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XY089

XY089   EP888 タッグバトルは友情バトル！イーブイ初参戦！！ A Tag Battle is a Friendship Battle! Eievui's First Time in a Fight!!

First broadcast Japan October 1, 2015 United States

English themes Opening 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 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 樋口香里 Kaori Higuchi Assistant director 前園文夫 Fumio Maezono Animation director 松田芳明 Yoshiaki Matsuda No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: タッグバトルは友情バトル！イーブイ初参戦！！ A Tag Battle is a Friendship Battle! Eievui's First Time in a Fight!!) is the 89th episode of the XY series, and the 888th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on October 1, 2015.

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

Plot

Major events

• Ash and his friends meet up with Tierno and Shauna again.
• Tierno's Wartortle and Shauna's Bulbasaur are revealed to have evolved into Blastoise and Ivysaur respectively.
• Ash and Tierno have a Tag Battle against Serena and Shauna, which is called off.
• Ash has a battle against Tierno, but the result is unknown.

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
• Tierno
• Shauna
• Trevor
• Aria (video)

Pokémon

Pokémon Quiz: Blastoise (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Frogadier (Ash's)
• Bunnelby (Clemont's)
• Chespin (Clemont's)
• Braixen (Serena's)
• Pancham (Serena's)
• Eevee (Serena's)
• Flareon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Leafeon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Umbreon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Glaceon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Espeon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Jolteon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Vaporeon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Sylveon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Blastoise (Tierno's)
• Ivysaur (Shauna's)
• Charmeleon (Trevor's)
• Delphox (Aria's; video)
• Aromatisse (Aria's; video)
• Lairon

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster: Raichu
• Serena narrates the preview of the next episode.
• Serena's Braixen, Pancham and Eevee remain outside of their Poké Balls throughout the episode.
• Shauna seems to be aware of Serena's crush on Ash.
• DreamDream is used as an insert song during the end of the Tag Battle.

Errors

• When Serena is showing Shauna and Ivysaur her Eevee, the insides of Ivysaur's ear is colored dark green rather than black. This error repeats again when Shauna orders it to use Energy Ball.
• When Serena tells Eevee to befriend with Pikachu, Frogadier, Dedenne and Chespin, Chespin's teeth when it opens a mouth are missing.
• In one scene, Dedenne's tooth is missing.

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  Ivysaur's ear error

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  Dedenne's missing its tooth

Dub edits

In other languages

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