As the crowd moved back, leaving room for the two on two battle, Naomi moved with it. She was still only mildly curious about the outcome, being a little more distracted by the overly energetic Tyrogue.<br/><br/>“Is he your pokemon, and is he always so... bouncy?” She asked the tall, relatively to her anyway, young man who seems to be wearing some kind of abbreviated martial arts robes. He looked fit and fairly well muscled, which at least was nice.<br/><br/>Many of the other trainers here were somewhat on the dumpy side, especially the ones from regions where they didn’t have to walk much.<br/><br/>------<br/><br/>Steven took his steps back along with the crowd as the rivaling trainers began their battle. Steven moved back along with it, getting shoved here and there as some people moved back faster than the others. Despite all of the people shuffling by to get the best view of the battle as possible, Steven still managed to remain relatively close to to the tech woman. She took a curiosity to his Tyrogue, who was slightly annoyed about the rudeness of people shoving his trainer around as he had to hang on to his head while it's constantly shaking around.<br/><br/>When she asked her question, Steven didn't look at her, but tilted his head lightly towards her direction when he answered, "Yeah, you could say something like that. This battle is especially exciting for him considering the size difference of the Pokemon in play." That's when he turned his head towards Naomi's direction, and unconsciously turned his Tyrogue's view along with it to ask, "So, who do you think is going to win this fight?"<br/><br/><br/>The Tyrogue clunked Steven's head a little because he was forced to turn his head when Steven looked in another direction. "Owow! I'm sorry!" Steven chuckled a little during his apology.<br/><br/>-------<br/><br/>Naomi looked the fighters over, shaking her head a little.<br/><br/>“A battle like this, it’s not really the Gastly and the Pachirisu that are fighting. It’s their trainers. The one with the Onix is already flustered by having to face a Gastly. I’ve been watching the two Rock trainers, they’ve built up a bit of a reputation here, but it’s a false one. They’re not actually all that good. They rely on brute force and type advantages, and they almost exclusively challenge normal, fire, electric, or poison types. They avoid water, grass, ice and steel types like the plague. That said, the Pachirisu is at a severe disadvantage. The Gastly has a problem because of the poison typing, but it’s not relying on poison attacks. Dark and Psychic ones mostly, and if it has Ice Punch, it could really wreck the other team. So it boils down to whether these two can learn to coordinate their moves on the spot, despite never having worked together before, or not. Movement is going to be an important factor in this battle.”<br/><br/>“So, the major question is how flustered the bullies will get with these two. The guy might be ragged looking, but I’ve got a feeling he knows how to manipulate people. And flustered trainers make mistakes.”<br/><br/>She sneaks another sidelong glance at the man next to her. He does look pretty good, even if she’s not here to start dating. “I’m Naomi Ozaki, field tester and research associate for Devon Test Labs. I’ve seen more than a few of these battles at all those expos and conventions. Honestly, I’m less interested in these battles than in the wild ones.”<br/><br/>------<br/><br/>With his fingers rubbing his chin like The Thinker, and while looking towards the Pokemon battle in play, it may almost seem like he's not paying attention what Naomi said at all, but while lightly nodding, he replied to everything Naomi had said to him.<br/><br/>"Yes, yes. That's usually how it does play out. Trainers give the orders to their Pokemon and it's played with more wits than one may actually think. It's just as you said, when the trainer is flustered, it tends to adversely affect their overall performance when commanding their Pokemon, and therefore the Pokemon won't battle as good either."<br/><br/>Steven cocked an eyebrow and pleasantly smirked at her, as she was able to recite the emotional state of the contestants at play just as well as he could. It was just as she said, the owner of the Onix began to complain the moment he was up against the Gastly, and the owners of the two small Pokemon have marched into this battle almost willingly, but still, there are many things they still need to learn about the contestants to really determine anything within this match.<br/><br/>He then continues with what he was saying,<br/><br/>"I wouldn't know if these feisty ones could use this state to their advantage, but hey I've seen my share of surprises. Ahh, before I forget, my name's Steven Lin. This here is Tyrogue, he's my sparring buddy. My uncle runs a noodle shop in Saffron and I deliver. I'm on vacation right now as you can see."<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>