- (Japanese: カイリューの楽園、ハクリューの試練！, Hepburn: The Dragonite Paradise and the Dragonair Trial!) is the 10th episode of Pokémon the Series: Sword & Shield.
Synopsis
Professor Sakuragi has told Ash and Go about a supposed "island where Dragonite live", and the two of them set off to search for it. They head out to sea riding on a Dewgong Go caught on the way, but run into a sudden storm and get swept away by the waves. And when they wake up on the shore of an island, they see a whole lot of Dragonite before them.
Episode Plot
At the Sakuragi Institute, everyone in the lab watches the news about a man being saved by the Pokémon known as Dragonite. Ash wants to meet the Dragonite, but Renji states that not many of them live in the wild as they are the evolved form of Dratini and Dragonair. However, Sakuragi does mention that there is a rumor about an island where only Dragonite live, which Go checks and discovers a report about some sightings that occurred a couple of years ago. Ash and Go decide to head to the Island to investigate.
As the boys arrive at Vermilion port, Go brings a lot of Poké Balls so he can complete Dratini's evolutionary line. However, their boat is unable to take them that far on their mission, so they decide to catch a Dewgong as their ride to the island. However, Team Rocket is following the boys and had heard them talking about the Island of Dragonite and plan to steal some for Giovanni. Go finds a Dewgong and attempts to catch it, but fails many times until he finally succeeds. While on their way to Dragonite Island, Dewgong become infatuated with another Dewgong and proceeds to follow it. As a result, the Dewgong inadvertently leads Ash, Pikachu, and Go into a thunderstorm.
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Debuts
Pokémon
- Go's Dewgong
- Ash's Dragonite
Trivia
- "Who's that Pokémon?:" Dragonite (JP)
- This is the first episode where a Dragonair evolves into a Dragonite.
- This marks the longest time taken for Ash to catch his first Pokémon in a new series, at ten episodes, surpassing the Advanced Generation series and Sun & Moon series, with four episodes.
- This marks the first time Ash has caught a fully evolved Pokémon since he caught Noctowl in Fowl Play!, 941 episodes earlier.
- As such, this also marks the first instance of Ash catching a fully evolved Pokémon outside of the original series.
- It was the second time to see an island inhabited by the evolutionary line of Dratini headed by a Dragonite in this episode. The first is Beach Blank-Out Blastoise where they discovered an island inhabited by the evolutionary line of Squirtle headed by its king Blastoise.
Gallery
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