Recaps

Roy’s Dragapult battled Bado’s Mega Lopunny, using its speed, illusions, and Ghost-type moves to evade her close-range attacks and strike from the shadows. Mega Lopunny remained on the defensive as Dragapult continued its relentless bombardment.

• Bado Mega Evolved Lopunny, drawing astonished reactions from the spectators.
• Dragapult used Double Team, but Mega Lopunny identified its true body and nearly landed a Double Hit before Dragapult escaped with Phantom Force.
• Dragapult and the two Dreepy struck Mega Lopunny with Dragon Darts, briefly stunning her and leaving her vulnerable to Flamethrower.
• Mega Lopunny dodged Dragapult’s Flamethrower and tried to pursue, but Dragapult’s speed kept it out of her reach.
• Dragapult repeatedly vanished into the shadows and attacked with ranged moves while Mega Lopunny struggled to close the distance.

Roy’s Dragapult defeated Bado’s Mega Lopunny in a hard-fought battle at Saffron Battle Arena, earning Roy his first victory in Saffron City. Afterward, Roy treated Dragapult and resolved to fight more cautiously in the future.

• Dragapult relentlessly attacked Mega Lopunny from the air, frustrating Bado as Lopunny struggled to land a hit.
• Roy secretly directed Dragapult to use Dragon Ascent instead of the announced Dragon Rush, while Bado ordered Mega Lopunny to use High Jump Kick.
• Dragapult and Mega Lopunny collided in midair, and Dragapult emerged victorious as Lopunny reverted from Mega Evolution and could no longer battle.
• The referee declared Roy the winner, and Bado accepted his defeat before leaving the platform.
• Agatha told Roy to treat Dragapult before they continued their journey, and Roy reflected that Dragapult had barely won and he should have fought more cautiously.

Roy brought Dragapult to the Arena treatment room, where Miss Joy treated it and met his unusually large Ancient Gengar. As Roy left with Agatha, Miss Joy had begun to believe she could pursue her wish to become a Pokémon Trainer.

• Roy followed Chansey to find Miss Joy and asked her to treat Dragapult.
• Miss Joy healed Dragapult and served Roy Moomoo Milk, while Ancient Gengar startled Chansey and struck a pose for Miss Joy.
• Miss Joy asked Roy about Dragapult's unusual Dragon Rush and admitted that she loved watching Pokémon battles.
• Roy encouraged Miss Joy not to let her identity limit her and to pursue becoming a Pokémon Trainer.
• After Dragapult's treatment finished, Roy left the Arena with Agatha.

Agatha brought Roy to the Joy family headquarters to assess his current Pokémon Breeder rank after his Pokéblock skills surpassed her own. The chapter left Roy waiting with Agatha outside the unguarded entrance, wondering what the Joy family’s assessment would involve.

• Agatha led Roy from Saffron City into the mountains, where a level 78 Lucario appeared and recognized her and her Gengar.
• Lucario guided Agatha and Roy to the Joy family headquarters, a vast complex hidden among the mountains.
• Agatha told Roy she had brought him to test his Breeder rank because his Pokéblock-making skills had surpassed hers.
• Lucario leaped over the gate, while Agatha waited at the entrance with Roy, who noticed there were no guards.

Agatha brought Roy to meet Joy Lando and asked her to arrange a Breeder qualification assessment and teach him. Joy Lando agreed to arrange an assessment, but was shocked when Agatha insisted Roy skip straight to the Advanced Breeder assessment and guaranteed him herself.

• Two Miss Joys arrived at the Joy family gate, where a facial scanner recognized them and let them inside.
• Joy Lando came out to greet Agatha, then teased Roy and kneaded his cheeks.
• Agatha introduced Roy and asked Joy Lando to assess and teach him, but Joy Lando said she was too busy and offered the Joy family breeding school instead.
• Joy Lando offered to arrange a Beginner Breeder assessment, but Agatha demanded an Advanced Breeder assessment for Roy despite his never having taken an earlier one.
• Joy Lando explained that Roy needed a qualified guarantor to skip the levels, and Agatha guaranteed him despite Joy Lando's doubts.

Roy arrived at the Joy family headquarters with Agatha to take the Advanced Breeder assessment under Joy Lando. He and a young Joy family prodigy named Lena prepared to be examined together.

• Joy Lando led Agatha and Roy through the Joy family compound, where Roy asked whether humans could train alongside Chansey.
• Joy Lando brought Roy and Agatha to the assessment center and learned that Lena, a sixteen-year-old Pokéblock prodigy, was taking her second Advanced Breeder assessment.
• Joy Lando took charge of both assessments, and Lena reacted with humility when she saw her, then curiosity when she learned Roy was also a candidate.
• Joy Lando checked Roy's ID Card and discovered he was fourteen, then ordered him to hand over his Poké Balls and have Ancient Gengar enter its Poké Ball.
• Roy handed his Poké Balls to Agatha, and Joy Lando registered him and arranged his assessment station before the assessment began.

Joy Lando gave Roy an unusually difficult Advanced Breeder assessment: make a Pokéblock to help an Emboar learn Scald. While her family’s genius girl failed her Fire-type Pokéblock test, Roy selected his materials and began combining opposing energies.

• Joy Lando asked her family’s genius girl to make an Advanced Pokéblock suitable for all Fire-type Pokémon.
• Joy Lando assigned Roy the task of making a Pokéblock that would help a Beginner King-level Emboar learn Scald, and gave both candidates three hours.
• Roy selected high-grade Water Stone Shards, Fire Stone Shards, Wepear Berries, and other materials for his recipe.
• The genius girl’s Berry Blender exploded after she added too much Chilan Berry, and Joy Lando encouraged her after her second failure.
• The genius girl stayed to observe Roy as he put the Water Stone Shards and Fire Stone Shards directly into the Berry Blender.

Roy used his Ghost Power to control the Berry Blender and safely combine incompatible Evolution Stone energies with other ingredients. Joy Lando and the other assessment candidate watched in shock as he completed the Pokéblocks in ten minutes without using the machine’s controls.

• Joy Lando expected Roy’s Berry Blender to explode and considered ending the assessment, but Agatha indicated that Roy’s demonstration was only beginning.
• Roy used his Ghost Power to contain the opposing Fire-type and Water-type energies until the Evolution Stone fragments merged safely.
• Roy added and blended the remaining ingredients, using Ghost Power to control their quantities, remove excesses, and combine them without operating the machine.
• Joy Lando and the other Advanced Cultivator assessment candidate stared in shock as Roy finished the process in ten minutes.

Roy used his ghostly purple energy to make ten high-grade red-and-blue Pokéblocks containing Ice Crystals in under thirty minutes, astonishing Joy Lando with his unconventional method. Joy Lando confirmed the Pokéblocks met her client’s requirements and remained stunned by Roy’s ability.

• Roy used ghostly purple energy to control the Berry Blender and Pokéblock Maker, fusing the ingredients and shaping ten Pokéblocks.
• Roy finished the Pokéblocks in under thirty minutes and called Joy Lando over to inspect them.
• Joy Lando examined one Pokéblock and confirmed its quality and Ice Crystal were suitable for her client.
• Joy Lando reflected that Roy’s method had overturned everything she knew about making Pokéblocks.

Fourteen-year-old Roy passed the Advanced Breeder assessment by making Advanced Pokéblocks, astonishing Joy Lando with his talent. Joy Lando began planning to train him, but Agatha took Roy to meet Bruno for martial arts lessons, leaving Lena shaken by the comparison.

• Joy Lando confirmed Roy had passed the assessment and offered to take him to receive his Advanced Breeder certificate.
• Agatha stopped Joy Lando from immediately taking Roy into training, then persuaded her to teach him breeding after explaining why she had brought him there.
• Joy Lando offered to introduce Roy to a Joy family woman, but Agatha told her to focus on teaching him breeding.
• Agatha said she needed to take Roy to see Bruno for martial arts lessons, and Joy Lando insisted on joining them.
• Joy Lando asked Lena to wait at the family headquarters for further training, and Lena left the assessment room feeling insignificant beside Roy.

Agatha brought Roy to Bruno’s secluded mountain dojo so he could study martial arts, while Joy Lando continued trying to persuade Agatha that Roy should focus on breeding. They arrived at the dojo and met Bruno, whose powerful Machamp Roy had spotted training beneath a waterfall.

• Joy Lando urged Agatha to stop Roy’s martial arts training, but Agatha ignored her and hoped Roy would develop as an all-rounder.
• Roy asked Joy Lando for Pidgeot’s stabilizing saddle, and she offered him a saddle, a Pidgeot, and the prospect of marrying into the Joy family.
• Agatha, Joy Lando, and Roy flew for about an hour before landing at Bruno’s mountain dojo.
• Roy saw Bruno’s level-85 Machamp holding massive boulders beneath a waterfall without faltering.
• Agatha led Roy and Joy Lando through the dojo grounds, where martial arts apprentices and Fighting-type Pokémon trained.
• Bruno greeted Agatha at the dojo gates after waiting for her arrival.

Agatha brought Roy to Shiba’s dojo so Shiba could teach him martial arts, and Shiba examined Roy’s Annihilape before agreeing to assess Roy’s skill. Agatha rejected Shiba’s proposed beginner opponent and demanded an Advanced Martial Artist, leaving Roy worried about being badly beaten.

• Shiba recognized Roy as the young champion from the Edge Cup and asked him to release his Annihilape.
• Shiba inspected Annihilape and said he wanted to fight a Ghost type Pokémon, though Annihilape’s level was too low.
• Agatha asked Shiba to teach Roy martial arts, and Shiba noticed Roy already had a training foundation.
• Shiba called over his talented disciple Jiang Yang to test Roy, but Agatha rejected him and demanded an Advanced Martial Artist instead.
• Roy quietly warned Agatha that he feared an Advanced Martial Artist would beat him to death, and Agatha silenced him with a cold look.

Bruno tested Roy’s strength at his dojo and saw him punch apart a Silph Co. force-testing sandbag. Roy’s strike showed that he had learned Bruno’s Extreme Fighting Technique, leaving Bruno wondering how Agatha had trained him so quickly from an incomplete draft.

• A powerful Machamp charged at Bruno’s group, but Bruno caught its arm and slammed it down before telling it to increase its training load to five rocks.
• Bruno led Roy, Agatha, and Joy Lando to a room with sandbags used to test Fighting trainers’ strength.
• Roy wrapped his hands and struck a sandbag with enough force to make it burst and scatter black iron sand across the floor.
• Bruno recognized Roy’s sudden concentration of strength as a technique from his Extreme Fighting Technique.
• Bruno recalled giving Agatha an incomplete draft of the technique and wondered how Roy had already mastered it so well.

Roy demonstrated strength on the level of an Advanced Martial Artist, so Bruno brought him to his dojo to test him against Bado. Their unrestricted fight began with Roy easily blocking Bado’s opening punch, leaving both fighters reassessing each other.

• Roy blew apart Bruno’s sandbag, and Bruno tested his strength by gripping his arm while Joy Lando worried he might hurt him.
• Bruno brought Roy to his dojo and learned that Bado had lost to Roy in a Pokémon battle earlier that day.
• Bruno chose Bado to test Roy in a martial arts match, and dojo apprentices gathered to watch.
• Roy entered the ring with his Pokémon cheering him on, and Bruno began the unrestricted match with a bell.
• Bado opened with a straight punch, which Roy easily blocked, prompting Bado to stop holding back.

Roy fought Bado while wearing two weighted training uniforms and gained the upper hand, then removed them to reveal that he had been carrying nearly as much weight as Bado. Freed of their weights, the two fought at full speed until Roy stopped a punch just short of Bado’s face, and Bado accepted defeat.

• Roy used a feint and a low sweep to throw Bado off balance, then overwhelmed him with a storm of punches.
• Bado removed his weighted training uniform, and Agatha told Roy to take his off as well.
• Roy revealed that he had been fighting in two training uniforms weighing sixty kilograms each, and Annihilape picked them up after Roy tossed them aside.
• Freed from their weights, Roy and Bado charged at each other and traded rapid punches and kicks across the stage.
• Bado tried to counter Roy’s rushing punch, but Roy’s fist stopped before his face, and Bado gave up and recognized his defeat.

After Roy defeated Bado, Bruno and Joy Lando competed to train him, and Agatha arranged a packed daily schedule for him. Roy left with mornings at Bruno's dojo, afternoons studying Breeding with Joy Lando, and nights fighting in Saffron City's Ring Arena, with Dragapult handling the long journeys.

• Roy defeated Bado with his strength, then Bruno sent the apprentices back to training.
• Bruno praised Roy's fighting talent and offered to teach him, but Joy Lando insisted he study Breeding with her instead.
• Bruno and Joy Lando argued over Roy's training until Agatha assigned him to study Fighting techniques in the mornings and Breeding in the afternoons.
• Agatha added nighttime battle matches at the Ring Arena in Saffron City to Roy's schedule and told him to travel by Dragapult.
• Roy accepted the decision uneasily while Gengar watched him get saddled with another demanding training routine.

Rose presented Leon with a proposal to convert the energy beneath Galar into a lasting power source, revealing that the energy had caused Pokémon to go berserk and grow enormous. Leon remained worried about the danger, and Rose prepared to show him Oleana’s latest invention.

• Rose summoned Leon to his office and asked him to review a proposal for using a hidden energy source beneath Galar.
• Leon read the proposal and considered the region’s dwindling energy reserves and his partnership with Rose to secure Galar’s future.
• Oleana showed Leon a collector containing red energy particles and identified them as the cause of the giant, rampaging Pokémon near Wyndon.
• Rose reassured Leon after he questioned whether the underground energy could be controlled, then asked Oleana to show him her latest invention.
• Oleana placed a white wristband on Rose’s desk for Leon to see.

Rose showed Leon the Dynamax Band, a device that used Wishing Stars to let humans control the energy that enlarged Pokémon. Leon tested it at Motostoke Stadium, where his Charizard transformed into a nearly forty-meter-tall Gigantamax Charizard.

• Rose explained that Oleana and Professor Magnolia had developed the Dynamax Band using Wishing Stars to absorb red energy particles.
• Rose took Leon and Oleana to the under-construction Motostoke Stadium and described Dynamax as a battle system unique to Galar.
• Leon put on the Dynamax Band, summoned Charizard, and activated the device after Oleana explained how to use it.
• Leon threw the enlarged Poké Ball, and Charizard emerged beneath a swirling storm cloud and grew nearly forty meters tall.

Leon’s Charizard first Dynamaxed, then drank Max Soup and gained the ability to Gigantamax, strengthening Leon’s resolve to consider Rose’s plan to control Eternatus. Rose asked Leon to persuade the Gym Leaders to help, but Leon had not yet answered when the chapter ended.

• Oleana explained Gigantamax and gave Leon’s Charizard Max Soup made with a giant mushroom.
• After Charizard drank the soup, Leon tried to Dynamax again but learned that his Dynamax Band needed about an hour to recharge.
• Rose urged Leon to help control Eternatus and argued that its energy could solve Galar’s energy problems, while Leon worried about the risks.
• After the Dynamax Band recharged, Leon activated Gigantamax, transforming Charizard and giving it the exclusive move G-Max Wildfire.
• Leon sensed Charizard’s increased power and began to believe he could face Eternatus, as Rose asked for his answer to her proposal.

Rose persuaded Leon to help with his plan and went to Hammerlocke to begin unsealing Eternatus beneath the stadium. He ordered the drilling to start despite the risks, convinced that harnessing Eternatus’s energy would secure Galar’s future.

• Leon agreed to support Rose and left to gather the Gym Leaders while Rose reviewed an ancient book about Eternatus and the heroes Zacian and Zamazenta.
• Rose admitted to himself that he could not guarantee control of Eternatus and had no intention of sealing it away again.
• Rose and Oleana traveled to Hammerlocke, where Rose ordered the protective energy barrier strengthened.
• Rose ordered the steel behemoth to drill through the seal beneath Hammerlocke Stadium.
• Rose watched the drilling begin, believing Eternatus’s energy would transform Galar despite the danger.

Roy defended his Ring Arena title for the fifth time this month after Dusclops defeated Druddigon. The chapter recounted Roy’s training and Pokéblock-making, and left him rising in fame while keeping his powerful connections quiet.

• Dusclops used Ice Punch to freeze Druddigon in place, then knocked it out, giving Roy his tenth consecutive victory and another Ring Arena title defense.
• Roy trained Fighting techniques at Bruno’s dojo, where Bruno had borrowed Agatha’s Arbok to chase the apprentices through the mountains.
• Roy learned to make Pokéblocks from Joy Lando, and his unusual method astonished her and the Joy family’s Master-level Breeder.
• Roy fought at the Saffron City Ring Arena each night and gained popularity, though slower than he had in Rustboro City.
• A group offered Roy 200,000 Poké Dollars to throw a match, but they fled after learning about his teachers, and Roy kept the money they left behind.

Roy finished his title-defense battle and camped outside Saffron City, where Marshadow returned after spending nearly a month searching for Ho-Oh near Galar. As Marshadow ate Roy’s snacks, Giratina contacted Roy and said it would soon take him somewhere, leaving Roy wondering where it would take him to fight next.

• Roy finished his final title-defense battle, collected his healed Pokémon, and camped in a forest north of Saffron City.
• Roy’s Pokémon raced, prepared food, and settled in for the night while he camped.
• Marshadow emerged from the shadows, stopped Annihilape from punching it, and reunited with Roy.
• Marshadow told Roy it had found Ho-Oh near Galar after a long search and had returned because it had run out of snacks.
• Giratina contacted Roy and said it would soon take him to see something fun, then ended the call.
• Marshadow rolled on the ground demanding snacks, and Roy gave it Pokéblocks before asking whether it wanted to meet Giratina.

Roy brought Marshadow to meet Giratina in the Distortion World, where Marshadow was awed by the Legendary Pokémon. Giratina accepted Marshadow as Roy’s protector and dismissed Ho-Oh as no match for him.

• Roy invited Marshadow to meet Giratina, and Marshadow entered Roy’s shadow alongside Ancient Gengar.
• Giratina pulled Roy into the Distortion World, where Marshadow and Ancient Gengar emerged from his shadow.
• Marshadow stammered before Giratina, and Roy introduced him as one of Ho-Oh’s subordinates who admired Giratina.
• Roy prompted Marshadow to show his admiration, and Marshadow looked at Giratina with genuine worship.
• Giratina accepted Marshadow as Roy’s little brother and protector, then dismissed Ho-Oh as inferior to himself.

Giratina recruited Roy to help him take over a mission involving a dangerous Pokémon sealed beneath a meteorite in the Galar region, partly so he could beat Dialga to it. In Hammerlocke, Leon and Galar’s Gym Leaders gathered to address the threat, and Rose’s brother Peony returned from the Crown Tundra.

• Roy asked Giratina about Divine Authority, and Giratina explained that Arceus had granted some Legendary Pokémon the power to bestow it but not him.
• Giratina told Roy about a Pokémon inside a meteorite that had begun showing signs of awakening, then admitted he wanted the mission partly to defeat Dialga.
• Giratina identified the region on a map as Galar and took Roy, Ancient Gengar, and Marshadow with him.
• In Hammerlocke, Raihan reflected on Duraludon’s Gigantamax form as Leon gathered Galar’s Gym Leaders and League forces to confront the situation.
• Rose began leading the group into the energy plant, but Peony arrived from the Crown Tundra, surprising his brother and the gathered Gym Leaders.

Rose, Leon, and Galar’s Gym Leaders released Eternatus beneath Hammerlocke, hoping to capture it and secure a new energy source. Eternatus nullified their Pokémon’s Dynamax forms and revealed its plan to drain the planet and challenge Arceus.

• Rose led Leon and the Gym Leaders into the Energy Plant and showed them Eternatus sealed inside a giant iron sphere.
• Oleana arranged Wishing Stars around the sphere, and an operator used an energy beam to send their particles through its seams.
• Eternatus broke free, and Leon, the Gym Leaders, and the trainers ordered their Dynamax and Gigantamax Pokémon to attack.
• Eternatus sent out pink energy particles that ended the Pokémon’s Dynamax forms and prevented Opal from activating her Dynamax Band again.
• Eternatus planned to drain Galar and the rest of the planet before challenging Arceus and taking his place.