SM115

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SM115

SM115   EP1054 破壊の帝王グズマ！ Emperor of Destruction Guzma!

First broadcast Japan March 31, 2019 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening キミの冒険 Ending 心のノート

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 毛利和明 Template:Romanizations/毛利和明 Assistant director 毛利和明 Template:Romanizations/毛利和明 Animation directors 志村泉 Izumi Shimura 大橋藍人 Aito Ōhashi No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: 破壊の帝王グズマ！ Emperor of Destruction Guzma!) is the 115th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 1,054th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 31, 2019.

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 and Pikachu perform Corkscrew Crash for the first time.
• Professor Kukui officially announces the first-ever Alola League, whose winner will become Alola's first-ever Champion.
• Ash, his classmates, and Team Rocket decide to participate in the Alola League.
• Ash and his classmates meet the Team Skull Boss Guzma for the first time.
• Ash has a battle with Guzma, but the battle ends when Guzma's Golisopod activates its Emergency Exit Ability.

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

Debuts

Humans

• Guzma

Pokémon debuts

• Golisopod

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Kukui
• Samson Oak
• Gladion
• Lusamine
• Professor Burnet
• Hala
• Olivia
• Nanu
• Hapu
• Guzma
• Plumeria
• Team Skull Grunts
  • Tupp
  • Rapp
  • Zipp
  • Akitoshi
• Anna
• Newscaster
• Camera operators
• Reporters
• Trainers
• Crowd

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Wobbuffet (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Lycanroc (Ash's; Dusk Form)
• Torracat (Ash's)
• Meltan (Ash's)
• Eevee (Lana's; Sandy)
• Marowak (Kiawe's's; Alola Form)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Mareanie (James's)
• Komala (Samson Oak's)
• Umbreon (Gladion's)
• Golisopod (Guzma's; debut)
• Machop (Trainer's)
• Magnemite (Trainers'; ×2)
• Primeape (Trainer's)
• Pichu (Trainers'; ×2)
• Trubbish (Trainers'; ×2)
• Cubone (Trainer's)
• Cottonee (Trainer's)
• Spearow (Trainer's)
• Rufflet (Trainer's)
• Machamp (Trainer's; flashback)
• Ninetales (Trainer's; Alola Form; flashback)
• Bewear (anime)
• Stufful (anime)
• Shaymin (anime)

Trivia

• Poké Problem: The boss of Team Skull who appears in today's episode is...?
  • Host: Professor Kukui
  • Choices: Rapp, Plumeria, Nanu, Guzma
  • Answer: Guzma
• Wobbuffet's cries from the Dare da? segment merges into its cry in the episode proper, right when Team Rocket is attacked by Guzma.
  • For an unknown reason, Wobbuffet has a white outline around its body during the segment.
• Team Rocket performs their original motto in this episode.
• This is the first time the Team Rocket trio has fought directly against the leader of another villainous team.
• Lusamine, Lillie, Hobbes, and Gladion narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

• While it is watching Professor Kukui's speech at his house, Lycanroc's ears are colored white like its mane.

Dub edits

In other languages

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