Hard Enough

Lance watched as the Kabutops swept over the battlefield, scythes flashing. He paused it as it carved into its foe. The blade bit into the Magnemite’s body and despite the threat that the other pokemon had to Kabutops, it was the Kabutops that emerged triumphant.

Lance had watched this fight play out when it was live and he’d not noticed this point.

He made a note of it on his growing list that was titled “Brock’s Kabutops - Shin”. He had all the observations he could written out before him. Its known typing, move set and even more were laid out before him.

Under each move, he had a subsetting for different ways that Brock made his pokemon use them. From the Metal Claws helping the Kabutops reduce damage done to it through electrical attacks.

Although Lance thought it was a bit rich that a trainer had dared to bring an Electric type against Brock.

Of all the pokemon they could have faced, Kabutops was on paper the best pokemon due to not having a ground typing with its rock. Still, others would have been able to resist.

Lance pressed play on the recording and continued to observe the match.

A door clicked open and a woman called out, “Hello? Lance? Are you in here?” called Clair.

“I’m here,” replied Lance as he continued to watch the match while pausing every now and then to make another note. He ignored that the opening door led to the balcony.