Imperial Capital, Phoenix Nest Coliseum, Player Village!
As the competition neared, players who had broken through from the various regions had gathered here, waiting for the second half of the national competition to begin.
For the powerhouse players, the regional competition was just a warm-up. The upcoming matches were the key to determining who would be the high school king!
"So, what do you think we should do with the set of Evolutionary Stones?"
As Fang Yuan walked through the Player Village, he slung a bag over one shoulder while Eevee sat on his other shoulder, lifting its head and pondering Fang Yuan's question seriously.
The champion of the national individual competition, in addition to the prize money, would also receive item rewards, namely a full set of Evolutionary Stones.
The so-called full set of Evolutionary Stones included ten types: Fire, Water, Thunder, Light, Dark, Sun, Moon, Leaf, Ice, and Awakening Stones, valued at over ten million.
Keep them as a collection? Sell them?
"Bwoo~~" Eevee thought it over and made a suggestion.
How about, Eevee handles all the opponents for Fang Yuan in this competition, and then the Evolutionary Stones are its to deal with?
That way, Fang Yuan wouldn't have a problem.
Eevee showed an expression of consideration for you.
"You're way too greedy."
"I think that even Monferno could handle this task, which requires no technical skill..." Fang Yuan said mercilessly, "And it wouldn't have such an excessive demand."
Eevee: =з=, another jab at Monferno.
At this moment, Fang Yuan had just slipped out of the Moda Player Village, planning to find a training field to spend the afternoon.
The weather was nice today. Rather than staying indoors, it was a good day to take Pokemon out for some fresh air.
Fang Yuan looked at the blue sky and white clouds and felt that Pokemon were magnificent; because of them, even smog became invisible on this Earth.
"If it were the old Imperial Capital, raising a Double Bomb Gas wouldn't require any special resources; just letting it roam for a while would be enough to make it a master level," Fang Yuan speculated.
After all, Pokemon like Double Bomb Gas enjoyed consuming harmful gases...
...
Perhaps because it was lunchtime, when Fang Yuan and his company arrived at the public training field, there wasn't another person in sight.
Fang Yuan was pleased with the quiet and released his Self-detonating Magnetic Monster, Klink(x2), Monferno, Milotic, Dragonite, and Glutton.
Even during the national competition, training couldn't be neglected.
In the coming time, the Self-detonating Magnetic Monster needed to use the two Gears to enter its Electromagnetic Armored Form and master this skill, cultivating the Gears with its magnetic field while also trying to get a hold of blue lightning.
Monferno was about to begin training in Fire Type Spells, focusing on integrating Rage with the release of Fire Type Spells.
Since Milotic's Healing type moves wouldn't improve much in the short term, the training focus was on learning new moves like Hypnosis and Weird Light. Glutton happened to be skilled in these two moves, so it would teach them. Once these were mastered, Milotic's Charm Techniques would become stronger.
As for Glutton, Fang Yuan wasn't too worried. This fellow had good lineage and even better fate, having met a great trainer like himself. Even if it slacked off now, it couldn't weaken in the future.
Dragonite, on the other hand, would continue to practice its Perception Skills. As for the sleepwalking state, such a place wasn't suitable for that kind of practice.
After setting the training tasks for the Pokemon, Fang Yuan started to pull Eevee up and said, "Where exactly did things go wrong..."
Eevee: ???
You're the one with the problem!
Fang Yuan was helpless. Although Return 4.0 was complete and Eevee had become a Partner Eevee, it seemed that the Partner Skill had not been inherited...
In recent times, under Fang Yuan's pressure, Eevee had been very effective, and now even in its base form, it possessed Master Level strength.
But it seemed they were going in the wrong direction.
If they continued training this way, Eevee's form would indeed become stronger and stronger, but that had nothing to do with mastering Partner Skills...
Now, Eevee was almost proficient in using its mind for three tasks at once, but there was still no trace of its Partner Skills.
So Fang Yuan decided to switch to a different training method.
"Rotom, I want to ask you, is it possible for Eevee to master Mimic moves, right?" Fang Yuan turned to look at the phone Rotom beside him.
"Mimic Rotom???" The phone Rotom paused in shock before swiftly recalling and searching its database.
"Mimic moves...what are they???"
However, after recalling, the phone Rotom gave such an answer.
Fang Yuan added, "Mimic moves are about imitating an opponent's most recent move and executing the same move..."
"For instance, if you use Electric Shock in front of Eevee, and Eevee uses Mimic, then it could temporarily copy and use Electric Shock."
The phone Rotom shook its head and spoke, "Are you talking about the Mimic skill? Mimic does have that effect, but currently, in the database, only Pokemon like Raunchy tree and Mr. Mime can learn the Mimic skill Rotom."
"That's not right," Fang Yuan mused, recognizing that there was a difference between the two.
Mimic moves were introduced in the fourth generation, while the Mimic skill was introduced in the first generation. Although his memory wasn't very clear, Fang Yuan remembered that Eevee should be able to learn Mimic!
The effects of the two moves were indeed quite similar...
Besides, there are similar moves like Parrot mimicry, Helping Hand...
"I don't know about that Rotom..." the phone Rotom said, scratching its head awkwardly.
"It's okay..." Fang Yuan said.
The phone Rotom probably only knew the existing data, while Fang Yuan was aware of information not yet available in this world. Just like with the initial Return, maybe because Mimic is difficult to learn and is too similar to other skills like Mimic and Parrot mimicry, it hasn't been summarized and cataloged yet.
But that did not prevent Fang Yuan from faintly remembering that Eevee could learn this move.
Fang Yuan put down Eevee, with a smile curling at the corner of his mouth, "Monferno can use Mimic to learn moves like Lightning Armor and Geppo, and you, too, can use Mimic to learn Partner Skills!!"
Suddenly, Fang Yuan had a flash of insight.
Eevee looked confused, not knowing what either Mimic or Partner Skills were, or how to learn them.
Fang Yuan explained, "Partner Skill, simply put, is a sophisticated method of utilizing other Attribute Energies. For example, 'Numb Shock', one of the Partner Moves you can master, can almost 100% paralyze an opponent of the same level during an encounter, making it a very special Electric Move."
"To learn this move, surely you can't study it by Charging up like that little Magnemite learned Thunderbolt, can you?"
"Bwoo!!" Eevee violently shook its head, it would rather die than be shocked again.
Fang Yuan laughed, "That's why Mimic becomes particularly important. It allows you to imitate an opponent's just-used move. For example, if you've mastered Mimic, and phone Rotom uses moves like Electromagnetic wave or Electric Shock in front of you, and you mimic, even though you won't master these moves afterward, perhaps you could develop some kind of muscle memory for how to use them!"
"Electric Shock and Electromagnetic Wave together are similar to the Partner Skill Numb Shock, and you have the potential to master Numb Shock. By practicing and developing muscle memory from mimicking similar moves, you might just awaken the ability to use the Partner Skill."
After Fang Yuan provided examples using Electric Moves, Eevee understood a bit, and fully embraced the idea, without doubting whether it was reliable.
After all, all of the cultivation and teaching methods Fang Yuan has provided to date had been verified on the Pokemon, and if not yet verified, they were gradually being perfected...
"Rotom..." the phone Rotom still couldn't understand, being one of the best students of Rotom Academy. All these terms that Fang Yuan used, it couldn't comprehend, but since arriving at Fang Yuan's side, Rotom had learned quite a few new things.
This method of learning Partner Skills could be trained just as Numb Shock was. Other Partner Skills could be trained this way, too.
Take for example Eevee's Grass Partner Technique "Booming Growth," which is characterized by generating massive energy vines to spread seeds and attack. The seeds have the effect of draining an opponent's Physical Strength.
On closer inspection, isn't this just a beefed-up combination of Vine Whip Skill and Leech Seed Skill?
If Eevee were to first become proficient in imitating these two moves through Mimic, it might be possible to naturally awaken and learn "Booming Growth!"
The same principle applies to other Partner Skills. Shadows of them can be found in existing Moves. What Fang Yuan needed to do was to use his impressions of Partner Skills to help Eevee summarize and learn through Mimic.
"As for the method of learning Mimic, I believe it shouldn't be a hard task for you..." Fang Yuan said with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Eevee pondered the Mimic Skill, imitating someone else's moves and executing them itself?
"If you can learn this move within a month, I'll give you the set of Evolutionary Stones from the Champion reward," Fang Yuan motivated.
At these words, Eevee patted its chest, implying that mimicry was just acting after all! All that was needed was to put itself in the shoes of other Pokemon and immerse in the role, and Eevee was confident it could master it.