Hard Enough

With no challengers for the Elite course for the Gym and only one normal challenger who tried and failed to run the gauntlet, things in the Gym were able to wind down easily.

This let me spend more time with A.J., Greta and Missy for most of the day until lunch. From there I ran a quick course on identifying pokemon moves and accessing databases for what moves pokemon could learn. Then I ran through variants of known methods I had for how to coach certain moves to my sponsored trainers.

“Dark Pulse is an effective move to have in your back pocket against psychic types,” I said, pausing the video of Knight exploding with dark power.

“You’ll want to make sure that you have your pokemon channelling and compressing the energy within them. It’s great to give them some visual cues for this,” I said over the channel.

A ping made me pause in the lecture. “How do you get them to visualise it?” Mia asked.

I grinned and pulled up a sheet of blank paper. I then waved for Yolanda to approach and enter the camera. “We’re going to have Yolanda demonstrate this with Terra.” I waved a hand towards the small pokemon who waved at the camera.

“Larvitar, while ground and rock typed currently, is capable of learning Dark Pulse. For this, it is best if Larvitar knows Payback or Bite, which will allow her to have an easy gateway into tapping into her dark energy,” I said, feeling like I should have worn the lab coat Oak had given me for this lecture.

“Terra does,” Yolanda said, waving a hand towards a pokedoll. “Terra! Use Bite!” she commanded, and Terra stopped waving at the camera and adopted a serious pose. She leapt from her position to slam into the doll with her fangs sinking in.

She shook the doll from side to side. A small squeaky toy in the middle of the pokedoll squeaked, causing Terra to sink her fangs in repeatedly.