Scientist Fermin

Fermin is one of the middle-ranked members of Team Tectonic. He is responsible for leading the Team Tectonic grunts who launched an attack on Nimagale Point's lighthouse in order to steal the Electivires that are responsible for powering the lighthouse.

## Appearance

Fermin is a middle-aged man with dark hair and pale skin. He wears the uniform of a professional scientist, which consist of a white long-sleeved lab coat over a white collared shirt, a long dark blue neck tie, long gray pants, dark blue shoes, and a pair of glasses.

## Personality

Fermin is an intelligent, yet cruel scientist who works under Team Tectonic for unknown reasons.

He is shown to be calculative and cunning, as well as good at coming up with ideas on the fly by using what is valuable. This is shown when he used the Electivires' electricity to power-up his Electrode's Discharge in order to badly damage his enemies (all the while, his own Pokemon remain unharmed as they are consisted of Pokemon immune to the Discharge's attack - an Electric-Type Electrode and a Ground-Type Krookodile).

He has also known a lack of empathy to bystanders and even to his own minions, as he was willing to steal the Pokemon from the trainers trying to stop him as well as had no problem launching a supercharged Discharge attack, despite his own minions being in range of and being harmed by the attack.

He is also very short-tempered and ruthless, as he vowed to ruin the protagonist's life should the latter be able to defeat him and his Pokemon (despite being badly injured by the powered-up Discharge).

## Pokemon

Static
Aftermath (Hidden Ability)
Magnet Rise
 Krookodile
Dark
Moxie
Anger Point (Hidden Ability)
Dig

## Strategy

This battle is much harder than you think. While he may be using only two strong Pokemon, the player will be placed in a severe handicap before the fight.

After defeating two of his minions, your Pokemon will be healed automatically. However, this is followed up by your entire Pokemon party being hit with a super-charged Discharge by Fermin's powered-up Electrode. And this happens BEFORE the official fight begins.

All your Pokemon will take damage and may be paralyzed, based on your Pokemon's typing.

For instance, Ground-Type and Electric-Type Pokemon will receive no damage and they will not be paralyzed. Grass-Type, Rock-Type, Steel-Type, and Electric-Type will lose around 1/3 of their health and will be paralyzed. And any other typing will lose half of their health and will be paralyzed.

So, your team will be in a serious disadvantage unless you have some Ground-Type and Electric-Type Pokemon in your team. It's highly recommend to have Ground-Type Pokemon (without Rock-Typing or Steel-Typing), as one of Fermin's Pokemon is a Ground-Type.

Now, as for the official battle against Fermin, you need to keep an eye out for both of his Pokemon (since your team will be weakened after the Discharge attack).

Fermin's first Pokemon is an Electrode. It knows Magnet Rise, so if you have Ground-Type attacks, you need to use them quickly before Magnet Rise is used. But what you really need to watch out for is Electrode's Self-Destruct. Once Electrode has around half of its health left, it will likely use Self-Destruct. So it will kill itself, while dealing a massive amount of damage to your current Pokemon (most likely taking it out).

And then there is Fermin's second Pokemon, Krookodile. This Pokemon is a heavy hitter and can a good amount of health. It's Rock Tomb is strong, and will easily taken down any Flying-Type Pokemon in your team. However, it is recommended to have a Flying-Type Pokemon as a means of countering Krookodile's Dig. This is because Dig takes two turns to land its attack, and Dig is a Ground-Type move (which cannot harm Flying-Type Pokemon). So, you can switch into a Flying-Type to nullify Dig, then which to a Pokemon that can handle Krookodile's Rock Tomb.