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| The Ninja Poké-Showdown
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セキチクにんじゃたいけつ！
Sekichiku Ninja Confrontation!
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First broadcast
| Japan
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November 4, 1997
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| United States
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October 20, 1998
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
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Team Ota
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| Screenplay
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大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi
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| Storyboard
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井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani
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| Assistant director
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井硲清高 Kiyotaka Itani
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| Animation director
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志村隆行 Takayuki Shimura
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| Additional credits
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The Ninja Poké-Showdown (Japanese: セキチクにんじゃたいけつ！ Sekichiku Ninja Confrontation!) is the 32nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on November 4, 1997 and in the United States on October 20, 1998.
Synopsis
Ash, Misty and Brock are sitting by a lake with Pikachu, Vulpix and Psyduck. Misty tells Psyduck that drinking cold water will only make its head ache worse. Brock mentions how wonderful Vulpix's hair is thanks to Suzy, causing Misty to get annoyed and ask if Brock wants to trade Vulpix for Psyduck. However, he refuses. As they head off for the gym, a Venonat watches them from the trees. As The trio continue walking, they end up at an odd-looking mansion where they stop to ask directions. They end up at an old house and open the door to find an empty corridor. Misty leans against a wall and falls through it. The others search the wall and eventually open it up to find her. There, they see the same Venonat that was spying on them before. It hops away, so they decide to follow it. It runs around a corner, and when they run after it, ash hits his face on an invisble wall. They turn around to leave, only to hit another wall. Ash then falls out of the side of the house and is hanging on. The others manage to pull him up when Ash is stuck to a wall with throwing stars. Then Aya falls down onto them. She and Ash begin a battle and she sends out Venonat. Ash chooses Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur uses Tackle but Venonat jumps out of the way. Then Bulbasaur uses Leech Seed and Venonat is defeated. Aya returns Venonat and a Voltorb selfdestructs. Koga appears, and explains that they are at the Fuchsia Gym, and that he is the Gym Leader. He says Aya is his sister and that he will battle Ash.
Koga and Ash send out their Pokémon, Pidgeotto and Venonat. They start the battle and Venonat evolves into Venomoth. Pidgeotto is defeated so Ash sends out Charmander. But Team Rocket arrives and send out Arbok and Weezing. Psyduck uses his psychic attacks and blasts Arbok and Weezing away. Koga and Aya both offer to trade for Psyduck but Misty says "I wouldn't trade Psyduck for the world." Ash and Koga continue their battle outside. Ash chooses Charmander and Koga chooses Golbat. Charmander defeats Golbat, and Koga gives Ash a Soul Badge, and the trio go on their way.
Major events
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who’s That Pokémon?: Venonat
Trivia
- This is Maddie Blaustein's first episode as Meowth.
- Brock's eyes open after being hit by Charmander's Flamethrower.
- This episode marks the first time Psyduck jumps out of Misty's Poké Ball when she attempts to summon another Pokémon.
- The book Psyduck Ducks Out is based on this episode.
- This episode is featured on the Volume 13: Psyduck copy of Pokémon All Stars.
- Team Rocket perform Kabuki, a type of Japanese dance-drama when they enter Koga's gym.
Errors
- Ash commands his Bulbasaur to use Whirlwind, though in the games, Bulbasaur cannot legitimately know this move.
- This was most likely a dubbing error, since Whirlwind is known as ふきとばし Blow Away in Japanese. Ash was most likely telling Bulbasaur to simply "blow it away" rather than the actual attack.
- Koga has his Venomoth attack Ash's Pidgeotto with Stun Spore and Sleep Powder, which paralyze it and put it to sleep, respectively. However, no Pokémon can have more than one major status ailment on it at the same time.
- Ash instructs his Pikachu to use "electric attack," which does not exist (although he could have been referring to an Template:Type2 attack in general), while in the Japanese version he instructs it to use ThunderShock.
Dub edits
In other languages
- Dutch: De Pokémon en de ninja
- Finnish: Ninjojen ja Pokémonien välienselvittely
- French: Le ninja Pokémon
- German: Die Arena der Ninjas
- Hebrew: קרב הנינג'ה krav haninja
- Italian: La villa dei ninja
- Mandarin: 浅红道馆的忍者决斗
- Portuguese:
- Brazilian Portuguese: Os Poderes do Poké-Ninja
- European Portuguese: O Confronto do Pokémon Ninja
- Spanish:
- Iberian Spanish: El Pokenfrentamiento ninja
- Latin American Spanish: ¡El duelo Pokémon ninja!
- Swedish: Ninjaherrgården
