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Trials of a Budding Master!
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Trials of a Budding Master! (Japanese: カモネギ大いなる試練! Kamonegi's Great Trials!) is the 51st episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,136th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on January 15, 2021 and in Canada on June 26, 2021.
Plot
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Major events
- Ash's World Coronation Series rank is revealed to have risen to 415.
- Goh catches a Geodude.
- Ash's Farfetch'd is revealed to know Fury Cutter and Focus Energy.
- Ash battles Dozer in a World Coronation Series match and wins, bringing his rank to 381.
- Ash and Goh meet a Trainer named Rinto.
- Ash battles Rinto and loses.
- For a list of all major events in Pokémon the Series, please see the timeline page.
Debuts
Humans
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
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Pokémon
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- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Cinderace (Goh's)
- Dragonite (Ash's)
- Gengar (Ash's)
- Lucario (Ash's)
- Farfetch'd (Ash's; Galarian)
- Taillow (Goh's)
- Misdreavus (Goh's)
- Sobble (Goh's)
- Geodude (Goh's; new)
- Rotom (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone; ×2)
- Gurdurr (Dozer's)
- Gallade (Rinto's)
- Rotom (Drone Rotom)
- Scraggy (Trainer's; flashback)
- Sableye (Trainer's; flashback)
- Shiftry (Trainer's; flashback)
- Lunatone (Trainer's; flashback)
- Pupitar (Trainer's; flashback)
- Larvitar (Trainer's; flashback)
- Spinda (Trainer's; flashback)
- Geodude (fantasy)
- Graveler (fantasy)
- Golem (fantasy)
Trivia
- Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: Gallade
- The English dub was released on the iTunes Store in Australia the day before the episode aired in Canada.
- This episode marks the first appearance of a number of Pokémon species in the main series after long absences:
- Pupitar, who last appeared in Pinch Healing!, 674 episodes ago.
- Lunatone, who last appeared in Dawn's Early Night!, 621 episodes ago.
- Gallade, who last appeared in Mending a Broken Spirit!, 252 episodes ago.
- Goh, Ash, Pikachu, and Chloe all narrate the preview for the next episode.
Errors
Dub edits
In other languages
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Categories:
- Episode articles with incomplete plot summaries
- Stubs
- Episode stubs
- Anime stubs
- Pokémon Journeys: The Series episodes
- Episodes written by Atsuhiro Tomioka
- Episodes storyboarded and directed by Yūji Asada
- Episodes storyboarded by Yūji Asada
- Episodes directed by Yūji Asada
- Episodes animated by Masaaki Iwane
- Episodes animated by Izumi Shimura
- Episodes focusing on Ash
- Episodes with World Coronation Series matches
- Episodes in which a main character obtains a new Pokémon