SM019

A Guardian Rematch!

SM019   EP958 電撃猛特訓！カプ・コケコの再戦！！ Intense Electrifying Training! Rematch with Kapu-Kokeko!!

First broadcast Japan March 23, 2017 United States July 1, 2017

English themes Opening Under The Alolan Sun Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 飯島正勝 Masakatsu Iijima Assistant director 牧野吉高 Yoshitaka Makino Animation directors 藤本雄一朗 Yūichirō Fujimoto 大橋藍人 Aito Ōhashi 堀内博之 Hiroyuki Horiuchi No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf Dub review thread on BMGf

A Guardian Rematch! (Japanese: 電撃猛特訓！カプ・コケコの再戦！！ Intense Electrifying Training! Rematch with Kapu-Kokeko!!) is the 19th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 958th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 23, 2017 and in the United States on July 1, 2017, as part of a three-hour special.

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Plot

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Ash realizes that he may be facing Tapu Koko in a rematch soon, so Sophocles offers to help out with scientific research for his training.

Major events

• Ash's Rockruff performs Breakneck Blitz for the first time.
• Ash meets Sophocles's family for the first time.
• Ash and Pikachu have a rematch with Tapu Koko, with no clear winner.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Humans

• Sophocles's parents

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Professor Kukui
• Sophocles's parents
• Hiroki
• Students

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Mudbray (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Rockruff (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Komala (Samson Oak's)
• Mudbray (Hiroki's)
• Pichu (Student's)
• Tapu Koko (anime)

Trivia

Sophocles playing a New Nintendo 3DS

• Poké Problem: Who does Ash visit in today's episode?
  • Host: Professor Kukui
  • Choices: Lana, Kiawe, Mallow, Sophocles
  • Answer: Sophocles
• During the Poké Problem extra scene, Sophocles is seen playing a New Nintendo 3DS.
• During the battle between Pikachu and Tapu Koko, music from the XY series is used.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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