Chapter 19 - 19: Retreat
For almost the entire afternoon, Cain and Murkrow employed guerrilla tactics to the fullest, attacking one area and immediately retreating, resting briefly, and then attacking another part of the forest.
Thanks to this strategy, they managed to wipe out four groups of Kakuna throughout the afternoon.
Although each Kakuna provided minimal growth for Murkrow, little by little, it accumulated experience and managed to level up, reaching level 14.
However, every time they wiped out a group of Kakuna, a few, in their extreme rage, evolved prematurely into Beedrill. But for Murkrow, even a level 13 or 14 Beedrill was as easy to defeat as a Kakuna, not to mention those that had just evolved.
Moreover, Murkrow was becoming increasingly familiar with Beedrill, and hardly wasted any energy in defeating all its enemies.
With the help of his system, Cain scanned each Beedrill that appeared, recording all the data into his system. Of the dozens of Beedrill they encountered, most had red potential, with only a few having orange potential.
This fact showed how rare it was to find Pokémon with high potential. Murkrow, with its green potential, was practically one in a million.
The difference between red and orange potential Beedrill was clear. Orange potential Beedrill had an additional egg move and, in general, their growth was much more robust.
At the same level, a red potential Beedrill was incapacitated after a single attack from Murkrow, while an orange potential one required at least two attacks to be defeated.
It is for this clear difference that Pokémon with higher potential are so valuable.
This also showed how much Team Rocket was investing in this test, given that the Pokémon with the lowest potential among the three hundred participants had orange potential.
