BW079

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Caution: Icy Battle Conditions!

BW079   EP736 セッカジム戦！氷のバトルフィールド！！ Sekka Gym Battle! Ice Battlefield!!

First broadcast Japan May 17, 2012 United States TBA

English themes Opening Rival Destinies Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending みてみて☆こっちっち

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 金崎貴臣 Takaomi Kanasaki Assistant director 矢嶋哲生 Tetsuo Yajima Animation director 田島瑞穂 Mizuho Tajima No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf

Caution: Icy Battle Conditions! (Japanese: セッカジム戦！氷のバトルフィールド！！ Sekka Gym Battle! Ice Battlefield!!) is the 79th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 736th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 17, 2012 and is scheduled to air in the United States on September 15, 2012.

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

Synopsis

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Major events

• Ash battles Brycen and wins, earning the Freeze Badge.
• Ash learns that the next Gym is located in Opelucid City and decides to head there.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Cryogonal

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Brycen
• Brycen's disciple

Pokémon

Dare da?

Who's That Pokémon?: Beartic (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Pignite (Ash's)
• Scraggy (Ash's)
• Krokorok (Ash's)
• Beartic (Brycen's)
• Vanillish (Brycen's)
• Cryogonal (Brycen's; debut)
• Emboar (Bianca's; flashback)
• Conkeldurr (Trip's; flashback)

Trivia

• Instead of Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster, a special preview for Best Wishes Season 2 is shown as well as an advertisement for the Meloetta event.
• Look Look☆Here replaces Seven-colored Arch as the ending.
• Cilan narrates the preview for the next episode.
• As of this episode, Ash's entire Unova team has now participated in at least one Gym battle.

Errors

• When Scraggy is celebrating from blocking Vanillish's Icicle Spear, the tip of his head is yellow and not red.

Dub edits

In other languages

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