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A Full-Strength Battle Surprise!

XY119   EP918 ライバル対決！サトシVSショータ！！ Rival Showdown! Satoshi VS Shōta!!

First broadcast Japan May 12, 2016 United States August 13, 2016

English themes Opening Stand Tall Ending

Japanese themes Opening XY&Z Ending プニちゃんのうた

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 博多正寿 Masatoshi Hakata Assistant director 大和田淳 Jun Ōwada Animation directors 小山知洋 Tomohiro Koyama 緒方厚 Atsushi Ogata Additional credits

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

A Full-Strength Battle Surprise! (Japanese: ライバル対決！サトシVSショータ！！ Rival Showdown! Satoshi VS Shōta!!) is the 119th episode of the XY series, and the 918th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 12, 2016 and is scheduled to air in the United States on August 13, 2016.

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

Blurb

On the way to Snowbelle City, Ash and friends reunite with Ash’s rival Sawyer, who has won his eighth Gym badge. Eager to show much he’s learned on his own, Sawyer challenges Ash to a surprisingly tough battle! Meanwhile, Team Flare continues its experiments as Squishy tries to contact Z2…

Plot

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Major events

• Ash and his friends meet up with Sawyer again.
• Sawyer is revealed to have earned three more Badges, thus bringing his total to eight and qualifying him for the Kalos League.
• Ash has another battle against Sawyer and loses, suffering his first defeat to the latter.
• Sawyer's Honedge is revealed to have evolved into Doublade.
• Ash's Noivern is revealed to have learned Dragon Claw.
• Sawyer is revealed to have caught a Clawitzer.
• During the battle, Ash attempts to activate Greninja's Ash-Greninja form. However, it fails for the first time.
• Sawyer travels with Ash and his friends as they head towards Snowbelle City.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Clawitzer
• Doublade

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Officer Jenny
• Sawyer
• Diantha (flashback)
• Lysandre
• Xerosic
• Team Flare Admins
• Team Flare Grunts
• Trainer
• Woman executive
• Men

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Doublade (US and international)
Pokémon Quiz: Doublade (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Greninja (Ash's; Ash-Greninja)
• Hawlucha (Ash's)
• Noivern (Ash's)
• Manectric (Officer Jenny's)
• Sceptile (Sawyer's)
• Doublade (Sawyer's)
• Clawitzer (Sawyer's)
• Gardevoir (Diantha's; Mega Gardevoir; flashback)
• Scizor (Trainer's)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Core; Squishy)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Core and Cell; Z2)
• Patrat (×3)
• Spinarak (×2)
• Starly (×3)
• Staravia (×3)
• Vivillon (Meadow Pattern; ×2)
• Pachirisu (×4)
• Sentret
• Skiploom

Trivia

• Poké TV: "Poké Love TV" focusing on Grovyle and Sceptile.
• Bonnie sings Puni-chan's Song in this episode.
• A small portion of XY&Z is used as an insert song when Ash and Greninja attempt to unlock the Ash-Greninja form in battle against Sawyer's Sceptile.
• This is the first episode featuring Team Flare that Team Rocket didn't appear in.
• This is first time Sawyer has won a Pokémon battle onscreen.

Errors

• After Noivern beats Doublade and Sawyer returns it to its Poké Ball, Greninja is not wearing its Battle Pulse Measure Device on its right wrist when it has its arms crossed.
• As Noivern charges up Dragon Claw before attacking Clawitzer, Noivern's bottom jaw is black instead of purple.
  • This happens again before Ash recalls Noivern.
• When Greninja uses Double Team and Sceptile uses Leaf Blade to eliminate the doubles, some of the doubles are missing the star shapes on their legs.
• When Greninja uses its Water Shuriken, the webbing between its fingers disappears for a few frames.

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  The coloring error in Noivern's bottom jaw

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  One of Greninja's doubles missing the star shape on its leg

Dub edits

In other languages

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