EP260

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EP260   ヤドキング！おうじゃのしるし！ Yadoking! King's Symbol!

First broadcast Japan August 8, 2002 United States August 23, 2003

English themes Opening Believe in Me Ending

Japanese themes Opening Ready Go! Ending ポケッターリ・モンスターリ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 倉井さとし Satoshi Kurai Assistant director 大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi Animation director たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda No additional credits are available at this time.

A Crowning Achievement (Japanese: ヤドキング！おうじゃのしるし！ Yadoking! King's Symbol!) is episode 260 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on August 8, 2002 and in the United States on August 23, 2003.

The group visit a lake that has dried up. The only hope for the Slowpoke there is for one to evolve into a Slowking.

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

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Misty
• Jessie
• James
• Alice Telesu
• Professor Telesu

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Larvitar (Ash's)
• Forretress (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Slowpoke (Alice's, nicknamed Arthur; evolves)
• Slowking (Alice's, nicknamed Arthur; newly evolved)
• Slowpoke (many)
• Slowbro (many)
• Shellder (many)

Trivia

• This is the last episode to use hand-colored cel animation.
• Brock's pupils are seen at the beginning of this episode.
• Not only are Slowking rare, but the talking one in The Power of One is even rarer, as the Slowking in this episode can only say its own name.
• The Slowpoke that later evolves into Slowking is nicknamed Arthur, a possible reference to King Arthur.

Errors

• When told that no one knew that the King's Rock existed, the group forget that one was just used to evolve Misty's Poliwhirl 12 episodes previously.
• Team Rocket 'blasts off' 2 times, but at the second time, a strip-repeat was evident; in the first 'blast off' Jessie's Arbok and James' Weezing was out. But in the second time they never did send both out, but they blast off with both Arbok and Weezing still flying off.

In other languages

• French: Le couronnement d'un roi
• Italian: La leggenda
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Se busca un rey!
• Spanish: Una hazaña digna de un rey

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