Fang Yuan was of course confident.
Even against Liu Le's Little Kabigon or Lin Jing's Growlithe, his Eevee was confident of a swift resolution.
Others were even less of a concern.
It had only been a month since the Little Phoenix King Cup, and Eevee still held a natural advantage in strength.
Before Fang Yuan's confidence, his four teammates were left speechless.
Alright ... you're awesome, we'll listen to you.
Thus, Fang Yuan's team chose to heed his advice.
They adopted the simplest and most brutal tactics, using cover, explosive power, and then directly overpowering their opponents!
While exchanging information, thoughts began to surge in Fang Yuan's mind.
"After three sessions of overloading training, Eevee's leg strength has at least doubled, its speed is unknowingly much faster than during the Little Phoenix King Cup, and the Shadow Clone move has increased to eight afterimages. As long as I seize the right moment tomorrow, I can end the battle quickly."
"In the end, it's because the new trainers around me are too weak!"
Fang Yuan sighed internally, this kind of assessment wasn't really suitable for him.
...
The next day.
Nearly all the teaching staff from the training courses had come to watch this team battle assessment.
After the battle roster was arranged, Fang Yuan found that they were the first team to battle ... and he quickly identified their first opponent.
Zhou Xueyao's team ...
Among the team of five, with class 7's Zhou Xueyao as the captain, Fang Yuan remembered her starter Pokemon was a Bulbasaur.
At the Little Phoenix King Cup, Lin Sen's Bulbasaur was easily handled by Eevee, so naturally, Eevee wouldn't fear this Garlic Turtle either.
Zhou Xueyao's teammates were even weaker, suggesting that the overall strength of the team wasn't high.
"Xueyao, if they come at us with a strong attack, can we hold them off?"
In Zhou Xueyao's team, a petite girl nervously asked, based on their investigation ... Fang Yuan's strength seemed to be much stronger than theirs.
"We can't, but we can struggle a bit," Zhou Xueyao's brows knit together faintly, a trace of worry crossing her face. Meeting Fang Yuan in their first battle was extremely unlucky.
Meanwhile, Lin Jing and Liu Le felt fortunate that they hadn't encountered Fang Yuan in the first round. They considered themselves lucky and hoped not to meet him in the second round either.
Inside the battle gym, on the newly painted decagon battlefield, under a teacher's direction, Fang Yuan's team and Zhou Xueyao's team entered.
Because it was just a school, there were only normal arenas here. Special fields such as the Grass Arena, Rock Arena, and Water Arena were only provided at large-scale competitions.
However, for new trainers at this stage, normal arenas were sufficient for them to showcase their skills.
The decagon battlefield was considerably larger than the one-on-one battlefield, offering a very spacious area. After ten trainers each took their position in an area, Fang Yuan looked towards the trainer beside him.
Due to tactical needs, he chose a position on the edge of the team, rather than the center.
Only the two edge positions could allow him to use the fastest speed to eliminate an opponent in advance.
"Dudu ..."
Remembering this boy's Pokemon, Fang Yuan smiled.
A Flying-type that's not good at flying, ah, now I'm even more certain.
"What are you laughing at?"
Before the battle started, the boy felt flustered seeing Fang Yuan suddenly smiling at him.
Being assigned to an edge position had already put a lot of pressure on him. Now ... the pressure was even greater.
"I just thought of something happy," Fang Yuan said.
"What happy thing?" the boy asked.
"My Pokemon aren't good at flying either," Fang Yuan said.
The boy frowned, somewhat displeased.
…
"Generally, the core Pokemon of a team are positioned in the center, it seems Fang Yuan doesn't plan to follow the conventional path."
Outside the arena, a group of teachers were paying close attention to the positioning of the two teams.
In most competitions, the positioning of the five trainers of a team is continuous, located on one side. Only in a few competitions are there rules that mix up the order of positioning. This assessment used the most common set of positioning rules.
On Fang Yuan's Team side, within five corners of the decagon battlefield, the positioning order was Fang Yuan, Miao Ran, Li Meng, Zhang Huan Yu, and Jiang Lili.
From the positioning, Li Meng was the safest while Fang Yuan and Jiang Lili were likely to be involved in the battle first.
However…
The teachers instantly saw through Fang Yuan's intentions.
"The power disparity is too great. That Fang Yuan wants to quickly take down an opponent to then enlarge his advantage. How overbearing," one of them remarked.
The teacher of Zhou Xueyao's class shook his head, feeling somewhat sorry for his student.
"It's a pity Xueyao didn't anticipate the opponent's arrangement… But even if she had, the lack of selection among her Pokemon wouldn't have allowed for an adequate response."
"Mainly observe each student's team spirit for now. At this stage, we shouldn't expect too much," another teacher said.
At the same time, Teacher Bai Ning from Class 12 was also looking thoughtfully at Fang Yuan.
Just then, the referee issued the first command.
Almost the instant the referee gave the order, both teams released their Pokemon. With the second command, Eevee didn't wait for Fang Yuan's instructions and burst out at top speed, charging toward the nearest opponent, DooDoo. Fang Yuan and Eevee had clearly agreed on this in advance.
Eevee's action drew the attention of Zhou Xueyao's team. Watching Eevee's rapidly moving figure, each of them contracted their pupils, sensing trouble.
Zhou Xueyao's Pokemon wanted to offer support,
However, on Fang Yuan's Team side, they preemptively used long-range moves to block their opponents.
Two water jets, one electric shock, and one vine whip swept across, splitting the battlefield and forcing the other four Pokemon to respond by dodging or counterattacking.
"Good aim," Fang Yuan praised as he saw his four teammates successfully block their opponents.
By now, Eevee, having turned into a blur, was already at DooDoo's side!
Whoosh!
DooDoo used Quick Attack as well, but compared to Eevee's speed, it was like night and day. In no time at all, DooDoo was caught in a misstep and taken down in one hit by Eevee.
With DooDoo defeated, Zhou Xueyao's team's loss was sealed, and while the other eight Pokemon were still undecided, the situation quickly became one-sided as Eevee entered the fray.
"This Eevee's speed... how has it gotten so much faster since the start of school!" Teacher Bai Ning was surprised throughout.
As Fang Yuan's teacher, she should have been very clear about his progress, but Eevee's performance now was somewhat beyond her expectations.
"The strength in its legs has increased; the improvement is almost explosive. Did the New Star Program conduct some special training?" she speculated.
…
Not long after the two teams decided the victory and defeat, Bai Ning approached Director Wu.
"Director Wu, what do you think?"
"You were right before... we won't have Fang Yuan participate in future team training. Once the official members are selected, then we'll include him for team integration. Otherwise, it's a waste of time for him and others," Wu Pingqiu shook his head.
"I hope his personal advantage can be maintained. That way, when it's time for the real competition, we'll have more tactical options," Director Wu said.
"Perhaps this is what being a genius is," Bai Ning nodded in agreement.