"Heheheh~"
By a stream somewhere, the young girl was squatting, focusing on a large lobster, Corphish, whose upper body was mostly orange, while its belly and the lower half of its skirt were white.
"What a lively little guy!" Dawn watched Corphish brandishing its large claws, and her heart couldn't help but be filled with joy.
She picked up her pokedex, wanting to learn about this lively fellow.
"Corphish, the Ruffian Pokémon, can inhabit any river, even incredibly dirty ones. It uses its sharp claws to grab prey and will never let go."
"Ah? Ruffian Pokémon?!"
Dawn instinctively looked at Ash behind her and asked with a slight hesitation, "This little guy looks quite lively and cute, why does the pokedex say it's a ruffian?!"
"Heheheh~"
Meanwhile, Corphish was completely unaffected, still maintaining its cheerful demeanor, a thorough optimist.
"You know, when I first met Corphish, he wasn't as well-behaved as he is now!"
There's a reason Corphish is classified as a Ruffian Pokémon; at least in terms of personality, he certainly isn't on par with being well-behaved.
Ash had to put in a lot of effort to catch this guy initially.
However, his strength is indeed formidable; he has defeated many opponents with his Crabhammer, and this also owes much to Corphish's Ability.
[Pokémon: Corphish]
[Type: Water]
[Ability: Adaptability]
[Individual Values: HP (25), Attack (31), Special Attack (31), Defense (28), Special Defense (29), Speed (30)]
[Moves: …Water Gun, Bubble Beam, Crabhammer (forgot what other moves he has)]
[Held Item: None]
[Strength: Superior (99.99…9%)]
As a main force in Hoenn, Corphish's contribution is not small, relying on Crabhammer to be unrivaled.
At the same time, the Adaptability Ability also explains very well why Corphish's Crabhammer has such immense power.
After all, a STAB Crabhammer, with the boost from Adaptability, will see an even greater increase in output.
You should know that Crabhammer has a base power of 100, plus Adaptability, that power… one punch, one KO.
Although it only has 2 perfect IVs, the most valued Attack stat is maxed out, and the Individual Values of the other 5 stats are not low either.
"I see!"
The young girl looked at the well-behaved and lively Corphish, still somewhat disbelieving, but her gaze was quickly drawn to another crab-like Pokémon with enormous pincers.
Facing an unfamiliar Pokémon, Dawn, as usual, took out her pink pokedex to scan it.
"Kingler, the Pincer Pokémon, is the evolved form of Krabby. Its hard pincers contain a super strength of 10,000 horsepower, but it moves slowly because they are too large!"
Dawn looked at this Kingler, whose head and pincers were red, and the rest of its body was white, with a hint of disbelief.
After comparing them repeatedly, she spoke with an extremely exaggerated expression: "Wow, ten thousand horsepower! Are those big pincers really that powerful?"
Under Ash and Kingler's gaze, the young girl gently tapped the hard pincer, and when Kingler didn't react, she became bolder and started stroking it.
"It feels like there's no difference except for being a bit hard!" Compared to the lively little crab next door who was still going "Heheheh," the two looked completely indistinguishable.
Her curiosity piqued, the young girl, after getting Corphish's permission, pulled him next to Kingler, letting them lean against each other.
Dawn compared them, looking left and right, and even found hard rocks to use for comparison.
Pikachu!!
Pikachu, who was watching from the side, was also quite excited. He joined Dawn in putting rocks into both of their pincers to see whose pincer was sharper.
Ash watched the busy girl and her Pokémon, then secretly opened Kingler's panel.
[Pokémon: Kingler]
[Type: Water]
[Ability: Sheer Force]
[Individual Values: HP (26), Attack (31), Special Attack (25), Defense (31), Special Defense (29), Speed (30)]
[Moves: …Mud Shot, Bubble Beam, Stomp, Crabhammer, Guillotine, Hyper Beam…]
[Held Item: None]
[Strength: Gym (5%)]
Like Corphish, Kingler also has maxed-out Attack, an extremely specialized distribution of stats.
Its Attack base stat is directly boosted to 130, creating an extremely powerful physical attacker, and combined with the Sheer Force Ability, it achieved a 3-0 sweep in the Indigo Battle Tournament.
Among Ash's Pokémon, Kingler was the first to achieve the feat of a 3-0 sweep.
So this time, Corphish and Kingler, this pair of shrimp soldiers and crab generals, became Ash's latest exchange targets.
And the Pokémon exchanged back were naturally the honest and reliable Grotle and the newly evolved Ambipom.
Grotle needed to undergo endurance training, and there was no place more suitable than Professor Oak's backyard.
After all, the main forces are all there, and there are plenty of companions who can help Grotle with pressure resistance training.
At the same time, he can also learn how to manage the backyard from Bulbasaur.
This way, Bulbasaur can occasionally be freed up to participate in his journey.
As for Ambipom, after evolving, this guy finally stopped resisting returning to the backyard and agreed to go back to Professor Oak's backyard.
This greatly relieved Ash, who sighed that this girl had finally matured.
Then, when they stopped for lunch today, he released this pair of shrimp soldiers and crab generals to foster their bond.
He just didn't expect Dawn's curiosity to be so strong; she spent most of the time observing these two guys.
It wasn't until just now that she couldn't hold back anymore and kept scanning them with her pokedex.
Now she was even more curious about whose pincers were harder, so she initiated a hardness competition, determined to make them decide a winner.
Unfortunately, the nearby items were not hard enough; they all broke with one snap from the pincers of the two shrimp soldiers and crab generals.
"Oh dear~"
The young girl sat on the ground in frustration, looking sullenly at Corphish and Kingler, seemingly bothered by not being able to determine a winner.
Pikachu!!
Pikachu, who was on the side, finally couldn't find any harder items and eventually looked at his own tail.
After a second or two of thought, his jagged tail began to glow white, and to Dawn and Ash's surprised expressions, Pikachu actively used Iron Tail in front of the shrimp soldier and crab general duo.
His face showed an eager expression, as if he wanted to know which of these two guys would cause more pain.
"Hey, hey, who taught you to use Iron Tail like that?!"
This scene made Ash's mouth twitch, and he even used Snarl, wanting to interrupt Pikachu's move.