Pokémon: Starting From Zero as a Legendary Pokémon

"Come out, Medicham!"

"Cha!!"

This was Sora's first time seeing a real Medicham.

It was a humanoid Pokémon resembling a figure dressed in pink harem pants, possessing both Psychic and Fighting typings. Many martial arts trainers specifically captured and raised this species.

"Lower level than Blaziken, but higher than Alakazam… Level 64?"

Sora acknowledged Medicham's strength.

Combined with its Psychic-type abilities, it possessed enough power to exchange blows with Magearna in her normal state.

"Unfortunately…"

"You came out a little too late."

"Magearna, Zap Cannon."

The electromagnetic field had already been established.

Sora didn't even need to issue additional instructions anymore.

Magearna simply had to carpet-bomb the field with Zap Cannons.

"Medicham, Taunt!"

"Hm?"

Gurkinn's command surprised Sora.

"I see…"

Sora instantly understood Gurkinn's battle strategy.

He hadn't sent Medicham out due to overconfidence.

He intended to use game mechanics themselves to suppress Magearna.

[Taunt]

Move Effect: For 3 turns, the opponent can only use damaging moves.

At first glance, the effect didn't seem particularly impressive.

But the moment Taunt succeeded, the electric arcs spread throughout the battlefield abruptly vanished.

"Return, Medicham."

Then, before Sora could even react, Gurkinn instantly recalled Medicham.

His hand speed was so absurdly fast that even Sora was impressed.

"Come out, Barbaracle!"

"…What?"

The corner of Sora's mouth twitched.

The Pokémon emerging from the light was precisely the evolved form of the bizarre Binacle he had encountered earlier in the cave.

SLAM!

Yet Barbaracle moved with shocking speed.

The instant it appeared from the Poké Ball, it used Dig and vanished underground, completely disappearing from Sora's sight.

"So that's how you want to play it, huh…"

Sora was speechless, inwardly lamenting Gurkinn's shamelessness.

First Medicham came out to land a Taunt.

Then it was immediately withdrawn using Poké Ball mechanics.

Afterward came Barbaracle.

This Barbaracle was absolutely specialized in Dig tactics.

Otherwise it couldn't have disappeared so quickly—so quickly that Sora had no time at all to issue an attack command to Magearna.

Most importantly, due to Taunt, Magearna's internal energy flow had become slightly sluggish.

As a result, she could no longer use compressed Flash Cannon to instantly snipe Barbaracle the moment it surfaced.

"As expected of a veteran master. Your battle experience truly is overwhelming."

Sora genuinely admired Gurkinn's response.

To formulate a countermeasure against Magearna in such a short time was impressive.

Medicham's level wasn't low either.

There wasn't much level difference between it and Magearna.

That allowed its rule-based moves to successfully affect her.

Still—the issue was ultimately insufficient energy scale.

The essence of status moves was interference with a Pokémon's energy and body.

Moves like Imprison and Taunt targeted the former.

In other words, if a Pokémon's self-control was strong enough, or if its energy was too vast or chaotic to influence—

then status moves became meaningless.

If the Pokémon Sora had sent out had been Volcanion instead, a mere Medicham wouldn't have been able to interfere with her at all.

"No helping it."

Gurkinn showed zero shame about his tactics.

"Magearna's attacks are too powerful. If my Pokémon gets hit even once, it'll immediately lose the ability to battle."

"And that electromagnetic field from earlier…"

"As long as that thing remains active, Magearna's Zap Cannons gain infinite tracking…"

How was anyone supposed to fight that?!

Were you the only one actually playing Pokémon battles here?!

Thus, even if he had to rely on rapid switching and relentless pressure, Gurkinn had to create a safe foothold for his Pokémon.

"But how long can you keep this up?"

Sora remained completely relaxed, showing no intention whatsoever of withdrawing Magearna.

"With Magearna's level, at most thirty seconds are needed for her to reorganize the disrupted energy flow in her body."

"Can your Barbaracle defeat my Magearna within half a minute?"

Medicham's Taunt had indeed caught Sora off guard.

But tricks like that only worked once.

The instant Gurkinn dared send Medicham out again, Magearna's Flash Cannon would immediately remove it from the field.

Without question, this was exactly the problem giving Gurkinn a headache.

Magearna's raw power was simply too overwhelming.

Quickly ending the battle was absolutely beyond Barbaracle's capabilities.

"You want to stall for time."

"But I don't."

Sora had no interest in waiting passively for enemy attacks.

"Magearna," he said in a low voice, "maximum-power Flash Cannon. Target the ground."

"Dii~~duuuu!!!"

Magearna's eyes glowed pink.

Her hands merged together, transforming into an enormous cannon barrel.

Energy rapidly gathered at the muzzle.

The charging speed once again exceeded everyone's expectations.

This was no longer compressed energy focused on speed.

This was a large-scale, high-output amplification attack.

And this, too, was part of Sora's modifications to Magearna.

"Barbaracle!"

Gurkinn urgently tried to order Barbaracle to attack immediately.

But moving underground via Dig to approach Magearna consumed far too much time.

There was simply no way it could launch an attack before Magearna finished charging.

"Too late…"

Gurkinn knew very well.

Barbaracle simply wasn't faster than Magearna.

At this point, the only thing he could hope for was that Magearna's attack lacked sufficient penetration power to harm the Barbaracle hidden deep beneath the earth.

BOOOOOOM!!!

Unfortunately, events clearly did not develop according to Gurkinn's wishes.

Magearna's high-powered Flash Cannon was a same-type move with terrifying destructive force.

More importantly—

Magearna's Ability granted her even further amplification.

[Soul-Heart]

Original Ability Effect: Whenever a Pokémon on the field faints, Special Attack rises by one stage.

That was Soul-Heart's original effect.

In simple terms, every time a nearby Pokémon entered a fainted state, Magearna's Special Attack increased by 50%.

However, after careful observation, Sora discovered that Magearna's Soul-Heart concealed even more mysterious powers.

[Soul-Heart Garment]

Current Effect: Whenever a Pokémon suffers emotional trauma due to unconsciousness, fear, sadness, or despair, Soul-Heart absorbs the leaking spiritual energy and awakens the hidden potential within Magearna.

As for the actual effect—

it continuously strengthened Magearna without limit, right up until her body reached its absolute maximum threshold.

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