Recaps

Su Hao moved the Articuno Secret Realm and trained his Pokémon before traveling to Tokyo for the International Youth Exchange Competition. After uncovering the New Moon Cult’s recruitment efforts, he led his team into Aokigahara Forest, where rival teams and the Zarude tribe became threats.

• Su Hao returned to the Articuno Secret Realm, chose Dobrenea as its guardian, and brought the Articuno home to help Su Xu train Charizard.
• Su Hao trained his Pokémon, awakened Metagross’s Destruction Gene, and gave Cycloze Terastal Crystals that increased its strength and taught it new moves.
• Su Hao traveled to Tokyo, met Liao Xingchen and his four teammates, and won the captaincy in battles against Cheng Liming and Bai Linglong.
• After recognizing the New Moon Pendant among the team’s belongings, Su Hao investigated the cult with Meimei and learned it had contacted 240 talented people from 48 Alliances.
• The competition began in Aokigahara Forest, where Su Hao’s team formed a scouting and battle plan while Liao Xingchen kept Marshadow in Su Hao’s shadow for protection.
• Su Hao’s Cycloze defeated powerful wild Pokémon with its fists as the team headed toward the forest’s center.
• Tachibana Mahiru secured a Late Elite Four Level Zarude to help his team hunt contestants, while Su Hao stopped his team near a Grass-type Pokémon and planned to win its goodwill with Tokiwa Power.

Su Hao built a Grass-type army and led the Divine Land Alliance to victory in the Selection Tournament, while the New Moon Cult launched its dream attack on Tokyo. With Reshiram’s help, Su Hao defeated Full Moon and Aoi Sawaki, then demanded that Full Moon explain the organizations behind the conspiracy.

• Su Hao used Tokiwa Power and the World Tree’s blessing to recruit Grass-type Pokémon, and his army defeated the Georgia Alliance team.
• The Sakura Nation Alliance, led by Tachibana Mahiru and Zarude, attacked the Resisters Alliance teams, while Su Hao secretly helped a survivor escape and spread word of the threat.
• Meimei infiltrated the New Moon Cult and discovered that Full Moon and Aoi Sawaki planned to use Cresselia and a Wedge to spread dreams across Tokyo.
• Su Hao and the Resisters Alliance fought through Zarude’s wild Pokémon, then Su Hao’s Grass-type army battled Zarude and Leafeon’s strike broke Zarude’s defenses and raised Leafeon to Gym Level.
• Full Moon unleashed the dream energy across Tokyo, putting the city and Su Hao’s companions to sleep, but Su Hao and Marshadow sheltered his allies and Pokémon in the Shadow World.
• Su Hao and Marshadow attacked Cresselia, but their Z-Move failed to defeat it, and Reshiram appeared to protect Su Hao from Cresselia’s Psychic attack.
• Su Hao rode Reshiram against Full Moon and Cresselia, and Reshiram overwhelmed them with Azure Flames as Pokémon Leagues around the world watched.
• Marshadow brought Latios and Latias through the Shadow World to Tokyo, where Su Hao confronted Full Moon and Aoi Sawaki and demanded information about the New Star Organization, the R Institute, and the New Moon Cult.

After the Tokyo incident, Su Hao returned to the Divine Land Alliance, served as a college entrance examiner, and rescued and captured Zeraora from the Carlisle Family. The Stone Gate Ruins revealed the history of Arceus and Su Hao’s Plate Fragments, while Giratina took Dragapult and the Dreepy siblings away for training, leaving Su Hao back on Blue Star to prepare for the competition.

• Su Hao learned about the New Star Organization from Full Moon, killed her and Aoi Sawaki, and helped Latios and Latias preserve Cresselia’s essence in the New Moon Feather before leaving Tokyo.
• Reshiram and the twin Latios sealed the Azure Flames and prevented Tokyo from being destroyed, while the aftermath revealed the New Moon Cult Headquarters in ruins and two bodies beneath Tokyo Tower.
• Su Hao returned to his teammates, helped secure their place in the Main Tournament’s top eight, and accepted Li Luoyan’s request to examine college entrance candidates in exchange for Terastal Crystals for Cycloze.
• At the Imperial City exam, Cycloze defeated Jiang Qin’s and Jiang Chengcheng’s Pokémon, and Su Hao later returned to Yang City before traveling to Orchester Town to search for Zeraora.
• Su Hao rescued Zeraora from Tran Carlisle, defeated Tran’s Pokémon, and killed Tran despite Ophelia Carlisle’s pleas, after which Ophelia helped conceal what had happened.
• Su Hao captured Zeraora and entered the Stone Gate Ruins, where the Lake Guardians showed him Arceus expelling the corrupted Spirit Realm and explained that Su Hao had been chosen to gather the Plate Fragments.
• Giratina arrived and took Dragapult and the Dreepy siblings to train in its Shadow Domain, promising to return them to Blue Star when their training was complete.
• Su Hao returned to Yang City after only one day had passed, examined his altered mental powers, and entered the Articuno Secret Realm while Milotic trained its Ice-type moves.

Su Hao led his team through the quarterfinals while investigating the Augusto Mountains, where he found the hidden Ore Kingdom and helped Diancie receive its inheritance. The arc ended with Diancie inside the Sacred Diamond as Su Hao returned to face Xavier Baden and the German Alliance.

• Su Hao visited his Pokémon before leaving for the International Youth Exchange Competition, and his team discussed how their public information might help their opponents.
• Su Hao joined Xiao Zijian and Cheng Liming on a tour of the Augusto Mountains, where Gigantamax Centiskorch and Carbink battled and a girl fell from their aerial taxi.
• Su Hao used Lucario and Hisuian Braviary to save the girl, then sent Leafeon between the Gigantamax Pokémon, whose attacks it met with a sword of light.
• Marshadow brought Su Hao a Carbink from the Ore Kingdom, and Su Hao took it into the Augusto Mountains to find Queen Diancie.
• Su Hao's group passed Genesect and entered the Ore Kingdom, where Queen Diancie met his Diancie and agreed to use a Mega Stone to awaken her own Mega Evolution.
• Mega Queen Diancie began Diancie's inheritance ceremony and revealed that the Ore Kingdom had come to confront the revived Infinite Comet, also called the Disaster Dragon.
• Su Hao left the Ore Kingdom with Marshadow and returned in time to rejoin his teammates before their match against the German Alliance.
• Su Hao chose Lucario for the quarterfinals and challenged German Elite Four member Xavier Baden after spotting him glaring in the breakfast hall.