PTP02

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.
==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 being attacked by Pokémon, most notably a bearing Celestine's face. When she wakes up, 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 , who uses a . 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 . Ava uses the card effect of her to draw a card, uses that to evolve her Gloom, and uses Vileplume's attack, which only succeeds if a 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==
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* Ava
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==Cards featured==
Ava's cards:
* Oddish (SVP Promo 102)
* Gloom (Lost Origin 2)
* Vileplume (currently has no real-TCG equivalent)
* Spoink (currently has no real-TCG equivalent)
* Tropius (unclear which one)
* Roselia (Sword & Shield 3)
* Bounsweet (Chilling Reign 13)
* Steenee (Chilling Reign 14)
* Tsareena (Chilling Reign 15)
* Absol (Team Up 88)
* Grass Energy
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:
* Bidoof (Brilliant Stars 120)
* Fire Energy
Ava's father's cards:
* Snorlax (Lost Origin 143)
* Pikachu (Paldea Evolved 62)
* Lickitung (Lost Origin 138)
* Lightning Energy
Celestine's cards:
* Duskull (Brilliant Stars 60)
* Misdreavus (Paldea Evolved 87)
* Mismagius ex (currently has no real-TCG equivalent)
* Phantump (Fusion Strike 16)
* Trevenant (Fusion Strike 17)
* Panic Mask (Lost Origin 165)
* Grass Energy
* Psychic Energy
Other players' cards:
* Lugia (Vivid Voltage 132)
* Double Colorless Energy (new print)
==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: .
===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 , , and .
* 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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Category:Episodes which aired in the United States before Japan
de:Pokémon: Der Pfad zum Gipfel Folge 2 – Regionalmeisterschaften
es:SC02
fr:AAC02
it:VC02
zh:寶可夢 巔峰之徑 第2集