EP260

A Crowning Achievement

EP260   ヤドキング！おうじゃのしるし！ Yadoking! King's Symbol!

First broadcast Japan August 8, 2002 United States August 23, 2003

English themes Opening Believe in Me Ending

Japanese themes Opening Ready Go! Ending ポケッターリ・モンスターリ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 倉井さとし Satoshi Kurai Assistant director 大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi Animation director たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda Additional credits

A Crowning Achievement (Japanese: ヤドキング！おうじゃのしるし！ Yadoking! King's Symbol!) is the 260th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on August 8, 2002 and in the United States on August 23, 2003.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Brock leads Ash and Misty toward a beautiful lake he has read about in his guidebook, but when they arrive at its supposed location, they find nothing but a dried-up stream, surrounded by a number of thirsty Slowpoke. Ash and friends spot a King's Rock, but are stopped from approaching it by a young girl whose name is Alice and her Slowpoke, Arthur. Alice explains that she and her dad are researching legends surrounding the Slowpoke and a supposed Slowking.

Major events

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Slowking

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Alice Telesu
• Professor Telesu

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Kadabra

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Larvitar (Ash's)
• Forretress (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Slowpoke (Alice's, Arthur; evolves)
• Slowking (Alice's, Arthur; newly evolved; debut)
• Slowpoke (many)
• Slowbro (many)
• Shellder (many)

Trivia

• This is the last episode to use hand-colored cel animation.
• This episode is probably based on the legend of The Sword in the Stone, in which many knights tried to draw a magical sword from an anvil, but only one, Arthur, succeeded and became King. Additionally, the Slowpoke that becomes Slowking is named Arthur.
• Brock is shown willingly "opening" his eyes for the first time.

Errors

• Team Rocket blasts off twice, but at the second time, a strip-repeat was evident; in the first blast off Jessie's Arbok and James's Weezing were outside of their Poké Balls, while the second time, despite neither being out, both are there.
• When the group enters the Slowpoke's Paradise, the marks under Larvitar's eyes are gone.
• When the group spots the King's Rock, Ash and Misty seem puzzled as to what it is, but Misty's Poliwhirl evolved into Politoed from Ash's King's Rock in Outrageous Fortunes.
• When the group entered the paradise, Alice had no arms.

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		河馬王，王者的信物
European French		Le couronnement d'un roi
German		Auf der Suche nach dem Paradies
Hebrew		סלע המלך sela hamelekh
Italian		La leggenda
Portuguese	Brazil	A Coroação
	Portugal	A Coroa da Glória
Spanish	Latin America	¡Se busca un rey!
	Spain	Una hazaña digna de un rey

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