XY135

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Rocking Kalos Defenses!

XY135

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進撃する巨石！カロス防衛線！！
The Advancing Megalith! The Kalos Line of Defense!!

First broadcast

Japan	September 15, 2016
United States	December 4, 2016* December 10, 2016*

English themes

Opening	Stand Tall
Ending

Japanese themes

Opening	XY&Z
Ending	ニャースのバラード

Credits

No additional credits are available at this time.
Animation	Team Kato
Screenplay	冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka
Storyboard	樋口香里 Kaori Higuchi
Assistant director	仲野良 Ryō Nakano
Animation directors	緒方厚 Atsushi Ogata
Animation directors	小山知洋 Tomohiro Koyama

Rocking Kalos Defenses! (Japanese: 進撃する巨石！カロス防衛線！！ The Advancing Megalith! The Kalos Line of Defense!!) is the 135th episode of the XY series, and the 934th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on September 15, 2016 as a one-hour special alongside XY136 and in the United States on December 10, 2016.

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

Blurb

Team Flare appears to be defeated for now—Clemont has destroyed their control system at great personal cost, and Alain and Ash have battled Lysandre to a standstill. But as the villain disappears, he promises that his new world will come to pass...

Meanwhile, Mairin and Serena rescue Chespie—only to watch in horror as it’s absorbed by the mysterious Giant Rock, which changes shape to resemble Zygarde! It begins to move, heading toward the Anistar Sundial in search of more energy. Everyone is determined to stop it at all costs—including the Gym Leaders and Champion Diantha, as they join our heroes to rescue Chespie and save the world!

Plot

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Ash orders Noivern to use Boomburst whilst Pikachu uses Thunderbolt which Gyarados blocked with Hyper Beam before knocking Noivern out with Iron Tail. Ash recalls Noivern whilst Alain orders Charizard to use Dragon Claw whilst Noivern attacks with High Jump Kick but misses and gets knocked out.

Major events

Ash and Alain defeat Lysandre.
Team Rocket defeats and subdues Celosia and Mable.
The Giant Rock inside Lysandre Labs absorbs Chespie and takes the form of a Zygarde 50% Forme.
The Giant Rock destroys Lysandre Labs and heads towards the Anistar City Sundial, threatening to cause an explosion that would destroy the world.
Bonnie persuades Z2 to trust her.
Ash meets up with Steven again.
Ash and his friends, along with Alain, Mairin, Professor Sycamore, Blaziken Mask, Steven, Malva, and Team Rocket, follow the Giant Rock.
Diantha and all the Gym Leaders of Kalos arrive to join the battle against the Giant Rock.

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Weavile (US and international)
Pokémon Quiz: Mairin's Chespie (Japan)

Pikachu (Ash's)
Meowth (Team Rocket)
Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
Dedenne (Clemont's)
Greninja (Ash's; Ash-Greninja)
Braixen (Serena's)
Pancham (Serena's)
Sylveon (Serena's)
Bunnelby (Clemont's)
Chespin (Clemont's)
Luxray (Clemont's)
Wigglytuff (Nurse Joy's)
Garchomp (Professor Sycamore's; Mega Garchomp)
Charizard (Alain's; Mega Charizard X)
Chespin (Mairin's; Chespie)
Ivysaur (Shauna's)
Charizard (Trevor's)
Blastoise (Tierno's)
Sceptile (Sawyer's)
Vivillon (Viola's; Meadow Pattern)
Tyrunt (Grant's)
Lucario (Korrina's; Mega Lucario)
Gogoat (Ramos's)
Spritzee (Valerie's)
Meowstic (Olympia's; female)
Meowstic (Olympia's; male)
Abomasnow (Wulfric's)
Houndoom (Malva's; Mega Houndoom)
Metagross (Steven's; Shiny; Mega Metagross)
Gardevoir (Diantha's)
Blaziken (Blaziken Mask's; Mega Blaziken)
Gyarados (Lysandre's; Shiny; Mega Gyarados)
Drapion (Celosia's)
Weavile (Mable's)
Poliwag (Trainer's)
Helioptile (Trainer's)
Zygarde (Zygarde Core; Squishy)
Zygarde (Zygarde Core; Z2)

Other

Trivia

File:Title Card XY Ash V2.png

The title card segment focuses on Ash for this episode

Poké TV:"Pokémon 24 Hours!" featuring the Gym Leaders of Kalos region.
The English dub was released on iTunes and Amazon Video on December 4, 2016, six days before the episode aired in the United States. The same occurred for all episodes in Volume 4 of Pokémon the Series: XYZ that aired after an all-day marathon of Teen Titans Go! on November 26, 2016, and before January 11, 2017, when the error was fixed (The Right Hero for the Right Job! through Till We Compete Again!).
This is the first time Ash has defeated the leader of a villainous team in battle.
This episode marks the first time that all eight Gym Leaders from a region appear at the same time.
A piano version of Puni-chan's Song is used as an insert song when Squishy speaks to Z2 about humans.
A remix of XY&Z is used as an insert song during the group's fight against the Giant Rock.
A full version of V (Volt) is used as an insert song when all Gym Leaders appear.

Errors

The bottom half of Greninja is cut off before the group looks over the edge of Prism Tower after Lysandre falls off.
In the Swedish dub, when Bonnie approaches Z2 her English voice can be heard.

Dub edits

During the scene where the Gym Leaders and Diantha arrive, the original version displays each character's name and title on screen in Japanese text as they each say their own line. These texts were removed in the dub.
XY&Z is replaced with an instrumental version of Stand Tall.

In other languages

Language		Title
Danish		Et stenhårdt forsvar af Kalos!
Dutch		Steengoede verdediging van Kalos!
Finnish		Kalosin viimeiset puolustajat!
European French		Défendre Kalos à tout prix !
German		Gemeinsam stark!
Italian		Una difesa granitica!
Norwegian		Kalos til forsvar!
Polish		Niepewna obrona Kalos!
Portuguese	Brazil	Abalando as defesas de Kalos!
Portuguese	Portugal	Abalar as defesas de Kalos!
Russian		Все на защиту Калос!
Spanish	Latin America	¡Sacudiendo las defensas de Kalos!
Spanish	Spain	¡Movilizando las defensas de Kalos!
Swedish		Kalos försvar skakas om!
Thai		หินยักษ์บุกจู่โจม! ศึกป้องกันคาลอส!!
Turkish		Kalos'un müthiş savunması!