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SM036

SM036   EP975 ライチの大試練！一番ハードなポケモン勝負！！ Lychee's Grand Trial! The Hardest Pokémon Match!!

First broadcast Japan August 3, 2017 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening めざせポケモンマスター -20th Anniversary- Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 小柴純弥 Junya Koshiba Animation director 大西雅也 Masaya Ōnishi No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: ライチの大試練！一番ハードなポケモン勝負！！ Lychee's Grand Trial! The Hardest Pokémon Match!!) is the 36th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 975th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on August 3, 2017.

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

Plot

Major events

• Ash and Rowlet perform Bloom Doom for the first time.
• Ash battles Olivia in the Akala Island grand trial and wins, earning a Rockium Z as a reward.
• Olivia informs Ash that his Rockruff will soon evolve.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Professor Kukui
• Olivia

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Probopass (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Rockruff (Ash's)
• Litten (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's; flashback)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Lycanroc (Olivia's; Midday Form)
• Probopass (Olivia's)
• Lycanroc (Gladion's; Midnight Form; flashback)
• Tapu Lele (anime)

Trivia

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

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