JN104

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JN104

JN104   EP1189 ハイパークラス！VS四天王ドラセナ！！ Hyper Class! VS Dracaena of The Big Four!!

First broadcast Japan April 1, 2022 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening １・２・３ Ending バツグンタイプ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay Storyboard Assistant director Animation director No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: ハイパークラス！VS四天王ドラセナ！！ Hyper Class! VS Dracaena of The Big Four!!) is the 104th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,189th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 1, 2022 as a one-hour special alongside JN103.

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

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• Ash meets Drasna for the first time and encounters Wikstrom again.
• Ash has a World Coronation Series match against Drasna and wins, bringing his rank to 9.
• Ash and Goh return to Vermilion City.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Main series debuts

• Mega Altaria

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Goh
• Wikstrom
• Drasna
• Crowd

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Sirfetch'd (Ash's)
• Dracovish (Ash's)
• Grookey (Goh's)
• Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone)
• Noivern (Drasna's)
• Altaria (Drasna's; Mega Altaria)
• Rotom (Drone Rotom)

Trivia

• This episode, along with the previous one, marks the 25th anniversary of the anime.
• The Dare da? segment is replaced with eyecatches of Ash, Goh, and Pikachu for this episode.
• This episode marks the first time Ash has an official battle at the site of a Pokémon League Conference from a previous series.
• This episode marks the first time Ash has defeated an Elite Four member.
• Lisia, Chloe, Goh, Ash, and Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

• When Drasna tells her Noivern to use Dragon Pulse one last time against Ash's Dracovish's Dragon Rush, Noivern was already executing the move before Drasna could finish calling out the attack.

In other languages

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