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Pokémon: Advanced Battle
Season 8
File:Advanced Battle logo.png
Advanced Battle title screen.
Opening Unbeatable
Episodes 52 (1 skipped)
(AG093 - AG145)
Region Hoenn
Series Advanced Generation series
Preceded by Pokémon: Advanced Challenge
Followed by Pokémon: Battle Frontier

Pokémon: Advanced Battle is the eighth season of the Pokémon anime, and the third season of the dub of the Advanced Generation series. It is comprised of episodes 93-145 of the original Advanced Generation series. This season showcases the end of the adventures of Ash, May, Brock and Max in Hoenn, and the beginning of their adventures on Ash's second adventure through Kanto while challenging the Battle Frontier; from Lilycove City to Saffron City.

It originally aired in the United States as part of the 2005-2006 Kids' WB! Saturday morning line-up. The season began with Clamperl Of Wisdom, which originally aired on September 17, 2005, and ended with Pasta La Vista, which originally aired on July 8, 2006.

Jamie Davyous Owens joins the cast this season providing the voice of Officer Jenny from Megan Hollingshead.

It is preceded by Pokémon: Advanced Challenge and followed by Pokémon: Battle Frontier.

See the list of Pokémon: Advanced Battle episodes for a list of episodes aired this season.

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Important events

Logo for the season

Party changes

Additions

The following Pokémon are obtained:

Evolutions

The following Pokémon evolve:

Releases

  • None

Other

Returns

The following Pokémon return to their Trainer:

Gym Battles

Ash defeats the following Gym Leaders:

Pokémon Contests

May wins a Pokémon Contest in each of the following locations:

Battle Facilities

Ash defeats the following Frontier Brains:

United States of America DVD Release

Single Volume Releases

The following single releases contain five episodes each.

Boxed set(s)

Australian DVD Releases

Individual Volumes

  • Pokémon - Advanced Battle 8.1/8.2: The Evolutionary War (AG093-AG100)
  • Pokémon - Advanced Battle 8.3/8.4: Vanity Affair (AG101-AG108)
  • Pokémon - Advanced Battle 8.5/8.6: Showdown At Linoone! (AG109-AG116)
  • Pokémon - Advanced Battle 8.7/8.8: Deceit And Assist (AG117-AG119, AG121-AG131)
  • Pokémon - Advanced Battle 8.9/8.10: The Scheme Team (AG132-AG145)

In other languages


Trivia

  • For reasons unknown, this season was never aired on New Zealand television. However DVDs were made available, which at the time was unusual for recent season in New Zealand. It was also aired on the Australian Cartoon Network, which can be viewed in New Zealand through Sky.
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