Pokémon: The Climb

Evolving into an axe-splitting mantis does not require communication exchanges. This can be known from the axe-splitting mantis that he once encountered.

Yang Yan once described the axe-splitting mantis with the flying mantis, and it usually focuses more on the development of the sickle during training, so it has long known that this day will come.

Intense excitement and excitement danced in the eyes of the flying mantis, and it was obviously ready as it straightened its posture.

Yang Yan felt the expectation of the Flying Mantis, nodded, and threw the black strange stone.

Like water and milk blending together, when the Flying Mantis stretched out its sickle-like hand and made contact with the black stone, its body suddenly began to emit a dazzling light of evolution.

The evolution begins!

The figure in the light first gradually grew taller, and then the sickle-shaped hand began to deform, gradually forming the shape of a large axe.

It lasted for a full 3 minutes before the light of evolution gradually dissipated, and the Ax Splitting Mantis, full of majesty and strange luster, made its debut!

Resurrected from ancient times, the axe-splitting mantis, most likely the second in the world, will one day be known to the world again!

Even though Yang Yan had described it in advance, after evolving, the axe-splitting mantis still looked at his current body up and down like a curious baby, and the two huge axes were even more impressive.

"Be careful, you got hit by something." Yang Yan reminded him casually, and Yang Yan was equally happy to observe the axe-splitting mantis.

Now, it has completely transformed from a flesh and blood body into a rock body similar to the big rock snake. However, unlike the big rock snake, the rocks on the axe-splitting mantis are extremely shiny, as if they have been carefully polished. The ax even faintly revealed a metallic sharpness.

"Very handsome!" Yang Yan applauded.

Baddie and other Pokémon who witnessed this moment also offered their blessings.

This is not the right place to test the evolved strength of the Ax Splitting Mantis, so after a while, after the excitement of the Ax Splitting Mantis began to fade, Yang Yan put it back into the elf ball and opened its data panel:

[Elf: Ax Splitting Mantis]

[Attributes: Insects, Rocks]

[Gender: Male]

[Characteristic: Forced]

[Qualification: Bug (60% good); Rock (70% good)]

[Skills: glare, lightning flash, gas gathering, silver whirlwind, whirlwind knife, clearing dense fog, air blade, continuous slash, split, rock axe, rock avalanche, cross scissors...]

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The original characteristic of Flying Mantis is Technique Master. The effect of Tech Master is to allow Pokémon to use relatively weak skills to deal higher damage. This is a characteristic that Yangyan thinks is very suitable for Flying Mantis.

The Flying Mantis is a warrior, but it is not a head-on attack type. It is in line with its body structure to use high mobility to move back and forth.

After evolving, its characteristics became as forcible as Nidoking.

The effect of force is to make the additional effects of moves disappear, thereby making the skills more powerful.

The reason why people think that forcing Nidoking is powerful is because quite a few of Nidoking's skills have additional effects. I won't mention the poison skills of this series. Others such as Thunder Fist, Flame Vortex, and Freeze Beam Which one is waiting for without additional effects? Although these additional effects are not 100% triggerable, they do not affect the activation of forced effects.

As mentioned before, most of the skills that Nidoking can learn are very powerful, second only to the ultimate moves with related attributes.

By forcibly improving it, there is almost no big difference between the power and the ultimate move.

And if it is equipped with life orbs that can increase the power of skills, then the power of each move of Nidoking will be almost the same as the ultimate move.

Can a Pokémon that can launch ultimate moves continuously be strong?

Moreover, the force feature can also eliminate the effect of HP deduction every time the Life Orb takes effect, so that Nidoking no longer has any worries.

This combination creates the terror of forcing Nidoking.

However, this feature is more useful on Nidoking. The moves with additional effects that other Pokémon, including the newly evolved Ax Mantis, can master, do not account for a large proportion of the entire skill pool.

With fewer triggers, the usefulness is naturally less obvious.

However, Yang Yan didn't mind too much. There were many Pokémon with unsuitable characteristics in the world. For example, the Lizard King's lushness was almost never triggered, so this really wasn't a problem.

Under characteristics, the biggest changes are attributes.

The original flying system disappeared and was replaced by the rock system, and the evolved rock system's qualifications were 15% higher than those of the flying system. Yang Yan was quite satisfied with this.

The combination of insect + rock type makes the Ax Splitting Mantis more resistant than the Flying Mantis.

From being 4 times weaker than rock, and 2 times weaker than flying, fire, electricity, and ice, to having only 3 weaknesses: rock, steel, and water, the living environment is much better.

This is a great benefit to it, which evolves into an aggressive Pokémon.

Finally, there are skills. The appearance of the exclusive skill "Rock Ax" was not unexpected at all, but he was still a little surprised. The reason was because of those flying skills.

Since when he previously cooperated with the Ax Splitting Mantis, the Ax Splitting Mantis mainly relied on the rock element to fight, Yang Yan thought that after evolution it could no longer use the flying skills it learned during the Flying Mantis period. After all, the wings have disappeared, so it makes sense that the skills can no longer be used.

But the reality is that these skills still appear in Ax Mantis's skill pool.

Curious Yang Yan clicked on the detailed description of the skill, and then he suddenly realized it.

"It's a bit interesting to transfer the flying energy originally sent to the wings to the ax in your hand, and use the ax to activate it!"

Then, Yang Yan fell into deep thought, "Does this mean that it will be easier to develop the fusion skills of Ax Splitting Mantis?"

Most of the fighting power of the Ax Splitting Mantis relies on its pair of big axes, and most of its skills also require a big axe.

Now flying skills also require the use of large axes, and the alternate use of various energies should be more beneficial to the development of fusion skills.

Of course, it's still early to consider these things. The first thing Axe-Splitting Mantis needs to do is to follow other Pokémon to master all the rock-type skills that can be learned.

It should also be mentioned that according to the data panel, the Axe-Splitting Mantis can now eat rocks like the Rock Snake and Boscodora.

To be more precise, it is necessary to continuously replenish rock energy.

Its two rock axes will definitely be worn out during the battle. In order to maintain their combat effectiveness, they must replenish their energy from the ore.

After studying the data of Axe-Splitter Mantis, the next thing Yang Yan thought about was naturally the positioning of Axe-Splitter Mantis in the team.

"The Axe-Splitting Mantis seems to have a body made of rocks, but it is different from other rock-types in that it is not slow. The flying skills of the Flying Mantis during its period can still be used. It has both flying and rock-type skills, which means it is not lacking either. With its range and long-range abilities, it can be considered a very well-rounded Pokémon.”

Being comprehensive is an advantage, but it is also a disadvantage. Yang Yan thought about it again and again, and he didn't even think of a Pokémon that could perfectly match it.

"Oh, I have a headache..."