Recaps

Lu Chen settled near Pallet Town, built a farm with his ancient Pokémon, and rescued Ash before discovering a lonely gigantic Dragonite. After defeating Dragonite, Lu Chen told it about its origins and let it leave to continue searching for companions.

• Lu Chen escaped the ultra-ancient battlefield, met Professor Oak near Pallet Town, and declined his offer to become Champion in favor of starting a farm.
• Lu Chen chose a remote plot beside Professor Oak’s laboratory, revived its barren soil with Lapras’s Rain Dance, and built a home after his old cabin collapsed.
• Lu Chen sold an ancient hide, bought supplies and Starf Berry seeds, and demonstrated his Gengar’s strength when Agatha challenged his claim to have come from ancient times.
• Lu Chen recruited Dugtrio to prepare the farm’s soil and welcomed Gabite as its first farmer, then planted Starf Berry seeds that quickly sprouted with life-energy-rich water and Jirachi’s meteorite fragment.
• Lu Chen rescued Ash and the others from Fossil Canyon, captured several fossil Pokémon and a wild Aerodactyl, then released the fossil Pokémon by his farm’s river.
• Lu Chen and Gabite tracked the stolen Starf Berry sapling to a hungry Zorua, who agreed to interpret for Lu Chen in exchange for safety and food.
• After Lapras’s song drew the lonely super-giant Dragonite to the farm, Lu Chen and his Pokémon defeated it when it tried to take Lapras away.
• Lu Chen told Dragonite that it had been created by the Ten Thousand Beasts Empire and might be the last of its kind, then let it leave to search for companions.

Lu Chen uncovered super-ancient ruins, faced the giant Pokémon hidden there, and helped Ash awaken his Aura while the Kanto League drew closer. After earning eight Badges in a day and cultivating Starf Berries, he evolved Gabite into a powerful Garchomp and began a battle with Ash.

• Lu Chen released the wounded Dragonite after taking its reverse scale, joined Professor Oak’s fossil research paper, and later watched Starf Berry saplings flourish as time passed.
• Ash returned with eight Badges, and Lu Chen told him the history of Cameran Palace before confirming Ash’s connection to the ancient Aura Guardian and helping him awaken his Aura.
• Lu Chen accepted Ash’s battle challenge, where Zorua defeated Bulbasaur and Squirtle, while Charizard’s uncontrolled Flamethrower burned the farm’s fence and Gabite defeated Charizard.
• Lu Chen joined Wang Yi’s archaeological team near Viridian City and recognized the excavation as the site of his former home, then caused an earthquake that exposed a larger ruin beneath it.
• The ruin’s artifacts became giant Ancient Gengar and Ancient Alakazam, but Lu Chen’s Gengar defeated them, rescued the archaeological team, and returned the Pokémon to their artifact forms.
• Lu Chen learned that Gary had been severely injured by Mewtwo at the Viridian Gym, while the Pokémon League exposed Team Rocket’s laboratory and Mewtwo’s artificial origins.
• After recognizing Aaron’s Aura techniques, Lu Chen decided to enter the Kanto League and collected all eight Badges in one day.
• Lu Chen harvested Starf Berries and sold some to Brock and Professor Oak, then used Dragonite’s reverse scale and other ingredients to help Gabite evolve into an Elite Four-level Garchomp.
• Lu Chen challenged Ash to battle with Garchomp, agreeing that it would refrain from attacking moves, and Ash sent out Charizard.

Lu Chen entered the Kanto League Conference, where his rare Pokémon and overwhelming strength drew attention from the Elite Four, Aaron, and Ash. After Aaron awakened Lucario Z in the final, Gengar began their battle by evading every attack and vanished at Lu Chen’s command.

• Ash lost to Lu Chen’s Garchomp, awakened his Aura during the battle, and later welcomed his newly hatched Froakie as a partner.
• Lorelei and Bruno investigated Lu Chen’s connection to the super-giant Pokémon, discovered he was raising Fossil Pokémon, and learned he planned to enter the Conference.
• Lu Chen lent Misty Kabuto and Omanyte, then headed to Indigo Plateau, where he met Aaron and sent Zorua to impersonate him in the qualifiers.
• Aaron defeated Gary and challenged Lu Chen over Zorua’s deception, while Lu Chen qualified and began the main tournament.
• Lu Chen defeated Wang Hao with Gouging Fire, whose Sacred Fire helped Blaziken break through to Elite Four level, and the Legendary Beasts arrived seeking Ho-Oh.
• Lorelei asked Lu Chen to help protect Kanto’s Lapras, and he agreed to visit the Seafoam Islands after the Conference to investigate ways to help them adapt.
• Ash defeated Gary but lost to Aaron, while Lu Chen won his matches and advanced to the final against Aaron.
• Aaron used his clan’s rainbow-colored stone to awaken Mega Lucario Z, but Gengar dodged Lucario Z’s attacks before Lu Chen ordered Gengar to finish the match.

Lu Chen revisited the Aura Clan, treated his injured Pokémon, and uncovered the surviving King of Persia beneath the Battle Frontier. The King possessed Ash and challenged Lu Chen, but Aaron’s Aura-charged statue destroyed the King’s soul.

• Garchomp defeated Aaron’s Lucario Z and swept through his remaining Pokémon, making Lu Chen the Kanto League champion.
• Aaron invited Lu Chen and his companions to the Aura Clan’s holy land, where Lu Chen read the First Aura Guardian’s diary and mourned at Aaron’s tomb.
• The clan leader revealed that the Aura Clan also guarded the Tree of Beginning and that its royal branch remained at Cameran Palace.
• Lu Chen met Steven in Hoenn, exchanged Starf Berries for treatment of his injured Pokémon, and demonstrated Garchomp Z’s Mega Evolution by defeating Steven’s Cradily.
• Steven’s medical team healed Aerodactyl, Lapras, and Gengar, and Lu Chen joined Steven and Scott to visit Brandon’s Battle Frontier.
• At an excavation, a black stone sphere awakened and led Lu Chen’s group to the ruins of the Empire of Pokélantis, where they purified sixteen Spiritomb and uncovered the surviving King of Persia.
• The King of Persia possessed Ash and challenged Lu Chen, revealing that Aaron had hunted him for three years and been killed by an assassin.
• Aaron arrived with the goddess statue from Cameran Palace and infused it with Aura, driving the King of Persia from Ash and destroying his soul in the statue’s light.