"Without a doubt, the Thunder Bear is a Pokémon that can fight both at range and up close. But it's still a tank-type Pokémon." Maybe not as tanky as the Lava Dragon Turtle or Stone Giant, and slightly inferior to the Tyrant Bear. But it's enough. The Lava Dragon Turtle has poor mobility—he doesn't want that kind of Pokémon anyway. It doesn't fit his current lineup. "The main thing is its strength—it's very powerful. The Fire Crow has strong lethality, but lacks strength. Once I encounter a scenario that requires a frontal breakthrough, it puts me at a disadvantage. But with the Thunder Bear..."
Inside the training room, the Thunder Bear charged forward on all fours, rampaging straight ahead. The training dummies along the way were smashed to pieces. "So its first combat style has to be a frontal charge type. Right now, the Thunder Bear has learned moves like Charge, Body Slam, and Thunder Charge." Su Hao planned to build its combat system starting from the moves it already had—after all, the Thunder Bear, having mastered thirteen moves, was already quite comprehensive. There was no need to learn others. "Take a break for a moment." He waved at the Thunder Bear. The fluffy big bear ran up to him, letting out a mix of roars and whines. Su Hao reached out and stroked the white bear. Its fur felt soft and pleasant to touch. Thinking about it, since Die Xiaodie evolved, it had been a long time since he had a Pokémon he could comfortably pet. After petting the bear for a while, he took out a jade powder meal set to feed it. Watching the Thunder Bear eat happily, Su Hao breathed a quiet sigh of relief. 'The nutritional value of the jade powder meal can't compare to those precious treasures, but at least... the taste isn't bad—it's even more delicious.' He wasn't sure if it was the power of good food or the fact that the Thunder Bear treated the training room's various targets as new toys, but it no longer resisted training at all.
Su Hao called up three targets. They were spaced out unevenly. Two targets emerged from the ground, about two meters tall, separated by over twenty meters. The other target descended from the ceiling. Su Hao directed the Thunder Bear, "Back up, back up a bit more. OK, now use Body Slam and hit those three targets in order." "Ooooh~!" The Thunder Bear stood up, patted its chest to show it understood, then crouched back down on all fours. It curled into a large white ball of fur and rolled forward, picking up speed rapidly, smashing the first target to pieces. Then the furry ball quivered, suddenly bouncing upward like a giant white cannonball. Boom!! The wooden target extending from the ceiling was hit even harder, sending wood chips flying everywhere. The furry ball's fluffy coat was also covered in some. The big white furry ball hit the ceiling, then bounced back, lunging straight for the last target. But this time, it veered off course, landing about three or four meters away from the target, bouncing a couple of times before rolling onward. It slammed into the hard training room wall with a thud. It wobbled as it got up, looking at Su Hao. "That's already pretty impressive." After all, on Bear King Mountain, it probably hadn't received much professional training. With its talent, practicing Body Slam a few more times would improve its accuracy. No big deal. "Now try Thunder Charge." Crackle— Arcs of lightning flickered across the Thunder Bear's body, enveloping it like a massive thunderclap as it launched its fiercest charge. Its momentum was unstoppable. Boom!! The entire training room seemed to shake. A thick alloy plate used to test power was dented in the middle, dense arcs of lightning covering the entire surface. In terms of power, it was far stronger than Body Slam. "If I could combine Body Slam and Thunder Charge..." He glanced at the panel—no unlock prompt had appeared yet. That meant his idea was still missing some key elements. "In essence, I need to transform the Thunder Bear's Body Slam into a Thunder Ball Charge. While wrapped in lightning, it could even use its lightning manipulation ability to steadily steer and adjust direction... Maybe the lightning from Thunder Charge isn't enough? What if I add the Wild Thunder move?" Wild Thunder releases countless bolts of lightning around the Thunder Bear. It's a mid-to-short-range, indiscriminate attack move. When using Wild Thunder, the Thunder Bear looks like a thunder god bathed in lightning. "If I combine Body Slam, Wild Thunder, and Thunder Charge, I might be able to create... a Body Slam Thunder Ball?" Su Hao thought it was feasible. Imagining the Thunder Bear—or its evolved form, Thunder Roar—with its massive weight, transforming into a giant thunderball charging around. Like a bowling ball that could jump, flipping everything in its path into the air with a series of bangs. And it would also carry the devastating lethality of thunder. Pretty cool! He glanced at the panel again. "Sure enough, the panel supports my idea, but the cost..." He decided to refine the theory, make it cheaper, and then unlock it through the panel.
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In the afternoon, Su Hao had the Thunder Bear try a second combat style. "The Body Slam Thunder Ball is purely close-combat—it doesn't leverage its advantage of being effective at both range and close quarters." In the distance, the Thunder Bear was playing with lightning. Between its two paws, arcs of lightning connected and shifted constantly, like it was playing cat's cradle. This was a way to train its control. "Lightning's power isn't weak, but ultimately, it's the combination of lightning attacks with its inherent strength that unleashes the strongest lethality." Take the Fire Crow, for example—it doesn't just rely on its flames' high temperature; more importantly, it's the hardness and sharpness of its feather blades. The Fire Crow's talent for playing with feathers is commendable. It's just that its fireplay is too mediocre. Su Hao recalled how the Thunder Bear had used a lightning whip to coil around a training dummy, pulling it close before attacking. That was a combat style worth expanding on. "The Magnetic Thunder Bind move can paralyze and control enemies with lightning. Combined with its Lightning Web trait, the lightning not only has a paralyzing effect but also acts like a rope with physical binding properties." He looked into the distance. The Thunder Bear hurled a ball of lightning. The lightning enveloped a target dummy, crackling as arcs of lightning bound it like ropes. Under the lightning's coverage, the dummy turned charred black. "Not only that, the lightning-pulling combat style can be expanded from a single target to multiple targets... With its lightning manipulation ability, the Thunder Bear can definitely do it. "For example, starting with the Wild Thunder move..." Su Hao thought for a moment and gave the Thunder Bear an order. Instantly, countless bolts of lightning burst from the Thunder Bear's body, crackling and darting everywhere like countless blue-violet lightning snakes surrounding it. "Control the lightning around you," Su Hao called out. The Thunder Bear scratched its head. After fiddling for a bit, the surrounding arcs of lightning were gathered in an orderly fashion, circling around its body in a clockwise rotation, forming a blue-violet lightning vortex. Su Hao ran over to a charred black target dummy, kicked it, and finally knocked off a backpack-sized piece of black debris. He weighed it in his hand, then tossed the black debris high into the air, aiming it toward the area around the Thunder Bear. Crackle— The black debris trembled continuously from the electricity, seeming to hover in midair before being swept up by the lightning vortex, drawing closer to the Thunder Bear. Until it was smashed to pieces by a single paw strike. "Sure enough, with its lightning manipulation ability, the Thunder Bear can easily control wild lightning. "Pull enemies in, then strike with a heavy blow. "This move will be called Thunder Vortex." "Huh? Ooooh~" It understood half of what he said, nodding excitedly.