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Arriving at Sunflora Lawn, Liko, Roy, and Nemona split up to look for Sunflora. Liko already finds two Sunflora as Brassius watches from afar. Liko heads to a field of grass and thinks she sees another Sunflora on a cliff, but it's just another sculpture. After seeing Sprigatito relaxing in the sun, Liko deduces that Sunflora likes places with lots of sunlight. Using this knowledge, Liko gathers up more Sunflora than Roy and Nemona combined by the time their search is over. Liko is confident that so many smiling Sunflora will cheer Brassius up. Dolliv shows up and shoots Brassius with its oil, blowing his cover. Brassius, seeing no other way around it, brings Liko, Roy, and Nemona back to his house, where he presents the giant black Rayquaza with a tortured Sunflora sculpture he worked on. Brassius has been working on this piece to capture the intensity of the Rayquaza through a Sunflora's eyes, and then his whole world was turned upside down when he saw the real black Rayquaza, which is why he has had a slump and lost interest in Gym battling. Liko feels bad seeing Brassius at such a low point. Just then, Roy, amazed by Brassius's life-sized sculpture of Rayquaza, wants to head to the forest where Brassius saw it.

Seeing Roy's resolve, Brassius proposes a Gym battle with him, sending out his {{p|Sudowoodo}} to face [[Roy's Fuecoco]]. Liko tries to warn Roy about Sudowoodo's type, but Roy, thinking it's a Grass type, has Fuecoco use {{m|Ember}}. However, it does little damage due to Sudowoodo being a {{t|Rock}} type. Brassius commands Sudowoodo to use {{m|Rock Throw}}, which hits Fuecoco hard. Sudowoodo uses Rock Throw again. Fuecoco dodges, charging at Sudowoodo with {{m|Tackle}}. However, Sudowoodo uses {{m|Substitute}}, which outsmarts Fuecoco again and again. Sudowoodo follows up with {{m|Taunt}}, making Fuecoco mad and prompting it to use Ember instead of Tackle as Roy commands. Brassius tells Roy that his focus should be on his own Pokemon instead of finding the real Sudowoodo. In its rage, Fuecoco stomps the ground and cracks it underneath its feet. Fuecoco has learned {{m|Stomping Tantrum}}, which gets rid of another substitute. Fuecoco follows up with the same move, scoring a super-effective hit on the real Sudowoodo. Brassius {{Terastal}}lizes Sudowoodo into a Grass Tera Type, calling this piece "The Lie That Came True". Roy has Fuecoco use Ember, but Sudowoodo avoids it and hits Fuecoco with {{m|Trailblaze}}, [[Fainting|knocking it out]].

==Major events==

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* [[Liko]] and [[Roy]] meet [[Nemona]], a [[Paldea]]n {{pkmn|Champion}}, and [[Artazon]] [[Gym Leader]] [[Brassius]].

* [[Roy's Fuecoco]] learns {{m|Stomping Tantrum}}.

* This marks the earliest introduction of a {{pkmn|Champion}} into a new [[series]].  

* Despite the move having existed since [[Generation III]], this is the [[List of moves by anime debut|first time]] that {{m|Taunt}} has been used in the {{pkmn|anime}}.

* This is the first episode of ''[[Pokémon Horizons: The Series]]'' in which [[Friede]] does not have a speaking role, excluding the post-episode segment.