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The first member of the Elite Four was a psychic user named Will. Some of his Pokmon had coverage moves, like Ice Punch on Jynx, but they still couldn't really touch Ivan, who proceeded to beat the whole team on his own, except Slowbro, which used Curse, prompting him to switch to Teddy and finish with Petal Dance.

Koga used some bug types that Romeo could instantly take down with Fire Blast, and Sawyer resisted his poison type attacks and then struck back with high-power Ghost Balls and Thunder for his Crobat.

Bruno's fighting types were helpless against Sawyer except his Hitmonlee with Blaze Kick, which still lost with a little help, and his Onix was just free experience for Leviathan.

Karen's Umbreon was where Focus Blast came into play. Her Murkrow fell to one Blizzard, and her Houndoom went down to two surfs with a switch out and some healing in the middle. Her Vileplume was harmless and her Gengar had a cripplingly strange moveset with no strong ghost type attack. Ultimately, all of the Elite Four went down without much trouble, which was unsurprising against the trainer who had captured Ho-oh. Now all that was left was the Champion, which he assumed would be Red.

Instead, he found Lance, the dragon-trainer he had met at the Rocket Base in Mahogany. As his lead, Lance used a Gyarados, which Sawyer easily cleaned up with Thunder. Next was a high-level Aerodactyl, which could take down Sawyer with one Crunch and Leviathan with two Rock Slides, while surviving a Surf. Teddy had just enough health and defense to survive one attack and use reflect, allowing Kingra to finish the job - except that Lance switched to a Dragonite after the first Surf. Sawyer couldn't take a Dragon Rush, but it was faster, so his best recourse was to whittle it down with Shadow Ball and sacrifice his other Pokmon to revive. Sawyer was holding Bright Powder so the move would sometimes miss, and Teddy could set up a second reflect to help a little. He struggled through the first two Dragonite and finished off Aerodactyl at the cost of most of his Pokmon. Lance's Charizard knew Dragon Claw and could take down Leviathan, but Sawyer finished it off with Thunder. That left one Dragonite, which used Outrage instead of the less accurate Dragon Rush. After sacrificing the rest of his Pokmon, it came down to a weakened and confused Dragonite against Gengar. If Sawyer scored a critical hit, Dragonite hurt itself in confusion, or it missed with Outrage, Dylan would win. Confusion on its own was a coin flip, so the odds were in his favor.

Sawyer used Shadow Ball!
The Foe's Dragonite is confused
The Foe's Dragonite used Fire Blast!
Sawyer fainted!
Dylan is out of useable Pokmon.

He had lost. He couldn't believe it.

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