EP260

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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.

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.

Synopsis

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Major events

Debuts

• Slowking

Characters

Humans

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

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Kadabra

• 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.
• 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.

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 before.
• 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.

Dub edits

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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