BW061

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BW061   EP718 地底のジム！戦VSヤーコン！！ Underground Gym Battle! VS Yacon!!

First broadcast Japan January 5, 2012 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending 七色アーチ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 矢嶋哲生 Tetsuo Yajima Assistant director 矢嶋哲生 Tetsuo Yajima Animation director 小山知洋 Tomohiro Koyama No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: 地底のジム戦！VSヤーコン！！ Underground Gym Battle! VS Yacon!!) is the 61st episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 718th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 5, 2012.

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

Major events

• Ash's Roggenrola evolves into Boldore.
• Ash's Boldore learns Rock Blast and Rock Smash.
• Ash battles Clay in his fifth Unova Gym match and wins, earning himself the Quake Badge.
• Ash learns that the next Gym is located in Mistralton City and decides to head there.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Boldore (Ash's)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Nurse Joy
• Clay
• Gym referee
• Clay's underground staff

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Excadrill (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Oshawott (Ash's)
• Snivy (Ash's)
• Roggenrola (Ash's; evolves)
• Boldore (Ash's; newly evolved; debut)
• Excadrill (Clay's)
• Krokorok (Clay's)
• Palpitoad (Clay's)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Golett
• Seven-colored Arch replaces Can You Name All the Pokémon? BW as the ending.
• Who's That Pokémon? returns in the original version and replaces the former eyecatch.
  • This is the first episode to feature Who's That Pokémon in the original version since EP274, over 400 episodes ago, and is the first to be featured outside of the original series.
• Ash and Cilan narrate the next episode preview.
• Ash's idea to clean Oshawott's eyes with a water move is similar to the time when this happened to Squirtle in Pace - The Final Frontier!.

Errors

• When Krokorok attacks Oshawott with Bite, the long black stripe going down its back back disappears.
• When Snivy is first brought out against Palpitoad, they appear to be the exact same size even though later scenes show Palpitoad being considerably larger than Snivy is.
• As Snivy avoids Excadrill's Rapid Spin, her eye lacks sclera and the iris takes over all of her eye.

Dub edits

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