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Odd Pokémon Out! (Japanese: ジュプトルVSトロピウス！草原の決闘!! Juptile vs. Tropius! Grassland Duel!!) is the 161st episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 435th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on January 26, 2006 and in the United States on October 28, 2006.

While traveling, Ash's Grovyle unexpectedly gets caught up in a battle with a wild Tropius and gets injured in the process. While he's in the Pokémon Center, he sees Nurse Joy's Meganium and falls for her.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

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Major events

• Ash's Grovyle evolves into a Sceptile.
• Sceptile is unable to use attacks due to the shock of rejection.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Giovanni (fantasy)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Donphan (Ash's)
• Swellow (Ash's)
• Grovyle (Ash's; evolves)
• Sceptile (Ash's; newly evolved)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Combusken (May's)
• Munchlax (May's)
• Squirtle (May's)
• Eevee (May's)
• Forretress (Brock's)
• Marshtomp (Brock's)
• Bonsly (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Meganium (Nurse Joy's) (Seiyū: 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura*)
• Tropius (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi*)
• Nidoran♀
• Nidoran♂
• Nidoking
• Ponyta
• Rapidash
• Rhyhorn
• Girafarig
• Wingull

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• The voice of James's Mime Jr. was provided by Tomoe Hanba (半場友恵) due to its regular actress, Ikue Ohtani, being on maternity leave. Ohtani also provides the voice of Ash's Pikachu, but it is assumed Pikachu's voice was supplied by clips from the much more abundant amount of previous episodes.
• OK! was played during the battle between Ash's Sceptile and Team Rocket.
• Meganium, Grovyle, Sceptile, and Tropius are all in the Monster Egg Group, meaning that the attractions expressed in this episode are consistent with egg groups. Meganium and Tropius are also in the Plant egg group.

Errors

When Razor Leaf is sent on Team Rocket's balloon, Seviper's body disappears.

Dub edits

• Referring to Sceptile, Ash says "...he won" and "he lost..." which wasn't present in the Japanese version. In fact, Sceptile's gender has yet to be confirmed in the anime.

In other languages

• French: Duel amoureux
• Italian: Rivali in amore
• Latin American Spanish: La evolución de Grovyle

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