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This article is about an episode of the Pokémon anime that has not been dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.

(Japanese: サトシ参戦！ポケモンワールドチャンピオンシップス！！ Satoshi Participates! The Pokémon World Championships!!) is the 18th episode of the new series, and the 1,103rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 22, 2020.

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 registers for the new season of the Pokémon World Championships.
• Go catches a Spearow.
• Ash battles Visquez in his first Pokémon World Championship match and wins.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Rotom (Rotom Drone)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty (silhouette)
• Brock (silhouette)
• Go
• Lt. Surge (silhouette; flashback)
• Giovanni (silhouette)
• Erika (silhouette)
• Koga (silhouette)
• Sabrina (silhouette)
• Blaine (silhouette)
• Professor Sakuragi
• Kikuna
• Renji
• Leon (fantasy)
• Visquez
• Steve
• Tony
• Trainer

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Raichu (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Gengar (Ash's)
• Raboot (Go's)
• Spearow (Go's; new)
• Rotom (Professor Sakuragi's; Rotom Phone; ×2)
• Raichu (Visquez's)
• Electrode (Visquez's)
• Rotom (Visquez's; Rotom Phone)
• Hypno (Trainer's)
• Rotom (Rotom Drone)

Trivia

• Meowth, James, Wobbuffet, and Jessie narrate the preview for the next episode.
  • The title card has a Team Rocket theme instead of the usual one.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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