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| Season | Pokémon: BW Adventures in Unova and Beyond (Season 16) · N on the road arc (BW114–BW119) |
| Episode | Season 16, episode 22 · English episode 772 · Japanese episode 777 · Bulbapedia code BW119 |
| English title | Meowth, Colress and Team Rivalry! |
| Japanese title | ロケット団VSプラズマ団！ニャースとアクロマ！！ Roketto-dan Tai Purazuma-dan! Nyāsu to Akuroma!! — “Rocket-dan VS Plasma-dan! Nyarth and Achroma!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 28 March 2013 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 29 June 2013 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Shinzō Fujita |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Yajirushi ni Natte! 2013 (Be an Arrow! 2013) – Rica Matsumoto · Sakura Gō Raundo (Sakura Go-Round) – Shiritsu Ebisu Chūgaku |
| English opening | It’s Always You and Me (Version 2) – Neal Coomer & Kathryn Raio |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Magnezone (US) |
| Previous episode | Secrets From Out of the Fog! (BW118) |
| Next episode | Ash and N: A Clash of Ideals! (BW120) |
Plot episodeGenesect debuts
Meowth, Colress and Team Rivalry! is the 22nd episode of Pokémon: BW Adventures in Unova and Beyond, the sixteenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 772nd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 777, Bulbapedia code BW119). It first aired in Japan on 28 March 2013 and in the United States on 29 June 2013. It falls within the season’s N on the road stretch (EP114–EP119).
Premiered on 29 June 2013; Italy’s K2 had shown it the day before.
Synopsis
Team Rocket try to recruit Colress, but he turns Meowth into a test subject for his control machine, while N discovers that Team Plasma has built the Genesect Army. With Aldith and the grunts lured away by Jessie and James, Meowth invites Colress to join Team Rocket, but Colress is far more interested in testing a talking Meowth.
Meanwhile, Ash’s group traces Pignite’s weak Flamethrower and lost appetite to two of Pansage’s Bullet Seeds lodged in its nose since the battle with Team Plasma, which Iris tickles out with a blade of grass. Jessie and James escape their pursuers by trapping them in an energy field.
Meowth counts Mareep to resist the machine but falls under Colress’s control and attacks his partners, until Frillish and Amoonguss hold him down and counting Noctowl in his ear brings him back; Frillish’s Mist covers their escape. N finds another wrecked Team Plasma lab, where a Patrat and a Watchog tell him about the Genesect Army. Team Rocket’s bug overhears Ghetsis say that the Light Stone at the White Ruins is the key to Reshiram, and the trio head there.
Major Events
- The Genesect Army debuts. Team Rocket fail to recruit Colress, who takes control of Meowth
- Pansage’s Bullet Seeds lodged in Pignite’s nose
- N learns of the Genesect Army
- Team Rocket head for the White Ruins
- Every Generation V Pokémon has now appeared in the anime or the films
- Genesect’s TV debut, in every Drive form and one Shiny
Pokémon making their anime debut
Genesect#0649 · BW119
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Shinzō Fujita.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Unova storyline.
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