearing Xiaozhi's words, everyone thought it made sense and nodded. However, one girl snorted and expressed a different opinion.

"Of course Xia You's Pokémon will win."

Because the sound was so obvious, Xiaozhi and the others looked at Xiaoxia first.

In fact, she was probably the only one in the audience who blindly believed in and supported Xia You.

Ignoring their surprised looks, Xiaoxia raised her head without even looking at them, and said in a confident tone: "If it is Brother Xia You's newly captured Pokémon that will lose, I believe it, but I don't believe that those companions who have traveled with him for so long will lose."

After hearing what she said, everyone felt that it made a lot of sense and couldn't help but look at Xiaozhi again.

Xiaozhi's face turned red when Xiaoxia refuted him on the spot.

It was a rare opportunity for him to express his opinion, but he did not expect Xiaoxia to refute it in front of so many people!

Really don't give me any face at all.

But then I thought, this is Xiaoxia, so there doesn't seem to be any problem.

But even so, Xiaozhi rarely wanted to be tough, especially in front of Masamune. He refuted Xiaoxia and said unconvincedly: "Madgrim is not one of the earliest Pokémon that followed Brother Xia You. Its strength is definitely not as good as Blastoise. So I think that in this match, Cunning Tengu has a greater chance of winning."

Even though he wanted to agree with Xiaozhi and help him win against Xiaoxia once, Xiaogang touched his chin and said dimly, "Well, Mantis's attributes are Bug and Steel, and Sly Tengu's attributes are Grass and Dark. In terms of attribute restraint, Mantis's Bug-type moves will cause four times the damage to Sly Tengu, but Sly Tengu is resisted. The situation is actually not good for Sly Tengu."

"what?"

Hearing Xiaogang's words, Xiaozhi was stunned at first, then his face changed, and he secretly said in his heart, "Oh no!"

He actually forgot about attribute restraint!

This is no wonder. Usually, his fighting style is to go straight to the fight. He doesn't really care about attributes. Now, naturally, he also ignores this point.

"Well... this..."

Xiaozhi racked his brains, trying to find another reason to support the cunning Tengu, but after thinking about it, he remembered that Xia You rarely lost when he was at a disadvantage, let alone at this moment when his attributes were advantageous!

This made him feel a little embarrassed in front of his strong rival Masamune. When he turned around, he saw Masamune winking at him.

Having witnessed the entire farce, Xiaoyao couldn't help but sigh.

Before the battle even started, this wonderful "duel" had already happened next to her, almost like a small theater. In fact, at the beginning of the journey, she was still not used to this kind of bickering between companions, but now, she has been able to completely ignore it.

Ignoring them, both of them, like Xiaosheng, focused on the game.

At this time, the third round of battle between Xia You and Zhe Ye has officially begun.

After the two battles just now, although the audience realized how powerful Xia You was, Zheye’s outstanding performance also left a deep impression on people.

Even if he is not as strong as Xia You, he should be a powerful opponent that Xia You will have to fight with all his strength.

So in their opinion, this battle should be the same as the previous round, with a close match in the early and middle stages, and the winner will suddenly be decided at a certain time period.

But apparently they were all wrong.

Xia You used his absolute suppressive power to give these people a textbook-level performance of how to fight when one has an attribute advantage!

Just like its name, Cunning Tengu is worthy of the word cunning in its name, and is also worthy of the classification of evil Pokémon. Its performance in battle can indeed be described as cunning.

It can be clearly seen that it is constantly making small movements and is very good at deceiving. Without Zheya's command, it often performs confusing operations in an attempt to influence the judgment of the giant mantis.

But in Xia You's eyes, most of the tricks were easily seen through.

Clawman resolutely followed the instructions of its trainer. Even when an opportunity seemed to be within reach, it turned a blind eye to it. This stubborn approach happened to break the tricks of the cunning Tengu.

No matter how cunning you are, I will completely ignore you. What can you do?

Only those tricks performed at extremely close range were impossible for Xia You to detect because they happened too quickly, were not obvious, or were blocked from view. However, facing the iron body of the giant mantis, even if the trick was successful, the damage it could cause would be extremely limited.

Instead, under the attack of the giant mantis, the cunning Tengu could only flee in a panic, running back and forth among the piles of rocks on the water.

This also surprised the audience.

After all, compared with just now, Tetsuya's performance in this game was really poor, as if he was a different person.

Only this made me secretly complain in my heart.

I thought Xia You’s Blastoise and Dragonite were already difficult to deal with, but I didn’t expect this Giant Mantis to be even more troublesome!

Of course, this does not mean that Megalania is stronger than Blastoise and Dragonite. It’s just that the cunning Tengu cannot break Megalania’s defense at all!

This is entirely the effect of attribute suppression, leaving Zhe with no way out.

Just like Xia You in the previous two rounds, he simply lost the bet.

Oh, if I had known this, I wouldn't have changed Pokémon just now...

But with the decrease in the number of Pokémon, it is no longer realistic to change the lineup. If other Pokémon are exposed but still cannot defeat this Giant Mantis, it would be a loss.

So even if both of us die, at least we have to let the cunning Tengu defeat the giant mantis!

After taking a look at the pond water, Zheye had already made a decision in his mind.

He changed his strategy and let the cunning Tengu get close to the giant mantis and try to knock it into the water. If he succeeded, with the weight of the giant mantis, it would be just like the Metagross just now and would definitely not be able to leave the pool. Even if the cunning Tengu lost its combat ability by then, from a strategic point of view, Zhe could still accept it!

This is the only solution Zheye can think of at the moment.

Regardless of whether you succeed or not, at least give it a try.

Naturally, Xia You quickly noticed Zheye's change of strategy.

It has to be said that if he were to succeed, it would indeed directly reverse the situation of the war, but how could he possibly do such a thing so easily?

Putting aside whether or not he would give him this opportunity, just the fact that as the cunning Tengu got closer, the giant mantis's attack was not something the cunning Tengu could withstand!

Just as he thought, the cunning Tengu tried to get close several times, but not only did he fail to knock the giant mantis into the water, he was almost killed by the giant mantis.

This also made Zheye's heart heavier.

All I can say is that the idea is nice, but the actual implementation is not the same thing.

Just when he was about to ask the cunning Tengu to be more careful, he didn't expect that before he could say anything, the giant mantis found the opportunity first.

At the moment when their bodies intertwined again, the giant mantis completely ignored the attack of the cunning Tengu, and then used the cross shears to hit the cunning Tengu's body, knocking it into the water.

puff.

The cunning Tengu smashed into the water and sank briefly. When it surfaced again, its eyes had rolled back and it lay there motionless, apparently having fallen into a coma.

The referee raised the colored flag again.

"The cunning Tengu lost his ability to fight, and the winner is the giant mantis!"

Seeing that the winner had been decided, there was a not-so-enthusiastic applause from the stands.

It's no wonder that the audience didn't respond much. After seeing the previous battle between Dragonite and Metagross, people had too high expectations for this battle. Now seeing the third round, it turned out to be such a bland and one-sided battle. Naturally, they felt it was not so exciting and a little dissatisfied.

In their opinion, Tetsuya's performance should have been even better.

It can only be said that these people did not put themselves into Zheye's perspective, nor were they participants in the battle, so naturally they did not know how helpless he was when facing Xia You.

This man was like a mountain, standing in front of him.

Even though he had prepared himself mentally, this battle brought his morale back to normal.

Lost again...

And compared to the previous round, this round was lost even more helplessly.

He wanted to put the blame on attribute restraint, but when he thought about the first and second rounds of battles, in which Xia You won despite unfavorable attributes, his excuse seemed too weak.

After all, I am not as skilled as others...

But I have to say that most of my Pokémon are only adapted to fighting on land and can only exert their greatest advantages on land. At this time, this water venue is indeed very disadvantageous to me.

If only I could change it now...

But Zhe also knew clearly that if he wanted to change the venue, he needed to defeat Xia You's three Pokémon in a row, or he would have to defeat one of them.

But now it seems that defeating Xia You's three Pokémon is undoubtedly quite difficult, and losing one of his Pokémon is simply unacceptable.

After much deliberation, after taking back the cunning Tengu, Zheya sent out his Lizard King again.

I can only use it to find opportunities...

And under his gaze, he saw that Xia You had indeed taken back his Xylocarpus again and took out a new Poké Ball, and his heart rose to his throat.

What he was most worried about now was that Xia You would use Blastoise to deal with the Lizard King. Fortunately, after the blue light flashed, a brand new Pokémon appeared, which undoubtedly made him feel relieved.

But then he became nervous again.

Even though he didn't know much about Xia You before, after a few battles, he could see that the man in front of him was the kind of guy who was very confident in himself.

Otherwise, what kind of trainer would replace them no matter how beautifully and easily they won, and would randomly send a new Pokémon into the field regardless of the opponent's attributes?

Only those who are very confident in their own abilities will do this!

For example, now, after seeing his Lizard King appear on the field, this man actually took out a Jolteon, which made him very confused.

After all, anyone who knows a little about Pokémon battles knows that electric-type moves cannot cause full damage to Grass-type Pokémon. They can only produce half of the effect, while ignoring other Pokémon. Apart from feeling confident in himself, he really couldn't think of any reason to explain Xia You's actions by sending such a Pokémon into the field.

It would be fine if the Lizard King got wet, as his electric moves might produce some unexpected effects. But obviously, this man didn't think that way, regardless of whether he would let the Lizard King go into the water or not!