Tinkatink’s Hammer Wasn’t Made in a Day – Pokémon Horizons Season 2, Episode 25

Plot episodeTinkatink evolves into TinkatuffA Terastallized wild Bombirdier

Tinkatink’s Hammer Wasn’t Made in a Day is the 25th episode of Pokémon Horizons: The Search for Laqua, the second season of the Pokémon anime, and the 1294th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 1303, Bulbapedia code HZ070). It first aired in Japan on 25 October 2024 and in the United States on 27 June 2025. It falls within the season’s Kitakami: Kleavor, Rystal & Pagogo stretch (EP68–EP75).

Released on Netflix in the US on Friday 27 June 2025 with the rest of Part 3. Australia’s 9Go! had shown it between 30 April and 9 May 2025, before BBC iPlayer released it in the UK on 12 May 2025.

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Synopsis

On the way to the Crystal Pool, a prankster Bombirdier keeps stealing the metal plate Dot’s Tinkatink is working on, and Tinkatink evolves into Tinkatuff to defend Quaxwell against two Bombirdier, one of them Terastallized. Liko, Roy, Dot and Friede climb the Infernal Pass to meet Briar while the rest of the crew join a cultural exchange in Mossui Town. Metal tubs crash down behind them, dropped by a laughing Bombirdier, which, Friede explains, loves startling people and Pokémon. Tinkatink tries hammering one of the tubs, drops her hammer and cries until Dot picks it up for her. When the group stops to watch wild Pokémon, Tinkatink finds scrap iron and starts hammering; Liko notices that her hammer has grown, and Dot observes that Tinkatink ignores everything else when she is working, which Liko and Roy compare to Dot’s focus on her streams. Bombirdier’s water balloons fail to break her concentration, but a set of chattering teeth startles her long enough for it to snatch the plate and fly off.

Quaxwell retrieves the plate from Bombirdier’s claws, but the bird returns and drops a Pineco, whose Self-Destruct creates a cloud of smoke that lets it steal the plate again. Tinkatink chases after it and disappears, so the group splits up to search. Lost, Tinkatink asks wild Pokémon for help without success, until she and Dot each follow a clanging sound and find Bombirdier startling a Magcargo with the plate. Tinkatink follows it to a stash of stolen metal objects, and while Bombirdier goes off for a drink, she climbs in to recover her plate just as Dot arrives. Quaxwell’s Water Gun distracts the returning Bombirdier, and Tinkatink settles down to finish her work. In retaliation, Bombirdier drops a metal tub on Quaxwell; when it tries again, Quaxwell’s Water Gun sends the tub flying back, and the furious Bombirdier Terastallizes into a pure Dark type, the first wild Pokémon in the series seen to Terastallize.

Stunned, Dot reaches for her own Tera Orb, but a second Bombirdier swoops in and she drops it; while she searches, Quaxwell fights both birds alone, determined that Tinkatink’s work will not be interrupted. Tinkatink fixes the iron plate to her hammer, but it is now too heavy to lift, and as she drags it towards the battle she topples off a cliff under its weight. When the Terastallized Bombirdier turns on her, she summons the strength to raise the hammer and evolves into Tinkatuff. With Quaxwell blocking attacks, Tinkatuff knocks out one Bombirdier with Brutal Swing and pounds the Terastallized one with a newly learned Play Rough, and both flee. Dot congratulates her partners, finds her Tera Orb nearby and cries happy tears over the finished hammer. When the group reunites, Liko checks Tinkatuff’s Pokédex entry and Friede marvels that wild Pokémon can Terastallize outside Paldea. Still fired up, Tinkatuff starts hammering a hexagonal nut into her hammer, eager to make it even bigger, to Dot’s delight.

Major Events

• Tinkatink evolves into Tinkatuff. At Infernal Pass a prankster Bombirdier keeps stealing the metal Tinkatink is working on
• A Dark-type Bombirdier is the first Terastallized wild Pokémon
• Tinkatink evolves to protect Quaxwell and learns Play Rough

Pokémon making their anime debut

• Bombirdier#0962 · HZ070
• Tinkatuff#0958 · HZ070

Captures and evolutions

• Tinkatink → Tinkatuff#0958 · Dot · protecting Quaxwell from two Bombirdier; learns Play Rough

Trivia

• The English title plays on the proverb “Rome wasn’t built in a day”, which the Japanese title (ローマは一日にして成らず) also echoes.
• The screenplay is by Kimiko Ueno.
• This is a plot episode: it advances the Paldea, Kitakami and Johto storyline.

Changes in the English Dub

• The Tinkatink in the Japanese ending becomes Tinkatuff

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