Chapter 42 - Road to Pokemon Master (2/2)

”First, the 8 gym badges.

1. For the first 2 badges, the gym leaders will challenge you as an intermediate trainer (they will use 3 rare ranked Pokemons)

2. For the next 3 badges, the gym leaders will challenge you as an advanced trainer (they will use at least 1 elemental Pokemon)

3. For the last 3 badges, the gym leaders will challenge you as a master trainer (they will use at least 1 Pseudo-king ranked Pokemon)

Then comes the elite 4. All the Pokemons in their team are King ranked or higher. And finally the Champion. A Champion will at least have 1 Champion-ranked Pokemon. Right now, the Champion of Kanto region is Charles. And surprise surprise! !, he has 3 Champion ranked Pokemons”

Axel gulped his saliva. He knew all this information. How could he not? He had searched for this information on the net. But listening to Adam summarize all this, he felt how far he was from his dream. 'And I don't know why, but Adam is releasing a certain kind of pressure, the kind which makes your mental state unstable' he thought.

But Adam was not still finished. He continued ”The gym leaders will use 3 Pokemons and the elite4 will use 6 Pokemons. The Champion will obviously use 6 too.” And this point Axel raised his hand to question something.

Seeing this Adam laughed a bit and said ”Haha, you don't have to raise your hand to ask a question. You are not in the kinder garden”

”This may come out of the blue but why do the maximum number of Pokemons are always 6. Would it not be interesting to have 7 or 10 Pokemon battle challenges?” Axel asked. This dawn on him just now. In the game and in anime, a trainer is only allowed to carry a maximum of 6 Pokemons. However, that was not the case here in real life. A trainer could carry any number of Pokemons but the maximum number for the battle had not changed from 6.

”It is not out of the blue. There is actually an interesting history behind it. At first, there were no such limitations. But of course, the process of challenging the gym, then the elite 4 and finally the Champion also didn't exist. At that time, if you are the most powerful, you would be the Champion. But when the Pokeballs were invented and people started catching Pokemons, the balance was disturbed. Those who had malicious intentions, thieves and murders became active and started carrying out their deeds. They had Pokeballs so, they would steal Pokemons, money and do worse things cause they could carry any number of Pokeballs.”

”So, the maximum number of 6 Pokemons were made. Everyone could only carry 6 Pokemons, if the number exceeds, it would directly go to their PC. Even the leagues followed the example. But that was also not good. Young trainers became a victim of wild Pokemons due to this limitation. So it was lifted again. If the trainers or any people are outside the vicinity of the city or town where Pokemon center exists, then they could carry limitless Pokemon. But if they are inside it, then the number would be only 6.”

”However, the league still followed the example of 3 and 6 Pokemons. There are no specific reasons for it. It is just they are following the tradition” said Adam concluding his short speech.