[It sounds like Bo was doing the opposite of encouragement. However, this is Shadowmaru's Whirlipede. One of those types who don't take well to being told they can't do something from strange humans.]
[Shadowmaru, without so much as batting an eye, then reaches out, and hauls Whirlipede up under one arm - right as the angry bug was about to launch at the Litwick.]
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[It sounds like Bo was doing the opposite of encouragement. However, this is Shadowmaru's Whirlipede. One of those types who don't take well to being told they can't do something from strange humans.]
[Shadowmaru, without so much as batting an eye, then reaches out, and hauls Whirlipede up under one arm - right as the angry bug was about to launch at the Litwick.]
He takes type disadvantages as a challenge.