PS051

Electro Magneton

VSレアコイル

VS. Rarecoil

Info

Series

Pokémon Adventures

Other

Location

Abandoned Power Plant

Electro Magneton (Japanese: VSレアコイル VS. Rarecoil) is the 51st round of the Pokémon Adventures manga and the eleventh round in the Yellow arc.

Plot

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Continuing into Blue's memories, he arrives at the Power Plant with Evan, on advice from his grandfather. They find most of the Power Plant empty, but realize that it is still in use. They start walking through it, when they are attacked by Magnemite and Magneton. Blue sends out his Machamp, but its attack doesn't work. Blue then has Machamp use Focus Energy and uses a finger to defeat the Magneton. Blue then reveals that, when using Focus Energy, you can defeat an opponent by finding its weak spot.

As they continue through the Power Plant, Blue questions Evan on why his Haunter would be drawn to the Power Plant in the first place. All of a sudden, they come across gas, and a weird voice coming from it. Blue brings out his Pokédex to check it, and the voice mentions that he must be a trainer from Pallet Town. It is revealed that she has been waiting for Oak for a long time. They are then attacked by the voice's Gengar. Blue sends out his Golduck and has use Hydro Pump as a wall. The voice commands the Gengar to use Hypnosis, and Blue is caught and starts floating toward the fog. His Pokédex falls out of his pocket on the way. Blue then sees a memory of when he left Pallet Town as a child to train with his master. It is revealed that Gengar is using Dream Eater on Blue. The chapter ends with Blue still asleep and Evan trying to figure out what to do.

Major events

• Flashback
  • Blue meets Agatha.

	Spoilers end here.

Characters

Humans

• Blue (during flashback)
• Evan*/Phil* (during flashback)
• Agatha (during flashback)

Pokémon

• Machamp (Blue's; during flashback)
• Golduck (Blue's; during flashback)
• Magnemite (x3; during flashback)
• Magneton (during flashback)
• Gengar (Agatha's; multiple; during flashback)
• Haunter (Agatha's; multiple; during flashback)

Trivia

• The English title for this round is based on the word "electromagnetic".

In other languages

Language		Title
Finnish		Blue vastaan Magneton
European French		Magnéton* Un lourd secret*

This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.