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カロスリーグ開幕！メガリザードン対決・X対Y！！
The Kalos League Begins! The Mega Lizardon Showdown: X VS Y!!
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First broadcast
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June 30, 2016
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| United States
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
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Team Kato
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| Screenplay
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園田英樹 Hideki Sonoda
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| Storyboard
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樋口香里 Kaori Higuchi
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| Assistant director
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仲野良 Ryō Nakano
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| Animation director
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松田真路 Shinji Matsuda
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(Japanese: カロスリーグ開幕！メガリザードン対決・X対Y！！ The Kalos League Begins! The Mega Lizardon Showdown: X VS Y!!) is the 125th episode of the XY series, and the 924th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on June 30, 2016.
Plot
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The participating Trainers inaugurate the Lumiose Conference. Ash and gang arrive in Lumiose City, and it's finally the time for the biggest showdown. Familiar faces are spotted, such as Alain, Trevor, Tierno, and Sawyer. In a surprise interview from Malva, Ash states why he is here: to be the very best, and reach the apex of his pursuit of power, as a Pokemon Trainer.
However, a red-head Trainer, with a Kabuki Trim Furfrou is spotted who gives a disrespectful sneer to Ash's optimism, and challenges him to a battle, skeptical of his capabilities. Being carried away by his enthusiasm, Ash almost accepts the challenge, but is immediately held back by the rest of the gang, who admonish him for not being very prudent and worry about arriving late. However, they exchange pep-talks with fellow competitors like Tierno and Alain. The next day, the grand ceremony is unfurled. Champion Diantha delivers an encouraging speech, and towards the end, fireworks are displayed.
The computer had randomly matched up 64 Trainers against each other the previous day, and Ash is to face a Trainer named Tomo, while Alain and Trevor are pitted against each other. The matches commence accordingly, with the first battle being that of Alain and Trevor.
Both the trainers send out their
Charizard.Trevor opens with the Fire
Spin,which is tactically evaded by Alain's
Charizard.And the latter retaliates with
Flamethrower,which Trevor's counters with
Dragon Claw.
Lost in the fierceness of the battle,Trevor
invokes the fullest potential of his
pokemon,and mega evolves it.Sharp ridges
appear on its body,its wings become angular
and serrated,and it is transformed into Mega
Charizard Y!
Its first attack is again skillfully dodged by
Alain's,and he decides to fight fire with
fire.His keystone corresponds to Charizard's
heart,and it unleashes its Mega Charizard X
form.
Mega Charizard X completely outmatches all
three of Trevor's pokemon,(an Aerodactyl and
Florges comprising the rest of his roster)and
the latter's further progress in the league is
nipped in the bud.The spectators are
awestruck and gape-faced,witnessing the
superiority and unparalleled stamina of Alain.
Meanwhile,Ash reaches the pathway that leads
to the stadium,being summoned to turn up for
his match against Tomo,but is interfered by a
familiar face-Takeru,the Furfrou trainer,who
immediately challenges him to a battle,in
exchange of letting him pass.Provided with no
other choice,Ash agrees,and pits his Pikachu
against the red-head trainer's Furfrou.After
exchanging a flurry of destructive
attacks,Pikachu emerges victorious,and
Takeru sags down to his knees,sobbing
uncontrollably,and he requests Ash to win the
league,and the young boy of Pallet town nods
affirmatively.
But in the due course,Ash has become
unpardonably late.The referee is just about to
declare a walk-over victory of Tomo,our hero
appears on the scene,just in the nick of
time,letting his friends heave a huge sigh of
relief,and the battle begins.
Ash chooses Greninja,and Tomo sends out
Altaria.The former absorbs a powerful Dragon
Pulse from the latter,with little or no damage
whatsoever.Ash and Greninja then combine
and consummate their respective powers,and
unfurl the Ash-Greninja form.Ash-Greninja
adeptly evades a barrage of Draco Meteors
from Altaria,and hits it successfully with a
blitzkrieg of Water Shurikens,ultimately
overpowering it.
As the sunset calls it a day,the preliminary
rounds are over,and it is revealed that
Ash,Tierno and Sawyer-all have made it
through the 1st round.The 2nd round
matchups pits Sawyer against Tierno,and Ash
against Astrid.
Will Ash be able to counter the vast
experiences of the weather-beaten
trainers,with his youthful determination?
Which strategy will prove supreme-brute
force,or artful tactics? How far can the
synchronized form of Ash-Greninja help him
brave the decisive challenges?Only the next
episode can probably answer...
Major events
- Ash and his friends arrive back in Lumiose City and meet up with Tierno, Trevor, Sawyer, and Alain again.
- Ash and his friends meet Malva for the first time.
- Ash, Tierno, Trevor, Sawyer, Alain, Astrid and Remo all enter the Lumiose Conference.
- Alain briefly reunites with Professor Sycamore.
- Trevor's Charmeleon is revealed to have evolved into Charizard.
- Trevor is revealed to have obtained a Key Stone, a Charizardite Y, an Aerodactyl, and a Florges.
- Trevor and Alain battle each other in the first round and Alain wins, advancing to the next round.
- Ash battles Tomo in the first round and wins, advancing to the next round.
- Tierno, Sawyer, Astrid and Remo defeat their opponents and advance to the next round.
- For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.
Debuts
Humans
Main series debuts
Pokémon debuts
Main series debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Pokémon Quiz: Furfrou (Kabuki Trim) (Japan)
Trivia
Errors
- In the long shot of the two Mega Charizard, the tips of Mega Charizard X's wings are blue instead of black.
- During Ash's battle in the hallway, the grey color on Ash's left sneaker is larger than normal and the area at the front is red instead of white.
- In the split second it is on screen before showing Alain as the winner, the scoreboard at the end of the battle incorrectly shows him having used Blastoise and Ludicolo (both of which display as having been knocked out).
- Like in Rivals: Today and Tomorrow! and A Meeting of Two Journeys!, when Ash holds up Greninja's Poké Ball the white center and black band around the white button is much larger than normal.
- In between the transformation of Ash-Greninja, Greninja is shown to have the pulse meter on its wrist which wasn't shown in between the battle earlier.
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