One Water-type and one Grass-type.
Both had a strong advantage against the Rock-type Pokémon used by Pewter Gym.
It seemed he had come very well prepared.
“Bulbasaur, use Vine Whip.”
“Bulba!”
Bulbasaur looked at the enormous Onix in front of it and let out a somewhat frightened cry.
Then two vines stretched out from both sides of its body and bravely lashed toward the Crystal Onix.
“Dodge, then use Take Down again.” Grass-type moves had a four-times advantage against Rock-and-Ground-type Pokémon.
Even though this Bulbasaur’s level was not high, Jasper still did not want the Crystal Onix to get hurt.
The Crystal Onix moved extremely fast.
After dodging the incoming vines, it quickly charged toward Bulbasaur.
“Dodge, quickly!” Evan shouted in panic.
But the difference between the two sides was too great.
The Crystal Onix directly hit Bulbasaur, and Bulbasaur let out a miserable cry before losing its ability to battle.
“The match is over. Both Pokémon of the challenger Evan from Viridian City have lost their ability to battle. Therefore, this Gym match is won by Pewter Gym Trainer Jasper.” The referee lowered the red flag toward Evan.
With the referee’s final judgment, Jasper’s first Gym match quickly came to an end.
“How could this happen?” Evan muttered, completely dispirited.
“Did I go a little too far?”
Watching Evan leave the Gym in a daze, Jasper thought silently to himself.
He needed to quickly build up his reputation so that people would not treat him as an easy target and force him to deal with rookie Trainers nonstop every day. New chapters come out on novelping.com first.
This would also make his life easier in the future.
But he had to admit, this feeling was really not bad.
Over the next week, Jasper continuously accepted challenges from Trainers from all over the place, but most of them were rookie Trainers who had just set out on their journeys.
Even when a few capable Trainers came to challenge him, they all fell before this Crystal Onix, which was nearly immune to Water-type attacks.
This caused Jasper’s fame to spread rapidly through the Trainer circles of Kanto.
Almost all the Trainers in Kanto had heard that Pewter Gym’s new Gym Leader possessed an extremely rare Crystal Onix, and that it could even withstand Water-type moves.
Some people even recorded Jasper’s battles and uploaded them online, causing a wave of excitement.
For a time, Pewter City became extremely lively.
People came endlessly to challenge the Gym and sightsee.
This was probably something even Flint had never expected.
Following that, powerful Trainers began coming one after another to challenge him, placing enormous pressure on Jasper.
After all, up until now, Jasper only had one Pokémon, the Crystal Onix.
In fact, before Flint left, he had wanted to give Jasper a Geodude, but Jasper refused.
First, as a transmigrator, he really did not think highly of a Pokémon like Geodude.
Second, Jasper did not want to specialize in a single type of Pokémon.
That would make him far too easy to target and counter.
Pewter Gym’s Gym match rules were two-on-two, and one of the Pokémon had to be a Rock-type.
If possible, Jasper still wanted to capture a Pokémon of another type to make up for the Crystal Onix’s shortcomings.
Aside from being very afraid of Fire-type attacks, the Crystal Onix was also four-times weak to Grass-type attacks.
However, it was nearly immune to Water-type attacks.
This was also the reason why challengers who came with Water-type Pokémon kept failing one after another.
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But if the Crystal Onix could evolve, its typing would become Steel and Ground.
It would then gain great resistance against Grass-type moves, but it would become relatively afraid of Fire-type attacks instead.
From a future perspective, capturing a Water-type Pokémon was also necessary.
The Fire-type Pokémon in Kanto included Charizard, Magmar, Ninetales, Flareon, Arcanine, and Rapidash.
Actually, Jasper really wanted to capture a Charmander.
After all, as a transmigrator, he felt that Charizard was practically a belief.
It looked cool, had extremely powerful strength, and could carry people while flying.
Most importantly, it could undergo Mega Evolution, and it even had two different Mega Evolution forms.
Just thinking about it made him excited.
However, as one of Kanto’s starter Pokémon, Charmander was an extremely precious Pokémon.
Its birthplace was strictly protected by the League, and it was almost impossible to encounter one in the wild.
The way Ash could pick up and capture starter Pokémon in the wild no matter which region he went to was impossible.
There might be some on the black market, but their prices there would probably be unimaginably expensive.
An ordinary starter Pokémon on the black market would basically cost more than three million, and those with good aptitude would be even more expensive.
Over the past half year, Jasper had still focused most of his energy on training the Crystal Onix, and he had not accepted many missions from the Pokémon Center.
He did not want to delay the Crystal Onix’s training just to earn money.
After all, in this world, strength was the most important thing.
If one became an Elite Four-level Trainer or a Champion, would they still be afraid of having no money?
The evolution item and future resources needed by the Crystal Onix would still require an unknown amount of money.
The money in his hands could not be spent recklessly.