Trial on a Golden Scale! – Pokémon Season 24 Episode 32


Season	Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series (Season 24) · Ultra Class battles & the first token arc (JN076–JN083)
Episode	Season 24, episode 32 · English episode 1160 · Japanese episode 1166 · Bulbapedia code JN080
English title	Trial on a Golden Scale!
Japanese title	トライアルミッション！ウルガモス黄金の鱗粉！！ Toraiaru Misshon! Urugamosu Ōgon no Rinpun!! — “Trial Mission! Ulgamoth’s Golden Scales!!”
First aired (Japan)	10 September 2021 · TV Tokyo
First aired (US)	26 May 2022 · Netflix
Screenplay	Shōji Yonemura
Opening / ending (Japan)	Wan, Tsū, Surī (One, Two, Three) – Karaage Sisters · Batsugun Taipu (Supereffective Type), Version 2 – Pokémon Music Club
English opening	Journey to Your Heart – Haven Paschall
Previous episode	Night and Day, You are the Ones! (JN079)
Next episode	Mad About Blue! (JN081)

Plot episodeGoh’s first tokenGolden Volcarona

Trial on a Golden Scale! is the 32nd episode of Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series, the twenty-fourth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 1160th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 1166, Bulbapedia code JN080). It first aired in Japan on 10 September 2021 and in the United States on 26 May 2022. It falls within the season’s Ultra Class battles & the first token stretch (EP76–EP83).

Released on Netflix in the US on Thursday 26 May 2022 with the rest of Part 3; Teletoon had premiered it in Canada on 15 January 2022, followed by POP in the UK on 8 March 2022, e.tv in South Africa on 8 March 2022 and Australian television on 4 May 2022.

Synopsis

Goh takes on his first Project Mew Trial Mission, finding the golden scales of a Volcarona in an abandoned Unova gold mine, and earns his first token after outwitting a Pokémon hunter. On Alola’s Mount Lanakila, Quillon and Danika return the Alolan Ninetales that Goh rescued to its home, and Danika teases Quillon for being curious about the Trainer who caught it. At the Cerise Laboratory, Goh is offered three Trial Missions and chooses to find Volcarona’s golden scales, puzzling because Volcarona’s scales are not normally gold. Recalling the golden chamber in the Colossus Ruins of Unova’s Desert Resort, where Goh once caught Golurk, the boys go there. The excavation leader says sightings stopped when Pokémon hunters arrived, but shows them a mural of Volcarona saving people from the cold when “a mountain’s rage” darkened the sky. Goh guesses that this means a volcano, and the leader points them to a ghost town sealed off after an eruption during a gold rush.

In the abandoned gold mine, Goh catches a Roggenrola after Inteleon weakens it with Snipe Shot, but a swarm of Roggenrola sends the boys fleeing in a runaway minecart that nearly flies off a cliff until Inteleon saves them. Pikachu powers an elevator with Thunderbolt, taking them to a cavern where a man is being attacked by a Ferrothorn; Cinderace defeats it with Pyro Ball and Goh catches it. The man, Nito, claims to be studying the mine’s Pokémon and joins their search. At an old railway station, Ash finds a cluster of Larvesta Eggs, and Nito reveals himself as a hunter: his Galvantula traps the boys in Sticky Web while he loads the Eggs into a wheelbarrow to sell. Two Larvesta and a flame from the tunnel drive him off, burning through the web, and Ash returns the Eggs. But the station is ablaze, and the Water moves of Inteleon, Krabby and Dracovish barely dent it.

As a burning tower topples towards the Eggs, a flame from the tunnel saves them, fired by a Shiny Larvesta, which evolves into a golden Volcarona and absorbs the blaze with Fire Spin. It flies over the boys, scattering golden scales, and Goh collects some in a jar, completing his mission. At the mine entrance, Nito and his henchmen ambush them to steal their Pokémon and capture the Volcarona, but Danika and Quillon arrive with their Urshifu: Danika’s Rapid Strike Style knocks out most of the hunters’ Pokémon with Surging Strikes, while Quillon’s Single Strike Style defeats a Conkeldurr with Wicked Blow. Danika verifies the scales and awards Goh his first Project Mew token. Goh is embarrassed at needing rescue, but Quillon points out that they dealt only with the hunters and that Goh completed the mission alone. Professor Amaranth arrives to hand the hunters to Officer Jenny, and Danika encourages Goh to keep training.

Major Events

Goh’s first Trial Mission. The Alolan Ninetales is returned to Mount Lanakila
In Unova’s Desert Resort, Goh catches a Roggenrola and a Ferrothorn and collects the golden scales of a Shiny Volcarona, newly evolved from a Larvesta — the first Shiny shown evolving
Goh earns his first Project Mew token
Danika’s Rapid Strike Style Urshifu debuts
The last on-screen visit to Unova in Journeys
The last Journeys episode adapted from the manga
Eyecatches replace Who’s That Pokémon?

Captures and evolutions

Roggenrola#0524 · Goh · in an abandoned gold mine
Ferrothorn#0598 · Goh · after Cinderace’s Pyro Ball, in the same mine
Larvesta → Volcarona#0637 · A wild Shiny Larvesta · the first Shiny Pokémon shown evolving