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| Season | Pokémon: Advanced Battle (Season 8) · On to Saffron City: May’s first Kanto Ribbon arc (AG137–AG145) |
| Episode | Season 8, episode 46 · English episode 411 · Japanese episode 415 · Bulbapedia code AG139 |
| English title | On Cloud Arcanine |
| Japanese title | ライバル対決！ウインディをゲットかも！ Raibaru Taiketsu! Uindi o Getto kamo! — “Rival Showdown! Catch Windie!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 18 August 2005 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 20 May 2006 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Shōji Yonemura |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Battle Frontier – Akina Takaya · Pokémon Kazoe Uta (Pokémon Counting Song) – Akiko Kanazawa |
| English opening | Unbeatable – David Rolfe |
| Pokémon Trainer’s Choice | Which is not affected by Psychic? (Shuppet / Mightyena / Dusclops) → Mightyena |
| Previous episode | Rough, Tough Jigglypuff (AG138) |
| Next episode | Sitting Psyduck (AG140) |
Plot episodeDrew returnsMay loses to Drew
On Cloud Arcanine is the 46th episode of Pokémon: Advanced Battle, the eighth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 411th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 415, Bulbapedia code AG139). It first aired in Japan on 18 August 2005 and in the United States on 20 May 2006. It falls within the season’s On to Saffron City: May’s first Kanto Ribbon stretch (EP137–EP145).
Synopsis
May and Ash are queueing at a busy Kanto bakery when an Arcanine streaks past. May wants to catch it, but Drew is already in pursuit with his Flygon, whose Flamethrower Arcanine blocks with Heat Wave before vanishing with Extreme Speed. Drew reveals that he has already won his first Kanto Ribbon and is aiming for the Kanto Grand Festival, which only spurs May on. Team Rocket, working at the bakery, are ordered back to their counters. Brock tracks Arcanine to a stand of Pecha Berry trees, but it outruns Combusken, and an old woodsman tells the group where it likes to appear, information he has already given Drew. At a spring Arcanine drinks and dashes off again before anyone can get close.
Fired from the bakery for slacking off, Team Rocket follow a Wobbuffet’s lead to the same Pecha trees, as Ash’s group ambush Arcanine there with Corphish, Mudkip and May’s Squirtle. Battling alongside May’s other Pokémon, Squirtle reveals that it knows Tackle and Water Gun but is driven back into its Poké Ball by Arcanine’s mighty roar. May then sends out Munchlax, which uses Metronome, produces Extreme Speed and keeps pace with the fleeing Arcanine, but gets distracted and strips every Pecha tree bare instead of fighting. Team Rocket arrive too late to grab any berries and decide that Arcanine itself would make a far better prize for Giovanni, and they set off to find where the fire Pokémon has taken its stolen berries.
May and Drew meet on a ledge and argue over who should catch Arcanine, so they settle it with a battle, in which Flygon’s Steel Wing defeats Squirtle. Moments later the group discover the reason for Arcanine’s berry raids: it has been feeding three Growlithe. Team Rocket’s balloon nets the Growlithe and Arcanine, Flygon tears the nets apart, and Dustox, Cacnea and the trio are blasted away. Unwilling to split up a family, May and Drew both decide to let Arcanine go. Drew suggests that May enter the Pokémon Contest in Saffron City and leaves, and Max confirms that Saffron is close and on the way to the Battle Arena, so the group head there next, where May hopes to win her first Kanto Ribbon.
Major Events
- Drew returns with a Kanto Ribbon and beats May’s Squirtle with Flygon
- May and Drew let an Arcanine stay with its Growlithe family
- The Saffron Contest is announced
- Pete Zarustica’s last episode as Drew
Trivia
- The English title plays on "on cloud nine".
- The screenplay is by Shōji Yonemura.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- Instrumental Battle Frontier
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