First, he looked at its full stats:
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Pokemon's name: Nidoking (Age- 2.5 years)
Pokemon Nickname: Megalania
Pokemon rank: king rank
Ability: Poison point (mastered)
Hidden ability: Sheer Force (70%)
Potential: Purple
Health : 10000/10000 Attack: B++
Agility: D+ Defense: C++
Sp. Atk: B++ Sp. Def: B+
Moves: Chip away (Egg move) (E) (Lvl 35), Sucker punch (Egg move) (E) (Lvl 45), Venom drench (Egg move) (E) (Lvl 47), Tackle (C) (Lvl 20 max), Poison sting (E) (Lvl 50), Peck (Lvl 3), Focus energy (E) (Lvl 46), Horn Attack (C) (Lvl 25 max), Rest (E) (Lvl 46), Bite (E) (Lvl 45), Quick Attack (G) (Lvl 31), Sludge Bomb (E) (Lvl 46), Earth quake (E) (Lvl 46), Horn Drill (G) (Lvl 39), Poison Ball (E) (Lvl 51), Thunder Shock (G) (Lvl 34), Spinning poison (E) (Lvl 60), Agility (G) (Lvl 39), Poison spread (E) (Lvl 57), Substitute (E) (Lvl 55), Poison damage transfer (E) (Lvl 62), Sludge wave (E) (Lvl 47), Dig (E) (Lvl 50), Sandstorm (E) (Lvl 52), Fissure (E) (Lvl 46), Mud bomb (E) (Lvl 53), Poison domain (E) (Lvl 50), Dust domain (G) (Lvl 39), Sand Hardening (E) (Lvl 56), Life Suck (G) (Lvl 31), Thunder punch (G) (Lvl 35), Fire punch (G) (Lvl 37), Iron Tail (G) (Lvl 36), Poison Armor (U) (Lvl 17)
Core: Poison (Mastered)
Ground (mastered)
Hidden Power: Electric (25%)
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There were a lot of changes. First was its health points which had increased by 1000 and now it was around 10k. Second was its stats which have developed a lot. 3 of its stats were already over B rank and it should be considered as a tier 2 king-rank Pokemon but it has still not ranked up to tier 2.
Next were its moves. It had learned 1 new move which was 'Poison armor'. Axel realized that it had a knack for learning new moves at a faster rate. He then looked at the move description of other moves that had leveled up.
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Earthquake (Nidoking): (Level 40): Can concentrate damage in a particular direction.
(Level 45): It would create huge cracks on the ground and the enemy is likely to be stuck on it.
Spinning poison (Nidorino): level 40: The speed of the move has increased.
Level 45: The stamina consumption has decreased
Level 50: The speed of the move has increased
Level 55: Can change the direction of move once. time.
Level 60: while using the move during poison domain, the power of the move has greatly increased. However, the speed of the move is lowered by a bit.
Sludge wave (Nidoking): (Level 40)Have more effecting and penetrating power.
(Level 45): The wave would have higher chance to poison the target.
Poison ball (Nidoking): (Level 40): can create 3 of them in an instant
(Level 45): The ball would explode a create a gaseous poison around it.
(Level 50): can create 6 of them.
Focus Energy (Nidoking): (Level 40): Can focus in less than a second. The power of the next physical attack is greatly increased.
(Level 45): Can increase the attack and defense of the user for 5 minutes.
Sand storm (Nidoking): (Level 40): It is much faster and fierce.
(Level 45): The enemy could not properly see in the sandstorm.
(Level 50): The storm would cause multiple small injuries and these injuries would take long time to heal.
Poison sting (Nidoking): (Level 40): It has more penetrating power.
(Level 45): Can shoot out small blades of poison
(Level 50): There is a higher chance of getting poisoned by it.
Sludge Bomb (Nidoking): (Level 40): Rapidly spread the sludge after it is bombed covering a wide area.
(Level 45): It takes less time to activated and is fast.
Dig (Nidoking): (Level 40): It could tell location of enemy during dig.
(Level 45): Can stay underground for 5 minutes.
(Level 50): Can use the move to take enemy Pokemons underground and deal significant damage. The lower the weight and height of the Pokemon than the user, the easier it is.
Mud bomb (Nidoking): (Level 40): The mud would stick to the Pokemon making them slower.
(Level 45): The mud would harden and increase the weight of the Pokemon.
(Level 50): Nidoking can send 6-10 mud bombs to the target. Each of the bombs could be individually customized with regards to their power and size.
Fissure (Nidoking) (Level 40): The move is faster than before.
(Level 45): The power of the move have increased.
Sand Hardening (Nidoking) (Level 40): It is now in semi solid form.
(Level 45): Nidoking can now make constructs of sand using it.
(Level 50): Nidoking can now choose to harden some of the sand and lighten some of the sand as per its wishes. That would consume a huge amount of stamina.
(Level 55): Nidoking can make construct of sands at a faster rate than before. The speed and the power of the move would be heightened during sand storm
Poison domain (Nidoking) (Level 40): The power of poison type moves is greatly enhanced during the poison domain.
(Level 45): It could now last for 10 minutes and can cover 20 meters.
(Level 50): during poison domain, the user could use other functions of poison very easily
Venom drench (Nidoking) (Level 40): It could now be used in other poison type attacks.
(Level 45): The chances has increased to 40%
Sucker Punch (Nidoking) (Level 40): The power of the move has increased and the speed of the move too.
(Level 45): The move has a higher chance to flinch the target.
Rest (Nidoking) (Level 40): It could now recover 30% of the maximum health in an instant.
(Level 45): With the help of poison inside its body, there is a good chance that it would wake up faster.
Bite (Nidoking) (Level 40): There is a huge chance of flinching.
(Level 45): There is poison inside its mouth which may poison the target.
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Almost all of its moves had crossed the threshold again and they had become even stronger. Axel could see that the ground-type moves had not developed very well like poison-type moves.
There were a lot of things that Axel had in mind for Nidoking and its future training plans.
The first was to upgrade its existing ground type moves to a new level. That would take some time but he had some idea relating to it. Next was to somehow combine electric type with poison type.
Nidoking's hidden power typing was electric. Nidoking had not explored much of it till now. What if he creates an electric type move with poison type move and somehow enhance the effect. That could be possible as electric type move had a lot of penetrating power.
However, first, he had to level up one of the electric type move to level 40 and above. This would improve the hidden power mastery to a new height and it would be easier to master a new move relating to electric type.
He would have to take very careful steps now. First was the ground-type armor.
"Meg, first use 'Sand storm and then 'Sand hardening' and try to make an armor around you. The armor should not be very heavy.", said Axel.
Nidoking tried to make it but it was unsuccessful. Nidoking could make swords, spears and knives but it could not make complex moves like chains and armors.
"Try to do it. Take your time. You don't have to worry about being late.", convinced Axel.
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"Mom, how much did we make today?", asked Axel.
"We did around 4 million today deducting all the expenses.", said Cerlin.
This was the 4th day and they had made around 12 million Poke dollars. This was quite a money for only 4 days.
Tomorrow would be the battle between king rank Pokemons. There were only 6 of them in tier 1. So, tomorrow's battle would end within a few hours. That was why, they decided to add tier 2 king rank battle too. This would make the crowd very lively and the competition would take a full day to complete.
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Axel was very busy with this competition but he could not neglect these new Pokemons specially Riolu. It had just become a member of his party and it was very eager to train.
Axel first told Riolu to use all of its known moves, so that he could understand it better. He took out a book and handed it to Riolu. This was a martial art book and it was a training manual. He had bought this at a very high price from the Venu family.
This martial arts was a very high rank martial arts and it was very scarce. The good thing about this martial art was that it started with the basic moves and then went on to the most advanced moves.
Axel had also been training in a sword manual. Axel believed that Riolu could also train on it. Aura could do many magical things but first, it needed to learn hand-to-hand combat.
Axel began to explain the end result of this martial art to Riolu and this got it excited.
"If you want to use your aura efficiently, then you must train in these moves. However, first, you have to improve your physical stat. So, let's go to the training ground.", said Axel and took him to one of the training grounds that was able to train in basic stats.
Axel also looked at the aues energy description.
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Aues energy:
Stage I: This would increase the talent of the user in physical moves and also in physical training. It would also raise the potential of the user.
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Axel had expected it to be something similar to it. He was happy with this passive move. This was perfect for a physical attacker like Riolu.
They first reached the training ground related to speed. There were many ways to train speed and reaction of the Pokemon. First, there was a long distance of 1 km and there were short distances of 50 meters and 100 meters.
"Riolu, go to the 50 meters and use your highest speed. I want to see how fast you can run.", said Axel.
Riolu with excitement went there to test its speed.
"Now, Run!!!", shouted Axel and it ran with its full speed.
Axel looked at the lock and saw the result. It was 8 seconds. That was not a good result for a Pokemon that would focus on its body.
"Riolu, rest for 1 minute and do it again. Do it like this. You need to position your body like this and that would increase the speed."
Axel started to correct the position of Riolu and also told how it should run. This time it was able to decrease the time to 5 seconds. That meant 10 meters in 1 second. That was a good standard.
However, Axel wanted it to improve even more.
Axel then told it to test in 100 meters.
This went on for some time and then Axel realized a very serious problem. Riolu had very low stamina. It was already tired after 20 minutes. Riolu will be a physical attacker in the future. So, it must have good physical stats. If it became tired after running for 20 minutes, that was a huge problem.
"Riolu, come here. First rest for 20 minutes. You first need to improve your stamina to a good level. Only, then could you train in speed and attack move. You must realize everything needs stamina. Running, attacking, defending. Everything needs stamina. So, first, we are only going to concentrate on stamina training, martial arts training, and speed training for some days. Only then we will move towards other things."