XY090

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XY089   EP888 タッグバトルは友情バトル！イーブイ初参戦！！ A Tag Battle is a Friendship Battle! Eievui's First Time in a Fight!!

First broadcast Japan October 1, 2015 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening ゲッタバンバン Ending ガオガオ・オールスター

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 面出明美 Akemi Omode Storyboard 樋口香里 Kaori Higuchi Assistant director 前園文夫 Fumio Maezono Animation director 松田芳明 Yoshiaki Matsuda No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: タッグバトルは友情バトル！イーブイ初参戦！！ A Tag Battle is a Friendship Battle! Eievui's First Time in a Fight!!) is the 89th episode of the XY series, and the 888th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on October 1, 2015.

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

Major events

• Ash and his friends meet up with Tierno and Shauna again.
• Tierno's Wartortle and Shauna's Bulbasaur are revealed to have evolved into Blastoise and Ivysaur respectively.
• Ash and Tierno have a Tag Battle with Serena and Shauna, which is called off.
• Ash and Tierno have a battle against each other and the result of the battle is unknown.

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

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Tierno
• Shauna
• Trevor
• Aria (video)

Pokémon

Pokémon Quiz: Blastoise (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Frogadier (Ash's)
• Bunnelby (Clemont's)
• Chespin (Clemont's)
• Braixen (Serena's)
• Pancham (Serena's)
• Eevee (Serena's)
• Flareon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Leafeon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Umbreon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Glaceon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Espeon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Jolteon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Vaporeon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Sylveon (Serena's; fantasy)
• Blastoise (Tierno's)
• Ivysaur (Shauna's)
• Charmeleon (Trevor's)
• Delphox (Aria; video)
• Aromatisse (Aria; video)
• Lairon

Trivia

File:Title Card XY Serena V2.png

The title card segment focuses on Serena for this episode

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster: Raichu
• Serena narrates the preview of the next episode.
• Serena's Braixen, Pancham and Eevee remain outside of their Poké Balls throughout the episode.
• Jessie, James and Meowth don't appear in this episode.

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