Challenge her to a battle

Malamar knew he had to approach this cautiously. If Mable was any indication, yellow Trainers would put up a bit more of a fight than green ones.

That said, Malamar was still a Pokemon, and a strong one at that. And considering Eri used Fighting types, he figured he could take full advantage of his own Psychic typing.

So with that said, he floated over to her, slowly and subtly swirling his tentacles to begin putting her under when he got to her.