XY118

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XY117   EP916 サトシ対チャンピオン・カルネ！VSメガサーナイト！！ Satoshi VS Champion Carnet! VS Mega Sirnight!!

First broadcast Japan May 5, 2016 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening XY&Z Ending プニちゃんのうた

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 仲野良 Ryō Nakano Assistant director 樋口香里 Kaori Higuchi Animation director 上杉遵史 Junji Uesugi No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf

(Japanese: サトシ対チャンピオン・カルネ！VSメガサーナイト！！ Satoshi VS Champion Carnet! VS Mega Sirnight!!) is the 117th episode of the XY series, and the 916th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 5, 2016.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Major events

• Olympia tells Diantha about the upcoming threat to Kalos.
• Ash and his friends meet up with Diantha again.
• Diantha informs Ash and his friends on the island that Team Flare used to experiment on in an earlier episode.
• Ash has a rematch against Diantha, which is interrupted when Ash overexerts himself during the battle and collapses.

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Serena
• Clemont
• Bonnie
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Sycamore (flashback)
• Sophie (flashback)
• Cosette (flashback)
• Olympia
• Charlene (flashback)
• Carrie (flashback)
• Diantha
• Lysandre
• Xerosic
• Kathi Lee

Pokémon

Pokémon Quiz: Mega Gardevoir (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Frogadier (Ash's; flashback)
• Dedenne (Clemont's)
• Greninja (Ash's; Ash-Greninja)
• Gardevoir (Diantha's; Mega Gardevoir)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Core; Squishy)
• Zygarde (Zygarde Core and 50%; Z2; 50% in flashback)
• Meowstic (Olympia's; male)
• Meowstic (Olympia's; female)

Trivia

File:Title Card XY Ash V2.png

The title card segment focuses on Ash for this episode

• Ash's Greninja remains outside of its Poké Ball for the entire episode.
• An instrumental version of XY&Z is used during Ash's battle against Diantha.
• Sawyer and Ash narrate the preview for the next episode.

In other languages

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