 In role-playing-style battles, the player controls a Pikachu who escapes Ash Ketchum’s abusive circus.Pikachu first fights a drunk Cheren, who brutally abuses his Tepig in a dog fighting-esque manner, and then moves on to other Trainers and characters in order to rescue their Pokémon from their ownership (a Snivy being experimented on by Professor Juniper, an Oshawott skinned alive by Ghetsis, and finally Ash himself).Pikachu recruits these Pokémon to its cause, as well as the sympathetic Nurse Joy.