[Life Dew: A Water-type move. It scatters mysterious water, restoring the HP of itself and its allies on the field.]
"This Shellder actually knows the group-healing move 'Life Dew'?"
Adrian revealed a joyful expression and sighed with emotion, "What a talent!"
Among Pokémon, there are many moves that restore HP, but moves like Recover, Rest, and Slack Off can only restore one's own HP.
Group-healing moves like Life Dew, which can simultaneously restore the HP of both oneself and allies on the field, are quite rare.
This is a god-tier healer skill!
In wild battles, this will definitely be of great use.
Thinking of this, Adrian quickly called up this Shellder's status panel.
[Pokémon: Shellder]
[Type: Water]
[Ability: Multi-Strike (If using multi-strike moves, they will always hit the maximum number of times)]
[Moves: Water Gun, Life Dew, Icicle Spear, Rock Blast, Helping Hand, Toxic Spikes]
"Multi-Strike ability, it meets the requirements!"
Adrian first looked at the ability; this was the key data for a veto.
Then he looked at the move list: "Six moves, the quantity isn't much. But the quality seems to be—"
"Quite high!"
Adrian's eyes lit up, and he excitedly rubbed his small hands together.
Among Water-type moves, besides the eye-catching 'Life Dew', Water Gun is the most basic move that almost every Shellder knows; that's a given.
Next, Icicle Spear and Rock Blast are both moves that hit 2-5 times, but with the support of the 'Multi-Strike' ability, they are guaranteed to hit five times, making the damage skyrocket.
This indicates that this Shellder's combat power is quite outstanding.
Then there's 'Helping Hand', a super support move that uses one's own power to strengthen another.
As for the final move, Toxic Spikes, it made Adrian's eyes light up again as he thought to himself, "This Shellder seems to have a good talent in the Poison type as well!"
Adrian has caught at least two hundred if not five hundred Shellder, but this is indeed the first time he has seen the Toxic Spikes move.
Although Shellder doesn't have the Poison type, it is a Pokémon that can secrete toxins, so theoretically, it can learn moves like Toxic and Toxic Spikes.
This point can be seen from the description of Slowking.
According to the Pokédex description, Slowking is formed when a Shellder bites a Slowpoke and toxins flow through its brain, miraculously awakening its latent wisdom.
Under the influence of the toxins after being bitten by a Shellder, its intelligence rises to a level comparable to the world's top scientists. It possesses extraordinary wisdom and inspiration and can freely manipulate psychic powers.
Thinking of this, a novel idea popped into Adrian's mind: "If I continuously strengthen Shellder's toxins, will Slowpoke's intelligence and psychic manipulation abilities increase even more when it evolves into Slowking?"
Increasing a Shellder's Poison-type abilities is extremely difficult for ordinary trainers.
Because although Shellder can secrete toxins, its poison glands are pitifully weak compared to Poison-type Pokémon.
But Adrian has TMs; as long as he obtains the corresponding moves, he can continuously improve Shellder.
Most importantly, Adrian's Fishing Space currently stores a batch of TMs for moves like 'Toxic' and 'Toxic Spikes', which were rewards he got from fishing for Tentacool at Vermilion Harbor.
It's just that Adrian didn't have any Pokémon that could learn them before, so they had been sitting there gathering dust.
But now, he feels they can be put to use.
Although he was eager to try, Adrian wasn't a dictator and instead asked for the opinion of the party involved: "Slowpoke, what do you think?"
"This Shellder feels pretty good and can be kept as a backup. If there isn't a more outstanding Shellder later, then let's choose this one!"
The red Slowpoke was not only not dull, but also had a very high IQ. At a young age, it already possessed the temperament of a'scumbag', even knowing how to 'ride a donkey to find a horse' to maximize its interests.
"As witty as you!"
Adrian secretly gave Slowpoke a thumbs up, then said to the Shellder: "Congratulations, Shellder. You've passed Slowpoke's initial test. Please wait patiently to the side. Once we've met with all the Shellder, we will announce the final result."
"Bi~"
Hearing this, the Shellder was very happy and hopped over to the side to wait patiently.
It felt that this time was a sure thing!
At the same time, the other Shellder all looked solemn, seemingly feeling immense pressure.
"This wave is definitely a 'Shellder competition'! And Slowpoke and I are basically sitting pretty, aren't we?"
Adrian couldn't help but smile and continued to bait his hook for fishing: "Come on, bite the hook! The ones behind, keep biting!"
Although the Unfrozen Lake is large, it's not as vast as the open sea.
There were only about seventy or eighty Shellder here in total, so in just one morning, Adrian had caught them all once.
Actually, most of Adrian's time was spent checking status panels; if he were just fishing mindlessly, his efficiency could have been even higher.
But to the disappointment of Adrian and Slowpoke, no better Shellder appeared afterward, and none could even rival the 'Life Dew Shellder'.
On the shore, the Shellder that knew Life Dew was sticking out its red tongue, looking at Adrian and Slowpoke with full expectation, waiting for the final result to be announced.
Its fawning appearance was the spitting image of a simp!
It couldn't be helped; it wanted to eat Slowpoke's tail so badly, it wanted to progress so much!
"In that case, I choose you!"
Smiling, Adrian squatted down and touched Shellder's shell, then took out a luxury ball and placed it in front of it: "Shellder, are you willing to become my Pokémon?"
"~~~, Yes! Yes!
I'm willing to do anything!
After barking excitedly a few times, Shellder couldn't wait and stuck out its tongue to press the button on the luxury ball, for fear that Adrian and Slowpoke would regret it.
Snap!
The luxury ball opened, and Shellder turned into a beam of red light and was sucked in.
Without any shaking, the luxury ball closed immediately.
Another perfect capture!
"I caught a Shellder!"
Adrian cosplayed Ash and struck a classic pose!
"Pika~"
Pikachu followed suit, acting as the hype man.
"Adrian, congratulations on catching an excellent Shellder!"
Lorelei had walked to the lakeside at some point, but there was a hint of surprise deep in her eyes.
As an Ice-type Elite, Lorelei knew Shellder quite well. Seeing Adrian's interest in that particular Shellder, she had looked it over with interest.
At first, Lorelei just glanced casually, but the more she looked, the more shocked she became.
Because she discovered that this Shellder seemed quite good in all aspects.
But the question was, how did Adrian distinguish this Shellder's potential among such a large number of Shellder?
Even she would have to observe carefully and examine it in detail.
But for Adrian, it seemed like he just fished it up and immediately identified this one from among the many Shellder.
Such an ability is simply incredible!