Chapter 52: Graveler
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With its vision blocked, the Rockruff, even though it heard Gary's voice, was too late to react.
The figure of Eevee fell rapidly from the air, its tail instantly enveloped in a metallic sheen, radiating silver light, directly smashing towards the top of Rockruff's head.
Bang! Boom!!!
Iron Tail slammed into Rockruff's head, the astonishing force directly pressing Rockruff down from the air, smashing heavily onto the ground, the airflow spreading, smoke simultaneously filling the entire arena.
Gary subconsciously used his hand to block the airflow in front of him, Ash also reached out to hold his hat brim, the smoke obscuring the figures of Rockruff and Eevee, making it impossible to see what was happening inside.
Misty, sitting to the side, also unconsciously clenched her hands placed on her knees, nervously watching the arena.
The billowing smoke gradually dissipated, revealing the figures of Eevee and Rockruff. A deep pit filled with cracks appeared on the rocky field.
At this moment, Rockruff's body was directly embedded in the pit, its eyes had turned into swirls, Eevee was standing in front of it, some dust clinging to its fur, but it was unharmed.
"Amazing!!" Seeing this, Misty excitedly stood up from the audience seats.
Rockruff had lost its fighting ability, but the Viridian Gym didn't have any referees or anything like that. The reason was simple, because Gary himself was struggling to support his entire family, he simply didn't have extra money to hire someone.
"How... how is this possible? My brother's Rockruff actually lost." Seeing this, Gary's younger siblings were all surprised.
"It's not over yet! My brother's Graveler won't lose." But there were also those who didn't believe it, thinking that Ash had only won against Rockruff, absolutely impossible to be the opponent of Graveler.
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"It seems I underestimated you, you're different from the usual rookie trainers." Gary looked at Ash in front of him, his expression solemn.
"Really? Then you have to be serious from now on, I don't want to lose to you because you're too careless." Ash heard this and smiled, holding his hat brim and moving it slightly, looking up to reply.
"I won't let you down, come back Rockruff!" Gary responded, then took out a Poké Ball and put Rockruff back inside.
"You did great Rockruff!" After taking back Rockruff, Gary said to the Poké Ball.
Then he put Rockruff's Poké Ball back and took out a new Poké Ball, his expression becoming more solemn, he directly threw the Poké Ball in his hand.
"Go! Graveler!!"
Bang!!!
Moo-moo!!!
The Poké Ball made a bang, accompanied by a roar similar to the call of a yak, a massive figure appeared in front of everyone, its massive body was entirely made of large, gray rocks.
From head to tail, the rocks were large to small, with a rocky spike on its head.
Graveler's size was astonishing, generally speaking, an adult Graveler would be at least 8 meters in size, Gary's Graveler seemed to be still growing, about 6-7 meters in size.
Booey!!!
Eevee looked at the Graveler in front of it, which was dozens of times larger than itself, and did not shrink back, still full of fighting spirit, ready to continue the battle. Ash looked at the Graveler in front of him and pondered for a moment.
"You did well Eevee, go back for now!"
Booey??
Eevee paused slightly upon hearing this, turned its head to look at Ash, a look of confusion appeared on its face, it could feel that it wanted to fight on.
"Alright, go rest for now!" Having been caught until now, Ash also understood that his Eevee had a very competitive personality and naturally wouldn't be happy about being switched out.
But Ash didn't give in, he didn't want a situation like Charizard in the future. Although he wanted his Pokémon to have more freedom, he couldn't let them have their own way.
Looking at Ash's gaze, Eevee had no choice but to follow Ash's instructions. Seeing that Eevee listened, Ash also took out a Poké Ball and put Eevee back inside.
"Pikachu, go!" Ash looked at the Graveler in front of him, bowed his head and said to Pikachu at his feet.
"Pika-Pika!!"
Pikachu nodded decisively upon hearing this, after seeing Eevee's battle, it was also a little eager to try, the current Pikachu is not the same as in the anime, it saw Graveler and directly didn't dare to fight.
Hearing Ash's words, it quickly ran into the arena, seeing that Ash had sent out Pikachu, Gary frowned slightly.
"You want to use Pikachu to deal with my Graveler??"
He felt that after just fighting, Ash shouldn't be someone who doesn't know about type matchups. In such a situation, facing the Ground-type Graveler, he actually sent out an Electric-type Pikachu.
"Yes! What's wrong? Is your gym rule against sending out Pikachu?"
"Well no, but trainers like you shouldn't possibly not know that Electric-type moves are useless against Graveler, right?" If it was other trainers they might not have reminded him so seriously, it was just Gary.
"Yeah! But who said Pikachu can only use Electric-type moves?" Ash calmly responded.
"......." Gary fell silent after hearing this, it's true what he said, but even if it wasn't only Electric-type moves, it was still an Electric-type Pokémon.
Graveler, possessing both Rock-type and Ground-type, its moves could inflict great damage on Pikachu.
"If that's the case, I don't care if you lose! Graveler, use Bind!!"
Facing Ash's Pikachu, Gary launched a direct attack. His Graveler's defense was several times stronger than Rockruff's, he was not afraid of the opponent's attack at all.
Graveler roared, twisting its massive body and charging towards Pikachu.
"Pikachu, dodge!!" Ash immediately gave the order to Pikachu, Graveler couldn't catch up to Pikachu in terms of speed.
Pika!!
Pikachu immediately acted upon hearing this, jumping backward. Graveler was huge but its movements were relatively clumsy, Pikachu jumped backward, and Graveler directly collided with the ground, shaking the entire arena.