Excuse you, Candela is a queen and deserves the utmost respect and admiration. It’s only through her methodology that the full potential of fire, flying, fighting and dragon types can be brought to bear. Perhaps from the ivory tower of academia Team Valor’s approach may seem plebeian, but from a practical and experimental standpoint, there’s no better way to train and raise pokemon.

Oh yes, I quite agree; training is a necessary step in unlocking a pokémon’s full potential. It’s simply that I lack any and all aptitude with it, so while I understand it on an academic level and can speak at length about its effects on pokémon, I am less inclined to engage in training-based research.

Largely because I would be annihilated within three seconds of stepping on the field.

Especially if my opponent was Candela.