Recaps

Yushu advanced his research and Pokémon training, won the Winner’s Cup challenge, and helped stop a pirate attack before continuing to Johto. There he encountered Silver and entered Violet City’s Flying Contest, reaching the final with Staraptor.

• Professor Rowan took Yushu on as his apprentice, and Yushu’s Sylveon paper was published under Rowan’s supervision.
• Yushu made high-quality Pokéblocks at the institute, and Torchic evolved into a Shiny Combusken with Speed Boost.
• Yushu earned his intermediate breeder qualification and set out for Johto to find Shuckle and deliver Professor Rowan’s Poké Balls to Professor Elm.
• Yushu won ten consecutive battles in the Winner’s Cup challenge, defeating Norman’s Vigoroth with Miltank to claim the Silver Scale Rod.
• Kid’s pirates attacked Yushu’s ship and tried to capture Wailord, but Yushu and Norman fought them off before Lugia calmed Wailord and rescued the passengers.
• Yushu reached New Bark Town, delivered the Poké Balls to Professor Elm, and confronted Silver after he stole Totodile and Mudkip.
• Mudkip defeated Silver’s Totodile, but Silver escaped with Totodile after releasing smoke, and Yushu continued toward Azalea Town.
• Falkner invited Yushu to the Violet City Flying Contest, where Staraptor defeated Kiko’s Charizard and advanced to the final against Silver, Falkner, and Alun.

Yushu expanded his ranch, helped Bugsy and Kurt stop Team Rocket, and teamed up with Gold to investigate the Ruins of Alph. There, he witnessed Arceus’s creation of the world, received a mysterious blessing mark, and saw Kirlia evolve into Gardevoir.

• Yushu won the Flying Contest with Staraptor, then impressed Falkner and Kiko with his cooking and Pokémon meals.
• Yushu helped the Heracross defeat Pinsir and recruited the tribe, then battled Bugsy to earn Shuckle and arranged trades for more Pokémon and ranching knowledge.
• Yushu and Bugsy visited Kurt, where they discovered Cassidy and Butch stealing Slowpoke and defeated them with help from Miltank and the Slowpoke.
• Kurt made Yushu a set of custom Poké Balls, and Uxie later redirected Yushu toward the Ruins of Alph, where he met Gold and agreed to travel with him.
• Yushu battled Gold and proved his strength before Uxie led them into a cavern filled with Omanyte and Omastar, which Yushu calmed by feeding them Pokéblocks.
• Yushu and Gold solved the temple’s stone puzzle and entered an Arceus shrine, where Unown showed them the creation of the world and the ancient Pokémon.
• The Unown marked Yushu’s right hand with Arceus’s blessing and evolved Kirlia into Gardevoir.

Yushu attended a ranch exchange, expanded Freewill Ranch, and earned his intermediate breeder qualification after defeating Taozhu in a Pokéblock contest. The ranch gained new Pokémon, a larger orchard, and a new trainee, while Mew and Uxie continued sneaking Yushu’s food.

• Yushu and Gold caught 37 Omanyte and 8 Omastar, then sent them to Professor Rowan, who offered some to Professor Oak.
• Yushu bought Miltank, resistance Berry seedlings, and Skiddo at the Goldenrod ranch exchange, then won its Pokémon race with Luxray.
• Taozhu challenged Yushu to a Pokéblock contest, accused him of cheating after losing, and attacked him before Joy Ling awarded Yushu his intermediate breeder certificate.
• Yushu returned to Freewill Ranch, planned four production areas, and oversaw a ten-day expansion before Qingmu chased him for charging construction materials to his account.
• Yushu added Miltank and Skiddo to the ranch, while Luxray organized the herds and Vespiquen defeated the Heracross leader to rule the bug garden.
• Mew persuaded Combusken and Marshtomp to challenge Luxray and Torterra, but both Pokémon pairs were swiftly defeated.
• Yushu and Shuren planted 360 Berry saplings with the Heracross, and Aili brought Yicheng to the ranch, where Yushu hired him on probation.
• Yushu made new Pokéblocks while Mew and Uxie secretly ate them, and Kurokawa and Kaixin visited the expanded ranch and met Aili’s trainee.

Yushu and Cynthia investigated Team Galactic’s search for the Spear Key, but an attack by the Unown pulled them into the Distortion World. After Mew and Giratina clashed, Yushu brokered a truce by offering to find a way to clear the realm’s polluted energy, and Giratina dragged Shaymin through a portal to help.

• Yushu and Cynthia confronted Saturn at Solaceon Ruins, where Yushu Mega Evolved Gardevoir and defeated Toxicroak, forcing Saturn to reveal Team Galactic was seeking the Spear Key.
• An enraged swarm of Unown opened spatial rifts, pulling Yushu, Cynthia, their Pokémon, Uxie, and Mew into the Distortion World.
• Yushu and Cynthia reunited with their Pokémon, learned from Uxie how reflective surfaces could open a way home, and encountered Giratina as they prepared to use a mirror-like stone.
• Mew fought Giratina after Giratina blamed Mew and Uxie for disrupting its cleanup work, and their attacks shattered the surrounding floating islands.
• Uxie strengthened Cynthia’s Pokémon, and Cynthia Mega Evolved Lucario into its Mega Lucario Z form to help restrain Giratina and Mew.
• Yushu called a truce between Giratina and Mew, then offered to solve the pollution problem by finding a Shaymin.
• Giratina used a mirror to locate Shaymin in a flower-filled valley and opened a passage, but the portal’s suction pulled Shaymin into the Distortion World.