"Fubo just provided a wrong demonstration,"
At this point, Fang Yuan also began to analyze Fubo's tactical mistakes.
He frequently switched Pokemon, hoping to give them a brief rest to continue fighting more effectively, but this approach simply wasn't suitable for this type of rapid progress battles.
By contrast, it's better to let a single Pokemon fight in the earlier levels, taking advantage of weaker opponents who couldn't stop it, and using Strengthening Moves to power up and fight in a 'the stronger the battle, the stronger' manner!
With proper arrangement, a Pokemon with Master-level mid-tier overall strength could potentially rival those in the upper echelons of the Master Domain by stacking multiple Strengthening Moves.
Although using multiple Power-Up Moves could lead to reaching physical limits faster and bigger exhaustion, relying on Strengthening Moves is the best option when aiming to overcome the strong as the weak.
The tactics Fang Yuan planned to use were exactly this... With this approach, perhaps Dragonite would have the home-field advantage, given its immense potential and many hidden strengths. Power-Up Moves could temporarily unleash Dragonite's untapped powers, and who knows, perhaps even surpass Fubo's record with three Pokemon with just Dragonite.
If Fubo had chosen this tactic earlier, he might have made it through the seventh challenge and into the eighth.
Unfortunately, he did not adopt this approach.
However, it's not too late to try now, considering each person has three chances to challenge. Different tactics are suitable for different Trainers, and seven days is sufficient for everyone to figure out their best approach to the challenge.
Indeed, among the challengers to follow, some soon made it through the challenges using Power-Up Moves. These individuals weren't much stronger than Fubo, but they managed to reach the eighth challenge and severely weakened the Pokemon there, missing the ninth by just a hair.
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The selection process continued, and it wasn't long before someone got through all ten levels, albeit on professional difficulty.
Compared to Master level difficulty, professional difficulty is quite simple: the first three levels are of mid-tier professional field standard, four through six are upper-tier, seven and eight are Quasi-Master level, the ninth level faces Master-level Pokemon, and the tenth level has even higher difficulty.
Basically, those choosing professional difficulty are all under twenty years old, with none older than twenty-two. These young geniuses, with certain Pokemon already at Master-level combat power, like Yun Guancheng, Xu Jing, and Jiang Ran, chose the professional difficulty.
They had all performed before Fang Yuan, and these three young heirs to top-tier legacies had naturally passed the first nine challenges. However, except for Yun Guancheng, Jiang Ran and Xu Jing both stopped at the professional tenth challenge.
Soon after, Senior Brother Li You of the Mo Da side made his appearance, and by this time, Fang Yuan had also applied for the challenge but was still queueing.
Senior Brother Li You wasn't any weaker than any of the previous Trainers but still narrowly lost in the ninth challenge and didn't pass the first stage selection...
In professional difficulty, someone had already cleared all ten levels, but on the Master difficulty side, no one had yet cleared the ninth level. The high difficulty weighed heavily on the minds of many.
In fact, most of these contenders were not weak and could easily trump the Egyptian Trainer that Fang Yuan had previously encountered, but just this level of skill was still not enough to become a member of the China National Team!
On the Master difficulty side, there was a bottleneck.
However, on the main stand, Master Ma Chenzong, Cloud Armor King, and Miss Liu Qin remained unperturbed, as they had foreseen this outcome. The difficulty of the first-stage selection was indeed very high, but definitely not harsh.
Once the Trainers with real strength appeared, they would naturally break through the bottleneck.
"The next challenger... Shang Ren."
After reading out this name, the newly rotated Referee looked up, and Shang Ren would most certainly pass the Master Ten Levels!
Not just the Referee thought so, everyone at the scene felt the same.
Shang Ren, after all, was a former Four Heavenly King...
And the other contestants could finally witness the full difficulty of the Master Ten Levels.
At that moment, the Cloud Armor King's gaze shifted towards Shang Ren as he stepped down from the contestant seat. As the only King in the previous Champion team without a Trump Card Elf at the Top Tier Domain, Shang Ren had faced many doubts until he was replaced by Xie Qingyi.
But the Cloud Armor King did not deny that apart from lacking an overwhelmingly powerful Trump Card Elf, Shang Ren was not weak.
As Shang Ren took the stage, the other Trainers focused on the battle.
Daoist Successors like Mu Fan from the Evergreen Dojo, Tang Xinlan from Dawn Group... These young experts known as Quasi-Kings also paid close attention to Shang Ren's challenge.
For a Trainer like Shang Ren, who ranked fifth in the former King's competition, it wasn't an issue to bring out Main Elves nearly at the Top Tier Domain. Indeed, once he stepped onto the field and chose the Master Level difficulty, the first Pokemon he used was Tyranitar, a Pokemon with nearly top-level combat power!
"Boring,"
thought Shang Ren indifferently, not taking this selection seriously at all, and without any additional commands. Tyranitar, the Desert Tyrant, strengthened itself continuously with Dragon Dance under his command and fought with sandstorms it intensified, achieving one-hit kills in the first six challenges!
The seventh, eighth, and ninth challenges also saw Tyranitar overpower and easily defeat the opponents, thanks to the enhancements from Dragon Dance!