Chapter 366: Altaria vs Gallade’s Battle of Fundamentals
If these four could take Terrance’s words to heart, reflect on them, and truly grasp their meaning, not only collecting Badges, but even achieving excellent results at the Ever Grande Conference would become quite easy.
Unfortunately, most Trainers are not great at reflection and simply follow in the footsteps of those before them.
The quick defeat of Shuppet was within Terrance’s expectations, unless Shuppet could, like Mismagius, completely conceal its energy, emit no fluctuations, and possess numerous undetectable illusion skills to disrupt opponents.
But while hiding its physical form is easy, concealing energy fluctuations is far more challenging. Mismagius’s meticulous control over energy is closely tied to its illusion skills. This level of finesse was far beyond the challenger’s Shuppet. Thus, while Gallade might encounter some difficulties against Mismagius, defeating Shuppet required almost no effort at all.
Terrance’s words left the four people in both contemplation and confusion. Aida and Lucy Joy glanced at him with newfound respect, surprised that he would share such important insights with strangers.
Unless they are high-level professional Trainers, very few Trainers would delve into areas such as move concepts or type advantages.
“Thank you, I’ve gained a lot,” the girl Trainer in short skirt was the first to respond.
Although she still didn’t fully understand about Foresight and Miracle Eye, she immediately thought of a countermeasure for Ground-type Pokémon. “I can’t remember where I read this, but Ground-type Pokémon could ignore Electric-type moves because their bodies channel the electricity into the ground in a special way. If we make a Ground-type Pokémon float, Electric-type moves should still have some effect… Is that what Gym Leader Terrance is hinting at? He mentioned there are two simple methods—what’s the other one?” she wondered to herself.
Terrance watched the four with a smile. While their fundamentals were indeed poor, as long as they weren’t so clueless as to be unaware of basic type matchups, there was still hope for them. At least, having basic knowledge sets them apart from Trainers who lacked it entirely.