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Early in the morning, Ash began a new training regimen for his Pokémon, assigning each of them their respective drills. The Pokémon were all quite self-disciplined.
"Pikachu, continue training just like yesterday." The main focus of the training was Pikachu. After learning Iron Tail, Pikachu helped Ash achieve victory at the Pewter Gym.
However, because they hadn't taken the shortcut of using the waterwheel to master Thunderbolt, Pikachu's Electric-type moves still had flaws.
Thunderbolt is a move that requires a very high level to learn in the games. Of course, it's normal for the protagonist to be overpowered, but Ash here didn't use any cheats, so Pikachu still hadn't learned Thunderbolt.
Actually, Thunderbolt is just an enhanced version of Thunder Shock, but Ash also had Pikachu try using Thunder Shock with maximum power, though it wasn't very effective. While the power did increase, it certainly didn't achieve the effect of Thunderbolt.
However, Ash soon thought of a new move: Electro Ball. Pikachu is the beloved child of the entire series; every new series introduces new moves. Ash learned that Electro Ball was a new move learned after the anime storyline reached the Unova Region.
Ash's knowledge of the Pokémon anime storyline only extended to that point. He arrived in this world right before the next season's promotional video, but having played the games, he also knew that Electro Ball was a powerful Electric-type move that Pikachu could learn relatively early.
This move itself has no power rating because its power is determined by the user's speed. This perfectly suited Pikachu. After all, if Pikachu doesn't evolve, its only advantage is speed.
When it comes to speed, Pikachu will definitely not lose to any Pokémon. Electro Ball could be learned much earlier than Thunderbolt in the games, and combined with Pikachu's speed, Ash didn't dwell too much on Thunderbolt, instead focusing his attention on Electro Ball.
Of course, this didn't mean abandoning Thunderbolt, but for now, Electro Ball was more suitable. There was no need to forcefully squeeze the Pokémon's potential when it wasn't strictly necessary.
"Pika!" Pikachu nodded seriously in front of Ash. The continuous training since leaving Cerulean City was already showing initial results.
"Alright, let's try again. Concentrate all your electricity in your tail. Remember to control this power; don't release it!" Ash watched Pikachu and instructed him. Electro Ball was different from any other Electric-type move.
Electric-type moves were all about outward release, large-scale explosive attacks, but a difficult point about Electro Ball was needing to condense the energy.
It was completely different from the feeling of freely releasing power before, and concentrating electricity at a single point made the energy extremely unstable, which was why Pikachu had suffered a lot these past two days.
"Pika!!"
Pi~~ka... Pi-pi-pi-pi...
Pikachu listened to Ash's command and began to try again, jumping up, then holding its tail upright, trying to concentrate all the electricity on its tail.
Zzzzt!!!
A burst of electric arcs suddenly flashed from its lightning-shaped tail, making sizzling sounds, slowly forming a golden energy ball the size of a baby's fist.
Bang!!
"Pika!!!"
The light ball appeared, but before it could celebrate, electricity surged from within the energy ball, and then the entire energy ball exploded directly.
A cloud of smoke immediately filled the air, and Pikachu let out a startled cry, then was engulfed by the smoke. "Pikachu!"
Ash saw this and quickly ran over. Pikachu also fell from the smoke, and Ash, seeing this, caught the falling Pikachu. "Pikachu, are you okay?" Ash asked worriedly as he held Pikachu.
Electro Ball was unlike Iron Tail. Iron Tail generally wouldn't hurt itself much, but if Electro Ball's power exploded, Pikachu would be within the explosion range.
Although they were both Electric-type Pokémon and wouldn't suffer too much damage, the impact of the explosion was still considerable, especially at such a close distance.
In the anime, Pikachu inexplicably just knew how to use it, but to enhance his strength in the early stages, Ash deliberately practiced it early.
In the anime, when Pikachu reached the Unova Region, it already had the experience of several leagues, so learning Electro Ball easily was normal. But now, more effort was needed.
"Pi... Pikachu!!" Pikachu also sat up in Ash's arms, then shook his head, recovering his spirits, and responded to Ash, seemingly encouraging Ash as well.
"Alright, let's try again! You'll definitely succeed!" This situation was not the first time. Since leaving Cerulean City, he would wake up early in the morning and train extra at night.
Only now could he barely condense an energy ball the size of a baby's fist, and he still couldn't control it well. But Ash and Pikachu didn't slack off. Listening to Ash's words, Pikachu quickly jumped off Ash and continued to try.
As for the other Pokémon, Ash treated them all equally, training them alongside Pikachu. The fastest in terms of speed improvement were Pikachu, Eevee, and Axew.
Gyarados, who had just evolved, temporarily surpassed them in strength. Butterfree had already completed its evolution,
and its strength had naturally increased significantly. Pidgeotto's evolution cycle was long, so it needed more time to mature, but it could still improve its strength by learning new moves.
Ash specifically designed a training plan. After Gyarados evolved, Ash had it display all its moves. Besides Dragon Rage, it also had Bite, Ice Fang, and Aqua Tail. This made Ash realize that the real-life world was different from the games.
In the games, Pokémon would learn new moves upon evolving, and old moves would still exist, only to be gradually replaced by useless skills through later leveling up.
But here, moves like Magikarp's Splash and Tackle were not that Gyarados couldn't use them, but that they were no longer useful.
Furthermore, depending on a Pokémon's aptitude and training level, the number of moves learned after evolution wasn't fixed to just one, as it was in the games. Of course, there were differences.
Not all Pokémon were like this. Only early-stage weak Pokémon like Caterpie and Magikarp could be like this because they couldn't learn any powerful moves early on.
Learning many moves after evolution was an accumulation from the early stages. For some Pokémon that were already strong in the early stages, they couldn't learn three or four moves at once after evolution like these.
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