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Ryuki リュウキ Ryūki
Ryuki's model
No.	186
English voice actor	Jonah Scott[1]
Japanese voice actor	Shūgo Nakamura
Description	This Dragon-type Trainer and singer travels the world and is popular for his passionate and spirited shouting. He has also visited Alola before.

Ryuki (Japanese: リュウキ Ryūki) is a Pokémon Trainer in Pokémon Masters EX, based on the character of the same name in the core series games. He forms a sync pair with Turtonator. This sync pair was first made available on November 4, 2023, and has been able to be raised to 6★ EX since it was first released.

In the games

Ryuki is a rock musician who travels the world with the goal of becoming an overseas sensation. No one bought his music at first, and he had to scrape by with the money he earned from Pokémon battles, but his Pokémon supported him through that time. He is known to have traveled to Johto, Unova, and Alola before coming to Pasio. His singing style is inspired by the cries of dragon Pokémon, and includes lots of passionate shouting. He loves all his Pokémon dearly, having fallen in love with them all at first sight. He's a bit reckless, often rushing headlong into things.

On Pasio, he is aiming for the top. He has met many Dragon-type specialists, and he enjoys talking about dragon Pokémon with them. He learned that Scottie/Bettie is very popular among them, which made him want to become friends with Scottie/Bettie as well. He considers meeting the player his awesomest memory on Pasio, and he wants to write a song about it.

In events

Ryuki first appears in the story event Summer Superstars, where he competes in the Sync Pair Music Festival with Roxie and Lisia. Their team makes it to the finals, where they compete against the team consisting of Steven, Lyra, and the player. Ryuki is impressed by Lyra's Jigglypuff, which performs a rock version of its song inspired by Ryuki's music. Ultimately, Lear declares the player's team to be the winners, while Ryuki's team gets the second-place prize: a statue of Lear sculpted from a rare ore. After seeing Steven marvel over the ore the statue is made of, Ryuki and his teammates decide to give the statue to Steven.

Ryuki also makes a brief appearance in the story event Champion Time, where he runs into Roxie and Piers on the streets of Pasio. After a crowd forms and starts calling for the three of them to have a jam session, Ryuki encourages Piers to give the crowd what they want. Roxie and Piers agree, and the three singers perform a song together.

Ryuki has a major role in the story event Who's the Best Singer?. After he performs a live concert with Roxie and Piers, some of their fans get into an argument about whose music is the best. This gives Ryuki the idea to hold another live concert that's a competition to see who's the best musician. Ryuki, Roxie, and Piers decide they'll each form a band with two other people to make the concert battle more interesting.

Recalling the performance Lyra's Jigglypuff gave during the Sync Pair Music Festival, Ryuki seeks Lyra out and asks her to join his band for the concert. He invites his old teammate Lisia as well, but she's going to be filming for a TV show with Steven and the player that day, so she can't join him. As Ryuki wonders who else to invite, Flint approaches him. He's a big fan of Ryuki's, and he introduces Ryuki to Cynthia and her Kommo-o, who he thinks would compliment Ryuki's passionate shouting well. Cynthia agrees to join Ryuki's team, and the three of them begin practicing for the concert battle.

Later, Ryuki meets up with Roxie and Piers to discuss how things are going with their teams. Ryuki is surprised to learn that Roxie's Toxtricity was a gift from Piers, and Roxie wants to discuss something with the two of them. When the day of the concert battle arrives, Ryuki's team is the first to perform. Jigglypuff and Kommo-o's singing makes Ryuki's shouting more exciting, so the crowd loves it. After the votes are cast, Ryuki, Roxie, and Piers thank everyone for listening and cheering along. Then, they check the results of the votes. It turns out that all teams received an equal number of votes, so they're all winners. Then, Ryuki, Roxie, and Piers do the thing they discussed before: having all three teams perform one last song together.

Pokémon

The first Pokémon Ryuki is shown to own is his Turtonator, which he forms a sync pair with. He fell in love with him at first sight because of the star-shaped pattern on his back, as well as his shell's ability to explode when pressure is applied to it. Ryuki uses this ability to fire up the crowd during his shows. The deep bass of Turtonator's explosions complement Ryuki's singing, and they reverberate through to the heart. Ryuki occasionally finds items after Turtonator lets loose with a blast.

He alludes to having other Pokémon, but nothing is known about them.

Turtonator

Availability

Ryuki is available in the permanent sync pair scout pool. His offering rate was increased in the following sync pair scouts:

• (Debut) Ryuki Spotlight Scout (November 4 to 20, 2023)

Moves

Name	Type	Category	Move gauge	Base Power	Max Power	Accuracy	Target	Description
Draco Meteor	Dragon	Special	3	136	163	90%	An opponent	Lowers the user's Sp. Atk by 2 stat ranks.
Shell Trap	Fire	Special	3 (2 uses)	200	240	100	All opponents	The user takes up a counterattacking posture. Using this move again will cause the user to leave this posture. No other actions can be taken while in this posture. The user will leave this posture if hit by a physical attack move while it is in this counterattacking posture, then attack all opposing sync pairs.
Overheat	Fire	Special	3	136	163	90%	An opponent	Lowers the user's Sp. Atk by 2 stat ranks.
Pour My Soul!	None	Status	0 (2 uses)	—	—	—	Self	Raises the user's Sp. Atk and critical-hit rate by 2 stat ranks. Increases the user's Special Moves ↑ Next effect by 1 rank.
Sync moves
Fiery Spirit Dragon Beam	Dragon	Special	—	200	240	—	An opponent	The more the user's Sp. Atk is raised, the greater the power of this attack. (6★ EX effect: Sync move power will be multiplied by 1.5.) (EX role effect: Sync moves will target all opposing sync pairs.)

Skills

Sync grid

The sync grid for Ryuki and Turtonator is an expanded grid, made available since the pair first released.

Appearances

Story appearances

Ryuki appears in his normal outfit in the following story areas:

Sync pair stories

• A Day with Ryuki

Quotes

Gallery

Trivia

• Ryuki has the longest gap between his debut as an NPC and his release as a playable character of anyone based on a core series character in Pokémon Masters EX at 1192 days. He first appeared as an NPC in the event Summer Superstars on July 31, 2020, and he became playable on November 4, 2023.

Origin

Ryuki's design is based on his appearance in Pokémon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon. Turtonator is a Pokémon that Ryuki uses on all of his teams in the core series games. Turtonator's Dex entry comes from Pokémon Ultra Sun.

In other languages

References

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