Right, so here's the thing. I had set this battle up to be a bit more free form to how gym battles would likely be done, where swapping someone out removes them from play. And potentially as you can see in both cases, not a single pokemon is actually knocked out. On both sides they're pulled before too much harm is done. This would serve to show responsibility of the trainer, but is not entirely necessary. It's almost effectively as if everyone is doing nuzlocke rules and don't want to lose their pokemon. But it also establishes that gym battles will be 3v3 contests.

And then while writing this little trainer battle, I actually came up with an idea to do for team Squivul when they go up against Brock that completely ignores much of what was just laid out for how gym battles are run. But what I have planned works so much better narratively speaking for the story, helps the characters shine out quite a bit more, advances the plot and helps to set up something I want to do if this story ever gets to the indigo plateau. So just realize that even though this chapter mentions how gym battles are fought, think of it as mostly 3v3 where withdrawing a pokemon for any reason removes them from play. As there's going to be a major deviation beyond that when they fight Brock.

Shoul- Trainer. Poune- Level 10. Allen- Level 10. Sanaline- Level 7. Caleb- Level 7

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