Chapter 63: 63. Meganium
"The following battle is between Ephraim and his Skiploom, who are appearing for the first time in this tournament, against the mysterious Trainer of unknown origin, Mr. Semaj and his Victreebel!"
After Ash won his battle in a crushing style, it was finally Ephraim's turn.
His opponent is James in a strange outfit and with his name spelled backwards. When Ash saw James and his Victreebel, he knew that they definitely had a very strong bond with each other.
'Maybe they have a strong enough bond to use Bond Evolution if they had that power.' Ash thought out.
Although it was a hard fight for most of the battle, Ephraim still won with his Double Team strategy.
Skiplooms Double Team is getting faster and faster, and Ephraim also takes full advantage of Skiploom's light weight.
In Ash next game, he unexpectedly met Jessie who came to compete with Meowth.
She knew what was going on and saw that opponent was Ash of all people, so she gave up the battle before it even began, saving Ash time and energy from beating her back to her real form.
After Ephraim experienced a tough battle with James, he actually beat all the other contestants and went all the way to the end, where he had to fight against with Ash in the finals.
"Ephraim, you did a great job, but I still have to take the championship! Can't lose one when you are so close to winning it." Ash could see that Ephraim and Skiploom were making rapid progress in the continuous battles, just as he did in the past.
"I won't lose to you, no matter what!" Continuous victories also made Ephraim more confident, "Skiploom, use Double Team!"
"Is it still the same move?" Ash wanted to see how he would respond to this, "Magical Leaf!"
When Bayleefs Magical Leaf did hit all the shadows, but the moment the clones disappeared, Skiploom added a new layer of Double Teams.
After Magical Leaf's attack passed, there were still dozens of Skiplooms on the field, surrounding Bayleef at the center.
"Skiploom, use Leech Seed!"
Dozens of Skiplooms launch Leech Seed together, but only one of them is real!
"Vine Whip!"
Bayleef didn't care, she stretched out her Vine Whips and hit back all the Leech Seeds. Of course, the only real one was among them that got hit away.
"Good speed, Sweet Scent!" Ash praised her, and the sweet smell floated towards Hoppip again.
"Damn!" Seeing that Skiplooms was a little unsteady, Ephraim immediately knew that something was wrong with it!
He didn't expect to be defeated by this Sweet Scent again!
"Skiploom, it's not over yet, we will never give up until the last moment!" Ephraim main character voice restored Skiploom's energy, and the flowers above her head began to collect the energy of sunlight!
Ash's Aura power certainly sensed this, "I really didn't expect that uou could learn new move at the last moment!" He is just like one of those young protagonists.
"But Ephraim, I have worked hard all the way until now to get here!" Ash smiled slightly, "Bayleef, we also use Solar Beam!"
Of course, Bayleef has learned Solar Beam a long time ago under his training. The huge light blade above the ground started to collect sunlight faster!
"Bloom! Solar Beam!"
The two Solar Beams collided and erupted in this regular battle field, just like a two stars colliding but one is obviously much bigger and stronger that the other. The light was dazzling, and all the Grass type Pokémon in the stadium were jumping for joy.
"Skiploom loses the ability to fight and Bayleef wins, so the winner is Ash from Pallet Town!"
"Contestant Ash is so powerful! Even though Skiploom suddenly learned a new move in the midst of a battle, he was still defeated by Bayleef's crushing power! Congratulations to Contestant Ash who won the championship!"
"That's great, Big Brother and Bayleef won!" Molly rushed out of the waiting room immediately and hugged Bayleef's neck.
These two girls really got along very well from the very beginning.
"Ash, thank you for the battle, but I will not admit defeat. I will continue to work hard with Skiploom!" Ephraim's attitude is very good for a trainer.
The prize for the winner of the Grass Pokémon Tournament is very generous. In addition to the Championship Trophy, there are also 20 Leaf Stones giver to the winner.
This is of course a very precious evolution stone, allowing Gloom to evolve into Vileplume, Weepinbell to evolve into Victreebel, Exeggcute to evolve into Exeggutor, etc.
But the problem is, Ash has the system and can redeem extremely high-quality Leaf Stones from the system. These low class Leaf Stones are really useless to him.
Therefore, he gave 5 pieces to Ephraim's family. They were Breeders of Grass type Pokémon and they could definitely use them.
But what to do with the rest?
"System, can you recycle it for me?"
"Ding, it is detected that the host has obtained 15 low quality Leaf Stones. The system can consume the redemption points to purify them into a higher quality Leaf Stone!"
So, Ash spent a small amount of exchange points and the low quality stones to get a very high quality Leaf Stone produced by the system.
There's only one, but it's a probably good thing. The high amount of energy present inside the stone is very important for helping a Pokémon evolve. I won't use it for the time being, so I'll keep it for now.
"Bay?"
Bayleef, who was celebrating his victory with Molly, suddenly exclaimed and her whole body began to emit a dazzling light!
"Brother!"
Molly quickly jumped off Bayleef.
"Don't be afraid, it's about to Evolve! Bayleef, it's about for you to bloom!" Ash comforted Molly's excited heart, but in fact he was even more excited than the young Molly.
Bayleef or now Meganium is the second of his six Royal Starter Family he has caught so far, except Charizard, to complete its final evolution.
This also means that he is completely ahead of his predecessor Ash. Next, the remaining four will definitely complete their evolution soon!
Bayleef's size continued to grow until it reached 2 meters in height.
The leaves on the top of the her head disappeared and turned into two protrusions like stamens. The buds on the neck finally bloomed into beautiful pink flowers, and the whole venue was filled with floral fragrance for a while!
"Dad, it's a Meganium!" Ephraim couldn't hide his emotion. He actually saw the moment Meganium evolved with his own eyes!
The evolved Meganium came to Ash's side, lowered her head and rubbed Ash's face and hands intimately.
Ash gently stroked its neck, "The competitive and stubborn girl finally grew up!"
Name: Meganium (♀)
Attribute: Grass
Ability: Overgrow
Bond Value: 244/255
Skills: Petal Dance, Petal Blizzard, Razor Leaf, Magical Leaf, Synthesis, Sweet Scent, Body Slam, Solar Beam. . .
As Ash expected, Meganium's bonding value was already very high at Bayleef's stage.
After completing her final "regular" Evolution, the bond value was greatly improved, reaching to highs directly, and the bond value also increased, reaching 244 points.
It only takes eleven more point to increase, and there will be a transitional stage that will lead to Bond Evolutions.
When the compatibility reaches its peak and the bond value is reduced to the last 10 points, there will be an evolutionary transition stage like Charizard's Wildfire, Houndoom's Hell Flare, Slowking's Kingly Might, and Greninja's Catastrophic Shuriken.
This last 11 points of bonding value is something that will be over soon!
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