Mamoswine had been focusing almost the entire time of its training on 'Ancient power'. So, it did not focus on other parts. But that didn't mean that it had not touched anything else. It had trained on some of the moves and it had also upgraded its body stats a bit.
Its 'Ancient power' mastery was now at 80% and it failed to rise up after that. Axel felt that Mamoswine needed to be at a higher rank to achieve it. The system had also said that Mamoswine could do this when it reached pseudo-champion rank.
Axel looked at its stats after a long time.
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Pokemon Name: Mamoswine (Age: 4 Years)
Nickname: None
Rank: King (Tier 2)
Ability: Snow Cloak (mastered)
Hidden Ability: Thick Fat (100%)
Potential: Black
Health: 10500/10500 Attack: C++
Agility: C+ Defense: B
Sp. Atk: B+ Sp. Def: B+
Moves: Ice Shard (E) (Lvl 46), Icy Wind (E) (Lvl 53), Icicle Crash (E) (Lvl 44), Hail (E) (Lvl 46), Mist (E) (Lvl 43), Take Down (G) (Lvl 39), Earthquake (E) (Lvl 44), Rest (E) (Lvl 55), Endure (E) (Lvl 42), Substitute (E) (Lvl 41), Icicle Spear (E) (Lvl 62), Dig (E) (Lvl 48), Sleep Talk (E) (Lvl 47), Rain Dance (E) (Lvl 44), Blizzard (E) (Lvl 47), Anchor Shot (E) (Lvl 47), Iron Defense (E) (Lvl 52), Ice Domain (E) (Lvl 56), Calm Mind (E) (Lvl 43), Mud Sport (E) (Lvl 42), Sand Attack (G) (Lvl 38), Sand Armor (E) (Lvl 46), Sandstorm (E) (Lvl 42), Tusk form (E) (Lvl 40), Ice beam (G) (Lvl 37)
Ice Core: Mastered
Hidden Power: Steel (65%)
Ancient Power: (80%)
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Mamoswine had recently ranked up to tier 2 of king rank. It was not so difficult for the big guy. Some of its moves had been upgraded but nothing too drastic. Its final move 'Tusk form' had also leveled up to level 40 and it had become very powerful.
Its stats were relatively high for a tier 2 king-rank Pokemon. Some of its moves that have been upgraded are:
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Icicle spear (Mamoswine): (Level 40): Instead of using it 2-5 times, Mamoswine could now create 5 spears made of ice and hit the target at the same time.
(Level 45): The speed of the attack has increased.
(Level 50): The ice is more sharper and has more penetrating power.
(Level 55): The ice spear is spinning at a high speed which would increase the penetrating power and also its overall destructiveness.
(Level 60): Can fire 8 ice spears to different targets if needed. The power of the move had further increased.
Tusk form (Mamoswine) (Level 40): With the help of 'Ice domain', the Mamoswine could gather up 40% of the total ice energy
Ice Domain (Mamoswine) (Level 40): The speed and the power of the move have increased.
(Level 45): This move would increase the power of ice type attacks inside it.
(Level 50): It could now last for 10 minutes.
(Level 55): The area of the domain had increased to 40 meters.
Sleep talk (Mamoswine): (Level 40): There is a 60% chance that it would use the move that it wants.
(Level 45): There is a 70% chance that it would use the move that it wants.
Rest (Mamoswine): (Level 40): There is a 60% chance to wake up when it wants.
(Level 45): The user would heal 40% of its maximum health only 1 time.
(Level 50): The user would heal 50% of its maximum health only 1 time.
(Level 55): The user would heal 60% of its maximum health only 1 time and has a 75% chance to wake up when it wants.
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These were the moves that had been upgraded. As most of its time was spent on 'Ancient power', it didn't have the time to think about other moves. Axel actually didn't care about its slow progress.
The progress was still way faster than other normal trainers' Pokemons and if Mamoswine wanted to pursue something, then Axel would support it. And even if a single Pokemon of Axel didn't progress as fast as others, then he had nothing to worry about.
He still had Pokemons like Shedinja, Slowemperor, Alakazam, Beedrill, Nidoking, and Venusaur which were growing at an alarming rate.
"Mamoswine, as I have said before, for now, we need to think about ice-type moves. 'Ancient power' would not progress and reach its completion until you reach pseudo-champion rank and that takes hard work and practice.
Your ice-type moves need to be stronger and more creative than before. You have started to learn 'Ice beam' and that is a good start. I want you to level that up to level 40 and then we will think of another new move that you should be learning."
Since Mamoswine had been focusing on 'Ancient power' for some time, its mastery over ice-type moves was very shallow. Before, it was in a very good position but now, the progress was lacking. So, Axel had to tell it to train on those again.
Axel had to take this slow and steady. He and Mamoswine could not hurry it up as much as they wanted it to be.
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Gogoat's motto was to be a guardian now. It wanted to protect its loved ones and it wanted them to prosper. Most of the time in a literal kind of way. So, it had been developing in that same way too.
Axel didn't have a problem with this. At least it was doing something. Axel could not force his Pokemon to train and get stronger. It had to come from their heat and its heart wanted to protect its loved ones.
Axel looked at Gogoat's stats to see the progress.
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Pokémon's Name: Gogoat
Pokémon's Nickname: N/A
Pokémon Rank: King (Tier 2)
Ability: Sap Sipper (Mastered)
Hidden Ability: Grass Pelt (Mastered)
Potential: Red (Advanced)
Health: 10000/10000 Attack: B++
Agility: B Defense: B
Sp. Attk: B+ Sp. Def: B
Moves:
Active move: Growth (E) (Lvl 56), Earthquake (G) (Lvl 39), Razor Leaf (E) (Lvl 52), Horn Leech (E) (Lvl 56), Bullet Seed (E) (Lvl 52), Seed Bomb (E) (Lvl 53), Grassy Terrain (E) (Lvl 56), Milk Drink (E) (Lvl 47), Solar Beam (E) (Lvl 51), Sunny Day (E) (Lvl 45), Wild Charge (E) (Lvl 56), Grass Pledge (E) (Lvl 43), Frenzy Plant (E) (Lvl 56), Field Control (E) (Lvl 61), Grass Domain (E) (Lvl 57), Calm mind (G) (Lvl 39), Grassy Glide (E) (Lvl 47), Guardian (E) (Lvl 44), Mass heal (E) (Lvl 43), Thunder wave (G) (Lvl 39)
Passive move: Reload (Stage I)
Core: Grass (Mastered)
Hidden Power: Electric (55%)
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Now that was a good progress. It only had a red potential but it had done a lot for itself. It was mainly focusing on the moves 'Guardian' and 'Mass heal'. Both of these moves were very complicated and also very powerful. Moves like this that do multiple things and change the face of the battle take a long time to understand and even more time to upgrade.
Till now it had only been able to level both of them to level 40 and above and Axel was quite happy with the progress.
But Gogoat was not.
"I can do much more. I can do a lot but I don't know what I am lacking.", sighed Gogoat.
"You are doing a lot and you have done a lot. You need to take things slow. You cannot rush into such things. You know that."
Axel looked at the move description of some of the moves that it had leveled up.
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Wild Charge (Gogoat): (Level 40): The speed of the attack has increased. It would also increase the speed of the Pokemon.
(Level 45): The recoil damage has decreased.
(Level 50): Yellow electric current would cover its whole body as the speed and destruction that it creates would increase.
(Level 55): The speed and the power of the attack has increased. Wherever it moves, it leaves an electric print on the ground for 10 seconds. Any enemy stepping on the electric print has a high chance of getting paralyzed.
Horn Leech (Gogoat): (Level 40): Now, the user would recover 50% of the health drained. That was a massive increase and the power of the attack had also become more devastating.
(Level 45): the user could recover 60% of the health drained. The power of the move has increased.
(Level 50): The power of the move has increased and could cause a piercing effect.
(Level 55): Using this move in 'Grass domain' and 'Grassy terrain' will increase the speed and power of this move to a new height.
Frenzy Plant (Gogoat) (Level 40): A huge tree branch would be summoned that could pierce or bind the target.
(Level 45): 4 huge branches of trees is summoned from the ground that would bind the target. Consumes a lot of stamina.
(Level 50): The power of the move would increase during 'Grass domain' and 'Grassy Terrain'.
(Level 55): The branches would come from the ground and bind the target. Would absorb the stamina to make the branches even stronger and more powerful.
Guardian (Gogoat) (Level 40): Can cover a maximum of 8 allies. The cool-down period had decreased to 8 hours. The shield will regenerate while in the grass domain.
Mass heal (Gogoat) (Level 40): Can heal the allies of the same rank or lower rank to 60% of their max health 3 times.
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"What should I focus on?", asked Gogoat.
"You have done a good job in healing and defending your Pokemons. Now is the time to taunt your opponents.", said Axel.
"Taunt?"
"Yes, taunt. You want to be the best tank and the guardian. To not let your allies get hit, you will have to get hit instead of them. You can only do that if all the enemies were to focus on you and you can only do that through taunt."
"Ok, so what should I do?"
"Oh, that is the next step. You are not going to do that now."
"Why?"
"Because you neither have the defense of Nidoking and Steelix nor have the healing powers of Venusaur. If you want to do this, I want to make sure that you are unkillable.
That would take some time."
"How much time?", shouted Gogoat with a loud voice.
"Hey, hey hey. Why are you in such a hurry? Did something happen?", asked Axel in a concerned voice.
Gogoat was usually the type that never cared about the worldly things like getting powerful and being on the top.
"Axel, I am not stupid. I have heard your talk. It seems like we are in a time crunch and if we don't get stronger soon, then we may die in the future. I don't care about dying. But what I care about is not giving my best and regretting it at the last moment."
"Gogoat, you know that you cannot rush this. The entire concept of your training and fighting style is very different and unique. So, it is going to take some time.
I know that we may not have much time but we cannot also rush this."
"So, what should I do? Have a better defense or good continuous healing to be the tank?", asked Gogoat.
"Why can't you be both? You already have a good way to heal yourself. You have moves like 'Horn leach', 'Grassy terrain', 'Mass heal', and other things. The thing that you need to have right now is a good defensive move.
A move that could last for a long time also covers special and physical defense. This will be very hard to do and it will take some time but we must start somewhere."
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