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A Crackling Raid Battle!

VSサンダー！伝説レイドバトル！！

VS Thunder! A Legendary Raid Battle!!

Info

Shogakukan volume	Chapter 12 in Vol. 2
VIZ Media volume	Chapter 12 in Vol. 2
Series	Pokémon Journeys (manga)

Other

Location

Vermilion City Kanto Power Plant

A Crackling Raid Battle! (Japanese: VSサンダー！伝説レイドバトル！！ VS Thunder! A Legendary Raid Battle!!) is the twelfth chapter of the Pokémon Journeys manga. It is based on the animated series episode by the same name.

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• Goh is revealed to have caught a Flygon.
• Goh's Raboot learns Blaze Kick.
• Goh tries and fails to catch a Zapdos.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Zapdos
• Flygon (Goh's)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Goh
• Chloe
• Professor Cerise

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Raboot (Goh's)
• Flygon (Goh's)
• Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone)
• Zapdos

Differences between the animated series and the manga

• As the events of Making Battles in the Sand! were skipped, Goh's Flygon debuts here.
• Team Rocket's appearance is omitted. As such, Ash and Goh face Zapdos in a Tag Battle instead of a Raid Battle.
• Ash's reason for being unable to continue battling was changed to Pikachu being injured by Zapdos's Thunder.

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