>>5730889>>5730921>>5730949>>5730956>>5730958You dress up, and head to the Poké Center training field. you spend the day there, shifting your attention from one Pokémon to the other, recalling the one you feel you can't manage. Today, training is axed toward moves.
>Coaching skill : +5 (turning Apu's failure into moderate Success)The time spent on each of them let you ascertain better your team member - Except <span class="mu-s">Espresso</span>, wildly uncooperative. To be expected from a feline pokémon; they're quite independent.
<span class="mu-g">Dixie</span> only knows Tackle and Growl. You do your best to try and get her to use a grass type move, to no avail : looks like she's too weak to learn those moves for now. She can produce some liana, or plant-grown tendril that she use for dextrous manipulation, but they're soft and frail - no way to use it as a move, or an emergency rope like you would had dire needed in the partly-crumbled castle. You will have to make her fight to get her to progress. Still, she's overjoyed of the attention and the all-together time both from getting home and training as your most sociable Pokémon.
>Bond with Dixie increased!However, your other Pokémon really benefited from that training.
First, <span class="mu-r">Apu</span>. Upon your careful guidance, you let him express a new way to channel elemental power : looks like whatever he's producing in this fire-pouch of his is poisonous in addition to flammable. By lowering its pouch temperature, and breathing away, he can launch a poison attack!
>Apu learned Smog<span class="mu-s">Cinnamon</span> was pulled out of his comfort zone. That's good for him - this will help him overcome is fear of his team mates. There's still a long road to walk. Still, you need to expand his fighting capabilities.
His tail have been often twitching - and that gives you inspiration : there's a startling Normal move that use tail, right? Something like cutely brushing the opponent to lower defenses?
He gets it quite right quite fast. How cute, you want to spoil him - waitwaitwait is the move working on humans too?
>Cinnamon learned Tail WhipLast, <span class="mu-b">Bubbles</span>.
First order of business is understanding what happened the other day (
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"Sweetie, can you try to do that again? The thing that made you sweep?"
You wooper surrounds again in that shroud of unidentified energy, which dispels. Let's think about it.
>Novice NaturalistIt's not Fire, Water, Grass, Ghost, or Normal - you know how they look by now.
It doesn't appear to look like Poison - you have minor experience with that as well.
It was quite effective against Amelia's Lace, her ð-Hoothoot. So not Ground typed. Same for the Water-type ð-Snivy of Danny (that you won't call by the stupid name the trainer came with).
However, you recall it able to take down immediately the hyped Shellder (Shellshock?) of Matthew, dealing with him easier than expected, despite the outstanding defense of the Mollusc.
A hunch is growing.