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Facing the Needs of the Many!

XY139   EP938 さらばサトシゲッコウガ！クセロシキの逆襲！！ Farewell, Satoshi Gekkouga! Xerosicy's Counterattack!!

First broadcast Japan October 20, 2016 United States January 1, 2017* January 14, 2017*

English themes Opening Stand Tall Ending

Japanese themes Opening XY&Z Ending ニャースのバラード

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 吉村文宏 Fumihiro Yoshimura Assistant director 吉村文宏 Fumihiro Yoshimura Animation director 篠原隆 Takashi Shinohara 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

Facing the Needs of the Many! (Japanese: さらばサトシゲッコウガ！クセロシキの逆襲！！ Farewell, Satoshi Gekkouga! Xerosicy's Counterattack!!) is the 139th episode of the XY series, and the 938th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on October 20, 2016, in Australia on January 1, 2017, in Canada on January 7, 2017 and in the United States on January 14, 2017.

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

Blurb

After returning Goodra to its home, our heroes are suddenly confronted by a giant creeping vine—just like the ones Team Flare unleashed on Lumiose City! The scientist Xerosic is trying to continue Lysandre’s work, and he even turns a mind-control beam on Clemont! But Clemont is too clever for that—a secret invention rescues him, and Xerosic is arrested.

When another vine attacks our heroes, Squishy and Zygarde come to the rescue…with a difficult request. Ash’s Greninja is able to sense the energy feeding the vines, and Squishy needs its help to stop them. With Ash’s encouragement, Greninja agrees, and joins Squishy to help protect the Kalos region!

Plot

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Major events

• Ash's Goodra returns to its home in the wetlands.
• Xerosic returns, intending to create Team Neo Flare, but is defeated and arrested.
• Ash and his friends meet up with Squishy and Z2 again.
• Ash releases Greninja so that it can detect and destroy the reappearing roots with Squishy and Z2.
• Bonnie promises to Squishy that she will go on another adventure with it once she becomes a Trainer.

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
• Officer Jenny
• Alain (flashback)
• Sawyer (flashback)
• Sanpei (flashback)
• Xerosic
• Keanan
• Team Flare Grunts (fantasy)

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Zygarde (Zygarde Complete Forme) (US and international)
Pokémon Quiz: Squishy (Zygarde Core) (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Froakie (Ash's; flashback)
• Frogadier (Ash's; flashback)
• Greninja (Ash's; Ash-Greninja; released)
• Talonflame (Ash's)
• Hawlucha (Ash's)
• Goodra (Ash's; released*)
• Noivern (Ash's)
• Bunnelby (Clemont's; flashback)
• Chespin (Clemont's)
• Luxray (Clemont's; flashback)
• Sceptile (Sawyer's; flashback)
• Malamar (Xerosic's)
• Crobat (Xerosic's)
• Bellsprout (Keanan's)
• Greninja (Sanpei's; flashback)
• Barbaracle (Saizo's; flashback)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Cell, Core, 10%, and Complete Forme; Squishy; Complete Forme in fantasy)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Cell, 10%, 50%, and Complete Forme; Z2; Complete Forme in fantasy)
• Floette (Blue Flower)
• Florges (Blue Flower; anime)
• Beedrill (×2)
• Quagsire (×2)
• Swanna (×2)
• Lotad (×2)
• Yanmega (×2)
• Spewpa (×2; flashback)
• Scatterbug (flashback)
• Sentret (flashback)

Other

• Clembot (flashback)

Trivia

• Poké TV: "Burn! Pokémon Challenge!!" focusing on Ash's Greninja in its Ash-Greninja form.
• The English dub was released on iTunes and Amazon Video on January 1, 2017, thirteen 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!).
  • However, the episode was pulled from iTunes and Amazon on January 11, 2017, although those who had already purchased and downloaded the episode could still view it. It was later released again on iTunes and Amazon on January 15, 2017, the day it was supposed to be released.
• This episode was followed by a preview for the Sun & Moon series.
• Meowth's Ballad is used as the ending theme for this episode.
• In this episode, a piano version of Puni-chan's Song is used when Bonnie sees Squishy again.
• This is the first time a main character has released a regional starter Pokémon.
  • This is also the first time where a main character has released two Pokémon in the same episode.
• Bonnie's promise to reunite with Squishy when she becomes a Trainer is similar to the promise that Max made to Ralts back in Do I Hear a Ralts?.

Errors

• After Greninja accepts Squishy's offer, its eyelids are blue instead of black like they're supposed to be in its Ash-Greninja form.

• 

  Greninja's eyelid error

Dub edits

• The Ash-Greninja theme is replaced by an instrumental version of Stand Tall.

In other languages

Language		Title
Dutch		In het belang van velen!
European French		Un pouvoir au service des autres !
Italian		Per il bene di tanti!

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