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| A Crowning Achievement
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ヤドキング！おうじゃのしるし！
Yadoking! King's Symbol!
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First broadcast
| Japan
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August 8, 2002
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| United States
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August 23, 2003
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
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Team Ota
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| Screenplay
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武上純希 Junki Takegami
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| Storyboard
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倉井さとし Satoshi Kurai
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| Assistant director
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大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi
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| Animation director
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たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda
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| No additional credits are available at this time.
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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.
Synopsis
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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
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
TV episode debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who's That Pokémon?: Kadabra
Trivia
- This is the last episode to use hand-colored cel animation outside of Japan.
- 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 with "open" eyes for the first time.
Errors
- The Rising Badge still fails to show up in the title sequence.
- When told that no one knew that the King's Rock existed, the group forgot that one was just used to evolve Misty's Poliwhirl twelve episodes before.
- 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.
Dub edits
In other languages
- French: Le couronnement d'un roi
- German. Auf der Suche nach dem Paradies
- Hebrew: סלע המלך sela hamelekh
- Italian: La leggenda
- Portuguese (Brazilian): A Coroação
- Spanish:
- Iberian Spanish: Una hazaña digna de un rey
- Latin American Spanish: ¡Se busca un rey!
