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PTP02

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Pokémon: Path to the Peak
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Regionals
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  PTP02  
第2話
Episode 2
Web release
Japan August 18, 2023
United States August 16, 2023
English themes
Opening None
Ending
Japanese themes
Opening None
Ending None
Credits
Animation TAIKO Studios
Screenplay Benjamin Townsend Benjamin Townsend
Storyboard Ian Mutchler Ian Mutchler
Assistant director Shaofu Zhang Shaofu Zhang
Animation director Qinghui Lü Qinghui Lü
No additional credits are available at this time.

Regionals is the second episode of Pokémon: Path to the Peak. It was first released on the official English Pokémon YouTube channel on August 16, 2023.

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Blurb

With a battle against Celestine looming, Ava rises to the challenge and enters to compete at the Regional Championships.

Plot

Ava falls asleep while building a deck to defeat Celestine, and has a nightmare about her Oddish being attacked by Ghost-type Pokémon, most notably a Mismagius bearing Celestine's face. When she wakes up, Joshua and other members of the school's Pokémon club offer her encouragement outside her house, as the Regional Championships are later that day. Ava's mother tries to tell her something before she goes, but drops the topic, and Ava's father drives Ava and Joshua to the championship venue.

At the venue, Celestine attempts to intimidate Ava on multiple occasions, even defeating Ava's father in a TCG match in front of her. Regardless, Ava maintains her determination.

For her first TCG match at the venue, Ava faces a player named Tonio, who uses a Bidoof. She defeats him and several other players, and eventually reaches Celestine, the reigning regional champion, in the final match.

Celestine wins the first game and Ava wins the second, leaving the third game to decide the match. Ava and Celestine play a close game, with both players eventually having one prize card left, and Celestine's Mismagius ready to finish off Ava's Gloom. Ava uses the card effect of her Spoink to draw a Vileplume card, uses that to evolve her Gloom, and uses Vileplume's attack, which only succeeds if a coin lands on heads. The coin flip is successful, and Ava wins the game and the match, earning the title of regional champion.

Celestine thanks Ava for the thrilling match, and Ava, Celestine, Joshua, and Tonio take a group picture together.

Major events

  • Ava defeats Celestine, and takes the title of regional champion.

Characters

Humans

Pokémon

Appearing on merchandise

Cards featured

Ava's cards:

Joshua's cards:

  • Falinks ex (currently has no real-TCG equivalent)
  • Mismagius ex (currently has no real-TCG equivalent)
  • Darkrai ex (currently has no real-TCG equivalent)
  • Bidoof (Brilliant Stars 120)

Tonio's cards:

Ava's father's cards:

Celestine's cards:

Other players' cards:

TCG mechanics

Some mechanics from the real-life Pokémon Trading Card Game are applied during this episode's matches. This section explains them in-depth, to help give context to certain scenes.

The overall rules of the TCG can be found here: How to Play.

Ava vs Tonio

Ava taps the first attack on her Roselia (Sword & Shield 3), prompting Tonio to turn his Bidoof (Brilliant Stars 120) sideways to the left.

Normally, sideways to the left indicates that the Pokémon is Asleep, and therefore cannot retreat or attack.

However, none of the attacks on Ava's Roselia are capable of inflicting sleep, so this appears to be an error.

Celestine vs Ava's father

Celestine has 1 prize card left, and uses her Trevenant (Fusion Strike 17) to knock out the opposing Pikachu (Paldea Evolved 62), letting her take the prize card for the win.

Ava vs Celestine

In the final match, Celestine attaches Panic Mask (Lost Origin 165) to her Mismagius ex. This protects the Pokémon from taking damage from an opposing Pokémon who has 40 HP or less remaining. Celestine follows up by dealing 70 damage to Ava's Gloom (Lost Origin 2) (80 HP max), leaving it with 10 HP remaining, making Panic Mask effective. This is what the purple binding in the imagination scene represents.

When Ava evolves her Gloom into Vileplume (150 HP max), it now has 80 HP remaining instead, making Panic Mask ineffective, and symbolized by the binds being broken.

Some information is missing, as Ava's Vileplume and Celestine's Mismagius both do not currently exist as real TCG cards. The Mismagius appears to have 260 HP max and 60 damage applied to it, while the Dizzying Pollen move on Ava's Vileplume appears to list 110 power, but with a condition. In order for Vileplume to have defeated the Mismagius, the condition of landing heads for Dizzying Pollen must have raised the move's power to at least 200.

Misc Errors

  • Celestine's Mismagius ex does not have a Misdreavus attached to it, meaning it was played directly instead of evolving. This is illegal - Mismagius ex is not classified as a Basic Pokémon, thus it cannot be played directly like this.

Trivia

  • The sequence of effects that Ava uses to win against Celestine did not exist in the TCG at the time of this episode's release.
  • The banners at the Regional Championships venue have at least one Pokémon representing each generation, with the exception of generations III, V, and IX.
  • Of the four cards that Joshua cites as being "meta", two of them are played during this episode, and the other two are played during the following episode.

In other languages



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