Chapter 24: Reason Found
After Arthur finished speaking, one of the girls among the students kindly reminded him, "Boss, you're live-streaming, right? Is it okay to be so sure?"
Arthur asked back innocently, "Why can't I be sure?"
Everyone was stunned by this question.
You're a streamer, you're asking us?
"No, boss, are you really that sure? Aren't you afraid of being wrong?"
Arthur just smiled, "No, that Raticate should have mastered Scratch, while the other side's Persian hasn't, so there shouldn't be much suspense in this match."
The students were all amazed by his words.
"Really? Boss, can you see through them? Can you even see which skills a Pokémon has?"
Even they were shocked, and it could be imagined that the live stream's barrage was even more chaotic.
"It's getting more and more mysterious."
"Did the streamer get so arrogant after winning one match?"
Barrage comments like this kept flying across.
Eleanor Vance, sitting in front of the computer in the hotel room, unconsciously kept tapping the table with her fingers.
She was wondering if she should find a way to remind Arthur.
New streamers like him shouldn't do this.
But then the match on the field began.
Through Arthur's live stream camera, everyone saw that at the beginning, one of the Raticate did indeed use the move "Scratch" at the beginning, while the opponent's Persian was completely helpless.
In less than two minutes, the rat stepped on the cat, completing the reversal of the food chain.
The match was very one-sided, and the final result was exactly as Arthur had predicted.
In the stadium's audience seats, the students from No. 12 High School sitting near Arthur were completely stunned at this moment.
"It's really Scratch?"
"Everything was said by the boss!"
They turned to look at Arthur, their expressions even more shocked and admiring.
"Boss, how did you do it?"
Arthur still had that calm and unruffled expression, and explained very calmly, "Raticate's skills can often be discerned from the development of their claws and fangs. That Raticate's forepaws were obviously larger than your Raticate's, and the claws were much longer. These types of Pokémon are mostly good at Scratch."
The student named Eren scratched his head embarrassedly, "So boss, you knew from the beginning that my Raticate couldn't use Scratch?"
Arthur nodded, "Yes, it's because I saw that your Raticate's claws and fangs weren't particularly prominent, so I felt safe having Froakie charge in to attack."
Froakie on the side nodded in agreement, arms crossed, pretending to be profound.
In reality, he was completely riding the coattails of the situation. He knew nothing about what moves the opposing Pokémon had.
This posture was very similar to the netizens in the live stream at this moment.
After Arthur's explanation, the comments in the barrage reversed 180 degrees.
Various "I knew it," "Actually, I also thought of that," and "This kind of basic thing is not worth mentioning" popped up to show off.
Where there are people showing off, there are people who put them down, so the barrage had another happy fight, which also hyped up the popularity of the live stream.
Eleanor Vance, sitting in front of the computer, watched all this in surprise and suspicion.
This was the second time. Arthur used a very amateur method but achieved a considerable live stream effect.
Watching Arthur's live stream, she increasingly felt that her past experience as a traditional internet celebrity manager was somewhat inadequate.
Her mood at this moment was very similar to a meme—
I wanted to say that I've seen everything, but I have to cross it out and admit that I've never seen this scene before...
And this wasn't over, this was just the beginning!
After that, the students all regarded Arthur as an idol, and before leaving, they all wanted his WeChat account.
Because the phone was still live-streaming and he couldn't scan codes, Arthur simply gave them his phone number. After they left, Arthur continued to stream.
Still the camera facing down to watch the match.
Of course, he would occasionally say a few words, so it wouldn't be completely silent.
But these words were actually still unrelated to the live stream. He was actually talking to Froakie.
Even with a trainer commanding, a Pokémon's own tactical awareness and fighting instinct are still very important. He had always deeply understood this point in the past.
So he would take every opportunity to pass on his experience to Froakie.
He used the match footage in front of him as material.
"Did you see that match?"
He pointed in a direction.
"That Pidgeotto has clearly learned Air Cutter. In the future, you must not be afraid when facing such an opponent. Staying at mid-range will not win. You must try to close in from the start, using your jumping ability to pounce on it and fight in close quarters."
This kind of extremely confident statement, like before, inevitably attracted some naysayers in the barrage.
"Really? Can any Pidgeotto at the preliminary stage learn Air Cutter? The streamer is talking too much, right?"
Arthur didn't argue.
He couldn't argue either, he had no idea that there was even such a thing as interacting with the barrage in a live stream.
But the result was: less than a minute later, the match he had mentioned started, and the Pidgeotto in the match did indeed take off from the start, continuously swinging its wings, creating crescent-shaped slashes like sword energy!
It was the Flying-type mid-range attack move: Air Cutter!
The aggressive barrage was instantly proven wrong.
Soon after, Arthur pointed in another direction again, showing Froakie to look.
"Did you see that Arbok over there? His body is obviously thicker than others of the same species, but there's not much color on his fangs. This kind of opponent is likely good at physical moves like Wrap, and weak in Poison-type moves. When you encounter this kind of opponent, don't be afraid of his Poison Sting, just maintain your distance and wear him down slowly."
Even though this was Arthur's third prediction, the trolls who loved to argue still didn't give up.
"What a joke, a Poison-type Pokémon isn't good at Poison moves? Does the streamer even know anything about Pokémon?"
Immediately following, as if they had discussed it beforehand, when that match started, the Sentret on the other side jumped forward, and the Arbok "whooshed" and wrapped his body around the Sentret's tail.
He was using the move that Arthur had just pointed out: Wrap!
Then came a wrestling show with Sentret and Arbok repeatedly throwing each other, the Arbok didn't use a single Poison-type move throughout the whole match, and just used his body to strangle the Sentret unconscious, like a python.
The barrage was once again proven wrong!
At this point, some viewers finally couldn't stand it anymore.
Someone joked to the previous barrage: "Stop arguing, stop arguing, keep arguing and you'll become stupid."
At the same time, someone stepped up to say, "You guys probably didn't watch yesterday's live stream, this streamer has a ten out of ten success rate."
At this point, Eleanor Vance seemed to understand something.
She finally realized how Arthur's live stream gained such an exaggerated increase in followers in one day.
Switching over to check, sure enough—
Arthur's live stream was on the Metube platform's homepage promotion again!
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