Dance, Quaxly! The Blue Medali Step! – Pokémon Horizons Season 2, Episode 14

Plot episodeQuaxly evolves into QuaxwellLarry’s test: pass

Dance, Quaxly! The Blue Medali Step! is the 14th episode of Pokémon Horizons: The Search for Laqua, the second season of the Pokémon anime, and the 1283rd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 1292, Bulbapedia code HZ059). It first aired in Japan on 26 July 2024 and in the United States on 25 April 2025. It falls within the season’s The implementation tests stretch (EP58–EP63).

Released on Netflix in the US on Friday 25 April 2025 with the rest of Part 2. BBC iPlayer had premiered it in the UK on 17 February 2025, and Australia’s 9Go! showed it between 17 and 28 March 2025.

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Synopsis

Dot’s Quaxly learns to weave other Pokémon’s movements into its moves and evolves into Quaxwell during her Terastal battle with Larry, and although Larry wins, Dot passes her second test. At the Medali Gym, the receptionist says that Larry is out visiting clients somewhere in town, to the annoyance of Dot, who has already planned her strategy. Quaxly runs off and is found watching a dance by an Oricorio whose Trainer, the dancer Diva, promises to reveal Larry’s whereabouts if Quaxly dances with her first. Quaxly shows off his moves, but Oricorio’s fiery Revelation Dance impresses him even more, and he starts copying its steps while using Low Kick; Diva is so moved that she forgets to give the hint until Roy reminds her. It leads them to the Treasure Eatery, where Larry, who has just finished a meal, greets them; Liko and Roy are surprised that the teacher they saw at Naranja is both a Gym Leader and an Elite Four member. The Cook presses a button that turns the dining room into a battlefield, and Larry explains that Dot must use two Pokémon and will be judged on her use of Terastallization.

Dot leads with Quaxly against Dudunsparce, using Water Gun to blind it before Liquidation, but Glare paralyses Quaxly and Boomburst hits him hard. She switches to Tinkatink, who has never battled and is intimidated until Quaxly pops out of his Poké Ball to encourage her. Tinkatink blocks Glare by covering her eyes with her hammer, dodges Hyper Drill and counters with Brutal Swing, and the two spinning Pokémon clash several times; but as she winds up again, Larry swaps in Staraptor, the attack misses, and Wing Attack knocks Tinkatink out. Back in, Quaxly’s Water Gun and Pound barely bother Staraptor, whose Hurricane blows him back; Quaxly uses the smoke from Air Slash to get behind it, but paralysis freezes him mid-Liquidation and Wing Attack overpowers him. Badly hurt, Quaxly gets up anyway. Frustrated, Dot notices him flapping his wings like Staraptor and remembers how he blended Oricorio’s dance into his moves, and she realises that Quaxly can combine his moves with whatever he has seen.

Quaxly folds Dudunsparce’s deep breath into Boomburst, Oricorio’s steps into Low Kick, Staraptor’s wingbeats into Pound and Tinkatink’s spin into Liquidation, which overpowers Wing Attack and sends Staraptor flying. He then evolves into Quaxwell, and Dot immediately Terastallizes him; a powered-up Liquidation breaks through Air Slash and sends Staraptor crashing down, but before Quaxwell can follow up, his paralysis takes hold. Larry Terastallizes Staraptor into a pure Normal type, and its boosted Facade knocks out the paralysed Quaxwell. Dot is crushed to have come so close, but Larry’s report says that she has passed, citing her use of two Pokémon, her well-timed Terastallization of a newly evolved partner and her skill at combining moves, and he sends a stamp to her Rotom Phone. Roy reads Quaxwell’s Pokédex entry, which says it weaves moves from people and Pokémon into its dances, and Dot vows to catch up with her partner. The celebration turns into a meal of grilled rice balls that the Cook keeps serving, and Larry, unable to split the bill, glumly pays for everything.

Major Events

• Quaxly evolves into Quaxwell. The dancer Diva
• Quaxly learns to weave other Pokémon’s movements into its moves
• Larry’s Dudunsparce and Normal-type Staraptor beat Dot, but she passes her second test
• Tinkatink shows Brutal Swing
• Glare is used for the first time since EP191
• A nod to the games’ Treasure Eatery

Pokémon making their anime debut

• Dudunsparce#0982 · HZ059
• Quaxwell#0913 · HZ059

Captures and evolutions

• Quaxly → Quaxwell#0913 · Dot · in her Tera Training battle with Larry

Trivia

• The screenplay is by Naohiro Fukushima.
• This is a plot episode: it advances the Paldea, Kitakami and Johto storyline.

Changes in the English Dub

• The Japanese ending is Let me battle feat. KANKAN

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