Pokémon: Join Team Rocket at the Beginning

The tall man glanced at Yang Ming, said "Follow me", and strode into a room.

Yang Ming followed in silence.

In this room, there were dozens of young people gathered together, they were men and women, with different body shapes. The only thing they had in common was that they were all dressed shabbily and their faces were unhealthy and sallow. It was obvious that they were all people who were desperate like Yang Ming.

Around these young people, there were a dozen people wearing Team Rocket uniforms standing upright, and they did not look like a mob.

Without waiting for the tall man to speak, Yang Ming consciously squeezed in among the young people.

A hint of satisfaction flashed across the tall man's face, and then he cleared his throat and shouted, "Welcome to Team Rocket, rookies!"

"I know why you came here, and I can give you what you want, but..."

He changed the subject, his face darkened, and said, "There is no free lunch in this world. If you want to get what you want, you have to show me your value first!"

"For the next month, you will live under my command, and your future fate will be determined based on the results of the assessment in a month."

"From now on, you must call me instructor, and obey everything I tell you to do unconditionally! Do you understand?"

The man's eyes were sharp, and the young people below were almost all frightened. They responded almost subconsciously: "I understand, instructor."

"Louder! Haven't you eaten yet?"

"I understand, instructor!"

"very good!"

The tall man clapped his hands heavily, and then two men in Team Rocket uniforms carried a large box and placed it in front of the man.

Yang Ming looked up and found that the box was full of Poké Balls.

"These are your starter Pokémon. For the next month, you will live with them and tame them!"

"Everyone can only choose one, and they cannot change it after choosing it."

"Here's a piece of advice for you. Think carefully about what kind of partner you need before choosing."

After saying that, the instructor stopped talking and stood quietly aside, like a statue.

After the instructor finished speaking, everyone rushed forward impatiently and looked at the Poké Balls in the box.

From their fiery eyes, it can be seen that these people probably have never had their own Pokémon since they were born.

Yang Ming also stepped forward to look at these Poké Balls. He found that the material of these Poké Balls was different from what he remembered. In addition to the upper part being red, the lower part was actually a transparent material similar to tempered glass, from which one could see the types of these Poké Balls.

Most of these special Poké Balls contain purple rodent Pokémon, a weak Pokémon called Rattata.

Rattata, this kind of Pokémon is rampant in the Kanto region. It can be said that there are so many of them that they are everywhere on the streets. Now it is being used by Team Rocket as the starting Pokémon for newcomers?

When Yang Ming thought about the fact that the starting Pokémon of the new trainers in the league were all rare Pokémon like Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle, he was speechless about the gap.

The second most common Pokémon, Zubat, is not as rampant as Rattata, but it can also be found everywhere in the cave.

The two least common Pokémon are the poison-type Pokémon Arbok and Gas Bomb. Among them, Gas Bomb has the least common, with only a few of them.

Looking at these four Pokémon, Yang Ming's brain has begun to calculate.

The number of these four Pokémon should be determined according to their rarity. Gas Bat is the least common, followed by Arbok, then Zubat, and Rattata is the most common.

If we look at it from the perspective of "each person can only take one initial Pokémon", it seems that the rarest Gas Bomb is the best and should be taken first.

However, is this really the case?

At this time, many people had already gone to choose Pokémon, and some of them were tempted when they saw the fewest gas bombs in the box.

Yang Ming continued to watch and took no action.

From the perspective of rarity, gas bombs are indeed the best choice, but they have to pass the assessment next month, so the priority is not rarity but combat effectiveness.

Yang Ming once memorized all the stats of the Pokémon in the game. In his memory, the strongest of the four Pokémon is Gas Bomb, followed by Arbok, then Rattata, and the weakest is Zubat.

——However, this is only the ranking of their combat power before evolution. Pokémon is a creature that possesses a trait called "evolution". As it evolves, not only will its appearance change, but its combat power will also increase significantly.

Zubat is the only one of these four Pokémon that can evolve a second time. After Zubat evolves into Golbat, it can evolve again into Xbat as long as the intimacy with the trainer is high enough.

The combat power of the evolved Crossbat has become the strongest among these four Pokémon, followed by Gasbat evolved from Gasbat, and the evolved form of Rattata is the weakest.

Yang Ming's face was full of uncertainty. Although Zubat had the strongest combat power, it was not realistic to evolve Zubat into Zubat in just one month. So, was choosing gas bomb the best solution?

By this time, many people had already taken the Pokémon they wanted, and some of them even opened their Poké Balls to greet their partners.

Most of them chose Snake and Zubat, and only a few chose Rattata.

This is normal. There are obviously more Poké Balls in the box than the number of people on the field, which resulted in no one choosing Rattata.

Yang Ming looked at the only gas bomb left in the box, gritted his teeth, and was about to take it away before anyone else, but a loud explosion stopped him.

A young man who chose the gas bomb, when greeting his "new partner", did something unknown that caused the gas bomb to "self-detonate". The huge impact blew the young man away, and he hit the wall heavily and fell into a coma.

With a snap of the "instructor's" fingers, two medical staff in white coats carried the young man and the gas bomb on a stretcher to a place next door that looked like a medical room.

Not only this young man, but others also got into trouble.

Some of them were bitten by the Arbok, poisoned by the snake venom, and fell into a coma, and were finally carried away like the young man before; some had splitting headaches from the "ultrasound" of the Zubat; others were luckier and only had a few mouthfuls of blood sucked by the Zubat, making their faces pale.

"Oh no! I almost fell into a trap!" Yang Ming's face changed drastically.