Chapter Summaries

Zhang Cheng's Kingdra defeated Sun Hai's Alakazam by exploiting Hyper Beam's recovery delay and finishing it with Outrage. Sun Hai then sent out Sylveon, whose Fairy typing left Kingdra's remaining Outrage attacks ineffective.

• Sun Hai ordered Alakazam to use Hyper Beam, but Kingdra used Protect and took only limited damage.
• Zhang Cheng sent Kingdra in with Waterfall, but Alakazam recovered and used Teleport to dodge before striking Kingdra with Psybeam.
• Zhang Cheng ordered Kingdra to use Outrage, and its attack knocked Alakazam out.
• Sun Hai praised Kingdra and chose Sylveon to counter it with Fairy-type moves.
• Zhang Cheng scanned Sylveon's information and recognized that its Fairy typing would make Kingdra's remaining Outrage attacks useless.

Sun Hai defeated Zhang Cheng’s Kingdra with Sylveon, then Sylveon and Swampert exchanged powerful attacks in a head-on battle. Swampert dealt more damage in their first clash, giving Zhang Cheng the advantage.

• Sylveon ignored Kingdra’s Outrage and defeated it with Dazzling Gleam and Moonblast.
• Zhang Cheng sent out Swampert to challenge Sun Hai’s Sylveon, and Sun Hai used Safeguard to block status conditions.
• Swampert attacked with Earthquake, but Sylveon used Protect to avoid damage.
• Sun Hai ordered Dazzling Gleam as Zhang Cheng chose Earth Power for a direct clash.
• Both Pokémon landed their attacks, but Swampert lost a quarter of her HP while Sylveon lost a third.

Zhang Cheng's Swampert defeated Sun Hai's Sylveon after Rain Dance ended, but Sylveon badly poisoned Swampert before falling. Sun Hai then sent out Tropius, whose Grass/Flying typing gave it a major advantage over Swampert.

• Zhang Cheng's Swampert clashed with Sylveon's Hyper Beam using Waterfall, and the moves canceled each other out as the rain stopped.
• Swampert used Bulldoze and left Sylveon with only one-third of its HP, then forced it to defend against Earth Power with Protect.
• Swampert struck Sylveon with Waterfall while Sylveon used Toxic, badly poisoning Swampert before Sylveon was knocked out of the battle.
• Sun Hai recalled Sylveon and sent out Tropius, whose Grass and Flying types countered Swampert's Water- and Ground-type attacks.

Sun Hai’s Tropius defeated Zhang Cheng’s badly poisoned Swampert with Grass-type attacks, leaving Zhang Cheng to send out Moltres. Sun Hai responded by ordering Tropius to attack Moltres with Air Slash.

• Sun Hai ordered Tropius to use Razor Leaf, and Zhang Cheng countered with Swampert’s Hydro Cannon.
• Tropius’s Razor Leaf left Swampert near defeat, while Hydro Cannon took only a quarter of Tropius’s HP.
• Sun Hai had Tropius finish the recharging Swampert with Energy Ball, and Zhang Cheng recalled it after it could no longer battle.
• Zhang Cheng sent out Moltres to exploit Tropius’s weaknesses, surprising Sun Hai with the legendary Pokémon.
• Sun Hai ordered Tropius to use Air Slash against Moltres.

Zhang Cheng’s Moltres overwhelmed Sun Hai’s Tropius with Air Slash and Flamethrower, forcing Sun Hai to recall it. Sun Hai sent out a powerful Aerodactyl with a quadruple type advantage over Moltres, and Aerodactyl launched Stone Edge as their battle began.

• Zhang Cheng ordered Moltres to counter Tropius’s Air Slash, and her stronger attack badly injured Tropius.
• Zhang Cheng commanded Moltres to use Flamethrower, but Tropius’s Protect failed and Tropius lost the ability to battle.
• Sun Hai recalled Tropius and sent out Aerodactyl, a Rock- and Flying-type Pokémon with a quadruple type advantage against Moltres.
• Zhang Cheng used the Detection System to learn that Aerodactyl had A+ potential, a Hard Stone, and a broad range of moves.
• Sun Hai ordered Aerodactyl to use Stone Edge, and Aerodactyl formed and launched sharp stones toward Moltres.

Zhang Cheng and Moltres battled Sun Hai and Aerodactyl, trading powerful attacks while Moltres’s Rock weakness put it under severe pressure. After Ancient Power boosted Moltres’s stats, Zhang Cheng ordered it to use Burn Up to shed its Fire typing and reduce Aerodactyl’s Rock attacks from quadruple to double damage.

• Moltres blocked Aerodactyl’s Stone Edge with Protect, then seized it with Sky Drop and slammed it into the battlefield.
• Sun Hai steadied Aerodactyl and ordered Rock Slide, while Zhang Cheng countered with Ancient Power; both Pokémon took heavy damage, and Ancient Power boosted Moltres’s stats.
• Zhang Cheng ordered Moltres to use Burn Up, planning to remove its Fire typing and lessen Aerodactyl’s type advantage.

Zhang Cheng used Moltres’s Burn Up to shed its Fire typing after Aerodactyl defended against the attack. Moltres then endured Aerodactyl’s Rock Tomb and struck back with Sky Attack, leaving Aerodactyl close to defeat and unable to move.

• Zhang Cheng ordered Moltres to use Burn Up, and Sun Hai had Aerodactyl defend with Wide Guard; the attack broke through and reduced Aerodactyl to half HP.
• Burn Up exhausted Moltres’s Fire energy, leaving it as a pure Flying-type Pokémon, and Sun Hai praised Zhang Cheng’s unexpected tactic.
• Sun Hai ordered Aerodactyl to use Rock Tomb, and Zhang Cheng told Moltres to take the hit while charging Sky Attack.
• Rock Tomb drove Moltres to critical HP, but Moltres struck Aerodactyl with Sky Attack, triggering a critical hit and flinching it.
• Moltres’s attack removed two-fifths of Aerodactyl’s HP, leaving it near defeat and unable to act.

Zhang Cheng’s Moltres defeated Sun Hai’s Aerodactyl before falling to Sun Hai’s Zapdos after weakening it with Fire Spin. Zhang Cheng sent out Zeraora to face Zapdos, setting up a battle between two powerful Electric-type Pokémon.

• Moltres seized the flinching Aerodactyl and dropped it, knocking it out, and Sun Hai recalled it.
• Sun Hai sent out his Level 80 Zapdos, and Zhang Cheng examined its data with the Detection System.
• Sun Hai ordered Zapdos to use Thunderbolt while Zhang Cheng had Moltres counter with Fire Spin.
• Moltres’s Fire Spin damaged Zapdos before Thunderbolt knocked Moltres out, and Zhang Cheng recalled it.
• Zhang Cheng sent out Zeraora to battle Zapdos.

Zhang Cheng’s Zeraora battled Sun Hai’s Zapdos, using its Volt Absorb ability and a charged attack to seize control of the fight. The chapter ended with Zeraora’s Plasma-powered Giga Impact shattering Zapdos’s Protect barrier, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Sun Hai and Zhang Cheng began their battle, with Zapdos facing Zeraora.
• Zeraora broke through Zapdos’s Thunder with Plasma Fists and struck it hard, while Volt Absorb let Zeraora recover from the Electric-type attack.
• Sun Hai recognized that Electric-type moves would not work and sent Zapdos to attack with Fly.
• Zhang Cheng had Zeraora use Charge; Zapdos’s Flying-type attack dealt only minor damage.
• Zhang Cheng ordered Zeraora to unleash a charged, Electric-type Giga Impact, and the attack shattered Zapdos’s Protect barrier.

Zhang Cheng’s Zeraora defeated Sun Hai’s Zapdos, leaving Zeraora at a third of its HP. Sun Hai then sent out Latios as his final Pokémon, and Zhang Cheng realized the Champion-level assessment would be far more difficult than his earlier tests.

• Zhang Cheng had Zeraora wear Zapdos down with Wild Charge until Zapdos entered Giga Impact’s knockout range.
• Zeraora and Zapdos exchanged final attacks, and Zapdos fainted while Zeraora was left with a third of its HP.
• Sun Hai reassured Zapdos before recalling it, then sent out his final Pokémon, Latios.
• Zhang Cheng recognized that Latios could Mega Evolve and reflected that passing the assessment required exceptional Pokémon and rare opportunities.

Zhang Cheng examined Sun Hai’s Latios as Sun Hai Mega Evolved it, then sent his weakened Zeraora to fight Mega Latios. Zeraora paralyzed Mega Latios with Thunder Wave before fainting, leaving Zhang Cheng with two Pokémon to finish the battle and claim Champion-level recognition.

• Zhang Cheng used the Detection System to examine Sun Hai’s level 80 Latios and its Soul Dew.
• Sun Hai Mega Evolved Latios, increasing its power and confidence in the battle.
• Zhang Cheng ordered Zeraora to use Plasma Fists, but Mega Latios countered with Zen Headbutt and left Zeraora near defeat.
• Zeraora struck Mega Latios with Thunder Wave, paralyzing him and reducing his speed.
• Mega Latios used Dragon Claw to faint Zeraora, and Zhang Cheng recalled him, saying his two remaining Pokémon would continue the fight.

Zhang Cheng sent out Diancie to face Sun Hai’s Mega Latios and Mega Evolved her to counter its Dragon-type moves. Mega Diancie defeated Mega Latios with Light of Ruin, leaving Zhang Cheng victorious in the battle.

• Zhang Cheng sent Diancie into battle instead of Poliwrath, and Sun Hai recognized her as a Fairy-type Mythical Pokémon.
• Zhang Cheng Mega Evolved Diancie into Mega Diancie, while Sun Hai ordered Mega Latios to attack with Psychic.
• Mega Diancie hit Mega Latios with Moonblast, dealing nearly half its HP in damage.
• Zhang Cheng ordered Light of Ruin, and Sun Hai tried to evade it by sending Mega Latios upward with Fly.
• Mega Diancie unleashed Light of Ruin across the battlefield, exhausting Mega Latios’s HP and sending it crashing from the sky.

Zhang Cheng passed the Champion-level Trainer assessment and spent six months strengthening his Pokémon. After learning that Shaymin had appeared in Sky City, he traveled there to search for it but found no trace after a day of searching.

• Zhang Cheng defeated Sun Hai’s Latios, passed the assessment, and officially received his Champion-level Trainer title.
• Zhang Cheng rested while his injured Pokémon received treatment, then left the Challenge Tower on Moltres.
• Zhang Cheng returned to Modu and trained for six months, raising his three Legendary and Mythical Pokémon to level 85.
• Bai Yuling told Zhang Cheng that her family had discovered Shaymin in Sky City, so he bought supplies and set out to find it.
• Zhang Cheng reached Sky City on Moltres and searched the floating city with his Pokémon, but found no sign of Shaymin after a full day.

Zhang Cheng found Shaymin hidden in a garden behind a wall in Sky City and accepted her demand for a battle before she would join him. Their fight began with Diancie and Shaymin trading super-effective attacks, leaving Shaymin preparing a powerful Grass-type strike.

• Diancie detected a powerful Pokémon behind a wall in Sky City's Main Hall, and Zhang Cheng had her break through it with Moonblast.
• Zhang Cheng found Shaymin in Land Forme and asked her to join him; Shaymin agreed on the condition that he defeat her in battle.
• Shaymin changed into Sky Forme, and Zhang Cheng scanned her stats before choosing Diancie to fight her without Mega Evolution.
• Shaymin hit Diancie with Energy Ball for a quarter of her HP, while Diancie struck Shaymin with Diamond Storm for a third of hers.
• Shaymin gathered Grass-type energy from across the battle area to prepare a powerful attack.

Zhang Cheng weakened Shaymin and caught her after forty-five Poké Ball attempts. He had Shaymin and Diancie heal their injuries afterward, leaving his team recovered and ready for danger in the City in the Sky.

• Shaymin attacked Diancie with Seed Flare, but Diancie used Protect and countered with Stone Edge, critically injuring Shaymin.
• Shaymin tried to recover with Synthesis, but Diancie blocked her healing with Heal Block.
• Shaymin and Diancie clashed with Seed Flare and Diamond Storm, leaving Shaymin barely able to move.
• Zhang Cheng repeatedly threw Poké Balls until the forty-fifth one caught Shaymin.
• Zhang Cheng released Shaymin to heal with Synthesis and told Diancie to restore her own HP.

Zhang Cheng left the palace with Shaymin and Diancie, but Su Jun of the R Organization confronted him and demanded Shaymin. They agreed to a six-on-six battle in the Sky City, and the chapter ended as Zhang Cheng sent out Zeraora against Su Jun’s Ninetales.

• Zhang Cheng recovered Shaymin and Diancie, then planned to leave the Sky City.
• Su Jun, a masked Champion-level Trainer from the R Organization, confronted Zhang Cheng and said he had come to catch Shaymin.
• Zhang Cheng and Su Jun agreed to a six-on-six battle, with Shaymin at stake.
• Zhang Cheng sent out Zeraora while Su Jun chose Ninetales, whose Drought ability and Heat Rock suggested a sun-based team.

Zhang Cheng's Zeraora defeated Su Jun's sun-setting Ninetales, but Su Jun sent out a Chlorophyll Venusaur whose speed was boosted by the sunny weather. The battle continued with Venusaur positioned as a serious threat to Zeraora.

• Ninetales set up sunny weather, and Zhang Cheng ordered Zeraora to attack with Plasma Fists.
• Zeraora endured Ninetales's sun-boosted Flamethrower and struck it with Plasma Fists, cutting its HP in half.
• Su Jun ordered Ninetales to use Fire Blast, but Zeraora powered through the flames with Giga Impact and knocked Ninetales out.
• Su Jun recalled Ninetales and sent out Venusaur as his second Pokémon.
• Zhang Cheng used the Detection System to confirm that Venusaur had Chlorophyll, which doubled its speed in the sunshine and made it a dangerous opponent for Zeraora.

Zhang Cheng used Zeraora to paralyze Su Jun’s Venusaur, then sent out Moltres to exploit the Sunny Day and Venusaur’s Grass-type weakness. Venusaur fainted after trading attacks with Moltres, which survived but was poisoned.

• Zeraora fainted after its Zap Cannon paralyzed Venusaur and canceled its Chlorophyll speed boost.
• Zhang Cheng sent out Moltres, and Su Jun recognized it as the Moltres from Mt. Pyre.
• Venusaur used Toxic, but Moltres burned away the attack with Flamethrower and heavily damaged Venusaur.
• Moltres struck Venusaur with Fire Blast while Venusaur countered with Sludge Bomb.
• Venusaur fainted, while Sludge Bomb damaged and poisoned Moltres.

Su Jun sent out his Solar Power Charizard against Zhang Cheng’s Moltres, but Moltres’s Flying-type attacks left Charizard near defeat. Their clash of Heat Wave and Hurricane left both Pokémon critically low, and Zhang Cheng ordered Moltres to attack again before Fire Spin could finish it.

• Su Jun sent out his Charizard, whose Solar Power boosted its Fire-type attacks in the sunny weather.
• Su Jun ordered Charizard to trap Moltres in Fire Spin, while Zhang Cheng answered with Brave Bird and Air Slash, leaving Charizard badly hurt.
• Su Jun had Charizard use Heat Wave as Zhang Cheng ordered Moltres to counter with Hurricane, and the merged attacks engulfed both Pokémon.
• Fire Spin continued to drain Moltres until both Pokémon were critically low, so Zhang Cheng ordered another Brave Bird before the next damage tick could defeat Moltres.

Zhang Cheng and Su Jun traded knockouts, leaving Zhang Cheng with a one-Pokémon advantage before both Trainers sent out new Pokémon. Zhang Cheng chose Swampert against Su Jun’s Darmanitan, and the battle began with their first attacks.

• Su Jun ordered Charizard to use Protect, but Moltres broke through the barrier and knocked Charizard out; the lingering Fire Spin then knocked out Moltres.
• Zhang Cheng and Su Jun recalled their defeated Pokémon, with Zhang Cheng still having one more Pokémon available than Su Jun.
• Zhang Cheng sent out Swampert, while Su Jun chose Darmanitan, whose Zen Mode and moves Zhang Cheng examined with his Detection System.
• Su Jun ordered Darmanitan to charge with Flare Blitz, and Zhang Cheng directed Swampert to meet her with Waterfall.