Over the Top! – Pokémon Horizons Season 2, Episode 34

Plot episodeThe trio beat GeetaArea Zero permit

Over the Top! is the 34th episode of Pokémon Horizons: The Search for Laqua, the second season of the Pokémon anime, and the 1303rd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 1312, Bulbapedia code HZ079). It first aired in Japan on 10 January 2025 and in the United States on 26 September 2025. It falls within the season’s Area Zero stretch (EP79–EP82).

The first episode of Netflix’s Part 4 (HZ079–HZ089), released in the US on Friday 26 September 2025. It had gone on sale in UK digital stores on 5 July 2025, reached Australia’s Stan on 12 July and BBC iPlayer on 17 July 2025, and Cartoon Network Africa showed it on 17 August 2025. The Hebrew dub of this episode was also released before the American English version.

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Synopsis

Back in Paldea, Liko, Roy and Dot must beat Geeta in a three-on-one battle to win permission to enter Area Zero, and they defeat her Glimmora and Glimmet when a final Magical Leaf, powered by Overgrow, brings down the Terastallized Glimmora. The episode opens mid-battle, with Liko explaining how they got there. At the Pokémon League, Rika greets the group with a tense stare before admitting she was teasing and taking them to Geeta, who has heard of the Entei sighting in the Great Crater. The friends recount their search for Lucius’s six Pokémon and their failed hunt in Johto, and ask to enter the crater. Geeta grants access only to Friede because of the dangerous Paradox Pokémon there, but when the trio plead, citing their promise to bring Pagogo to Laqua, she proposes a battle: if the three of them beat her, all four may enter. On the League rooftop, with Penny, Friede, Captain Pikachu and the Elite Four watching, Geeta warns that she never holds back and sends out Glimmora and two Glimmet, Pokémon from the very place they want to go.

The Glimmet raise their Speed with Rock Polish and dodge Stomping Tantrum, so the trio target Glimmora, whose Dazzling Gleam blocks their attacks and blinds them while the Glimmet hit back with Power Gem. Crocalor’s Disarming Voice, which never misses, strikes both Glimmet; Quaxwell’s Liquidation is hurt by Spiky Shield; and Floragato’s Sucker Punch on Glimmora triggers its Toxic Debris Ability, scattering Toxic Spikes that poison all three partners, after which the Glimmet’s Venoshock hits harder. As Liko and Dot falter, Roy reminds them they have never given up and suggests the tactic that beat Kleavor: Quaxwell’s Water Gun provokes a Dazzling Gleam, Floragato dodges the Power Gems and binds both Glimmet in her vines, and Crocalor’s super-effective Stomping Tantrum knocks them out. But both Glimmet use Memento as they faint, sharply lowering Crocalor’s and Quaxwell’s attack. Seeing that Geeta will use any strategy to win, Liko decides to do the same.

During an all-out assault on Glimmora, Floragato surprises everyone by using Sucker Punch on Crocalor, and his next Stomping Tantrum hits Glimmora hard despite his lowered Attack, which Roy and Dot realise was Liko’s plan all along. Geeta then Terastallizes Glimmora into a pure Rock type and the trio Terastallize their partners; Crocalor and Quaxwell try to shield the struggling Floragato from Tera Blast with Flamethrower and Water Gun and are knocked out, and Floragato, hit too, survives as her Overgrow Ability activates. Her final, powerful flurry of Magical Leaf overwhelms Glimmora’s next Tera Blast and knocks it out. Geeta admits defeat and grants them entry, the Elite Four congratulate them, and Penny escorts them to the Zero Gate. Meanwhile, Hamber sends Coral and Sidian by helicopter to spy on the Rising Volt Tacklers in Area Zero, persuading the frustrated Coral to cooperate by praising her aggressiveness and Sidian’s composed judgement, and the two descend into the Great Crater on Glalie and Aerodactyl.

Major Events

• Geeta’s challenge. Liko, Roy and Dot beat Geeta’s Glimmora, Terastallized into a Rock type, and two Glimmet three-on-one for permission to enter Area Zero
• Coral and Sidian are sent to spy
• Memento is used for the first time
• Floragato is the second Pokémon that is not fully evolved, after Ash’s Pikachu, to beat a Champion’s Pokémon

Pokémon making their anime debut

• Glimmora#0970 · HZ079

Trivia

• The English title plays on the same English phrase as the Japanese title, オーバー・ザ・トップ, for the trio’s battle with Geeta, Paldea’s Top Champion.
• The screenplay is by Dai Satō.
• This is a plot episode: it advances the Paldea, Kitakami and Johto storyline.

Changes in the English Dub

• Hamber praises Coral’s “aggressiveness”, where the Japanese praises her bold adaptability

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