Okay so judging by the summary I'm going to presume ep1 may just be a Liko episode and ep2 just Roy?
This episode already seems too packed for Roy anyway imo. We have Liko being introduced, the setting of the school and her picking Sprigatito and not getting along with it, her interactions with her schoolmates and introducing her friends and probably the Oshawott battle happens here too, her pendant, the mysterious group showing up trying to take the pendant away, Edgy guy vs Liko, liko falling off the building to save Sprigatito (probably causing it to trust her), and then Friede jumping in and saving them and taking them away I imagine is where the episode ends
Like sure you can Have Roy, but I don't see how you can do ANYTHING substantial with him considering the plot at hand
For ep2 you can probably have a Roy focused episode explaining his deal where he meets the other explorers not named Friede, and since they wanna explore the mysteries of the world and he wants to battle legends, he joins them and they meet up with Friede who's taken Liko to the ship for safety, and there Liko and Roy first meet and all. Maybe explore the airship, crew members and Captain Pikachu too as they head off for the start of their journey!
It's funny to me how people think this is the start of Kanto pandering but I'm here celebrating because I think this may mean getting rid of the pandering:
Here's why
Already thrust Captain Pikachu and Charizard the necessary promotions to Friede and not the MCs
Getting Kanto out of the way already as the school Liko attends and won't be there coz she'll be in the airship, giving us an excuse too for her and Roy to meet and giving us a chance to better explore the Paldean schools later. This honestly sounds like them getting rid of the Kanto required quota immediately and heading to fresh territory, of course that would be wrong if it's revealed the airship isn't permanent and Indigo Plateau is the Homebase and all
You never forget your first.
I'm sorry but you using that here in this context made me laugh so hard
At the end of this series how cool would it be for Riko to scale Mt. Silver and find Ash training at the top and have a full battle to end the series.
That edginess is Red, not Ashhh