Recaps

Fang Yan defeated Cynthia and began a relationship with her, then expanded the Pokémon Day Care and took in several new Pokémon. After investigating a cave where Trainers had vanished, he rescued Larvitar and brought its family to the Day Care.

• Ash defeated Paul in the Sinnoh Conference semifinals, while Tobias beat Ash in the final and left him runner-up.
• Fang Yan defeated Tobias’s team, then beat Cynthia in their battle and confessed that he liked her, and Cynthia agreed to be with him.
• Cynthia asked Fang Yan to assess Gym Leaders, and he signed a lease to expand the Day Care grounds and reorganize its growing plots.
• Fang Yan treated Golem and the Graveler after learning Moltres had driven them from their volcanic home, then offered them a place at the Day Care.
• Fang Yan and the Pokémon moved Berry trees and herbs to the new land, and Professor Rowan asked him to investigate reports of missing Trainers near Sandgem Town.
• Fang Yan found Misdreavus protecting the missing Trainers and learned that Cofagrigus had lured them into the cave while seeking medicine for Larvitar.
• Fang Yan treated Larvitar’s heart condition and injuries, took it and its family to Opelucid City for surgery, then arranged for them to stay at the Day Care.
• Fang Yan welcomed Dusclops to the Day Care and assigned it to patrol the forest, while Gengar and Misdreavus were caught stealing Honey.

Fang Yan cared for the Pokémon Day Care, defeated Diantha in battle, and drew attention with Gengar’s popular cartoon. After learning that Unova faced growing danger, he agreed to help, then discovered the wider stakes of his role and received Arceus’s blessing.

• Brock thanked Fang Yan for teaching him Pokémon care and treatment, then left for Pewter City with three jars of Honey.
• Mime Jr. joined Director Edward’s film, and Fang Yan later cast a disappointed Gengar in his own cartoon, Ever-Changing Gengar.
• Gary, Paul, Jessie, James, and Meowth left Sinnoh, while Kangaskhan returned to the Day Care with her baby and agreed to stay.
• Fang Yan failed the intermediate Breeder exam, decided to remain a junior breeder, and passed Gardenia’s Gym assessment battle.
• Fang Yan helped Ridge Town contain and treat the Muk and Weezing drawn by a huge garbage pile, then persuaded Giratina to let them send the garbage away.
• Fang Yan and Diantha went fishing with Shauna and their friends, then Diantha challenged him, and Fang Yan defeated her team with his Pokémon.
• Fang Yan filmed and uploaded Gengar’s cartoon, which became the most-viewed video after Champions and Gym Leaders recommended it.
• Professor Oak, Professor Rowan, and Diantha told Fang Yan that Alder needed a successor and Team Plasma threatened Unova, and Fang Yan agreed to help in a major crisis.
• Arceus showed Fang Yan parallel worlds facing devastating crises, and Fang Yan vowed to help protect the world without fighting alone before receiving Arceus’s blessing.

Fang Yan won a martial arts tournament, earned recognition as a Pokémon Professor, and continued assessing Gym Leaders. When Pokémon at Striaton Academy fell ill amid a brewing storm, he discovered Zekrom nearby and flew to Abundant Shrine, where Shauntal and Ash were facing the Forces of Nature.

• Fang Yan organized a world-class martial arts tournament, where Dali defeated Bruno’s Machamp to win him the championship.
• Fang Yan assessed Roark, Byron, Maylene, and Volkner as Gym Leaders, and his research on dietary therapy and Pokémon bonds earned him a professorship at a Sinnoh research summit.
• Fang Yan demonstrated Dali’s Pulverizing Pancake against Kukui’s Incineroar, then shared affectionate moments with Cynthia before she took them home through a Distortion Passage.
• Fang Yan passed Volkner’s Gym assessment, then traveled with Shauna and Zhishi to Striaton Academy after Xia Lan reported that Pokémon there had become distressed and lethargic.
• Fang Yan treated the academy’s Pokémon after identifying storm-related disruptions to Electric-type Pokémon’s internal currents, while Shauntal warned him that Team Plasma remained difficult to monitor.
• When a tornado struck, Fang Yan flew into the clouds with Latias and met Zekrom, which accepted his ideals and agreed to move away from the academy’s Pokémon.
• Fang Yan stopped Darkrai from fighting Zekrom and won Zekrom over with Day Care snacks, then flew to Abundant Shrine to help Shauntal and Ash face the Forces of Nature.
• Ninetales knocked Thundurus into a mountainside, and Fang Yan asked Landorus, Thundurus, and Tornadus to hear him out.

Fang Yan helped N and Ash stop Team Plasma, then took on temporary Champion duties while continuing life at the Pokémon Day Care. After pirates targeted Manaphy's Egg near Twinleaf Town, Shauna hatched Manaphy and the group visited its underwater palace before Fang Yan helped the Muzhis travel to Grandma’s childhood friend.

• Fang Yan helped defeat Giovanni’s transformed Forces of Nature and Team Plasma’s Kyurem, then aided N in reuniting with Zekrom and resolving to reform Team Plasma.
• Fang Yan defeated Alder in a Champion battle, declined to replace him, and agreed to handle Unova League duties for up to two years.
• Fang Yan sent the Deoxys brothers back to their own spacetime, then welcomed Shaymin and held a gathering at the Pokémon Day Care.
• Fang Yan and the Pokémon made Lilligant’s tea and enjoyed a beach outing while staying alert to reports of pirates approaching Twinleaf Town.
• Fang Yan’s Pokémon defeated the pirates seeking Manaphy’s Egg, while the Officer Jennys captured Team Galactic members and Pokémon Hunters and the group freed controlled Sharpedo.
• Shauna’s Egg hatched into Manaphy, which revealed Shauna’s Heart of the Sea and guided Fang Yan and the others to its underwater palace.
• Fang Yan arranged to investigate unusual Pokémon in Illusion Forest and proposed renting Pokémon to help residents travel.
• Fang Yan accompanied the Muzhis to visit Grandma’s childhood friend, and Grandpa Muzhi gave Grandma a Gracidea flower along the way.