Ash decided to send out his Feraligatr to deal with Clair's Gyarados.
Speaking of which, Feraligatr and Gyarados are really a good team to him. When he was in Whirl Islands, Feraligatr completed his evolution in a confrontation with a Gyarados.
"It's Feraligatr!" Misty happily exclaimed. This is Ash's second Water-type Pokémon he used so far.
Does Ash really plan to use his own Water-type team to fight against Clair's mostly Dragon-type team?
Clair's strength did receive Ash's attention.
"Here we go, Gyarados against Feraligatr, the battle begins!" Mr. Kaburagi announced the start of the second round of the Gym Battle, and Ash took the lead in giving the order again just like last time.
"Feraligatr, Hydro Pump!" Ash directed his Feraligatr to welcome them with a powerful Water-type attack first.
Not to be outdone again, Clair also ordered her Gyarados to fight back using a Hydro Pump to send it back. After the two Hydro Pumps collided above the ground, all the water splashed all over the battlefield, and the battle truly began!
Gyarados roared first, and his long tail poked out of the water, entangled with water, and swung it towards Feraligatr.
Even if they are all Gyarados, different Trainer will have different fighting methods for their Pokémon's. This is why Pokémon Battles attract such a large amount of audience even though most don't even have their own Pokémon's, it's because they can see something they have never thought of.
Clair is an expert on Dragon-type Pokémon. The Gyarados she trained has a fighting style that is much closer to that of a Dragon-type than most in the world!
"I see! Superpower!"
Feraligatr's muscles are swelling crazily, and the violent power is awakening in its body. It has no fear when facing the Aqua Tail belonging to Gyarados!
The astonishing momentum on the huge Aqua Tail stopped suddenly, and Feraligatr stopped the tail forcefully with his hands. Then with a even stronger force, Gyarados was pulled up from the water with its tail!
After his Pokémon have evolved and become much large, Ash's fighting style has become much wilder when commanding, thus increasing their overall range. Of course, Ash won't use this kind of tactics for all his Pokémon's, just the ones that he feels will benefit from it.
"Gyarados, don't lose it, use Twister!"
Sure enough, this one too can use this Dragon-type move. Twister instantly swept Feraligatr, forcing it to let go of Gyarados' tail.
Feraligatr's huge body was brought to a height of more than one meter, and the violent Twister brought tearing power through the whole thing, constantly causing its body to be harmed.
However, Ash did panick at all, "Crunch!"
What the hell kind of tactic is this?
After hearing this order, Misty, Brock and Clair behind him were all confused. In this kind of Twister, even Feraligatr could not move at all. "How can he use a move like Crunch right now?"
However, Feraligatr, who was trapped in the Twister, suddenly opened his eyes, and the Dark energy poured into his glistening white teeth!
As a crocodile, what he can most rely on in any condition is his terrifying bite force, which is arguably its most powerful weapon!
Neither Superpower nor Hydro Pump is as reliable as a move like Crunch is to him.
"Fer!"
The Dark-type energy formed huge energy fangs, which even extended out of Twister. It bit down and tore down the Twister into multiple pieces!
"How is this possible?" Clair couldn't believe what she was seeing at all!
And she clearly noticed that when Feraligatr escaped from her Twister just now, strange streams of water appeared throughout his whole body.
Ash smiled softly, "Let's decide the winner! Have an Ice Fang!"
Once again Ash ordered his Feraligatr to use a biting type attack!
Feraligatr jumped into the water and approached Gyarados at a fast speed. The clear big icy fangs bit Gyarados's scales hard!
"GAY!"
Gyarados couldn't help shouting in pain, Clair frowned, "Gyarados, use one last Outrage!"
As expected, it was another Dragon-type skill, and it was also one of the strongest attacks that can be unleashed with the destructive power of the Dragon-types. Gyarados's eyes were dyed bright red from the ongoing Outrage and severe pain that he felt throughout his whole body.
Then he continued to swing his tail back and forth to finally shake off Feraligatr's fangs from its body, throwing it to the ground, and then a quick Hyper Beam was already aimed at him!
"ASH!" Misty and Brock exclaimed, but Ash did not seem to be impressed by the attack by much at all.
"Hydro Cannon!"
This is the final evolutionary type exclusive move of the Water-type Starter. It can be taught and learned as a very special move! Like the past Hyper Beam, it will be unable to move for some time after this is used.
However, the advantage is that as a Water-type Pokémon itself, Feraligatr using Hydro Cannon has the added Same Type Attack Bonus to its power!
The Hydro Cannon, which was much more violent than the previous Hydro Pumps they used, instantly shattering Gyarados' Hyper Beam and hit Gyarados hard on his head!
"Gyarados loses the ability to fight any longer, Feraligatr wins this round!" In this battle, even Kaburagi himself with all his experience was speechless and shocked to his core. He didn't look at Clair at all until he instinctively announced Ash's victory this round.
"Miss, Ash's strength has surpassed our imagination by far! The bond between him and his Pokémon is so deep that I can't even see it, this allows him to achieve any fighting method with his partners that go beyond our imagination!"
Yes, Kaburagi could see that if there wasn't for the unbelievable strong bond between Ash and his Pokémon, it would be absolutely impossible for him to achieve such a battle tactic. He trusts his Pokémon very much, and his Pokémon respond to his trust with their all. It's almost like he saw and felt what his Pokémon's were seeing and feeling.
Clair nodded to him, "Ash, your bond with Pokémon almost makes me jealous. I think you have already guessed the last Pokémon that I will be using in our battle!"
That's right, Clair's last Pokémon is her Dragonair, which just completed its Evolution last night!
Ash took back the somewhat exhausted Feraligatr and replaced it with another of his Poké Balls!
Both Brock's and Misty's eyes lit up, it was obvious to them on what Ash was going to use as his next Pokémon!
This was Ash's Heal Ball!
"Stand by for battle, Slifer the Sky Dragon!"
Red as blood, Gyarados crashed directly onto the opponent's battlefield from mid-air, and its huge tail fell into the pool, causing waves more than three meters high to form!
"Is this the same Gyarados that caused trouble near Mahogany Town?" Seeing this terrifying figure, Clair's eyes narrowed, "What a powerful force, how can he be so strong!"
"Dragonair, be careful!" Clair knew very well that she had already lost half of the battle before the battle truly even began, but she subconsciously reminded her Dragonair to be careful! A thing that all Trainers should have trained for.
Fortunately, Dragonair's momentum did not drop by much because of the sudden appearance of Ash's Red Gyarados. The blue crystal beads around his neck flashed, and the sky above the battlefield was suddenly covered with thunderclouds!
Dragonair's ability to control the weather is truly amazing and now it was showing what he could do with it!
"Thunder!"
Clair was the first to attack this time around. In such rainy weather, the hit rate of this Electric attack was increased to the absolute maximum, and Electric-types were supper effective against Gyarados!
The thunderous light falling from the sky swallowed up Gyarados, and the huge damage caused it to roar repeatedly.
However, in that thunder light, no one noticed that Gyarados' body was also releasing golden light from within!
The Bond Evolution Gyarados has dual types of Water and Dragon, completely negating its Super Effective weakness to the Electric-type.
"GYA!"
The roar changed from pain to rage, and Gyarados was wrapped with thunder and lightning and suddenly rushed to Dragonair's side. His ferocious appearance seemed to swallow up the much smaller dragon like a shadow, and he bit Dragonair hard with his powerful and cold teeth's!
Dragonair was frozen almost instantly because of the Ice Fang, and the damage caused by such a skill was very terrifying to the newly evolved and inexperienced Dragonair!
"Nooo, Dragonair!"
Clair exclaimed loudly, but could only watch helplessly as her Dragonair was instantly knocked out by Ash's Gyarados, who looked like a true demon in front of her!
"Dragonair has lost the ability to fight any longer, meaning that Gyarados has won this battle, so the winner is Challenger Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town!"