EP131

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Fighting Flyer with Fire
キキョウジム!おおぞらのたたかい!!
Kikyō Gym! Sky Battle!!
Broadcast dates
Japan January 20, 2000
USA December 16, 2000
Theme songs
Opening Pokémon Johto
Japanese theme songs
Opening OK!
Ending ニャースのパーティ
Credits
Animation Team Ota
Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura
Storyboard 藤本義孝 Yoshitaka Fujimoto
Assistant director 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki
Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura
Additional credits are currently unavailable.

Fighting Flyer with Fire (Japanese: キキョウジム!おおぞらのたたかい!! Kikyō Gym! Sky Battle!) is episode 131 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on January 20, 2000 and in the United States on December 16, 2000, as part of the Pokémon: The Johto Journeys season.

After the Violet City Gym Leader Falkner foils one of Team Rocket's schemes to steal Pikachu, Ash decides to battle him for a Zephyrbadge.

Spoiler warning: Major plot or ending details may follow.

Contents

Synopsis

Major events

Debuts

  • Falkner

Characters

Humans

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Marill (US and international), Pidgeot (Japan)

Trivia

  • This episode's dub title is a reference to the popular saying, "fight fire with fire."

Errors

  • Ash said that his Pidgeot was protecting a flock of fellow Pidgeot, when it was actually protecting a flock of Pidgey and Pidgeotto.

Dub edits

In other languages

  • French: L'air contre le feu
  • Italian: Un incontro importante
  • Latin American Spanish: ¡Combatiendo al volador con fuego!
  • Spanish: Combatiendo al volador con fuego
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