JN085

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JN085

JN085   EP1170 ライバル対決！サトシVSサイトウ！！ Rival Showdown! Satoshi VS Saitou!!

First broadcast Japan October 29, 2021 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening １・２・３ Ending バツグンタイプ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 小柴純弥 Junya Koshiba Animation directors 志村泉 Izumi Shimura 新岡浩美 Hiromi Niioka No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: ライバル対決！サトシVSサイトウ！！ Rival Showdown! Satoshi VS Saitou!!) is the 85th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,170th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on October 29, 2021.

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

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• Ash and Goh travel to Galar and meet Bea and Korrina again.
• Bea is revealed to own a Falinks, and her Machamp is revealed to be able to Gigantamax.
• Ash begins his second World Coronation Series rematch against Bea.
• Ash starts to Mega Evolve his Lucario, but it refuses to do so for the time being.

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Gigantamax Machamp (fantasy)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Goh
• Korrina
• Leon
• Bea
• Crowd
• Announcer

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Dragonite (Ash's)
• Gengar (Ash's)
• Riolu (Ash's; flashback)
• Lucario (Ash's)
• Sirfetch'd (Ash's)
• Dracovish (Ash's)
• Grookey (Goh's)
• Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone)
• Lucario (Korrina's; Mega Lucario; Mega Lucario in a flashback)
• Grapploct (Bea's)
• Hawlucha (Bea's)
• Hitmontop (Bea's)
• Pangoro (Bea's)
• Machamp (Bea's; Gigantamax; Gigantamax in a fantasy)
• Falinks (Bea's)
• Rotom (Drone Rotom)

Trivia

Korrina's chocolates

• Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: Hawlucha
• The Dare da? segment is replaced with eyecatches of Ash, Goh, and Pikachu for this episode.
• Despite debuting in The Punchy Pokémon, 1,141 episodes earlier, and having made numerous appearances since then, this is the first time Machamp has received a Pokédex entry in the anime.
• Most of the chocolates Korrina delivers to Ash, Goh, and Bea are based on Generation VI Fairy-type Pokémon. The one in the middle resembles Kalos's Fairy Badge.
• Goh, Ash, Pikachu, and Bea narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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