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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

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

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.

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's Goodra returns to its home in the wetlands.
• Ash learns that the Lumiose Airport has reopened.
• Xerosic returns, intending to create Neo-Team 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 remainder of the remnants of the Megalith Zygarde 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

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.
• 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.

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  Greninja's eyelid error

Dub edits

In other languages

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