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Battling into the Hall of Fame!

XY042   EP841 チームバトル！殿堂入り決戦！！ Team Battle! Competing for the Hall of Fame!!

First broadcast Japan September 4, 2014 United States November 1, 2014

English themes Opening Pokémon Theme (Version XY) Ending

Japanese themes Opening メガＶ（メガボルト） Ending ピースマイル！

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 飯島正勝 Masakatsu Iijima Assistant director うえだしげる Shigeru Ueda Animation director 田島瑞穂 Mizuho Tajima No additional credits are available at this time.

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

Battling into the Hall of Fame! (Japanese: チームバトル！殿堂入り決戦！！ Team Battle! Competing for the Hall of Fame!!) is the 42nd episode of the XY series, and the 841st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on September 4, 2014 and in the United States on November 1, 2014.

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

Blurb

Professor Sycamore's summer camp is about to conclude, and Team Rocket decides this is the perfect time to spring into action. But, shortly after the villains throw off their camp cook disguises and try to steal everyone's Pokémon, they get sent blasting off once again

The scheduled events resume with Team Froakie (Ash, Serena, and Clemont) and Team Squirtle (Tierno, Shauna, and Trevor) facing off in the finals of the Team Battle competition, where the three members of each team have to work together and combine their Pokémon's moves. As before, Tierno's rhythmic battling style poses quite a challenge! Team Froakie manages to come out on top, but Ash is so impressed that he asks Tierno for some special training.

The next morning, it's time for the friends to go their separate ways, but they make plans to meet up again soon. Now, our heroes are off once more to Shalour City!

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• The Pokémon Summer Camp ends.

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

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Professor Sycamore
• Diantha (picture)
• Tierno
• Shauna
• Trevor
• Madame Catherine
• Summer Camp Trainers

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Meowth (Team Rocket) (US and international)
Pokémon Quiz: Team Rocket (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Froakie (Ash's)
• Fletchinder (Ash's)
• Hawlucha (Ash's)
• Fennekin (Serena's)
• Bunnelby (Clemont's)
• Chespin (Clemont's)
• Pumpkaboo (Jessie's)
• Inkay (James's)
• Bulbasaur (Shauna's)
• Squirtle (Tierno's)
• Charmander (Trevor's)
• Wigglytuff (Nurse Joy's)
• Ralts (Diantha's; picture)
• Skitty (Trainer's; fantasy)
• Sandile (Trainer's; fantasy)
• Pansear (Trainer's; fantasy)
• Pidgeotto (Trainer's; fantasy)
• Staryu (Trainer's; fantasy)
• Psyduck (Trainer's; fantasy)
• Furfrou (Trainer's)
• Manectric (Trainer's)
• Fletchling (Trainer's)
• Conkeldurr (Trainer's)
• Espurr (Trainer's)
• Swirlix (Trainer's)
• Sableye (Trainer's)
• Electrode (Trainer's)
• Skitty (Trainer's)
• Psyduck (Trainer's)
• Solosis (Trainer's)
• Panpour (Trainer's)
• Purrloin (Trainer's)
• Pidgeotto (Trainer's)
• Sandile (Trainer's)
• Swablu (Trainer's)
• Wooper (Trainer's)
• Sneasel (Trainer's)
• Spearow (Trainer's)
• Poochyena (Trainer's)
• Swanna (Trainer's)
• Starly (Trainer's)
• Marill (Trainer's)
• Larvitar (Trainer's; picture)
• Aron (Trainer's; picture)
• Espurr (Trainer's; picture)
• Pangoro (Trainer's; picture)
• Furfrou (Trainer's; Kabuki Trims; picture)
• Honedge (Trainer's; picture)
• Floette (Trainer's; Yellow Flower)
• Helioptile (Trainer's; picture)
• Binacle (Trainer's; picture)
• Xerneas (silhouette; flashback)
• Wingull (multiple)

Trivia

File:Title Card XY Ash.png

The title card segment focuses on Ash for this episode

• Mairin's Mega Evolution Journal: Mega Sceptile
  • This segment replaced Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster due to the upcoming Mega Evolution Act II.
• This is the first Tag Battle in the anime to be a Triple Battle.
• This is the first time the Pokémon Quiz segment features human characters (in this case, Team Rocket) rather than a Pokémon.
  • This is also the first time since The Bug Stops Here that an eyecatch relating to a guessing game featured a human character.
  • This is also the first time that the joker card is used.
• In the Pokémon Quiz segment, the answer music is not heard.
• Korrina and Ash narrate the preview for the next episode.

Errors

• The point rating system used during the Pokémon Summer Camp continues to be inconsistent with the points seen being given on screen. Before the Team Battle tournament, Professor Sycamore states the highest ranked teams are Team Froakie, consisting of Ash and his friends, and Team Squirtle, consisting of Tierno, Trevor and Shauna, with both teams having 13 points. However, in the previous episodes of this arc Team Chikorita was shown to have obtained at least 24 points (which would mean that, even though Team Froakie won the last activity, winning 10 points and as such the whole Pokémon Summer Camp, they would still have one point less than Team Chikorita). Also before the Team Battle tournament, Team Charmander was shown to have obtained at least 13 points, the same amount as Team Froakie and Team Squirtle, yet they weren't said to be tied with them.

Dub edits

• In the dub, after Bulbasaur was knocked out by Pikachu's Electro Ball, Professor Sycamore didn't state that Bulbasaur was unable to battle. However, his lines were left in the closed captioning.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	小組對戰！進入名人堂決戰！！
	Mandarin	小組對戰！進入殿堂決戰！！
Danish		En kamp lige ind i Æresgalleriet!
Dutch		Vechten voor een plaats in de eregalerij!
Finnish		Ottelemalla kunniagalleriaan!
European French		Un dernier combat pour entrer au Panthéon !
German		Kampf um die Ruhmeshalle!
Greek		Μάχη για την Αίθουσα Διασήμων!
Hebrew		!נלחמים על היכל התהילה
Italian		Lotta per la Sala d'onore!
Korean		팀배틀! 전당 등록을 향한 결전!!
Norwegian		Kampen om æresgalleriet!
Polish		Bitwy o galerię sław!
Portuguese	Brazil	Batalhando Pelo Hall da Fama!
	Portugal	Combater para Entrar no Corredor da Fama!
Russian		Бой за зал славы!
Spanish	Latin America	¡Luchando para Llegar al Salón de la Fama!
	Spain	¡Combatiendo por el Hall de la Fama!
Swedish		Striden in i Hall of Fame!
Thai		ทีมแบทเทิล! ศึกตัดสินแห่งหอเกียรติยศ!
Turkish		Test Maçı!
Vietnamese		Đấu nhóm! Trận quyết chiến để vào đấu trường danh vọng!

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