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Fairy-Type Trickery!

XY074   EP873 クノエジム戦！美しきフェアリーの罠！！ Kunoe Gym Battle! The Beautiful Fairy Trap!!

First broadcast Japan May 28, 2015 United States August 1, 2015

English themes Opening Be a Hero Ending

Japanese themes Opening ゲッタバンバン Ending ガオガオ・オールスター

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 樋口香里 Kaori Higuchi Assistant director 大和田淳 Jun Ōwada Animation directors 篠原隆 Takashi Shinohara 篠原信子 Nobuko Shinohara No additional credits are available at this time.

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

Fairy-Type Trickery! (Japanese: クノエジム戦！美しきフェアリーの罠！！ Kunoe Gym Battle! The Beautiful Fairy Trap!!) is the 74th episode of the XY series, and the 873rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 28, 2015 and in the United States on August 1, 2015.

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

Blurb

Ash is ready to battle for his sixth Kalos Gym badge against Laverre Gym Leader Valerie! She’s a tough opponent who seems to get the most from her Pokémon. Her Spritzee is particularly crafty—can Ash figure out how to get overcome this tough Fairy-type Pokémon and its talented Trainer?

Plot

After witnessing Sawyer's loss against Valerie, Ash and his friends arrive at the Laverre City Gym for Ash to challenge her to a battle as well. Sawyer has come along in order to watch Ash's Gym match. Entering the Gym, the group is greeted by four Furisode Girls, who show them into the main battle area. Sawyer brings out his Treecko just before Valerie arrives in order to help both of them grow stronger by watching Ash.

After Valerie's dramatic entrance, Kirika acts as the referee, stating that each Trainer will use two Pokémon each. Valerie immediately calls out her Sylveon and has a quick conversation with it in Pokémon language, much to the surprise of Ash and the others. Valerie then explains that she wants to be a Pokémon, so she learned how to speak to her Pokémon. After this brief discussion, Ash calls on Fletchinder to battle Valerie's Sylveon. Fletchinder quickly hits its mark with a Steel Wing attack, and Sylveon responds with Disarming Voice. When Fletchinder attempts to use Peck, Sylveon dodges and catches Fletchinder with its feelers, swinging Ash's Pokémon around and hitting it with Fairy Wind at the same time. In order to break free from Sylveon's grasp, Fletchinder uses Flame Charge, making it faster as well as hitting Sylveon. Finally, a collision of Giga Impact and Steel Wing results in Fletchinder's victory in the first round.

Valerie recalls Sylveon and sends out the Spritzee that battled Sawyer's Bagon the day before. Ash realizes that the only move of Spritzee's that he knows of is Dazzling Gleam, so he has no idea what the battle will be like. After another Steel Wing attack from Fletchinder, Valerie orders Spritzee to use Trick Room. Ash responds by ordering Fletchinder to increase its speed by using Flame Charge again. This alarms Clemont, who explains to the others that because of Trick Room, the faster Fletchinder gets, the slower it will move. Despite receiving several direct attacks from Spritzee, Ash orders Fletchinder to keep on using Flame Charge. Suddenly, the Trick Room vanishes, and Ash seizes his chance with Fletchinder's boosted speed, ordering his Pokémon to use Steel wing on Spritzee. However, Spritzee uses Moonblast and knocks Fletchinder out.

Much to everyone's surprise, Ash sends out Hawlucha to battle Spritzee despite its type disadvantage. Hawlucha opens with Karate Chop, but Spritzee dodges and once again uses Trick Room. After Spritzee hits Hawlucha with another Moonblast, Ash comments on Spritzee's strength with Hawlucha. Responding to Valerie's query if he can speak to Pokémon as well, Ash explains that he can sense rather than translate what his Pokémon are saying. Hawlucha then uses X-Scissor, but it misses and hits the wall of Trick Room. Working with Hawlucha's battle style of taking on its opponent's attacks, Ash orders Hawlucha to grab onto Spritzee just as it connects with Gyro Ball. Using the speed from Spritzee's attack, Hawlucha bounces off of the wall and executes a spinning X-Scissor, cutting through Dazzling Gleam and ramming Spritzee with enough force to shatter the Trick Room. Clemont then realizes that X-Scissor was so effective on the Trick Room because it is a Bug-type move and Trick Room is a Psychic-type technique. As Hawlucha and Spritzee continue exchanging attacks, Hawlucha finally defeats its opponent with High Jump Kick.

Following their fierce battle, Valerie congratulates Ash on his win and presents him with the Fairy Badge. Inspired by Ash's battling style, Sawyer begs him to explain how he battles so well, and Ash suggests that the two of them go back and have a battle.

Major events

• Ash's Hawlucha is revealed to know X-Scissor.
• Ash has a Gym battle with Valerie and wins, earning the Fairy Badge.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Sawyer
• Valerie
• Kali
• Katherine
• Blossom
• Linnea
• Furisode Girls

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Mr. Mime (US and international)
Pokémon Quiz: Spritzee (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Fletchinder (Ash's)
• Hawlucha (Ash's)
• Spritzee (Valerie's)
• Sylveon (Valerie's)
• Treecko (Sawyer's)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster: Lapras
• Ash and Sawyer narrate the preview for the next episode.
• This is the first time since The Water Flowers of Cerulean City, 866 episodes ago, where Ash does not use a starter Pokémon in his Gym battle.
• This is the first time since its debut that Hawlucha has used a new move, as well as the first time when it uses a move that is not Fighting type.

Errors

• In one scene, the blue tip on Sylveon's feeler is completely colored pale cream.
• When Valerie orders Spritzee to use Moonblast on Hawlucha while in Trick Room, Spritzee is seen using the move before Valerie could call it out.
• In one scene, the lower jaw of Treecko is incorrectly colored with the same green as its skin.
• When Valerie walks up to Spritzee after losing to Ash, she wasn't holding Spritzee's Poké Ball. When Spritzee looks up at Valerie, a Poké Ball is all of a sudden resting in Valerie's hand.

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  Sylveon's feeler error

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  Treecko's lower jaw error

Dub edits

In other languages

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