Ryan is a protagonist in the "Ryan's platinum adventure"whose debut appearance was in Barry's Busting Out All Over!. He was shown to have a very calm personality, much like . Ryan admires Paul and his PKMN Dawn knew Barry back when they both lived in Twinleaf Town, however, Barry doesn't remember her. He only recognizes Ash, Brock, and Dawn due to the fact that they participated in the Hearthome City Tag Battle Competition|Sinnoh Double Battle Tournament with Paul. He then challenged Ash to a battle to prove his training methods wrong, but Ash came out the victor. held in Tatsunami Town.