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 directors 松田芳明 Yoshiaki Matsuda 中矢利子 Toshiko Nakaya 志村泉 Izumi Shimura 松永香苗 Kanae Matsunaga 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.
• It is revealed that Tierno challenged the Anistar Gym and lost.
• Ash and Tierno have a Tag Battle against Serena and Shauna, which is called off.
• Ash has a battle against Tierno, but the result 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's; video)
• Aromatisse (Aria's; 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.
• Shauna seems to be aware of Serena's crush on Ash.
• DreamDream is used as an insert song during the end of the Tag Battle.

Errors

• When Serena is showing Shauna and Ivysaur her Eevee, the insides of Ivysaur's ear is colored dark green rather than black. This error repeats again when Shauna orders it to use Energy Ball.
• When Serena tells Eevee to befriend with Pikachu, Frogadier, Dedenne and Chespin, Chespin's teeth when it opens a mouth are missing.
• In one scene, Dedenne's tooth is missing.
• When Blastoise is dancing with Eevee, its lower jaw is incorrectly colored blue rather than cream.
• When Serena, Panchan, Braixen, and Eevee went upstairs, Pikachu's brown spot on it's tail is missing. This occurred again when Ash is chatting with Tierno.

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  Ivysaur's ear error

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  Chespin without its upper teeth

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  Dedenne's missing its tooth

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  Blastoise's lower jaw error

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