Tetsuya walked alone on the road toward the mountains.
Each day he still needed to stop for a period of time to complete Beedrill's special training, and in order to keep Beedrill provided with food, he also had to give the six Gloom time to bask in the sun, so his traveling pace was not fast.
Tetsuya could also see Beedrill's growth, but it had not yet reached the condition for poison training.
Now Beedrill's twin stingers were already strong and powerful. The combination of Twineedle and Fury Attack had already been integrated into its body, completely becoming a single move -[Twin Fury]-.
The power and speed of its attacks were also gradually becoming perfect for its level. Recently, the main focus of training was the coordination between Pursuit and Assurance.
The combination of these two moves could display terrifying power under certain conditions, so it had to be trained to the extreme.
"Don't stop, continue the spinning flight."
Tetsuya's training had already begun. Now Tetsuya had renamed these two moves combination as "[Fatal Pursuit]".
The effect of Pursuit was to double the damage against Pokémon that were escaping or about to be recalled into a Poké Ball.
Assurance doubled the damage against Pokémon that had already been injured.
The perfectly combined "Fatal Pursuit" would double the damage against Pokémon that were injured or escaping. If the opponent was injured and then attempted to escape, then the power of this move could reach the "ultimate move" level. It could be said to be the strongest among Dark-type moves, comparable to the strongest Normal-type move, Giga Impact.
A move with such great power naturally had great difficulty in training.
Spinning flight was the base. Now Beedrill's twin stingers had no flaws. Using spinning flight would form the entire stinger into a drill-like shape. Combined with Dark-type energy, the power of the strike could be said to reach its peak!
However, maintaining spinning flight for a long time would naturally cause dizziness, and its eyes also had to stay fixed on the target, otherwise missing the attack would make everything meaningless.
A distance of twenty meters!
Tetsuya hung a leaf on a tree branch. This kind of training difficulty was indeed very high. The hanging leaf would constantly change direction with the wind. Beedrill not only needed to maintain spinning flight at a distance of twenty meters, but also had to accurately judge the movement of the leaf and adjust its direction at any time in order to strike precisely.
At the beginning, this kind of training was indeed somewhat harsh, but only with a goal could there be direction for effort.
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For three or four consecutive days, Beedrill could not adapt to this spinning flight. Short-distance flight was barely manageable, but once the distance increased, it would start to feel dizzy, and it even lost its appetite for its favorite nectar.
His schedule was to train in the morning, travel in the afternoon, and train again for a while at night.
Only after a full week did Beedrill completely adapt to this kind of flight, which could only be considered completing a small half of the training.
Because the opponent was a moving target, and the leaf was also drifting, while executing spinning flight it also had to be able to flexibly change direction. Compared to changing direction during normal flight, the difficulty was naturally greatly increased.
However, thanks to Beedrill's outstanding flying ability, this stage of training did not take too long. After three days, it was already able to flexibly change direction.
Next, it only needed to focus its attention, keep its eyes on the movement of the leaf at all times, coordinate with direction changes, and execute attacks.
The training had entered its most critical phase!
The difficulty of attacking a leaf was much greater than attacking an ordinary Pokémon. First, it was too small, and second, the wind direction in the forest was unstable and ever-changing, able to shift direction at any time.
On the first day of training, Beedrill could not even touch the leaf. Because its body was spinning, its eyes were also spinning, naturally causing deviations in judging the leaf's direction. This required Beedrill to perceive that visual point itself. Only by finding the pattern could it achieve consistent accuracy.
It was not until the second day that Beedrill attacked the leaf for the first time.
"Good."
Tetsuya immediately called a stop.
Beedrill was still excited about its first success, and did not quite understand why Tetsuya suddenly stopped it.
"Remember that feeling just now. Imprint it in your mind, then continue training."
That instant feeling, once gone, was gone…
Everything would have to start over. Only by turning that "instant" into something permanent could it truly be dominated.
Beedrill closed its eyes.
One minute…
Two minutes…
…
Ten minutes…
Beedrill suddenly opened its eyes!
Without needing Tetsuya to say more, it used "[Fatal Pursuit]" and shot forward. The leaf was struck down once again!
Now Beedrill had no problems perceiving the leaf. Out of ten attempts, it could hit eight. The two misses occurred because just as it was about to hit, a sudden change in wind direction prevented Beedrill from adjusting its direction in that instant.
Such situations would also often occur in battle. Many agile Pokémon indeed had the ability to dodge instantly[1]. This required Beedrill to continuously practice to make its combat more responsive. Of course, missing was unavoidable. When it missed, it needed to adjust its posture in time and counterattack, similar to a returning strike, which greatly ensured reliability in battle.
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Another week passed, and Tetsuya was getting closer and closer to the mountains.
Beedrill's training could now be completely trusted. When using [Fatal Pursuit] to attack the leaf, it would only miss once out of twenty attempts. Its ability to instantly change direction had become increasingly mature. Even in that one miss, Beedrill would promptly adjust its posture and continue the attack, still managing to hit the leaf perfectly.
During this period, he also encountered two teams. In normal sparring matches, Beedrill had not lost a single one, and its experience continued to accumulate through battle.
Now Beedrill had already formed two sets of tactics. Focus Energy served as the prelude, and [Twin Fury] based on Double Team could be used for attack, evasion, and disruption.
The use of [Fatal Pursuit] had also become extremely proficient. Its flexible direction changes, maximized move power, and attack accuracy were all flawless.
What was needed now was continuous battle to accumulate experience. This Beedrill was also on the path toward the peak!
The most famous user of Beedrill was none other than Team Rocket leader, Giovanni. His Beedrill was already unbelievably powerful. Whether it could reach that level would depend on fat… Arceus.
Now the first phase of Beedrill's training could be said to have come to an end. The moves trained in this phase were all based on the twin stingers as the method of attack. Beedrill still had two "weapons" that had not yet been put to use, which were the poison stinger at its tail and its deadly toxins.
Now Beedrill's growth was quite remarkable, and its physical condition was sufficiently strong. It had indeed reached the conditions to produce its poison.
[1] Haki!!!????