Pokémon: Master System.

When a dominant-level Sceptile battles a Gym Leader-level Gyarados, it can only try to overcome the weaknesses and gaps between the two through power-ups.

"Roar!"

A roar erupted from the dark clouds, and a blood-red figure leaped from the black clouds toward the Lizard King like a bolt of red lightning.

"Lizard King, Thunder Fist!"

Facing the charging Gyarados, Sceptile showed no fear. Its fist crackled with electricity as it clashed violently with the Gyarados, which was enveloped in Flying-type energy.

"boom!"

The pure clash of forces created a massive shockwave, with visible ripples spreading outwards and whipping the hair of the spectators in the stands.

"To be honest, this level of competition is comparable to the ranking battle of the club master!" Wang Weijia, who witnessed this scene, exclaimed: "The level of this year's finals is so high that it may be the best in history. This may be a wonderful battle that will go down in history."

While Wang Weijia was speaking, the direct clash between Sceptile and Gyarados had already determined the winner. Sceptile was slightly at a disadvantage and slid back several meters before stopping under the impact of Gyarados's tremendous power.

Xia Yu frowned, slightly surprised by the result. He knew that the Lizard King had used Swords Dance twice, yet it still couldn't beat Li Shiyu's Gyarados.

It's obvious that Li Shiyu's Gyarados is not just a beginner at the Gym Leader level. While it may not be the peak of the Gym Leader level, it's not far off, otherwise it wouldn't be so powerful.

"Roar!"

Gyarados roared at Sceptile, its eyes gleaming with ferocity, completely overwhelming Sceptile in terms of sheer power.

"Lizard King, it's a sunny day!"

Since he couldn't match Gyarados in strength, Xia Yu changed his strategy and adopted a different approach.

"Chamo!"

Fire energy surged from the Lizard King's body, transforming into a ball of light that plunged into the dark clouds in the sky, tearing a hole in them.

A ray of sunlight pierced through the dark clouds and shone on the battlefield. The hole in the clouds grew larger and larger, and in just a few breaths, the sky cleared up, and the sunlight shone on the entire battlefield, turning the weather into a bright sunny day.

"Gyarados, Ice Fang!"

"Roar!"

Gyarados displayed its astonishing speed, its massive body moving with incredible agility as it pounced from the air at Sceptile, launching its attack while Sceptile was using Ice Fang.

"Lizard King, use See Through."

Faced with Gyarados's fierce attacks, Xia Yu felt extremely overwhelmed and had no choice but to have Sceptile use its Foresight skill to defend.

"Roar!"

Gyarados opened its gaping maw, its fangs covered in ice energy, and bit down hard on the light shield, making a cracking sound, as if it wanted to shatter the light shield.

"Come back, Lizard King. Go, Buzzbat."

Taking advantage of the precious opportunity to see through creation, Xia Yu chose to change his Pokémon.

"Gyarados, keep using Ice Fang!" Li Shiyu gave the order decisively.

As soon as Nombat appeared, Gyarados pounced again, biting Nombat hard.

If a Nombat, which is four times weak to Ice, were to be bitten by a Gyarados, it would be unable to battle at all, as it would be impossible for it to withstand the attack after a Gym Leader-level Gyarados uses Dragon Dance.

"Buzzing Bat, hold the line."

In this critical moment, Xia Yu had no choice but to have the Buzz Bat use its defensive skill.

With this, both the Lizard King and the Buzzbat have used up all their defensive skills, making the rest of the match extremely difficult.

There was nothing that could be done about it; facing the powerful Gyarados, Nombat appeared so weak at this moment.

"Nutbat, use Toxic!" This was Xia Yu's purpose in choosing to switch Pokémon at this moment.

The Noctua's greatest strength in this battle is its poison; if the poison hits Gyarados, there's a sliver of a chance of victory.

The Buzzbat spews a deadly poison from its mouth at Gyarados, and given Gyarados's massive size, it's difficult for it to avoid being hit by the poisonous attack.

"Gyarados, use Protect!"

Faced with the poisonous move, Li Shiyu also found it troublesome and directly had Gyarados use the Protect move.

"Come back, Gyarados. Go, Hippowdon."

Li Shiyu appeared extremely conservative at this moment, surprisingly choosing to change her Pokémon.

As soon as the hippopotamus appeared, ground-based energy surged, creating a massive sandstorm that turned the originally sunny day into a sandstorm.

"Buzzing Bat, use provocation!"

Chapter 264 Buzzbat, Evolve (Part 1)

It's obvious that Hippowdon, a support Pokémon that's more of a tank, will definitely use status moves like Stealth Rock or Yawn as soon as it enters the battle. If you can shut down its status moves, you've already won more than half the battle.

With the release of the Taunt skill, Dark-type energy was transmitted through sound waves, covering Hippowdon and successfully blocking its status moves.

Since Ground-type moves like Earthquake are ineffective against Nombat, Hippowdon, whose moves are currently locked, can only pose a threat to Nombat by using Rock-type moves.

However, it is clear that Li Shiyu only sent out the hippopotamus to change the weather, and did not intend to rely on the hippopotamus to defeat the buzzing bat.

"Come back, Hippowdon! Go, Excadrill!" Li Shiyu switched Pokémon again, choosing to send out her third Pokémon, Excadrill.

At this point, all three of Li Shiyu's Pokémon have been revealed: Gyarados, Excadrill, and Hippowdon. These three Pokémon were not unexpected, as they are Li Shiyu's strongest Pokémon.

As soon as Excadrill enters the field, its eyes are fixed on Nombat. With its Ground and Steel attributes, Excadrill is immune to Poison-type moves, which can effectively prevent Nombat from using its poison.

Meanwhile, during sandstorms, the speed of the Saudi-type gopher doubles, and combined with its extremely high attack power, it poses a deadly threat to the buzzing bat.

The only good news is that this dragon-headed exploding mole isn't even at the Gym Leader level, otherwise Xia Yu wouldn't have needed to fight it.

"Faced with the Nodding Bat that had learned to use poison, Li Shiyu chose the most conservative tactic. By making continuous substitutions and changing the weather, she sent out the Excadrill, which was immune to poison."

"After replacing the dragon-headed gopher, Li Shiyu is about to launch an attack..."

Before Wang Weijia could finish his commentary, Li Shiyu's voice rang out first: "Dragon Head Groundhog, Rockfall!"

Hidden in the sandstorm, the dragon-headed ground squirrel moves incredibly fast; only a faint, dark brown figure can be seen darting through the sandstorm.

"boom."

Suddenly, a huge rock flew in during the sandstorm, crashing down on the buzzing bat like a cannonball.

"Buzzing Bat, dodge it and then use Sunny Day!"

Noboo is the most agile Pokémon among all of Xia Yu's Pokémon. Having undergone special training in extreme evasion, it can easily handle such surprise attacks.

The buzzing bat flapped its wings and dodged easily in the air with extremely agile movements, completing a difficult dodge maneuver and avoiding the flying giant rock.

Immediately afterwards, the buzzing bat released a ball of fire energy from its mouth, which flew into the sky, turning the weather clear again.

"boom!"

However, at that moment, the huge rock that had been flying over the buzzing bat suddenly exploded and fell like a shower of flowers, forming countless small pebbles that hit the buzzing bat and left numerous wounds.

This is also a technique for using the Rock Slide skill. Like Sword Dance defense, it is an advanced skill that requires a high level of proficiency to execute. First, bombard the opponent with a large rock, then detonate the rock when you get close to the opponent, shattering it into countless tiny fragments that bombard the enemy.

Meanwhile, the sandstorm lashed at the buzzing bats, continuously inflicting damage upon them.

"Buzzbat, are you alright?" Xia Yu's expression was somewhat unpleasant. Although he had anticipated before the competition that the Dragon Head Mole would be very difficult to deal with, he still found it troublesome when he actually faced it.

"pain."

Through telepathy, the buzzing bat responded to Xia Yu, clearly indicating that the Rock Slide skill had caused it considerable damage.

Xia Yu looked at the Dragon Head Excadrill with a serious expression. The Dragon Head Excadrill only has four weaknesses: water, fire, earth, and fighting, and it is also immune to poison attacks.

This made the dragon-headed mole the most difficult part to deal with in the game.

Fortunately, Noibat used Sunny Day again, turning the weather sunny again, which slightly made up for the disadvantage.

"Excadrill, keep using Rock Slide!"

Li Shiyu gave the buzzing bat no chance to catch its breath, ordering the dragon-headed exploding mole to use Rock Slide attack again.

"Buzzing Bat, use hot air."

Noctua also knows the Heat Wave move. It learned the Heat Wave move around the same time as Charmander, both taught by Ryusho's Pokémon.

However, because its brilliance has been overshadowed by Charizard, Nombat has always played a supporting role and has never used the Heat Wave move.

Now that Charizard is four times weak to Rock and can't be used against Excadrill, Nombat finally gets a chance to shine.

The buzzing bat flapped its wings, its small mouth filled with fire energy, and spewed out scorching breath that swept towards the dragon-headed ground squirrel.

Meanwhile, the S-rank Life Orb carried by the buzzing bat also took effect. Its stamina was rapidly depleted, but the power of the hot wind was increased. At the same time, with the added benefit of sunny weather, the power of the hot wind was also greatly enhanced.

Faced with the scorching heat, the dragon-headed ground squirrel dug out a rock with its drill-like hands and hurled it at the buzzing bat!

Both sides launched attacks.

The buzzer bat dodges the huge rock thrown at it again, but just like last time, even if the huge rock doesn't hit the buzzer bat, it will explode in mid-air like a grenade.

Having learned from its previous experience, this time the Buzzbat focused intently on the giant rock, and dodged with all its might when the explosion occurred.

Tiny pebbles burst forth like fireworks, engulfing the buzzing bats. Even though the buzzing bats were prepared and tried their best to dodge, they still couldn't avoid being hit by some of the pebbles, adding new wounds to their bodies, making them stagger and reach their physical limit.

Xia Yu felt a pang of heartache looking at the battered and bruised Buzz Bat. This was the first time Buzz Bat had suffered such severe injuries, but Xia Yu couldn't change Buzz Bat's fate now.

If Charizard is switched in now, it will take a Rock Slide for free. Charizard, which is 4x weak to Rock, will be severely injured instantly, and even Mega Evolution won't win the match.

Therefore, we must wait until Nombat is completely incapacitated before switching in Charizard. Although this is somewhat cruel for Nombat, it is a necessary choice in battle.