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Battle Frontier Challenge: The Flute Cup!
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激闘のホウエン地方! 挑戦バトルフロンティア!! The Hoenn Region, Site of Fierce Fights! The Battle Frontier Challenge!!
Info Collected in Vol. 1 Chapter number 3
Other Location Battle Frontier Manga series Pokémon Journeys: The Series
Chapters Previous Chapter Being Stalked by a Scorbunny–and Challenging a Snorlax in Dynamax Form?! Next Chapter Flash of the Titans!

Battle Frontier Challenge: The Flute Cup! (Japanese: 激闘のホウエン地方! 挑戦バトルフロンティア!! The Hoenn Region, Site of Fierce Fights! The Battle Frontier Challenge!!) is the third chapter of the Pokémon Journeys: The Series manga. It is based on the anime episode Serving Up the Flute Cup!.

Plot

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Major events

• Ash and Goh visit Hoenn to participate in the Battle Frontier Flute Cup, which Ash wins.
• Goh is revealed to have caught a Caterpie, Butterfree, Weedle, Kakuna, Beedrill, Parasect, Pinsir, and Scyther.
• Ash is revealed to have a Mr. Mime.
• Goh has his first Trainer battle and loses.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Mr. Mime (Ash's; Mimey)
• Caterpie (Goh's)
• Weedle (Goh's)
• Beedrill (Goh's)
• Pinsir (Goh's)
• Scyther (Goh's)
• Parasect (Goh's)
• Mightyena
• Hariyama

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Goh
• Chloe
• Nurse Joy
• Professor Cerise
• Hodge

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Mr. Mime (Ash's; Mimey)
• Scorbunny (Goh's)
• Caterpie (Goh's)
• Butterfree (Goh's)
• Weedle (Goh's)
• Kakuna (Goh's)
• Beedrill (Goh's)
• Pinsir (Goh's)
• Scyther (Goh's)
• Parasect (Goh's)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's)
• Mightyena (Hodge's)
• Hariyama (Hodge's)

Differences between the anime and the manga

• Goh's Caterpie, Butterfree, Weedle, Kakuna, Beedrill, Parasect, Pinsir, and Scyther debut here as the events of Working My Way Back to Mew! were skipped.
• Mimey debuts here, as its appearances in Legend? Go! Friends? Go! were omitted in Legend? Check! Friends? Check!.
• Hibana is omitted.
• Goh doesn't leave to catch a Taillow. As such, he and Ash meet Hodge at the same time. He also doesn't catch three Wurmple.
• Ash doesn't receive a prize for winning the tournament.

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