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(Japanese: サトシ参戦!ポケモンワールドチャンピオンシップス!! Satoshi Participates! The Pokémon World Championships!!) is the 18th episode of the new series, and the 1,103rd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on March 22, 2020.
Plot
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Major events
- Ash registers for the new season of the Pokémon World Championships.
- Go catches a Spearow.
- Ash battles Visquez in his first Pokémon World Championship match and wins, bringing his rank to 3,763.
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
- Rotom (Rotom Drone)
Characters
Humans
- Ash
- Misty (silhouette)
- Brock (silhouette)
- Go
- Giovanni (silhouette)
- Lt. Surge (fantasy; silhouette; flashback)
- Erika (silhouette)
- Koga (silhouette)
- Sabrina (silhouette)
- Blaine (silhouette)
- Professor Sakuragi
- Leon (fantasy)
- Kikuna
- Renji
- Visquez
- Steve
- Tony
- Trainer
Pokémon
Who's That Pokémon?: Raichu (Japan)
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Gengar (Ash's)
- Raboot (Go's)
- Spearow (Go's; new)
- Raichu (Lt. Surge's; fantasy; flashback)
- Rotom (Professor Sakuragi's; Rotom Phone; ×2)
- Raichu (Visquez's)
- Electrode (Visquez's)
- Rotom (Visquez's; Rotom Phone)
- Hypno (Trainer's)
- Rotom (Rotom Drone)
- Farfetch'd (×6)
- Psyduck
Trivia
- Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: Electrode
- The opening animation and title sequence is updated to include Template:Go's Raboot.
- Ash's Pikachu running on top of Electrode is a possible reference to the Tunnel stage of Pokémon Snap.
- Meowth, James, Wobbuffet, and Jessie narrate the preview for the next episode.
- The preview title card has a Team Rocket theme instead of the usual one.
Errors
Dub edits
In other languages
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