BW108

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BW108   EP765 決着イッシュリーグ！ピカチュウ対ルカリオ！！ Isshu League Conclusion! Lucario VS Pikachu!!

First broadcast Japan January 10, 2013 United States

English themes Opening It's Always You and Me Ending

Japanese themes Opening やじるしになって！ Ending みてみて☆こっちっち

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: 決着イッシュリーグ！ピカチュウ対ルカリオ！！ Isshu League Conclusion! Lucario VS Pikachu!!) is the 108th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 765th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 10, 2013.

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

Major events

• Cameron defeats Ash, eliminating the latter from the tournament.
• Virgil defeats Cameron, advancing to the final round.
• Cameron is revealed to own a Watchog.
• Virgil defeats Dino in the final round, winning the Vertress Conference.

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

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Chili (flashback)
• Cress (flashback)
• Trip (flashback)
• Bianca
• Stephan
• Cameron
• Virgil
• Burgundy (flashback)
• Georgia (flashback)
• Luke (flashback)
• Sylvester (flashback)
• Don George (flashback)
• Freddy O'Martian
• Dino
• Katharine
• Antonio
• Ramone
• Emmanuel
• Flora
• Kenton
• Manning
• Geraldo
• Imotarō
• Davy
• Referee

Pokémon

Dare da?

Who's That Pokémon?: Lucario (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Snivy (Ash's)
• Lucario (Cameron's)
• Eevee (Virgil's)
• Flareon (Virgil's)
• Espeon (Virgil's)
• Druddigon (Dino's)
• Chandelure (Ramone's)
• Klinklang (Davy's)
• Tympole

Pokémon seen in flashbacks

• Samurott (Cameron's)
• Snivy (Trip's)
• Pansage (Cilan's)
• Oshawott (Ash's)
• Zebstrika (Stephan's)
• Sawk (Stephan's)
• Emolga (Iris's)
• Pawniard (Georgia's)
• Golett (Luke's)
• Zorua (Luke's)
• Riolu (Cameron's)

Pokémon seen on scoreboards

• Darmanitan (Dino's)
• Mandibuzz (Dino's)
• Cofagrigus (Dino's)
• Leavanny (Dino's)
• Galvantula (Dino's)
• Lilligant (Ramone's)
• Beartic (Ramone's)
• Durant (Ramone's)
• Hydreigon (Cameron's)
• Ferrothorn (Cameron's)
• Swanna (Cameron's)
• Watchog (Cameron's)
• Chandelure (Dino's)
• Seismitoad (×2; Ramone's and Dino's)
• Gigalith (Dino's)
• Heatmor (Dino's)

Trivia

• This is the first time when Ash's league placement has regressed compared to the previous tournament.
• The full version of Be an Arrow! was played during the flashback scenes close to the end of the episode.
• The ending of the episode is a direct callback to the ending of Friends to the End, as Ash stands in the middle of the arena and has flashbacks of his journey while the sun rises over the league torch and the full theme song plays.
• The scene where Ash is staring at the sun rising is similar to the beginning of Pokémon Theme.
• Instead of a preview of the next episode, this episode was followed by a trailer for the upcoming Episode N saga.
• This episode marks the first time outside of a flashback where a Lucario is seen being defeated on screen.
• This episode is the first time where the final round battle is shown on screen.
• This is the first time a different animation for Snivy's Leaf Blade has been used.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		決戰合眾聯盟！皮卡丘對路卡利歐！！

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