Mabel

This article is about a character featured in the Pokémon anime who has not yet debuted in the English language dub. As such, their information may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.

(Japanese: メープル Maple) is a character of the day who appeared in XY034. She is a Trainer who has an understanding of Mega Evolution. She lives in the Must Mountains in an assemblage of tree houses and mainly spends her time picking and arranging flowers. She moves around in a hovercar so she can pick up the flowers she finds easier.

Korrina was sent to Maple by her grandfather Gurkinn, who had trained under Maple when he was younger. Gurkinn hoped Maple would teach Korrina to understand Mega Evolution better after her Lucario had gone berserk twice after Mega Evolving. When Ash and his friends arrived at the Must Mountains, they were welcomed by Maple's Mawile. Mawile brought them to Maple, who claimed to have heard of them. This indicates Gurkinn had already contacted Maple that his granddaughter would need her help. Without further ado, Maple immediately proposed Korrina to show her her battle prowess. As such, they started a battle, with Korrina's Lucario against Maple's Mawile. They both Mega Evolved, and when Mega Mawile took the upper hand, Mega Lucario went berserk again. Despite this, Mega Mawile was able to end the battle quickly with Fairy Wind. After this, Korrina desperately asked for Maple's help.

Maple took Korrina and the group inside her house, and proposed them to arrange flowers. After they were done, Maple reflected on their arrangements, and also told them they would have to arrange flowers again the day after. Korrina was baffled by this, as she had expected to undergo a special training instead of only arranging flowers. The next day, the group went out into the mountains to pick flowers themselves. Before they went, Maple gave Korrina advice; to look deeply into the mountains, because if she did "something good would happen". The next few days Maple had Korrina and the group repeat the same activity, with Korrina becoming more skeptic of Maple's training methods by the day.

On the last night of the training, as Korrina and her Lucario were looking at the stars and the moon, Maple joined them. She told Korrina there was only one step left before Korrina would be completely able to master Mega Evolution. Korrina concluded Maple would finally teach them how to, to which Maple answered she was already teaching them all along. She explained the secret behind arranging flowers and how it brought Korrina and Lucario together more than ever. Right at that moment, Team Rocket interrupted, stealing Pikachu and Maple's Mawile. Korrina Mega Evolved her Lucario to try to save them, but Mega Lucario went berserk once more. Using Maple's lessons, Korrina stopped Mega Lucario. They were finally able to bond perfectly and broke Mega Lucario's anger. Now completely in sync with Korrina, Mega Lucario saved Pikachu and Mawile, and blasted Team Rocket off with its newly learned Aura Sphere.

The next day, Korrina thanked Maple for her teachings, and Maple gave her one last advice; to continue trying to reach new heights, even though she and Mega Lucario had mastered Mega Evolution now. She then said her farewells to Korrina and the group.

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