BW039

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Reunion Battles In Nimbasa!

BW039   EP696 全員集合！ドンバトル！！ Everyone Gathers! Don Battle!!

First broadcast Japan July 7, 2011 United States October 29, 2011

English themes Opening Black and White Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending ポケモン言えるかな？ＢＷ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 矢嶋哲生 Tetsuo Yajima Assistant director 矢嶋哲生 Tetsuo Yajima Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

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Reunion Battles In Nimbasa! (Japanese: 全員集合！ドンバトル！！ Everyone Gathers! Don Battle!) is the 39th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 696th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 7, 2011, and in the United States on October 29, 2011.

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

Synopsis

The episode begins with Team Rocket arriving in Nimbasa City, ready to begin planning their latest scheme... one which is far more ambitious than all their previous ones.

Ash and his friends arrive at what they think is Nimbasa City but is in fact Nimbasa Town, a far smaller suburb of the main city which happens to be where the Battle Club will host the Pokémon tournament. Bianca arrives and with Ash, Cilan, Iris, and Luke in tow proceeds to registration.

They meet Don George, the Dojo Master hosting the tournament and encounter Burgundy, who is also entering the tournament. Stephan is also entering with his Zebstrika, now evolved from Blitzle. Georgia and Trip are also present and will be competing, with a collection of rare feathers to be awarded to the victor. Each contestant is to enter a total of three Pokémon, with one Pokémon to be chosen for each on-on-one battle. The opening draw is announced as Ash is paired with Burgundy, Cilan is paired with Trip and Bianca is paired with Stephan. Georgia is up first, winning her first battle with Beartic against a Joltik.

Ash and Burgundy are up next, Ash sending out Palpitoad with Burgundy sending out a Stoutland. Ash starts off by commanding a Mud Shot from Palpitoad, which scores a hit as does Stoutland’s Tackle and Thunder Fang, the latter being completely ineffective. Burgundy then orders an Ice Fang on Palpitoad while still in Stoutland's mouth, leaving Palpitoad frozen solid. Ash responds with Supersonic, which breaks the ice and frees Palpitoad. Stoutland attacks with a Tackle followed by Fire Fang, which is directly blocked by Palpitoad's Mud Shot. Ash follows this up with a powerful Hydro Pump, scoring a direct hit and causing Stoutland to faint. Ash is declared the winner, while the gang remark how great Ash and Palpitoad worked as a team.

The gang then prepare for their upcoming battles, with Ash and Georgia through to the next round and Trip and Cilan up next.

Major events

• The Team Rocket trio arrives in Nimbasa City.
• Ash and his friends enter the Club Battle, along with Luke, Bianca, Burgundy, Georgia, Stephan, and Trip.
• Stephan's Blitzle is revealed to have evolved into a Zebstrika.
• Georgia defeats Sylvester and advances to the second round.
• Burgundy is revealed to have obtained a Stoutland.
• Ash defeats Burgundy and advances to the second round.
• Trip starts his battle with Cilan.

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

Debuts

• Freddy O'Martian

Pokémon debuts

• Stoutland
• Zebstrika

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Jessie
• James
• Don George
• Trip
• Bianca
• Burgundy
• Stephan
• Georgia
• Luke
• Antonio
• Emmanuel
• Omega
• Dino
• Sylvester
• Scooter
• Jimmy Ray
• Freddy O'Martian
• Don George's pupil
• Trainers
• Audience
• Citizens

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Zebstrika

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Oshawott (Ash's; flashback)
• Palpitoad (Ash's)
• Stoutland (Burgundy's; debut)
• Dewott (Burgundy's; flashback)
• Sawsbuck (Burgundy's; flashback)
• Zebstrika (Stephan's; debut)
• Beartic (Georgia's)
• Zorua (Luke's)
• Golett (Luke's)
• Deerling (Dino's)
• Patrat (Omega's)
• Joltik (Sylvester's)
• Scolipede (Emmanuel's)
• Tranquill (Antonio's)
• Deerling
• Pidove (two)
• Patrat

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Cottonee
• This episode begins the four-part Club Battle arc.
• There is no Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster following this episode. Clips from the fourteenth movie were shown instead.
• This is the final episode to air before the fourteenth movie debuted in theaters in Japan.
• An instrumental version of Best Wishes! is used as background music.

Errors

Luke's eyes

• When Luke begins filming his documentary, his eyes have scleras.

Dub edits

• A remixed instrumental version of Black and White replaces the instrumental Best Wishes! background music.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		全體集合！東•喬治對戰！！
Finnish		Jälleennäkemisiä ja otteluita Nimbasassa!
German		Großes Wiedersehen in Rayono!
Italian		Incontri e scontri a Sciroccopoli!
Polish		Emocje w Nimbasie!
European Spanish		¡Reencuentros y combates en Mayólica!

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