Pokémon: Advanced Generation · Advanced arc
AG003 · There's No Place Like Hoenn
トウカジム! VSヤルキモノ!
Synopsis
What happens.
Ash and May arrive at Petalburg City, and as the pair sits down in a park, Ash is quick to bring up the Hoenn League. He asks May if she wants to compete in the League, but she is startled and laughs off the idea.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's AG003 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.
Story arc · AG001-AG040
Advanced.
Ash arrives in Hoenn, meets May and Max in Littleroot, picks up Treecko, and starts the Hoenn badge run. Team Magma and Team Aqua replace Team Rocket as primary threats.
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Who appears.
Linked entries open the species page on the Pokédex. Items without a sprite (alternate forms, regional variants, generic group references) fall back to a name pill.
More from this arc
Other episodes in Advanced.
Episode synopsis from Bulbapedia, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5. Editorial context (arc affiliation, cultural moments, character signatures) hand-verified May 2026. Pokémon, character names, and series titles © Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc., The Pokémon Company, OLM Inc. This is an unofficial fan reference.