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Championing a Research Battle!

XY118   EP917 サトシ対チャンピオン・カルネ！VSメガサーナイト！！ Satoshi VS Champion Carnet! VS Mega Sirnight!!

First broadcast Japan May 5, 2016 United States August 6, 2016

English themes Opening Stand Tall Ending

Japanese themes Opening XY&Z Ending プニちゃんのうた

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 樋口香里 Kaori Higuchi Assistant director 仲野良 Ryō Nakano Animation directors 上杉遵史 Junji Uesugi 千葉茂 Shigeru Chiba 内田裕 Yū Uchida Additional credits

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

Championing a Research Battle! (Japanese: サトシ対チャンピオン・カルネ！VSメガサーナイト！！ Satoshi VS Champion Carnet! VS Mega Sirnight!!) is the 118th episode of the XY series, and the 917th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 5, 2016 and is scheduled to air in the United States on August 6, 2016.

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

• Olympia tells Diantha about the upcoming threat to Kalos.
• Ash and his friends meet up with Diantha again.
• Diantha informs Ash and his friends about various incidents happening all over Kalos, including the island that Team Flare used to experiment on, and about Zygarde.
• Ash's Greninja reaches its final Ash-Greninja form for the first time.
• Ash has a rematch against Diantha, which is interrupted when Ash overexerts himself during the battle and collapses with Greninja.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Olympia
• Diantha
• Alain (flashback)
• Professor Sycamore (flashback)
• Lysandre
• Xerosic
• Mable (flashback)
• Sophie (flashback)
• Cosette (flashback)
• Charlene (flashback)
• Carrie (flashback)
• Aliana (flashback)
• Kathi Lee

Pokémon

Pokémon Quiz: Mega Gardevoir (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Frogadier (Ash's; flashback)
• Greninja (Ash's; Ash-Greninja)
• Meowstic (Olympia's; male)
• Meowstic (Olympia's; female)
• Gardevoir (Diantha's; Mega Gardevoir)
• Charizard (Alain's; Mega Charizard X; flashback)
• Weavile (Mable's; flashback)
• Druddigon (Aliana's; flashback)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Core; Squishy)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Core and 50%; Z2; 50% in flashback)

Trivia

• Poké TV: "Pokémon 24 Hours!" program focusing on Diantha and her Gardevoir.
• Ash's Greninja remains outside of its Poké Ball for the entire episode.
• Music from Kyurem vs. The Sword of Justice is used in this episode.
• An instrumental version of XY&Z is used during Ash's battle against Diantha.
  • There are also a few frames of animation re-used from the theme during the battle.
• An instrumental version of Team Rocket's Team Song is used as an insert song during Team Rocket's motto.
• Sawyer and Ash narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

• While Clemont, Bonnie, and Serena wait for Ash and Greninja to come out of the forest, Bonnie is standing to Clemont's and Serena's right, though when Ash and Greninja come out of the forest, their positions are switched with Clemont and Serena standing to the right of Bonnie.
• As Greninja gets ready to reach its final Ash-Greninja form, the star shape on its leg is cream instead of blue for a split second.
• When Team Rocket laugh as Gardevoir attempts to escape, Jessie is missing her lipstick.
• In the final scene, when Ash is standing with Greninja and Pikachu is on Ash's shoulder, the brown stripes on Pikachu's back are shorter than normal in the first shot, yet appear longer in the next shot.

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  Coloring error on Greninja's leg

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  Jessie without her lipstick

Dub edits

In other languages

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