Pokémon: Master System.

Xia Yu smiled helplessly. He realized that the biggest gain from today's competition was that he had discovered the different personalities of his Pokémon.

The Lizard King, for example, consistently maintained a calm and steady approach, taking a step-by-step strategy to gain an advantage through direct confrontation and seeking victory through stability.

While Dorombalut is also calm, he has a gambling streak in his personality.

In fact, given its strength surpassing that of the Lizard King, it could have easily taken a steady approach, gradually gaining the upper hand and securing victory. However, it chose the most risky tactic.

Dragon Star Group forces out the defensive skill, then follows up with a spell skill.

The current Cinderace is purely impatient, with a passionate and unrestrained personality, immediately unleashing his signature move, Fireball.

As for Gengar, it's even more frustrating, coming right off the bat with a Death Song.

My Pokémon all seem to have quite a unique personality.

This is only the second match. There are still two Pokémon, Diancie and Indeedee, who can't stand each other and are arguing like crazy, as well as Charizard, who is the oldest.

Xia Yu was slightly worried. Without a trainer to guide them, wouldn't these guys run wild?

Xia Yu thought about it more and more and felt it was possible. He couldn't help but sigh. The starter Pokémon Noivern and Sceptile were still the most worry-free. He just didn't know if the personalities of Axew and Shellder would change after they evolved.

You know, Charizard used to be quite obedient when it was Charmeleon and Charmander, but it became so unruly after evolving. I just hope that Axew and Armored Dragon will be more obedient after evolving into Haxorus and Salamence.

As the Perish Song begins, both Gengar and Cinderace enter Perish Song mode, and after a period of time, both will lose all their health.

Judging from the current situation, it is impossible for either Cinderace or Gengar to defeat their opponent before Perish Song takes effect, not to mention that Gengar never even considered defeating Cinderace.

It immediately used its Stand ability after the Song of Destruction.

In Gengar's mind, winning or losing doesn't really matter; the key is that it absolutely cannot lose.

I, Gengar, would rather achieve 100 draws and 0 losses than 99 wins and 1 loss.

I, Gengar, have followed my master Xia Yu throughout my life, and have never suffered a single defeat!

Besides, we're all on the same side. What's the point of fighting and killing each other? A draw is fine as long as it's just a token effort.

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Chapter 456 Charizard and Noivern

The battle between Cinderace and Shiny Gengar is like an offensive and defensive battle.

From the moment Gengar unleashed Perish Song, Cinderace launched a furious attack, while Gengar leisurely defended.

With its various life-saving skills such as Protect, Substitute, and Sharing Pain, it completely overwhelmed Cinderace.

Xia Yu guessed that the effect of the Song of Destruction was about to activate, and he quickly recalled Cinderace and Gengar into their Poké Balls at the same time.

"Come back, Cinderace and Gengar. This match is over. It's a draw."

After Xia Yu finished speaking, he released the two Pokémon to continue watching the match.

"Next match: Noivern vs. Charizard."

As Xia Yu's voice rang out, Noivern and Charizard flew to opposite sides of the field at the same time.

Compared to the previous match, this match was more important and meaningful to Xia Yu.

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Noivern and Charizard are old rivals.

They've been competing since the time of Noctua and Charmander, until Charizard's strength skyrocketed and it finally widened the gap between it and Noivern.

Recently, with the surge in Noivern's stats, it is gradually narrowing the gap with Charizard.

This match was also their first official match after they had all evolved into their final forms.

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Currently, Noivern and Charizard are roughly equal in strength, but in terms of overall strength, Charizard is slightly stronger.

This is because Noisy Dragon's aptitude has only recently been greatly improved, and its strength is still in a phase of rapid growth; it needs time.

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"Game start!"

As Xia Yu's voice rang out, Noivern and Charizard simultaneously flapped their wings and flew into the air. As Flying-type Pokémon, the air was their main battleground.

Noivern opened its gaping maw, revealing sharp fangs, and preemptively fired a supersonic wave at Charizard through its ear.

Seeing this scene, Xia Yu recalled the initial battle between the Buzzbat and Charmander a year ago.

The Nobbat used its ultrasonic waves and air blades to slowly whittle down Charmander and achieve victory.

Now, times have changed. Noibat has grown into Noivern, and Charmander has evolved into Charizard. The two are battling again, using the same supersonic attack. What will be the outcome of this battle?

Charizard remained calm as Noivern unleashed its ultrasonic attack, its long battles giving it a wealth of experience in dealing with such attacks.

Charizard let out a huge roar, and powerful dragon-type energy surged from its body. Almost instantly, a giant dragon of dragon-type energy formed in front of Charizard.

With Charizard's roar, Dragon Pulse flew toward Noivern with unstoppable momentum.

As Xia Yu's team's top special attacker, Charizard has absolute dominance in special attacks.

Although it wasn't Dragon Pulse of the same type, its power was still extremely astonishing, directly negating the Normal-type energy covering the Ultrasonic move and flying towards Noivern.

"Roar!"

Facing Charizard's attack, Noivern was not intimidated at all and showed no fear. It also unleashed its Dragon-type energy and fired a Dragon Pulse at Charizard.

"boom!"

The first round of their encounter fully demonstrated their formidable strength.

With a loud explosion, the two dragon waves collided in the air, the energy surged, a gale arose, and smoke billowed everywhere.

Even with the STAB boost, Noivern is slightly at a disadvantage when using the same Dragon Pulse.

"Roar!"

As Noivern roared, its purplish-black figure flew out of the thick fog, releasing sound waves from its ears, which spread outwards along with Dark-type energy.

provocative!

Noivern is now using its signature move, Taunt, which can seal away all of its opponent's status-changing moves.

After all, Noivern's greatest strength is not its offense, but its various support and status moves, as well as its speed, which it is proud of.

Although its speed is not as exaggerated as Mega Sceptile or Dragapult, Noivern is still extremely fast, ranking seventh among Dragon-type Pokémon.

Among all Dragon-type Pokémon, Mega Sceptile ranks first in speed, Dragapult ranks second, followed by the legendary Pokémon Guradon and Milton tied for third, Eternatus is fifth, Necrozma is sixth, and Noivern ranks seventh.

Looking at it this way, aside from legendary Pokémon and Mega Evolution, Noivern's speed is actually second only to Dragapult among Dragon-type Pokémon.

Charizard had no way to counter Noive to Noivern's Taunt move, but it didn't really matter since its powerful Special Attack was more than enough. Therefore, Charizard simply chose to continue its attack.

Flames erupted, sweeping across the sky like a tidal wave, almost instantly enveloping the entire body of the Charizard. The Charizard flying in the air resembled a giant flame.

"Roar!"

With a roar, Charizard spewed a large ball of flame from its mouth, engulfing Noivern.

Jet flames!

Terrifying jet flames.

Standing on the sidelines, the Armored Dragon watched Charizard unleash its flames with a look of envy and determination on its face.

This afternoon, during its battle with Su Muzi's Magneton, it also used the Flamethrower move, but its power was completely different from Charizard's Flamethrower.

If it had such strength, it wouldn't have lost the game this afternoon.

The proud Shellder Dragon developed a desire for power, and the seed of becoming stronger took root in its heart. It didn't want to be the weakest Pokémon in the team!

In particular, the Axewate Dragon won the afternoon match, while it lost the match.

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Dragon-type Pokémon are mostly proud and arrogant. Take Xia Yu's team of Dragon-type Pokémon as an example.

Despite their clinginess to Xia Yu, the Lizard King, Dragapult, Charizard, and Noivern are all extremely proud.

If Xia Yu hadn't raised them by his side since they were young, they wouldn't be so obedient and well-behaved.

Similarly, other Pokémon also find it difficult to gain their approval.

To gain their approval, you either need to be like Cinderace, Gengar, Indeedee, or Diancie, who have been raised by Xia Yu since they were eggs, or you need to have great strength like Ironhide or Darkrai.

Otherwise, like the fossil aeroda that Xia Yu had previously captured, although it had the strength of a Champion-level creature, it would be difficult for it to integrate into Xia Yu's team.

It is precisely because of the pride of Dragon-type Pokémon that adult Dragon-type Pokémon are very difficult to catch.

Similarly, Shellder, being a pseudo-divine Dragon-type Pokémon, is also extremely proud.

Losing the match this afternoon must have affected its mentality, especially seeing the Axew win while it lost.

This was hard for Shellder to accept, as it was the weakest Dragon-type Pokémon.

At this moment, it was also putting in all its strength, secretly making up its mind that it must win the final battle against the Axew!

It aims to become the strongest team of Dragon-type Pokémon!

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