| A Crowning Achievement
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ヤドキング！おうじゃのしるし！
Yadoking! King's Symbol!
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First broadcast
| Japan
| August 8, 2002
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| United States
| August 23, 2003
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| English themes
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| Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
| Team Ota
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| Screenplay
| 武上純希 Junki Takegami
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| Storyboard
| 倉井さとし Satoshi Kurai
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| Assistant director
| 大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi
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| Animation director
| たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda
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| No additional credits are available at this time.
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A Crowning Achievement (Japanese: ヤドキング！おうじゃのしるし！ Yadoking! King's Symbol!) is the 260th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on August 8, 2002 and in the United States on August 23, 2003.
Synopsis
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Brock leads
Ash and
Misty toward a beautiful lake he has read about in his guidebook, but when they arrive at its supposed location, they find nothing but a dried-up stream, surrounded by a number of thirsty
Slowpoke. Ash and friends spot a
King's Rock, but are stopped from approaching it by a young girl whose name is
Alice and her Slowpoke, Arthur. Alice explains that she and her dad are researching legends surrounding the
Slowpoke and a supposed
Slowking.
Major events
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the timeline of events.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who's That Pokémon?: Kadabra
Trivia
- This is the last episode to use hand-colored cel animation outside of Japan.
- This episode is probably based on the legend of The Sword in the Stone, in which many knights tried to draw a magical sword from an anvil, but only one, Arthur, succeeded and became King. Additionally, the Slowpoke that becomes Slowking is named Arthur.
- Brock is shown willingly "opening" his eyes for the first time.
Errors
- Team Rocket blasts off twice, but at the second time, a strip-repeat was evident; in the first blast off Jessie's Arbok and James's Weezing were outside of their Poké Balls, while the second time, despite neither being out, both are there.
- When the group enters the Slowpoke's Paradise, the marks under Larvitar's eyes are gone.
Dub edits
In other languages
- French: Le couronnement d'un roi
- German. Auf der Suche nach dem Paradies
- Hebrew: סלע המלך sela hamelekh
- Italian: La leggenda
- Portuguese (Brazilian): A Coroação
- Spanish:
- Iberian Spanish: Una hazaña digna de un rey
- Latin American Spanish: ¡Se busca un rey!
