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SS012   EP1097 ダイマックスバトル！最強王者ダンデ！！ Daimax Battle! Dande, The Greatest of Them All!!

First broadcast Japan February 9, 2020 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening １・２・３ Ending ポケモンしりとり（ピカチュウ→ミュウVer.）

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf

(Japanese: ダイマックスバトル！最強王者ダンデ！！ Daimax Battle! Dande, The Greatest of Them All!!) is the 12th episode of the new series, and the 1,097th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on February 9, 2020.

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 and Go travel to Galar again.
• Ash and Go see a mysterious Pokémon.
• Team Rocket is revealed to have received a Rotom Phone from Giovanni.
• Leon, the Galar League Champion, is introduced.
• Lance is revealed to have obtained a Dynamax Band.
• Leon defeats Lance in the finals of the Pokémon World Championships, becoming the World Champion.
• Ash decides to challenge Leon.
• Team Rocket try and fail to catch a Drednaw, inadvertently causing it to Gigantamax and start attacking Wyndon Stadium.

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

Debuts

Humans

• Leon
• Dan

Pokémon debuts

• Eternatus
• Gigantamax Charizard
• Drednaw (Gigantamax)

Characters

Humans

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Dare da?

• Ash
• Go
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Sakuragi
• Lance
• Leon
• Kikuna
• Renji
• Dan
• MC
• Copilot
• Crowd

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Charizard (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mr. Mime (Ash's; Mimey)
• Scorbunny (Go's)
• Yamper (Koharu's)
• Gyarados (Lance's; Red Gyarados; Dynamax)
• Charizard (Leon's; Gigantamax)
• Pelipper (Team Rocket's)
• Rotom (Team Rocket's; Rotom Phone)
• Bellsprout (Team Rocket's)
• Aegislash (Dan's)
• Eternatus (debut)
• Drednaw (Gigantamax; debut)

Trivia

Lance's Gyarados sparkling as it exits its Poké Ball

• Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: Gyarados
• This marks the earliest introduction of the current generation's Champion into a new series.
• This episode marks the first appearance of Lance since The Scuffle of Legends, 721 episodes earlier.
• Lance's lines, before and after the battle, are references to his counterpart in the games of Generation IV. He uses the same speech in the battle for the title of Champion with the player in HeartGold and SoulSilver.
• This is the first episode since SS005 that Go doesn't have a party change.
• This is the first time a spakling effect has been used for a Shiny Pokémon exiting their Poké Ball since Working on a Right Move!, 446 episodes earlier.
• The announcer refers to Lance's Red Gyarados as the evolved form of the Golden Magikarp. However, while this is normally true, Lance's Gyarados evolved from a regular Magikarp due to one of Team Rocket's experiments.
• The Gym battle theme from Pokémon Sword and Shield is played during Lance and Leon's battle.
• Team Rocket doesn't blast off or recite their motto in this episode.
• Go, Leon, Ash, Pikachu, and Leon's Gigantamax Charizard narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

• When Team Rocket is exiting the stadium, Meowth is between James and Wobbuffet. However, in the next shot, he is between Jessie and James.

In other languages

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