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← XY034 : The Bonds of Mega Evolution!
XY series
XY036 : Battles in the Sky! →
The Forest Champion!
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XY035   EP834
森のチャンピオン！ルチャブル登場！！
Champion of the Forest! Luchabull Appears!!
First broadcast
Japan July 10, 2014
United States September 13, 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 武上純希 Junki Takegami
Storyboard 末田宜史 Yoshifumi Sueda
Assistant director 末田宜史 Yoshifumi Sueda
Animation director 藤田友 Yū Fujita
No additional credits are available at this time.

The Forest Champion! (Japanese: 森のチャンピオン！ルチャブル登場！！ Champion of the Forest! Luchabull Appears!!) is the 35th episode of the XY series, and the 834th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 10, 2014 and aired in the United States on September 13, 2014.

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Blurb

En route to Shalour City, our heroes happily watch three forest Pokémon help each other gather berries. Suddenly, an Ursaring grabs their berries and scares them out of their wits! Then, just as suddenly, a brave Hawlucha attacks the Ursaring, giving the forest Pokémon time to retrieve their berries. But Hawlucha can't resist striking an artistic pose right before its last move, and Ursaring escapes.

Forest caretaker Keaton explains that Hawlucha is the Forest Champion, protecting weaker forest Pokémon from the more aggressive ones. Ash is quite impressed with Hawlucha and offers to help it figure out how to strike more quickly without losing its "battle artistry." During a battle between Hawlucha and Froakie, Ash figures out how Hawlucha can incorporate its signature pose into its favorite finishing move. When that proves to be a huge success, Hawlucha decides to join Ash on his journey!

Plot

The episode begins with Ash and his friends returning from Pomace Mountain and heading out to Shalour City for Ash's upcoming gym battle with Korrina. They witness a Sentret, Pachirisu and Patrat working together to gather berries in a tree. Ash and the others, not wanting to disturb their work, continue on with their journey. After they leave, however, Patrat and the other two Pokémon encounter an Ursaring, who is trying to take their berries from them. Ash and his friends hear their cries and decide to check on what's going on.

Ash arrives seeing the three Pokémon hiding and commands Pikachu to attack. However, before Pikachu could intervene, a wild masked Hawlucha flies into the scene with a dramatic entrance. Ash scans Hawlucha with his Pokédex. Just as Ash remarks on how it looks different from the one shown, Hawlucha removes its mask, revealing its true face.

Hawlucha then dives in at Ursaring, slamming it to the ground. Ursaring becomes enraged, but is easily defeated in battle by Hawlucha's Karate Chop and High Jump Kick. Ash and his friends comment on how amazing Hawlucha is. Hawlucha then jumps to the top of a nearby tree, and shows off its victory pose. A nearby man explains to the group that Hawlucha does its pose before launching into its finishing move. And much the same, Hawlucha then begins to use its final move, Flying Press. However, Ursaring dodges it at the last minute, causing Hawlucha to crash onto the ground. Ursaring then begins to approach Hawlucha, still dazed on the ground, with a large boulder. Ash blocks Ursaring's path and commands Pikachu to break the rock with Iron Tail. The shattered boulder then hits Ursaring, causing Ursaring to collapse and run away. Ash helps Hawlucha get up, and Hawlucha leaves. Ash, excited about Hawlucha, asks the man, who reveals himself to be the caretaker of the forest, to tell him more about Hawlucha.

At the man's home, the group share a hot drink, who now introduces himself as Keaton. Keaton tells the group that there had been many strong Fighting-type Pokémon in the forest when Hawlucha first arrived. Hawlucha had then defeated them one by one, earning its nickname "Forest Champion". Keaton then offers to show them the site where Hawlucha trains, and Ash and friends agree.

Meanwhile, Ursaring has recruited Conkeldurr to fight against Hawlucha, and also convinces Machamp to agree to its cause.

Keaton has brought Ash and the group to Hawlucha's training spot, and the group see Hawlucha practising its Flying Press near a waterfall. Ash introduces himself to Hawlucha and then asks Hawlucha to practice Flying Press on himself so that it can perfect the move. With a log in front, Ash helps Hawlucha perfect the move, ensuring that the move could not be dodged, without sacrificing Hawlucha's victory pose. However, as they train, the forest bullies – Ursaring and Conkeldurr appear, along with their leader, Machamp. Keaton reveals that Machamp had been the previous "Forest Champion", and had disappeared to train in the mountains after being defeated by Hawlucha.

Machamp then begins a fierce one-on-one battle with Hawlucha. Machamp begins by attacking Hawlucha, and Hawlucha retaliates with multiple Karate Chops. However, Machamp remains still, withstanding all of Hawlucha's hits. Keaton reveals that Machamp must be sizing up Hawlucha's resolve. As Hawlucha continues to attack, to both Hawlucha's and Machamp's surprise, Ursaring and Conkeldurr come forward to attack Hawlucha. The two bullies slam Hawlucha to the ground and continue to attack. Machamp in response attacks the two bullies and stops the fight. Machamp, now carrying the two fainted Pokémon, walks off, agreeing with Hawlucha to battle at another time.

After Machamp has left, Ash offers Hawlucha to join his team, and Hawlucha agrees. Ash then begins a battle against Hawlucha with Froakie. Froakie starts off with Water Pulse and Double Team, allowing it to avoid Hawlucha's High Jump Kick. After attacking with Bubble, Ash commands Froakie to jump up and grab Hawlucha. However, Froakie misses, and lands into the water instead. Ash then commands Froakie to use Double Team as it jumps out of the water, followed up with Cut. Hawlucha counters with High Jump Kick, and finishes off with its newly practiced Flying Press. Froakie counters with Cut just as Hawlucha slams into Froakie, causing both to faint.

As Hawlucha is about to join Ash's team, Machamp arrives. Keaton tells Hawlucha that the forest will be fine even when it leaves. Hawlucha then agrees to join Ash's team and enters into Ash's Poké Ball.

Major events

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

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon Quiz

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?

Who's That Pokémon?: Hawlucha (US and international)
Pokémon Quiz: Hawlucha (Japan)

Trivia

File:Title Card XY Ash.png
The title card segment focuses on Ash for this episode

Errors

  • When Patrat, Sentret, and Pachirisu are helping each other to hide the berries to the tree, Bonnie's hairpin is colored the same as her hair.
  • When Ursaring is telling Machamp that Hawlucha stole the berries from Patrat, Pachirisu and Sentret, Patrat's mask near its eyes is colored red instead of black.
  • In the Swedish dub, after Machamp carries away with Conkeldurr and Ursaring and Ash says his first line, his English voice can be heard.
  • Bonnie with five bangs on her forehead

    Bonnie with five bangs on her forehead

  • Patrat's mask error

    Patrat's mask error

Dub edits

In other languages



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