"Slowking has lost the ability to battle, Gardevoir wins!" As the Moonblast descended, Slowking also lost its ability to battle with that attack.
Though Gardevoir just reached the Gym Peak yesterday, her ability values are at an A level, and after MEGA Evolution, her overall strength has been elevated another level, so it's only natural to instantly defeat Slowking.
The gap between Junior Elite Level and Gym Peak is immeasurable, unless one possesses divine power, or like Ash, has powerful forces that can attach to the Pokemon. Otherwise, it's practically impossible to cross such a level.
At least for Conway, it's impossible. The space was shattered, Slowking's speed decreased, while the opposing Gardevoir is a high-speed Pokemon, and after MEGA Evolution, her speed could advance even further.
In this situation, how could Slowking surpass Gardevoir?
The level, the level can't match the opponent, the speed, the speed can't match the opponent, as for the Trainer's command skills... Conway feels his data-driven approach is indeed stronger than most Trainers, but this is based on having data, and regarding Ash, he knows nothing.
In terms of pure command skills, he shouldn't be much different from Ash, but the Trick Room was forcefully shattered by the opponent, and he doesn't know how to win this anymore.
But Conway never expected to lose so quickly!
In the blink of an eye, Slowking was instantly defeated. This scene seemed to say that "before, I was just playing with you, now... the farce is over."
Conway's ace was directly defeated, shattering Conway's confidence in that moment.
The confidence Slowking brought to Conway before was huge, and now he is equally dejected.
The subsequent battles are needless to say, Conway's remaining two Pokemon, Lick and Heracross, couldn't withstand even three seconds in front of Gardevoir, quickly taken down by one Psystrike.
The suspense of the match was already decided when Slowking lost its ability to battle, but the result was announced three minutes later.
"Heracross has lost the ability to battle, Gardevoir wins, all of Conway's six Pokemon have lost the ability to battle, the winner of this match is—Ash!!"
The referee loudly announced the winner of this match, as Ash successfully advanced to the quarterfinals!
With the announcement of victory, Gardevoir once again radiated light, but this time it was the devolving light.
Returning to her usual form, Gardevoir elegantly approached Ash, her lively eyes gazing at him, seemingly waiting for his praise.
"Well done, Gardevoir, a beautiful debut!" Ash gave a thumbs-up, praising Gardevoir without reservation.
This match was Gardevoir's first under the spotlight. In previous Gym battles, she had only participated in the Cinnabar Gym match, and it was fought on a magma field.
As a debut, Gardevoir performed perfectly, her full-strength MEGA Evolution form, shattering the Trick Room with Psystrike, and taking down nearly the entire opposition with overwhelming power.
Gardevoir's performance in this match made everyone watching the Quartz Conference around the world thrilled. How could there be such a beautiful and powerful breaking-the-shell cutie in the world?
MEGA-evolved Gardevoir looks even better than before, her deep black MEGA dress dazzled many into becoming Gardevoir's fervent fans.
Receiving Ash's praise, Gardevoir showed a satisfied expression. For Pokemon, the sense of achievement from victory is just a small part, the greater part is the encouragement from the Trainer and sharing the victory's fruits together.
For Gardevoir, it is even truer, as Ash is everything to her, and all her achievements are for Ash. The reason she evolved from Ralts initially was to gain stronger power to better aid Ash.
The surrounding cheers and Ash's encouragement made Gardevoir feel that evolving was indeed the smartest decision she ever made.
Also, MEGA Evolution has seemingly made her more beautiful, more capable of attracting everyone's attention, but she doesn't care about others' attention, only if she can attract Ash's attention.
After praising Gardevoir, Ash recalled her and stepped forward to shake hands with Conway, who, with a bitter smile, said, "At first, I thought the rumors might be exaggerated, saying you matched the level of an Elite in just half a year since debut, and that you're the strongest rookie Kanto has ever seen... But after today's battle, I can only say, the rumors aren't exaggerated at all."
"Ah? Haha, I'm not that great, the strongest rookie, I really don't dare to claim that."
Conway looked at Ash, whose smile nearly split his face, and couldn't help twitching at the corner of his mouth. Does saying you don't dare to claim it look like this? It's more like hoping I would praise you a bit more, right?
But the rumors indeed align with reality, the powers Ash displayed have zero issues being called Kanto's strongest rookie, not just Kanto, he is probably the strongest rookie in the world's history.
In the history of the Pokemon Realm, has there ever appeared such an extraordinarily talented Trainer? If it's Ash, maybe it won't be long before he can challenge the undefeated ruler of the Galar Region.