This article is about an episode of the Pokémon anime that has not been dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.
(Japanese: ハチク登場!ウルガモスの聖なる山 ! !Hachiku Appears! The Holy Mountain of Ulgamoth!!) is the 78th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 735th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 10, 2012.
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Ash and the gang are traveling on their way to Icirrus City when suddenly they see two boulders about to crash! As quicly as they can, they run away from them. However, Brycen and his Beartic stop them from crashing down on them. Brycen introduces himself to Ash. Ash introduces himself and is psyched to meet Brycen and says he can't wait to have a gym battle. Iris on the other hand, is frightened of Brycen's Ice-type Pokémon, Beartic. Though, Cilan is thrilled to meet Brycen as he is a famous movie star. Cilan greatly admires Brycen and Beartic and talks about one of the movies he starred in called Ice Trilogy. Brycen says he has retired from making movies much to the gang's disappointment. Brycen tells the gang there is a Pokémon hunter named Rinzō trying to hunt a rare Pokémon called Volcarona at the top of its holy mountain.
The gang tells Brycen they'll help stop Rinzō. Ash wants Brycen to help train for the journey so he sends out his Krokorok. First, Brycen and Beartc stand on one hand. Ash & Krokorok try it but fail. Brycen and Beartc jump over several rocks but they fail at that as well. For the next challenge, Brycen breaks a boulder in half, then Beartic breaks it into even smaller bits. As for Ash and Krokorok, they damage their hand by even attempting. In an attempt to jump over a waterfall, Brycen and Beartic successfully jump on to a rock.