XY137

Battling with a Clean Slate!

XY137   EP936 はじまりはゼロ！シトロンの決断！！ Starting from Zero! Citron's Decision!!

First broadcast Japan October 6, 2016 United States December 18, 2016* December 24, 2016*

English themes Opening Stand Tall Ending

Japanese themes Opening XY&Z Ending キラキラ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 西田健一 Ken'ichi Nishida Animation directors 上田美由紀 Miyuki Ueda 入江健司 Kenji Irie 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

Battling with a Clean Slate! (Japanese: はじまりはゼロ！シトロンの決断！！ Starting from Zero! Citron's Decision!!) is the 137th episode of the XY series, and the 936th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on October 6, 2016 and in the United States on December 24, 2016.

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

Blurb

The Lumiose Gym has been through a lot, but everyone is working together to get it up and running again. Clembot is back, too, although Clemont hasn’t been able to restore its memories. When someone arrives to challenge the Gym, Clembot experiences its first Pokémon battle all over again—and it loves every minute! It asks Clemont to teach it all about Pokémon, and he’s pleased to start rebuilding their friendship.

The rest of our heroes are making plans, too. Ash wants to go home for a fresh start. Alain returns to work for Professor Sycamore. And Serena remembers Palermo’s offer to take her on as a student...

Plot

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Following the Team Flare incident, Lumiose City is getting back to normal whilst Ash, Serena and Bonnie work to rebuild the Lumiose Gym alongside Meyer. Meanwhile Clemont is busy working on Clembot and gets him working again.

In a cafe, Team Rocket are speaking to Giovanni who has heard of Team Flare's downfall and Team Rocket take a lot of credit for bringing it and they promise to return to Headquarters once the airport reopens but decide to bring back a surprise and decide to capture Pikachu for the boss.

Clemont joins the others but is unable to get back all of the data for Clembot back when a challenger called Alvin arrives to challenge the gym.

Major events

Professor Sycamore's medals

• Clemont rebuilds Clembot and reopens the Lumiose Gym.
• Team Rocket plans to return to the Team Rocket HQ once the Lumiose Airport reopens.
• Ash reveals that he is planning to head back to Pallet Town.
• Clemont's Magneton is revealed to know Rain Dance, Thunder, and Sonic Boom, while his Heliolisk is revealed to know Focus Blast.
• Professor Sycamore gives medals to Ash, his friends, Alain, Mairin, and their Pokémon for their heroic efforts against Team Flare.
• Professor Sycamore requests Alain to become his assistant again.
• Serena considers accepting the offer that Palermo made to her earlier.

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
• Giovanni
• Professor Sycamore
• Alain
• Mairin
• Meyer
• Palermo (flashback)
• Sophie
• Cosette
• Alvin

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Psyduck (US and international)
Pokémon Quiz: Magneton (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Greninja (Ash's)
• Talonflame (Ash's)
• Hawlucha (Ash's)
• Goodra (Ash's)
• Noivern (Ash's)
• Braixen (Serena's)
• Pancham (Serena's)
• Sylveon (Serena's)
• Bunnelby (Clemont's)
• Magnemite (Clemont's)
• Magneton (Clemont's)
• Heliolisk (Clemont's)
• Chespin (Clemont's)
• Luxray (Clemont's)
• Gourgeist (Jessie's)
• Inkay (James's)
• Garchomp (Professor Sycamore's)
• Charizard (Alain's)
• Chespin (Mairin's; Chespie)
• Vivillon (Alvin's; Meadow Pattern)
• Pyroar (Alvin's; female)
• Cubone (Alvin's)
• Machamp (Trainer's)
• Timburr (Trainer's)
• Diggersby (Trainer's)
• Plusle (Trainer's)
• Minun (Trainer's)
• Patrat (Trainer's)
• Watchog (Trainer's)
• Pachirisu (Trainer's)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Core; Squishy; flashback)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Core; Z2; flashback)
• Zigzagoon
• Helioptile
• Psyduck
• Marill
• Azurill (×3)
• Caterpie
• Weedle
• Combee (female)

Other

• Clembot

Trivia

• Poké TV: "Pokémon 24 Hours!" focusing on Professor Sycamore and his Garchomp.
• The English dub was released on iTunes and Amazon Video on December 18, 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 episode was followed by a preview for the Sun & Moon series.
• This episode marks the first time that Alain's Charizard is shown not wearing its Charizardite X, and also the first time outside of flashbacks that Alain is shown not wearing his Mega Ring.
• Mad-Paced Getter is used as an insert song at the end of Alvin's Gym battle.
• Brilliantly is used as the ending for this episode, with this version being sung by Clemont's Japanese voice actor, Yūki Kaji.

Errors

• When Professor Sycamore and Alain arrive at the laboratory, Serena's Braixen's ear tuft is shown to be behind Serena, but when the shot changes, it isn't.
• When Ash commands Greninja to use Water Shuriken, Jessie commands Gourgeist to use Shadow Ball, but she uses Dark Pulse instead.
• When Serena's Braixen uses Flamethrower on Gourgeist, Ash, Ash's Pikachu and Greninja, Alain and Alain's Charizard disappear from standing in front of the rest of the group only to reappear when Pikachu is commanded to use Thunderbolt.
• When Cubone's Bonemerang is about to hit Heliolisk, the upper part of Heliolisk's mouth is colored yellow instead of black.
• In the dub, Alvin commanded Vivillon to use Stun Spore when it was actually Sleep Powder.

Dub edits

In other languages

Language		Title
Danish		I kamp for en ny chance!
Dutch		Vechten met een schone lei!
Finnish		Ottelu puhtaalta pöydältä!
European French		Un débutant à nul autre pareil !
German		Ein unbeschriebenes Blatt!
Italian		Lottare ricominciando da zero!
Norwegian		En kamp med blanke ark!
Swedish		En nystartande strid!

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