History Anime / PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire

** In both Kanto and Johto, Ash caught all three regional starters. Starting with Hoenn, the starters were divided between him and his companions, with the exception of Unova where he did end up catching all three starter Pokémon again.

** Hoenn is the first series to use a secondary female player character as a main cast: May.

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* EvilVersusOblivion: After Archie gets possessed by the Red Orb trying to control Kyogre, Team Magma and the rest of Team Aqua form an EnemyMime to help Groudon prevent Kyogre from sinking the island that they're standing on.

* ''Hoenn League'' (Episodes 1-131)
* ''Kanto Battle Frontier'' (Episodes 132-192)

* ArcVillain: Team Magma and Team Aqua serve as the regional villains for Ash and friends to contend with alongside the inept [[GoldfishPoopGang Team Rocket trio]]. After the Groudon Vs. Kyogre two-parter, composed of "Gaining Groudon" and "The Scuffle of Legends", ends with the two teams realizing the errors of their ways (and presumably reformed if not disbanded), the Team Rocket organization (not the trio) takes their place during the ''Battle Frontier'' arc.

* FranchiseCodifier: The ''Advanced Generation'' series established the primary tone, formula, and trends for most future sagas of the anime. Ash leaves behind his current team at Professor Oak's lab, and travels each new region with a new outfit and friend group, now [[RotatingArcs rotating in and out of focus]] with his companions (particularly the female ones, being the first series to seriously focus on the female lead's goal). It also puts a greater focus on arcs and CharacterDevelopment for both Ash and his companions, over the wacky comedy of the original series.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Archie's possession of the Red Orb, which allows him to control Kyogre, turns him into a full-blown OmnicidalManiac, willingly to sink the island where his own men happens to be on. Only when the orb is knocked out of his body that he regains sanity (albeit with no memory during his time with the Red Orb).

* FullyAbsorbedFinale: The Mirage Kingdom two-parter serves as this to Misty and Togepi's story.
* NoHarmRequirement: In "You Can Never Taillow", Ash and Pikachu find themselves having to square off against the leader of a fierce Taillow flock. However, is a [[TheDeterminator determined]] BloodKnight and keeps battling despite taking numerous powerful Electric attacks from Pikachu. Fearing that he may cause it too much damage, Ash ends up capturing.

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* ButNowIMustGo: Togetic in "A Togepi Mirage."

''Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire'' (ポケットモンスター　アドバンスジェネレーション ''Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation'') is the second ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime series that ran from 2002 to 2006 in Japan and from 2003 to 2007 in America. This region has Ash going through [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Hoenn]] to take part in the Hoenn League, and later, the Battle Frontier. May, a Pokémon Coordinator, Max, her younger brother, and Brock, returning from the previous series, are his companions.

* EstablishingSeriesMoment: May's introduction in the very first scene of "Get the Show on the Road!" not only [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishes the character of May]], but it also firmly cements the anime as the story about Ash and the friends he meets in one region rather than just the PowerTrio of Ash, Misty, and Brock traveling across the world.

* ArcVillain: Team Magma and Team Aqua serve as the regional villains for Ash and friends to contend along with the inept [[GoldfishPoopGang Team Rocket trio]]. After the Groudon Vs. Kyogre two-parter, composed of "Gaining Groudon" and "The Scuffle of Legends", ends with the two teams realizing the errors of their ways (and presumably reformed if not disbanded), the Team Rocket organization (not the trio) takes their place during the ''Battle Frontier'' arc.

** In both Kanto and Johto, Ash caught the three regional starters. Starting with Hoenn, the starters were divided between him and his companions, with the exception of Unova where he did end up catching all three starter Pokémon again.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: At the beginning of the ''Battle Frontier'' arc, Giovanni literally reassigns Jessie, James and Meowth to Antartica, though trio didn't realize what it actually meant.

** Cassidy and Butch, once competent Rocket agents favored by Giovanni, have been reduced to a bumbling pair who also gets blasted off by virtually everyone, and are only slightly better than their rival co-workers.
** Giovanni himself does nothing in the series other than occasionally listening to reports from the Team Rocket trio on a blue moon, causing Meowth's [[ImagineSpot Boss Fantasies]], which depicts [[OutOfCharacter Giovanni as a smiling, muscular figure who uses Pokémon for mundane activities]], to likely be the only impressions new fans watching this series first would get out of him.

* AdaptedOut: There's enough here for the overall anime to have [[AdaptedOut/{{Pokemon}} its own page]], but here are some specific examples for this series:

''Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire'' (ポケットモンスター　アドバンスジェネレーション ''Pocket Monsters: Advanced Generation'') is the second ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime series that ran from 2002 to 2006 in Japan and from 2003 to 2007 in America. This region has Ash going through [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Hoenn]] to take part in the Hoenn League, and later, the Battle Frontier. May, a Pokémon Coordinator, Max, her younger brother, and Brock, returning from the previous series, are his companions.

''Pokemon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire'' (ポケットモンスター　アドバンスジェネレーション ''Pocket Monsters: Advanced Generation'') is the second ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime series that ran from 2002 to 2006 in Japan and from 2003 to 2007 in America. This region has Ash going through [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Hoenn]] to take part in the Hoenn League, and later, the Battle Frontier. May, a Pokemon Coordinator, Max, her younger brother, and Brock, returning from the previous series, are his companions.