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JN025   EP1110 命爆発バトルフェス！VSメガルカリオ！！ A Battle Festival Exploding With Life! VS Mega Lucario!!

First broadcast Japan June 21, 2020 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening １・２・３ Ending ポケモンしりとり（ミュウ→ザマゼンタVer.）

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 尼野浩正 Hiromasa Amano Assistant director 村田尚樹 Naoki Murata Animation directors 岡昭彦 Akihiko Oka 高橋優 Yū Takahashi 蒼依ふたば Futaba Aoi No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: 命爆発バトルフェス！VSメガルカリオ！！ A Battle Festival Exploding With Life! VS Mega Lucario!!) is the 25th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,110th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired on June 21, 2020. It was originally scheduled to air in Japan on May 10, 2020, but was delayed to due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Major events

• Ash and Goh visit Kalos, with Goh visiting the region for the first time.
• Ash meets up with Korrina and Gurkinn again, while Goh meets them for the first time.
• Goh catches a Binacle, Scatterbug, Phantump, Fletchling and four Flabébé.
• Ash's Dragonite is revealed to have learned Hyper Beam.
• Ash has a rematch with Korrina in a World Coronation Series battle and wins, bringing his rank to 921 and rising him to the Super Rank.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Goh
• Korrina
• Gurkinn
• Trainers
• Crowd

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Binacle

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Dragonite (Ash's)
• Gengar (Ash's)
• Riolu (Ash's)
• Raboot (Goh's)
• Binacle (Goh's; new)
• Flabebe (Goh's Blue Flower; new)
• Scatterbug (Goh's; new)
• Flabebe (Goh's Yellow Flower; new)
• Phantump (Goh's; new)
• Flabebe (Goh's Red Flower; new)
• Flabebe (Goh's Orange Flower; new)
• Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone)
• Lucario (Korrina's; Mega Lucario)
• Mienshao (Korrina's)
• Lucario (Gurkinn's)
• Azurill (Trainer's)
• Hoppip (Trainer's)
• Snubbull (Trainer's)
• Caterpie (Trainer's)
• Poliwag (Trainer's)
• Noivern (Trainer's)
• Zangoose (Trainer's)
• Geodude (Trainer's)
• Sudowoodo (Trainer's)
• Poliwrath (Trainer's)
• Lapras (Trainer's)
• Clawitzer (Trainer's)
• Hoothoot (Trainer's)
• Wooper (Trainer's)
• Chansey (Trainer's)
• Fennekin (Trainer's)
• Chespin (Trainer's)
• Diggersby (Trainer's)
• Furfrou (Trainer's; Natural Form)
• Rotom (Rotom Drone)
• Fletchling (×4)

Trivia

• Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: Flabébé
• This episode was originally scheduled to air on May 10, 2020. However, the episode was postponed when the anime suspended production on April 19, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• An announcer, Kasuking, Pikachu, and Raboot narrate the preview for the next episode.

In other languages

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