- (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. After being struck with waves, they were rescued by the Dragonite and takes them to their island.
The boys wake up upon seeing many Dragonite including a Dragonair and ends up at the Dragonite Island. Go became horrified and unlucky upon learning that the Dewgong they had followed took all of his Poke Balls and is unable to catch the Dragonite. The head Dragonite decided to tour Ash and Go to explore the island and to their excitement. They can see many inhabitants of Dragonite living in the island and they soon watch the three Dragonair perform the Dragon's Dance. The Dragonair became unwilling to see the other three perform the move until Scorbunny wears an molted skin coming from a wild Dratini, which leads them to watch a wild Dragonite observes a wild Dratini casts off its skin. While watching both Pikachu and Scorbunny playing with Dragonair, both Ash and Go think about the evolutionary lines of Dratini and it should be Milotic as Ash also questions of how Dragonair evolves into Dragonite by forming arms and legs.
Later, Go soon explains that the Dragonite Island is always covered by storms which is why most people can't get through their island because of the Dragonite's power. They watch the Dragonite fly off the storm clouds and Ash became worried to see Dragonair who is unable to learn Dragon's Dance and it can't fly like the rest of the Dragonite. Ash decided to train Dragonair how to fly and mastering its Dragon's Dance much to Go's shock. Ash let Pikachu uses his Electroweb to serve as a trampoline as Ash made an example despite the risk which makes Dragonair mastering its flight and its Dragon's Dance amd it hugs Ash for his efforts in training it.
Dragonair soon sensed something just happened and Ash decided to assist it but its skin causes him to slip his hands, knowingly that Dragonair's skin is slippery and he let Dragonair to fly to find its friends. Dragonair soon learns that the head Dragonite was captured by the Team Rocket trio who survived the stormy weather and it convinces it to struggle to get out of the cage as Ash and Go confront them by riding a Dewgong.
Jessie soon picks the Poke Ball from their Vending Secret, sends Wailord to attack them both as James explains to them about Wailmer's full evolve form before unleashing its Flop. Ash sends Pikachu to break the cage using Iron Tail to free Dragonite and reunites with Drsgonair. Jessie tells Wailord to use Flop but its move accidentally hit it from one of their boat logs causing it to make a massive waves that sends Ash into the sky and seeing it use its Whirpool. Dragonair attempts to save Ash from falling but its skin slips his hands. Dragonair soon evolves into Dragonite by forming its arms and legs as a desperate measure to rescue Ash and letting the head Dragonite to blasts Team Rocket off with its Hyper Beam. After defeatig the trio, the head Dragonite was proud of Dragonite's efforts and it hugs Ash and decides to join with him which Ash captures it.
They later return to Sakuragi Institute to show their pictures during their stay at the Dragonite Island to Professor Sakuragi and he decided to keep the Dragonite Island a secret as Dragonite excitedly hugs him in pain much to their laughter.
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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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