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| Season | Pokémon the Series: XYZ (Season 19) · Alain & the capture of Z2 arc (XY106–XY111) |
| Episode | Season 19, episode 15 · English episode 903 · Japanese episode 908 · Bulbapedia code XY108 |
| English title | A Watershed Moment! |
| Japanese title | 荒野のブリガロン！木を植えるロボン！！ Kōya no Burigaron! Ki o Ueru Robon!! — “The Brigarron from the Wilderness! The Tree-planting Robon!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 18 February 2016 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 28 May 2016 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Shōji Yonemura |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | XY&Z – Satoshi (Rica Matsumoto) · Puni-chan no Uta (Puni-chan’s Song) – Eureka (Mariya Ise) |
| English opening | Stand Tall – Ben Dixon and The Sad Truth |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Chesnaught (US) |
| Previous episode | An Explosive Operation! (XY107) |
| Next episode | Master Class Choices! (XY109) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeHenny and Robon
A Watershed Moment! is the 15th episode of Pokémon the Series: XYZ, the nineteenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 903rd episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 908, Bulbapedia code XY108). It first aired in Japan on 18 February 2016 and in the United States on 28 May 2016. It falls within the season’s Alain & the capture of Z2 stretch (EP106–EP111).
France aired it on 11 May 2016, more than two weeks before the US premiere.
Synopsis
In a barren wasteland, the group meets a boy named Henny and the robot Robon, built by his late grandfather to replant a lost forest, and Clemont refuses to let them give up as they search for the water the land needs. Crossing the dry plain towards Snowbelle City, Clemont collapses in the heat, and Ash spots an old robot planting seeds. A Chesnaught guarding it attacks with Seed Bomb, and the group takes shelter in a decaying lab. There they meet Henny, who explains that his grandfather Chapman recorded how the land was once a forest full of Pokémon until it dried up, and how he fell ill before finding the cause. Chapman built Robon to regrow the forest, and his Chesnaught still protects it. Robon now takes ages to recharge and is close to breaking down, and Henny wants both to stop, but Clemont fixes the fault and argues that giving up halts progress, and Henny agrees to keep trying.
Henny calms Chesnaught, and Clemont’s soil-analysing machine reports that nothing can grow, so Clemont reasons that a former forest must have water underground. Luxray’s X-ray vision, Noibat’s Supersonic and the vines of Chespin and Chesnaught search together and find it, and Bunnelby digs down to a ten-metre rock that has slid over the spring like a lid. Pin Missile fails to break it, and even Braixen’s Flamethrower followed by Greninja’s cooling Water Shuriken cannot crack it, so Clemont decides to haul the rock out with ropes. As everyone pulls, Team Rocket trap them all in restraining rings. When Robon asks them to step off the planted seeds, Gourgeist’s Shadow Ball sends it flying, and the tightening rings make Chesnaught cry out in pain.
Remembering Chapman’s teaching that the two must help each other, Robon throws itself in front of an attack meant for Chesnaught and is destroyed. Enraged, Chesnaught breaks free and stamps on Meowth’s controller, freeing everyone, and a combined attack of Water Shuriken, Thunderbolt, Fire Blast, Pin Missile and Swift forms a “Magna Pulse” that blasts Team Rocket off. Henny mourns Robon, but Clemont reminds him that science stops only when people give up, and he rebuilds the robot, which reboots successfully. Robon’s built-in drill breaks the rock and water gushes out, and Clemont’s analyser now shows that plants can grow. Henny resolves to become a scientist who can maintain Robon, Clemont praises Chapman’s precision, and the two inventors shake hands, as do Chespin and Chesnaught. In a final scene, Robon waters a budding plant beneath a rainbow.
Major Events
- Henny and Robon. Clemont helps a boy and the robot his late grandfather built to replant a lost forest find the water beneath it
- A combined “Magna Pulse” blasts Team Rocket off
- Theresa Buchheister’s last episode as dub director
- Debuts of Henny and, on video, Chapman
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Shōji Yonemura.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Kalos story.
Changes in the English Dub
- An extended Getta Banban insert and Team Rocket’s Team Song
Part of our Pokémon the Series: XYZ guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.