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| Round One-- Begin!
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ポケモンリーグかいまく！みずのフィールド！
Pokémon League Opens! Water Battlefield!
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First broadcast
| Japan
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December 17, 1998
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| United States
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October 30, 1999
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
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Team Ota
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| Screenplay
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冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka
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| Storyboard
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横田和 Kazu Yokota
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| Assistant director
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大町繁 Shigeru Ōmachi
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| Animation director
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たけだゆうさく Yūsaku Takeda
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| No additional credits are available at this time.
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Round One - Begin! (Japanese: ポケモンリーグかいまく！みずのフィールド！ Pokémon League Opens! Water Battlefield!) is the 75th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on December 17, 1998 and in the United States on October 30, 1999.
Synopsis
Ash was preparing to battle in the Indigo League. He learned that he must first pass through four preliminary battles on four unique battlefields (Grass, Water, Ice and Rock) to qualify for battling inside Indigo Stadium. He met Nurse Joy at the local convention Center, and found that he was assigned to battle on the Water field later that day against a Trainer named Mandi, who referred to himself as "Mandi the Astounding."
Since he was assigned to the Water field, Ash planned to rely on Squirtle for the battle. When Misty and Brock suggested that Squirtle might not be enough, Ash decided to recall Krabby from Professor Oak's lab to boost his team. Misty was worried because Ash had never used Krabby before, but Ash was confident.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket was posing as a news crew to try and find rare Pokémon to steal. However, they were not having much luck.
Ash's battle on the Water field was about to begin! Misty and Brock took special seats behind Ash's podium on the battlefield to act as his "coaches" during the fights. Ash sent out Krabby right away, and Mandi used Exeggutor. Krabby jumped into the pool but Exeggutor used its Psychic ability to create a whirlpool, revealing Krabby's hiding space. Mandi then ordered an Egg Bomb, knocking Krabby into the whirlpool and preventing it from using any attacks. Ash tried to recall Krabby, but the whirlpool prevented him from doing so. Suddenly, Krabby escaped from the vortex! Ash ordered Krabby to use ViceGrip on Exeggutor's leaves, stopping its attacks. One Stomp later and Krabby was the winner!
Krabby stood triumphant over Exeggutor and.... evolved! Ash excitedly checked Dexter for information on his new Kingler. Mandi, still confident, sent out a Seadra. Seadra used Agility to dodge Kingler's Water Gun, but Kingler managed to slow it down with a Bubble attack and then knocked Seadra out of the fight with Crabhammer.
Mandi, undaunted, sent out his last Pokémon — Golbat! Brock worried that this could be bad for Ash; Kingler was weak against air attacks. Golbat managed to evade Kingler's attacks, dealing a great amount of damage in the process. But Ash remained firm and ordered Kingler to use Hyper Beam. Kingler's shot hit Golbat dead-on, knocking it out and winning Ash his first Indigo League victory!
Major events
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who’s That Pokémon?: Nidoran♂
Trivia
Errors
- In the dub, after Mandi summoned a flock of Pidgey during his magic trick, Meowth referred to the Pidgey as Pidgeotto.
- When a random Trainer is showing off his Pokémon to Team Rocket, he holds up a Poké Ball containing a Raticate, yet a picture of a Venomoth appears. When he holds up the Poké Ball containing Venomoth, the next scene shows him staring at Team Rocket's camera, with his mouth not moving when he says "And a Venomoth!" in the dub. In the Japanese version he only showed off one Pokémon and a Venomoth.
- When Mandi's Golbat used Double Team, it looked more like Teleport.
- Right after Ash defeats Mandi, the black background of the big screen disappears when the screen changes to congratulate the winner.
- This also happens after Gary's battle, therefore it may have been intentional and was simply changed in future episodes.
- Brock claims that Kingler is weak to air attacks. However, being a Water-type, Kingler is not weak to Template:Type2 moves.
Dub edits
In other languages
- Finnish: Ensimmäinen erä alkaa
- French: Ligue Pokémon, 1er tour
- German: Ring frei zur Runde 1
- Hebrew: סיבוב ראשון sivuv rishon
- Italian: Quando si scatena l'azione!
- Portuguese (Brazilian): Começa o Primeiro Round!
- Spanish:
- Iberian Spanish: ¡Comienza la primera ronda!
- Latin American Spanish: La primera ronda... ¡Comienza!
