SM010

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SM010   EP949 出るかZワザ！大試練への挑戦！！ Will the Z-Move Work! Face the Grand Trial!!

First broadcast Japan January 12, 2017 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 松井亜弥 Aya Matsui Storyboard 飯島正勝 Masakatsu Iijima Assistant director 飯島正勝 Masakatsu Iijima Animation director 堀内博之 Hiroyuki Horiuchi No additional credits are available at this time.

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

(Japanese: 出るかZワザ！大試練への挑戦！！ Will the Z-Move Work! Face the Grand Trial!!) is the tenth episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 949th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 12, 2017.

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

Major events

• Ash and Pikachu perform Breakneck Blitz for the first time.
• Ash battles Hala and wins clearing the Melemele grand trial.
• Hala goes to give a Fightinium Z, but at the last second, Tapu Koko replaces it with a Electrium Z, which Ash takes instead.
• All-Out Pummeling is shown for the first time.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Crabrawler

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Officer Jenny
• Professor Kukui
• Hala

Pokémon

Crabrawler (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Charizard (Kiawe's; Poké Ride)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Rockruff (Professor Kukui's)
• Gumshoos (Officer Jenny's)
• Hariyama (Hala's)
• Crabrawler (Hala's)
• Tapu Koko (anime)
• Rattata (Alola Form; picture)
• Raticate (Alola Form; picture)

Trivia

Errors

• When Ash was wiggling his toes while on his knees, he was shown having toenails.

In other languages

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