Pokémon: Join Team Rocket at the Beginning

After the last commendation, Gray has been promoted to a level 4 member and will now go to the Ziyuan branch to serve as a new management member.

Kate left yesterday. After her promotion, she became a level 5 member. Since her strength did not reach the elite level, she was sent to the Rocket Team's secret training camp in the Seven Islands for training.

Not only them, but other members evacuated from the Giant Stone Branch were also assigned to various branches. Even the newcomers were sent to the branch in Qianhong City for training. Only Yang Ming's transfer order had not come down yet.

"I never thought that our old friends from the Boulder branch would go their separate ways. It's a bit sad to think about it," Gray sighed.

"Yes, but at least everyone survived and we got promoted, so it's not bad in terms of results," Yang Ming said. "The only regret is that Instructor Ghost Wolf is still missing."

When talking about Ghost Wolf, both of them were silent. Ever since the great war, this old boss seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth. There has been no news of him since then, and even the headquarters didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

"By the way, has the headquarters finalized your personnel appointment?" Feeling that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Gray immediately changed the subject.

Yang Ming shook his head and said, "No, the headquarters has not made any other arrangements for me except promoting me to a level three member."

"It seems that the higher-ups want to keep you at the headquarters," Gray said with a smile, "Come on, although the people at the headquarters are not easy to get along with, their resources are incomparable to those of the branch. I believe that your future achievements will not only be measured by a mere level 4 member."

After bidding farewell to Gray, Yang Ming looked at his points. He received a total of 5000 points in the Moon Viewing Mountain mission, plus the 5000 points from the second commendation, for a total of 8000 points. In addition, there was his salary for last month. Although he was only a second-level member last month, for some reason, the headquarters actually paid him 1000 points as a third-level member. Adding the remaining points from last month, Yang Ming now had nearly points to squander.

"No matter what, let me teach my Pokémon a fire-attribute attack skill first." Yang Ming thought.

In the previous battles, he deeply felt his powerlessness against Steel-attribute Pokémon. Whether it was Forritos fighting against Elena, Steelix besieging Chaos Wave Rock, or Magneto facing pursuers, Yang Ming had never defeated these Steel-attribute Pokémon head-on.

Faced with the iron-clad defense of Steel-attribute Pokémon, Yang Ming's Pokémon had no effective means of attack at all. The fatal fangs that Rada was proud of were just a tickle in front of these Steel-attribute Pokémon. Only Bulbasaur's Parasitic Seed and Pipi's Applause could interfere with these Steel-attribute Pokémon.

After learning from the previous lesson, Yang Ming was eager to exchange for a fire attribute skill machine to strengthen his Pokémon, and the skill machine he had his eyes on was the fire attribute high-powered skill "Jet Flame".

As a powerful skill of fire attribute, the power of jet flame is not weaker than the poison bomb of poison attribute, and its restraint and attack range are far superior to the opponent. More importantly, this skill can be learned by Pipi through the skill machine.

Although the Skill Machine can allow Pokémon to learn skills that they cannot learn on their own, the skills that each Pokémon can learn with the Skill Machine are also limited. Just like a Stingray cannot learn 100,000 Volts and a Magikarp cannot learn Earthquake, having a Skill Machine does not mean that you can let your Pokémon learn skills as you please.

However, as a Pokémon with a very strong learning ability, Pipi has a very strong learning ability. Not only can it learn a large number of auxiliary skills such as clapping by itself, but it can also learn powerful skills of various attributes such as 100,000 volts, flame jet, and ice beam through skill machines.

Yang Ming's heart was burning with excitement, thinking that once his Pipi learned how to spray fire, he would be able to defeat all kinds of steel-attribute Pokémon.

However, after he checked the points needed to redeem the jet flame, Yang Ming's hot heart was suddenly poured with a bucket of cold water.

The exchange price for Jet Flame is as high as 80,000 points. Not only that, only members above level six have the right to exchange.

You know, a high-powered poison-attribute skill called Poison Bomb with the same power as Jet Flame only requires 50,000 points and the authority of a level 5 member.

After thinking about it carefully, Yang Ming was relieved. Although the power of the flame jet and poison bomb is similar, the attack range and restraint range are very different. Poison attribute skills can only restrain grass attribute and fairy Pokémon, but are resisted by poison, ground, rock, and ghost attribute Pokémon, and are ineffective against steel attribute Pokémon. On the other hand, fire attribute skills can restrain grass, ice, bug, and steel attribute Pokémon, while the only ones that can resist fire attribute attacks are fire, water, rock, and dragon attribute Pokémon.

This is why, despite the enormous power of Poison Bomb, few trainers are willing to let Pokémon other than Poison attributes learn it.

"It seems that the person who sets the exchange price is not a fool. He knows to take the restraint and attack aspects of the skill machine into consideration." Yang Ming thought so, and at the same time, he had a higher opinion of the person who set the exchange price.

"Since I can't exchange it for the jet flame, let's see if there is a machine with a lower power fire attribute skill that I can exchange it for."

Yang Ming did not give up and continued to look for a skill machine with fire attributes.

After flipping through the pages for a while, Yang Ming became desperate. He discovered that these fire-attribute skill machines either required points that were too high for him to afford, or his Pokémon could not learn them at all, or they required advanced exchange permissions. After searching for a long time, he still couldn't find a skill machine that suited him.

"Damn it, I'm lacking fire-attribute skills right now!" Yang Ming was desperate. He even began to consider whether he should directly exchange for a fire-attribute Pokémon to use.

Considering that it takes a lot of time and points to tame and train a fire attribute Pokémon again, and the factors that the qualifications and personalities of the exchanged Pokémon cannot be guaranteed, Yang Ming has never prioritized the acquisition and training of a fire attribute Pokémon. However, considering that he really has no effective means to fight against steel attributes, he also took this option into consideration.

At this moment, an inconspicuous button on the skill machine exchange interface caught Yang Ming's attention.

"Genetic skill exchange?! It turns out that the Rockets have this function?" Yang Ming's eyes lit up.