XY138

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XY138

XY138   EP937 サトシとラストバトル！セレナの選択！！ The Last Battle with Satoshi! Serena's Choice!!

First broadcast Japan October 13, 2016 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening XY&Z Ending ドリドリ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 高橋知也 Tomoya Takahashi Assistant director 渡辺正彦 Masahiko Watanabe Animation directors 直井由紀 Yuki Naoi 夏目久仁彦 Kunihiko Natsume No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: サトシとラストバトル！セレナの選択！！ The Last Battle with Satoshi! Serena's Choice!!) is the 138th episode of the XY series, and the 937th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on October 13, 2016.

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

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• Ash and Serena have a battle, which Ash eventually calls off.
• Serena declines Palermo's earlier offer outright, having decided to continue traveling in order to increase her skills.
• On Palermo's advice, Serena decides to head to Hoenn to compete in Pokémon Contests.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Sycamore
• Alain
• Mairin
• Sawyer
• Tierno
• Trevor
• Shauna
• Meyer
• Grace
• Palermo

Pokémon

Pokémon Quiz: Braixen (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Greninja (Ash's)
• Talonflame (Ash's)
• Hawlucha (Ash's)
• Noivern (Ash's)
• Braixen (Serena's)
• Pancham (Serena's)
• Sylveon (Serena's)
• Chespin (Clemont's)
• Bunnelby (Clemont's)
• Luxray (Clemont's)
• Gourgeist (Jessie's)
• Inkay (James's)
• Metagross (Steven's; Shiny; Mega Metagross; flashback)
• Ivysaur (Shauna's)
• Flabébé (Shauna's)
• Chespin (Mairin's; Chespie)
• Cubchoo (Trainer's; ×3)
• Teddiursa (Trainer's; ×3)
• Igglybuff (Trainer's; ×3)
• Jigglypuff (Trainer's; ×2)
• Purrloin (Trainers; x4)
• Sableye (Trainer's)
• Patrat (Trainer's; ×2)
• Litwick (Trainer's)
• Scraggy (Trainer's; ×2)
• Ditto (Trainer's)
• Sentret (Trainer's)
• Swirlix (Trainer's)
• Bonsly (Trainer's)
• Umbreon (Trainer's ×2)
• Oddish (Trainer's)
• Helioptile (Trainer's; ×2)
• Spewpa (Trainer's)
• Furfrou (Trainer's; ×3; 2 Natural and 1 Diamond Trim)
• Fletchling (Trainer's)
• Gothorita (Trainer's; ×2)
• Espurr (Trainer's)
• Watchog (Trainer's)
• Sandshrew (Trainer's)
• Hoppip (Trainer's)
• Medicham (Trainer's)
• Gothita (Trainer's)
• Heliolisk (Trainers; ×2)
• Smeargle (Trainer's)
• Emolga (Trainer's)
• Ralts (Trainer's)
• Panpour (Trainer's)
• Kyogre (Primal Kyogre; flashback)
• Groudon (Primal Groudon; flashback)

Trivia

• Poké TV: "Poké Love TV" focusing on Braixen.
• In one scene, when Tierno is infatuated by Serena, Shauna pulls him away from her by the ear, a reference to the way how Misty and Max used to pull Brock away from the beautiful girls he was attracted to.
• As stated by Ash himself, the battlefield he and Serena have their battle on is the same one where Ash had his first battle with Clemont when he first came to Lumiose City.
• This episode was followed by a preview for the Sun & Moon series.
• DreamDream is used as an insert song and as the ending theme for this episode, with this version being sung by Serena's Japanese voice actress, Mayuki Makiguchi.
  • The insert song version uses the first half of the song while the ending version uses the second half.
• Xerosic, Clemont, and Ash narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

• At the beginning of Serena and Shauna's performance when Serena commands Braixen to use Flamethrower, the position of her Pokémon change from being (from left to right) Pancham, Sylveon and Braixen with Serena standing to their right to Braixen, Sylveon and Pancham with Serena standing in between Braixen and Sylveon.
  • This is due to the fact that the clip was reused from an earlier episode.
• When Serena and Shauna walk up to Jessie after she and her Gourgeist make their entrance, Shauna's Flabébé is initially shown to be floating behind Shauna, but when the shot changes, Flabébé is in front of Shauna.
• During Ash and Serena's battle, Braixen began executing its Fire Blast before Serena could finish calling out the attack.

Dub edits

In other languages

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