the mightyena found relief on the grassy terrain. before he could even get a chance to catch his breath, he hears a quick order from his trainer as soon as the new opponent takes the roserade's place.

"ice beam!"

the shout almost drowned cait's orders. kyle knew the moment that his mightyena landed the last tackle that it wouldn't last long in the battle field anyways. he needed a quick attack in, using the time where the other pokemon launches its own move as an opening.

despite the name kyle called it, it wasn't quite how the move was performed.

ice encrusted his maw in no time, having some of the chill left after having performed the move earlier. a hyper beam was launched afterwards, forcing itself through the ice fang. properties of the ice-type move intertwined with the powerful move, bringing about a cold hyper beam towards the tropius at the moment it launched its leaf storm. he'd force himself to change its direction as the tropius moved, though the effort to do it would be his undoing.

burning fur, the residual damage from the leaf storm and the fatigue from hyper beam would eventually cause the fall of the mightyena, but not before it managed to successfully pull off the move.

there was no response from kyle as he recalls the dark-type back to its ball, besides call another pokemon out. he barked an order as he released the chosen pokemon up above the ground.

"safeguard."

a shiny alolan ninetales pops out, coating kyle's side of the battlefield with a thin veil of translucent light. he lands unharmed by the toxic spikes. temperatures start to rise at his presence. although the sunny day kept it from being snowy, snow warning also kept it from being too sunny.