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Fighting Flyer with Fire!

EP131   キキョウジム！おおぞらのたたかい!! Kikkyō Gym! Sky Battle!!

First broadcast Japan January 20, 2000 United States December 16, 2000

English themes Opening Pokémon Johto Ending

Japanese themes Opening OK! Ending ニャースのパーティ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 藤本義孝 Yoshitaka Fujimoto Assistant director 鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

Fighting Flyer with Fire! (Japanese: キキョウジム！おおぞらのたたかい!! Kikkyō Gym! Sky Battle!) is episode 131 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on January 20, 2000 and in the United States on December 16, 2000, as part of the Pokémon: The Johto Journeys season.

After the Violet City Gym Leader Falkner foils one of Team Rocket's schemes to steal Pikachu, Ash decides to battle him for a Zephyrbadge.

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash defeats Falkner and earns his first Johto League Gym Badge.

Debuts

• Falkner

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Misty
• Brock
• Falkner, the leader of the Violet City Gym
• The eight underlings who train under Falkner at the Gym

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Pidgeot (Ash's; flashback)
• Charizard (Ash's)
• Heracross (Ash's)
• Chikorita (Ash's)
• Hoothoot (Falkner's)
• Pidgeot (Falkner's)
• Dodrio (Falkner's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Pidgey (flashback)
• Pidgeotto (flashback)
• Spearow
• Fearow

Trivia

Errors

• Ash said that his Pidgeot was protecting a flock of fellow Pidgeot, when it was actually protecting a flock of Pidgey and Pidgeotto.

Dub edits

In other languages

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