Chapter 678 The Duties of the Four Heavenly Kings
Although he was a little anxious to travel to the Galar region, Zhou You had to postpone his travel arrangements after all as he had taken over the role of the King of Kanto.
He would definitely not do the serious work, and would just run away after the handover.
"Since you have decided to take over the responsibility, some things must be determined in advance."
The first is his own attributes.
The duty of the King of the Heaven is not to defeat all challengers without any explanation, but to serve as a role model and example for trainers in a region and improve the level of trainers in the region.
In a sense, the King of the Heaven is a higher level gym owner.
Therefore, specific attributes are necessary.
Wu, who calls himself the Dragon King of the Heaven, but almost all of his Pokémon have flying attributes, explained: "According to the regulations of the Kanto League, you need to choose an attribute and ensure that at least 3 Pokémon in the team accepting the challenge have the corresponding attribute."
By the way, the League advocates that the champion, the King of the Heaven, and the gym owner use different attributes to improve the trainers in the region in all aspects.
Take the Kanto region as an example. After the merger, the two regions left 16 formal gyms that passed the assessment.
They are Rock, Water, Electric, Grass, Super, Poison, Fire, Earth, Flying, Bug, Normal, Ghost, Steel, Fighting, Ice, and Dragon.
No gym has duplicated attributes, and only the Dark type has no gym - the Four Heavenly Kings' Lihua fills this gap.
The existing Four Heavenly Kings of Kanto have Dark, Poison, Super, and the Champion has Dragon attributes.
Theoretically, as long as Zhouyou does not repeat the attributes of the above four, it will be fine.
But he objected on the spot: "A pound of pears! The attributes of the Pokémon I cultivated for battle do not repeat more than 3 times."
Eden - Dark, Normal/Ghost
Arthur - Fire/Flying
Leftovers - Fire
Qingming - Grass
Dai Xiaozi - Flying/Steel
Xiong Da - Earth/Normal
-- Planned to be cultivated in the future -
Xiaoqi: Fairy
Nuomici: Ice/Fairy
Poker Plane: Fairy/Flying
Gulton: Fighting/Dragon
Theoretically, there are 3 flying and fairy, but that is a matter for the future, and the flying attribute is also repeated with Adu.
"Um, have you never thought about specializing in one attribute? For example, train another Platypus?"
Du was somewhat troubled. Composite attributes are the privilege of champions, and Zhou You is currently only a former champion.
"Forget Platypus, but if it is Fire Fox, Fire Cat or Fire Crocodile, I can consider it."
"Fire Fox is not okay!" Eden immediately expressed strong opposition, "The resistance to superpower attributes is too big!"
Zhou You nodded. Indeed, the Demon Fire Red Fox brought extra resistance to super/fighting attributes, but also had the weakness of ghost/evil attributes.
In comparison, the Blazing Roaring Tiger and the Bone Pattern Giant Voice Crocodile are much more reliable.
Although the latter is also weak to ghost/evil, the simple characteristics can completely make up for this shortcoming.
The problem is that these three are all elves from the other side of the ocean, and it is not so easy to find.
Du suddenly reacted: "But I remember you have an Articuno?"
"I will release Articuno after I attend the grand celebration in the second half of the year."
This was agreed upon at the beginning, but since the other party moved his home to Azure Island, it seems that it doesn't make much difference whether to release it or not...
Now Du and Zhou You are a little embarrassed. Do they have to find someone to make up the number?
"Why do you have to specialize in one attribute? Can't I specialize in weather?"
The two looked at each other for a long time, and finally he said: "Sunny, rainy, sandstorm, hail, these four types of weather are much more profound than simple attributes. Can't we educate trainers to control the weather?"
"Okay, then I will record the fire attribute for you, and you can capture a fire attribute Pokémon to play the sunny day tactics when the time comes."
Seeing that the other party finally gave in, Du decisively assigned him an attribute.
"Fire attribute is fire attribute, anyway, I am also a trainer specializing in fire attribute (self-proclaimed)." Zhou You didn't care about any attribute.
Before the replacement fire-attribute team members are trained, just borrow the fire-attribute Pokémon of the other people from the Oak Research Institute.
If that doesn't work, there is still Reshiram...
"After deciding the attributes, there is nothing to do, right?"
Du shook his head. There are details such as the order of challenge and the type of battle field in the room where he is.
However, with Zhou You's level, ranking first will only discourage all challengers, and it is reasonable to put him at the last place.
Therefore, the order of challenge of the Four Heavenly Kings in the New Kanto League is Ultra, Evil, Poison, and Fire.
"Why must we challenge in a specific order? Can't we let the challengers choose freely?"
Zhou You gave an example: "Just like the Unova League, challengers can choose the order of conquest at will, so that trainers can choose opponents they can handle."
Even if the league hopes to eliminate the weaker one of the Four Heavenly Kings, the challenger will definitely choose to fight the one he restrains or the weakest one.
Du nodded: "This is a good suggestion, I will try to improve it."
Speaking of which, this guy has not officially joined the alliance, but he is already asking for eight badges, weather expertise, and changing the order of challenges. Who knows what he will do when he really becomes one of the Four Heavenly Kings.
After establishing the attributes and order, the next step is the real focus - the responsibilities of the Four Heavenly Kings.
"The Four Heavenly Kings are official members of the Pokémon League, representing the highest-level trainers in a region. They have the obligation to drive the development of trainers in their region, as well as the obligation to deal with illegal trainers, evil organizations, emergencies, and more..."
"Wait, cloaked man."
When the champion said this, Eden couldn't help but raise his long-standing doubts: "Are you Four Heavenly Kings really fulfilling your duties? Then why was Team Rocket dragged down by our joint action with the International Police?"
Let's not talk about Kikuko, who temporarily took over as the gym leader of Evergreen, Kona seems to be often involved in the development of the Seven Islands, while Hiba is focused on becoming stronger and practicing.
Among the previous Four Heavenly Kings, only Du and Aju were working seriously.
"Well, so they chose to resign... and there were many factions, ghosts and difficulties in the alliance before."
If it weren't for the results achieved in that operation, who would have guessed that the leader of Team Rocket was actually the gym leader of Evergreen Town?
The Rockets can use money to open the way, and can develop military power without considering people's livelihood, but the alliance is too big, and there will always be concerns of one kind or another.
"That is why the Four Heavenly Kings and Champions, as special units independent of the police, have extremely high authority. Otherwise, how can you get eight badges so easily?"
Extra obligations also correspond to special authority. Under certain prescribed conditions, the Heavenly Kings and Champions have special action rights that ignore the law to a certain extent...
Of course, you still have to go through procedures and make reports afterwards.
Just like Zhou You took the initiative to dismantle the antiques that had been passed down for thousands of years, Du, who served as the Heavenly King/Champion and the Investigator, often did this before.
Zhou You was overjoyed when he heard this: "I understand! I know what the Four Heavenly Kings should do!"
"No, no, no, your tone definitely means you don't understand!" (End of this chapter)