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Pokémon Ranger - Deoxys Crisis! (Japanese: ポケモンレンジャー！デオキシス・クライシス!! Pokémon Ranger! Deoxys Crisis!!) is episode 171 of Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation. It first aired in Japan on April 13, 2006 and in the United States, first as an hour-long special on October 28, 2006.

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash and his friends meet up with their Pokémon Ranger friend Solana.
• They find the Legendary Pokémon Deoxys.
• Ash's Swellow battles the Deoxys.

Debuts

• Deoxys (Speed form)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Solana
• Giovanni (Team Rocket fantasy)
• Pokémon Center employee (female)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Sceptile (Ash's)
• Swellow (Ash's)
• Combusken (May's)
• Marshtomp (Brock's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Plusle (Solana's)
• Deoxys (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi)
• Miltank (Seiyū: 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō)
• Swablu (many)
• Altaria (many) (Seiyū: 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara)
• Nuzleaf
• Seedot
• Azurill
• Zigzagoon
• Pidgeot
• Shroomish

Trivia

• In some areas of Japan, this episode was broadcast in two parts instead of as a one-hour special; the opening changes in AG172 debut in this episode instead. The English dub also originally broadcast as a special.
• This episode is directed by 須藤典彦 Norihiko Sudō, who replaces 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka.
• This episode was aired as a special to coincide with the release of Pokémon Ranger for the Nintendo DS. Sceptile's evolution had only happened in an episode that aired that morning in America.
• This episode marks the third time that a Pokémon speaks through Meowth. The first time was by a giant Tentacruel in Tentacool and Tentacruel and the second was with Haunter and Gastly in A Shipful of Shivers.
• Although most if not all genderless Pokémon are referred to as male in the Latin American dub, the episode calls Deoxys a female Pokémon, with the use of "ella" by all characters.
• Why didn'y Ash or anyone in the group mention that they have seen a Deoxys before?

Errors

May commanded Combusken to use Flamethrower instead of Fire Spin.

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Le Visiteur de l'Espace
• Latin American Spanish: La crisis de Deoxys

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