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'''A Battle by Any Other Name!''' (Japanese: '''ペロッパフとペロリーム！！甘い戦いはあまくない！？''' ''{{tt|Peroppafu|Swirlix}} and {{tt|Peroream|Slurpuff}}!! The Sweet Battle isn't a Piece of Cake!?'') is the 26th episode of the {{series|XY}}, and the 825th episode of the [[Pokémon anime]]. It first aired in Japan on May 8, 2014, in the United Kingdom on June 28, 2014, and in the United States on July 12, 2014.

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This episode begins with {{an|Serena}} sharing her freshly made {{DL|Pokémon-Amie|Poké Puffs}} with some of the group's Pokémon. Even though they are not intended for him, {{Ash}} tries one himself, and loves it. As Ash hands {{TP|Clemont|Dedenne}} a Poké Puff, it is floated out of his hand and into the waiting mouth of a {{p|Slurpuff}}. A girl comes up behind it and promptly tells Serena that Slurpuff thinks her Poké Puffs are so decent, insulting her. She introduces herself as [[Miette]],and gives the group's Pokémon her own "perfect" Poké Puffs as an apology for her Slurpuff stealing theirs, while the Pokémon are impressed, Ash is not. As Miette continues to brag and insult Serena, a heated bicker ensues, only to be broken by {{an|Clemont}}.  

Awat from the group, {{an|Bonnie}} finds a poster for a Poké Puff competition and suggests that Serena and Miette should compete, at which they accept. As the preliminary rounds begin, Serena, Miette, {{TRT}}, and others compete in baking original Poké Puffs on an outdoor stage in front of a live audience. As the second half of the round comes to pass, the competitors are doing well, except for Team Rocket, who have only succeeded in burning their creations. When the round has finished, the world famous Poké Puff master [[Gena]] takes the stage to announce the bakers who will advance to the final round of the competition. Bonnie makes her way up onto stage to propose that Gena marry her brother, but is, as always, dragged away by an embarrassed Clemont. Miette asks Ash if he has a future bride in mind, watching for Serena's reaction after Ash says he does not. The finalists are announced; the [[Berrybaker kids]], Miette, and Serena are the three who will go on to the final round. After the first round, Team Rocket's plan to win the contest and then steal all the Pokémon at venue has failed. {{an|Jessie}} resolves to make it so that so more Poké Puffs can be made by anyone.

At a marketplace, Serena and the group attempt to find fruit to use to make Poké Puffs for the final round, but all vendors are sold out. Miette runs up to the group, and tells them that all the fruit and {{Berries}} in the town have vanished. As Serena and Miette accuse each other, Bonnie suggests that they go look for Berries in the forest. However, when the friends go to the forest, there are no Berries to be found, and Clemont confirms the occurrences to be sabotage. After Serena leaves the group to look further, Miette asks her Slurpuff to lead them, and it points the way farther into the forest. Just then, Serena screams in the distance for help, and the group runs to help.

 

Back at the Poké Puff competition and after the final round, Gena announces the winner of the competition: the Berrybaker kids. After the competition, Serena and Miette resolve to keep working to be better bakers and shake hands. Ash, Clemont, and Bonnie, standing a ways away, call for Serena to come. Before she leaves, Miette warns Serena to tell Ash [[AmourShipping|how she feels about him]], otherwise she'll do so herself. Serena blushes, then smiles, and runs back to her friends, who continue on their way.

* [[Serena's Fennekin]] is revealed to know {{m|Scratch}}{{tt|*|It does not actually use the move until XY038}}.

* {{p|Slurpuff}}

[[File:WTP XY026.png|thumb|right|200px|Who's That Pokémon?]]

* {{p|Wobbuffet}} ({{OP|Jessie|Wobbuffet}})

* {{p|Fennekin}} ({{OP|Serena|Fennekin}})

* {{p|Slurpuff}} ([[Miette]]'s; debut)

* {{p|Swirlix}} (×5)

* {{p|Sentret}} (Trainer's)

==Trivia==  

[[File:Title Card XY Serena.png|thumb|200px|The title card segment focuses on Serena for this episode]]

* [[Professor Oak's lecture|Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster]]: {{p|Pancham}}

* This episode was originally scheduled to air on May 15, 2014, but was pushed up a week after the postponement of ''[[XY024|An Undersea Place to Call Home!]]''.

* The [[XY027|next episode]] preview is narrated by {{an|Bonnie}}, {{an|Serena}}, and {{an|Clemont}}. Ash reads the title card and says the "Everyone, get Pokémon!" phrase.  

* The English dub title is a reference to "{{wp|A rose by any other name would smell as sweet}}," a line from the famous {{wp|William Shakespeare}} play ''{{wp|Romeo and Juliet}}'' which, coincidentally, was also paraphrased in {{TRT}}'s [[Sinnoh]] {{motto}}.

* Serena's Fennekin remains outside of her [[Poké Ball]] throughout this episode.  

* The dub of this episode first aired in the [[Pokémon in the United Kingdom|UK]] on June 28, 2014, 14 days before the [[Pokémon in the United States|United States]] airing.

* In one scene, the {{wp|leek}} of a Trainer's {{p|Farfetch'd}}'s is half-brown instead of green.

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