Run, that's the only advice Blaine gave to Ash when encountering Mewtwo.
Without Champion Peak level strength, facing Mewtwo is not to say there's absolutely no chance of resistance, but there's no way to contend with it. The opponent is a top master in the Psychic Type. Once they set up control over you, leaving you no opportunity to escape, you're in real trouble.
By then, you can't fight, and you can't flee, isn't it just walking into a trap?
Blaine's suggestion was deeply remembered by Ash—meaning he doesn't have to run now when meeting Mewtwo, he does have the strength of a Champion Peak!
Although it's hard to imagine, in terms of individual strength, even a Champion Peak Pokemon really can't beat him now.
Ash took the safe box from Blaine and then stuffed it into his Space Backpack. Blaine had already told him the password. As for whether these two Evolution Stones belong to Mewtwo, he'll find out when he has time to ask in the group chat.
Beside him, Gary's eyes were already spinning like swirls because he couldn't understand what Ash and Blaine were talking about.
What's this Mewtwo thing, some kind of artificial Pokemon, something about Mew gene... sounds way too complicated!
But Gary remembered what Blaine had said earlier, that it's better not to know certain things. Listen if you can, if you don't understand, don't ask. If you ask, you get involved. Given his current strength, to put it bluntly, he wouldn't even qualify as cannon fodder.
Ash can physically fight an Elite Level Pokemon, even defeat an Elite Peak level Pokemon. What about him? He'd be toyed by ordinary Pokemon.
So he decided not to ask more about these matters, better to remain ignorant.
After giving the Evolution Stones to Ash, Blaine felt like a weight had been lifted, but he still wasn't completely ignoring the matter of Mewtwo; instead, he decided to go find Professor Oak.
Constantly hiding like this isn't a solution. The mistakes he made, he must eventually face. Although revealing the existence of Mewtwo might intensify the conflict between Team Rocket and the Alliance, ultimately potentially leading to some very fierce 'war'.
This was his concern, but after entrusting Mewtwo's matter to Ash, Blaine felt there might be a turning point, and this turning point lies with Ash.
He couldn't exactly say what the turning point was, but one might call it the intuition of senior wisdom.
"By the way, during the battle, my Ninetales' special attack became so weak; was it your doing?" After resolving questions about Mewtwo, Blaine recalled the strange occurrences during the battle.
During the battle, Ninetales' Flamethrower and Inferno both suddenly became very weak, and this was even after using Nasty Plot to boost its Special Attack.
Yet, the attacks Ninetales unleashed didn't seem enhanced at all, rather they appeared weakened.
"Because Gardevoir used Invert." Ash revealed the answer with a smile, though it was an unexpected answer for everyone.
"Invert?" Misty and Brock said simultaneously, as they thought about the skill in their minds.
Can Gardevoir learn this skill? Rather, what is this Invert skill? They've never heard of it.
Gary also showed a contemplative look, but after a moment, he still couldn't figure out the origin and effect of the Invert skill.
Only Blaine, upon hearing Invert, showed an extremely bizarre expression: "The Invert you mentioned, it can't be the skill only usable by Malamar and Grapploct, right?"
"Yes, I saw this skill by chance and thought its effect was quite good. However, it seems only two kinds of Pokemon can learn this skill, others seemingly can't. But Gardevoir seems to embrace all skills like a sponge and does not refuse any, so I tried to make it learn, and it actually succeeded." Ash said with a smile, full of mischievous delight.
Because the Invert skill indeed catches people off guard, especially since he didn't give any command and Gardevoir, being a Pokemon normally incapable of learning Invert, makes it even more surprising.
Generally speaking, who would guard against this skill?
Even if they know Gardevoir used Invert, it might not be possible to counterattack properly, but that's better than remaining clueless and recklessly using Special Attacks for offense.
Seeing Ash's grinning face, Blaine turned green.
He tried so hard but couldn't figure out that Ninetales got hit by Invert, no wonder Ninetales was acting so strangely, with its Special Attack weakened so much; turns out, it was because of this trick!
"What's the function of the Invert skill?" Misty asked with curious perplexity.
"Invert can turn around any increased or decreased Ability Values, which means Ninetales used Nasty Plot, and after being inverted, its Special Attack wasn't enhanced. Instead, it dropped by two levels." Blaine said, a bit annoyed by the Invert skill.
The result can be extremely nauseating and hard to guard against.
Imagine, your Pokemon finally, after much effort, bolstered up, only to be then completely reversed by a single Invert move, even regressing. Seriously, who would you complain to!
Fortunately, previously only two kinds of Pokemon could use this skill, which includes Malamar and its pre-evolution Inkay, as well as Grapploct.
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