Chapter 180 - 60 : Espeon vs Nidorina

When Slowking and Alakazam teleported away, Espeon and nidorina began their fight.

Espeon and nidorina ran in the direction of opposite to that of Slowking. While they run away from the possible battlefield of electabuzz and nidoking, Espeon kept sending stars from the swift attack at nidorina.

She countered it by sending poison sting from her mouth which has nullified the swift attack and even almost hit Espeon.

The move managed to destroy her swift meant only one thing. Her ability wasn't poison point but rivalry.

Nido line have two main abilities. One is poison point and another is Rivalry. They possess either one of the two ability. The two were of equal strong but the fact that the poison sting can completely overcome swift meant that rivalry trait was in effect.

They can also have a hidden ability but this is not known to Espeon.

Poison point was the ability of many poison Pokemons. Whenever a Pokemon comes in direct contact of another with poison point, he has some chances of getting himself poisoned.

But this nidorina has rivalry ability. Whenever she encounters Pokemon of similar s_e_x then her attack power increases. Of course it also has a weakness too.

If the opponent is of different gender then the attack power of nidorina gets decreased by a fourth of the attack power.

Earlier Espeon felt their strength was similar. she thought to drag for as long as possible since they would want to preserve power to help their companions in the later battles.

But when the swift attack was destroyed it showed this nidorina had Rivalry ability and her attacks would be stronger according to her trainer, Alex.

But this wasn't enough to discourage her, she was a psychic type and had type advantage against the poison Pokemon.

Nidorina kept sending poison sting at Espeon who easily dodged the attacks meanwhile Espeon retaliated with psychic attacks but she managed to roll over them or around them.

Although not fast enough, she had instincts which she acquired in her life in the wild. This saved her from psychic attacks. But it could easily tire her out. She was meant for power not speed or stamina after all. Her nidoqueen form was sturdy, not nidorina.

They continued their attacks on each other until they were far enough from electabuzz and nidoking. they don't want to be hurdle or burden to their companions in the next battle round.

Espeon on the other hand had both close range and long range attack moves so she doesn't get stuck if any one type of attack doesn't work or doesn't have the opportunity to attack.

The fury swipes were dodged by double team and she retaliated with iron tail but nidorina stepped sideways meeting the attack hit the ground.

Espeon swept her tail sideways after hitting the ground and nidorina was smashed through a small tree making it fall from the impact.

This made a dust cloud rise and when it settled down, nidorina was out of view. she had hidden herself from Espeon's vision.

The place they fought was in the middle of a forest. The trees and shrubs around them provide enough places for nidorina to hide herself and attack when her guard is lowered.

When she lowered her guard, nidorina sneaked to her blind spot and sent Espeon flying with the double kick. She targeted her vital organs.

This hurt her but she managed to prevent the kick from hitting any important part of the body and affecting her overall functioning.

When she rose to her feet, nidorina once again hides in the outgrowths and waited for the right moment to attack again.

Espeon was hit hard from the last time she lowered her guard. she wasn't going to give her opponent another chance and used her psychic to destroy all vegetation around herself. she wants to destroy all hiding places around to prevent nidorina from her sneak attack.

As she destroyed some outgrowths, Nidorina's mouth glows purple and bit Espeon on her hind legs to leave a bite mark and make her wobble on her feet.

She then rise her in the air through pure Brute force and threw Espeon on the nearby tree to hurt her.

Nidorina was making perfect use of her fighting experience in the forest.

Espeon was faster and powerful than nidorina in overall stats but nidorina used the location advantage to gain the upper hand.

As Espeon rise to her feet she glowed in pink through the application of heal pulse on herself.

As she prepares to use heal pulse, nidorino comes out of hiding and bite on the shoulder this time. The attack location was bruised badly. She was using her superior physical strength to compensate for her lack of speed and every attack of hers left a bruise on Espeon's body.

Espeon hasn't completely recovered from the mental exhaustion of Mismagius's illusions so she was badly thrashed by the nidorina who should be at disadvantage, according to all computed data analysis.

But life and battle isn't all about calculations. There are always some factors or advantages which turns the tide of the battle completely.

Espeon was injured and she needed to heal herself if she needed to have a chance of victory. She wasn't suppose to be a battler in this Pokemon Tide. She was supposed to help Electabuzz in his fight through her healing tricks.

But now she needed to use her tricks on herself to survive this battle.

But it seemed that luck was on Espeon's side.

The phenomenonal change along with rainfall which happened when Slowking was promoting to pseudo king stage, distracted Nidorina long enough for Espeon to heal herself and destroy all the outgrowth and trees around.

After her psychic outburst, There was nothing in the surrounding space and a clearing appeared.

With no place to hide, nidorina becomes an easy target and under the full force attack of psychic and iron tail on her hind legs she fell down on the ground. Nidorina has lost her mobility due to the previous attacks.

This battle wasn't just to win but to kill the opponent. Alex made sure that all of his Pokemons would remember this.

Espeon sent a full powered hyperbeam towards her fallen opponent, ending the life of nidorina.

The battle after the change of momentum lasted for full fifteen minutes. She has strong vitality and will power which made sure that she could rise from attacks even though she was hit square by a super effective move.

Another reason for drag was that Espeon hasn't completely healed up mentally. Alex has no idea on how he can treat someone from mental exhaustion and thought rest would do the trick.

Any how in the end, victory belonged to Espeon.

Although she won and didn't have any visible injury she was very tired . The battle took a toll on her stamina. She has more stamina compared to her type but compared to other Pokemons with higher durability, it was low.

She spent the next fifteen minutes focusing on recovering her stamina while condensing her psychic powers and get prepare for the fight with nidoking who will most probably go berserk when she appears and nidorina doesn't.

Slowking and Espeon had won their battle and the only one left who have grand battle on their side are pidgeot, Snorlax, Piloswine and finally the electabuzz. How will these fight go? Stay tuned

To be continued…..