Pokémon: Advanced Generation · Advanced Challenge arc
AG057 · Going for a Spinda
パッチールがいっぱい！幸せさがして山の彼方に！
Synopsis
What happens.
Fresh off his victory at the Lavaridge Gym, Ash and his friends try to decide where to go next. Brock suggests heading towards Fortree City, but after noticing that the road there leads through a Route 111, he suggests a detour back towards Mauville City.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's AG057 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.
Story arc · AG041-AG092
Advanced Challenge.
May enters Hoenn Contests; Ash continues the gym challenge. Includes the Mirage Island filler and Norman's Petalburg Gym battle (a high point of the era).
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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 Challenge.
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.