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Odd Pokémon Out
ジュプトルVSトロピウス！草原の決闘!! Juptile vs. Tropius! Grassland Duel!!
Broadcast dates
Japan	January 26, 2006
USA	October 28, 2006
Theme songs
Opening	Battle Frontier
Japanese theme songs
Opening	バトルフロンティア
Ending	GLORY DAY 〜輝くその日〜 ③
Credits
Animation	Team Ota
Screenplay	武上純希 Junki Takegami
Storyboard	秦義人 Yoshito Hata
Assistant director	ながはまのりひこ Norihiko Nagahama
Animation directors	志村泉 Izumi Shimura
	玉川明洋 Akihiro Tamagawa
Screenshots on Filb.de

Odd Pokémon Out (Japanese: ジュプトルVSトロピウス！草原の決闘!! Juptile vs. Tropius! Grassland Duel!!) is episode 161 of Advanced Generation. It was first broadcast in Japan on January 26, 2006 and in the United States on October 28, 2006.

While traveling, Ash's Grovyle unexpectedly gets caught up in a battle with a wild Tropius and gets injured in the process. While he's in the Pokémon Center, he sees Nurse Joy's Meganium and falls for her.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Major events 2.1 Debuts 3 Characters 3.1 Humans 3.2 Pokémon 4 Trivia 4.1 Errors 4.2 Dub edits 5 In other languages

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash's Grovyle evolves into a Sceptile.
• Sceptile is unable to use attacks due to the shock of rejection.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• May
• Brock
• Max
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Giovanni (fantasy)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Donphan (Ash's)
• Swellow (Ash's)
• Grovyle (Ash's; evolves)
• Sceptile (Ash's; newly evolved)
• Corphish (Ash's)
• Combusken (May's)
• Munchlax (May's)
• Squirtle (May's)
• Eevee (May's)
• Forretress (Brock's)
• Marshtomp (Brock's)
• Bonsly (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Meganium (Nurse Joy's) (Seiyū: 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura*)
• Tropius (Seiyū: 小西克幸 Katsuyuki Konishi*)
• Nidoran♀
• Nidoran♂
• Nidoking
• Ponyta
• Rapidash
• Rhyhorn
• Girafarig
• Wingull

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• The voice of James's Mime Jr. was provided by Tomoe Hanba (半場友恵) due to its regular actress, Ikue Ohtani, being on maternity leave. Ohtani also provides the voice of Ash's Pikachu, but it is assumed Pikachu's voice was supplied by clips from previous episodes.
• OK! was played during the battle between Ash's Sceptile and Team Rocket.
• Meganium, Grovyle, Sceptile, and Tropius are all in the Monster egg group, meaning that the attractions expressed in this episode are consistent with egg groups.

Errors

• When Grovyle started evolving, at first, his outline was the only thing glowing. Usually when a Pokémon evolves, their whole body lights up at once.

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Duel amoureux
• Italian: Rivali in amore
• Latin American Spanish: La evolución de Grovyle