JN110

Narrowing the Chaser Chase! (Japanese: 裏切りのバトルロイヤル！ The Battle Royale of Betrayal!) is the 110th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,195th episode of the Pokémon animated series. It first aired in Japan on May 13, 2022, in Australia on October 12, 2022, in Canada on October 22, 2022, in South Africa on December 13, 2022, in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2023, and in the United States on February 24, 2023.
==Blurb==
At the Sea Mauville nature preserve, Goh is tackling his next Project Mew trial mission—survival in battle! With only Inteleon, he must battle other challengers until just one Trainer remains. Luckily for Goh, Horace appears, and the two of them team up. Many of the other challengers form teams, too, and one pair in particular threatens to end the boys’ winning streak. In the end, only Goh and Horace remain, but only one can win. Horace reluctantly battles and defeats Goh, winning three Project Mew tokens. Goh receives two, but he’s discouraged when he finds out the Chaser selection will happen soon—he has some catching up to do.
==Plot==
 and Goh ride a across the sea to Sea Mauville, the site of Goh's newest Project Mew Trial Mission, where they're greeted by Danika. When Ash tries to enter with Goh, Danika stops him, stating that this mission is for challengers only. Goh picks as his Pokémon of choice for the mission and asks if is inside already. Danika, however, informs him that Gary is on a different trial site, making Goh dismayed, as he was looking forward to facing him. Danika interprets this as Goh not considering any other challenger a threat and warns him not to take things that lightly.
Once Goh has arrived on the lowest deck as instructed, Danika contacts him and informs him that today's mission is survival: all the challengers must battle each other, with the last one standing receiving three tokens as a reward. The mission starts, with Goh's Rotom Phone displaying a map of the ship's lowest floor and the locations of all the challengers, him included. A 's tries to attack him, but Inteleon defeats it with a single . Another Trainer approaches him, but he quickly recognizes said Trainer as his friend, Horace, who's accompanied by his . Just as the floor map temporarily disappears from their phone screens, Trainers with a and a appear, but Inteleon and Gardevoir make short work of them, forcing the defeated Trainers to return to the entrance. Goh and Horace decide to team up, with Ash and Danika witnessing this through a holographic screen that shows drone footage from within the facility. Elsewhere, a challenger named Sterling easily defeats some other challengers before he's approached by a girl named Lyla, who offers him an alliance.
Meanwhile, Goh and Horace are wandering through the dark as they consider the possibility of hiding instead of fighting, but the map displaying their locations quickly devalues this idea. Moreover, the map shows that the remaining challengers are moving in pairs, meaning that they've understood that being in a team is advantageous to them. To prove this point, they're then approached by a pair of challengers using a and a . Banette starts attacking Gardevoir with its moves, while Shiftry targets Inteleon with its moves. When Gardevoir falls down, Goh almost attacks on his own, until Horace reminds him of what results that had during their Raid Battle against . Understanding his point, Goh leaves the support moves like and to Gardevoir while Inteleon attacks both of the opposing Pokémon, throwing off their strategy and soon defeating them. In another part of the facility, Sterling and Lyla also defeat a pair of challengers, with Sterling noting that any opponent can be easy if they let their guard down.
Outside, Danika presses a button on a remote. In response, several hatches open around Sea Mauville and release a multitude of s, which open to release hordes of , , , and to attack the challengers, with the Jumpluff and Roselia releasing that puts several Trainers . Danika explains to Ash that this is a way to test how the challengers will react to surprising situations, which can drag a whole team down if a team member can't deal with them and starts panicking.
Goh and Horace manage to avoid the Pokémon hordes by hiding in a small room until they've passed. Just as Horace expresses how he'd rather make friends with other people looking to find than battling them, they hear a cry of help from further within the facility and follow it to find Sterling and Lyla, with Lyla claiming that her partner betrayed her and defeated her when her back was turned. Horace is ready to help her, but Goh is suspicious, since the Project Mew drone has not appeared to rule Liepard unable to battle. Further requests for help still convince Horace to defend Lyla, but as soon as his back is turned, Lyla's Liepard pounces at his Gardevoir with , following which Sterling's Vikavolt attacks the with , leaving it . Sterling and Lyla mock Horace for being gullible and focus their attention on Inteleon, declaring that it's the final Pokémon they need to defeat, as every other challenger has been taken down. Inteleon starts battling the two opposing Pokémon, but is outmatched. When Inteleon gets caught in Vikavolt's , Gardevoir stands back up and manages to save Inteleon from being defeated by using on Vikavolt and Liepard, giving the Secret Agent Pokémon enough time to free itself and allowing it to defeat its opponents with and .
With Sterling and Lyla defeated, Goh and Horace are the last challengers remaining. However, their celebration of this is cut short when Danika contacts them to remind them that only one challenger can win this mission. To Danika's surprise, Horace announces that he's decided to forfeit, as he doesn't want to battle against his friend. Goh tells him not to do so, as there's no telling if he could ever get another chance at realizing his dream to reach through Mew. As such, he convinces Horace to battle him with no holding back, which he eventually accepts. Since both Inteleon and Gardevoir have already taken heavy damage, both Trainers are aware that a single blow will decide the match. Goh tries to use Inteleon's invisibility to his advantage, but Gardevoir counters by using its precognitive powers to counter its attacks, finally culminating with Inteleon being taken down by a , making Horace the winner. Goh lets Horace head out ahead of him, clenching his fist when he's not looking.
On Sea Mauville's deck, Danika congratulates Horace and rewards him with three tokens. In addition, Goh receives two tokens for finishing second, and Sterling and Lyla receive one each for finishing third and fourth, respectively. Quillon appears on a nearby screen, informing that, at his trial site, Gary emerged victorious, just as Danika had anticipated. Quillon declares that since the rainy season is ending sooner than expected, the Chaser selection process is being sped up by eliminating all challengers with less than four tokens. A scoreboard is displayed, showing how many tokens each remaining challenger has, with Gary being in the lead with 12 tokens. Horace, Sterling, Lyla, and two other challengers are also ahead of Goh, leaving him well outside the Top 3 who are going to be selected as Chasers.
==Major events==
* and Goh visit Hoenn and meet Danika and Horace again.
* Goh's Inteleon is revealed to have learned .
* Horace clears a Project Mew Trial Mission, earning three Project Mew tokens as a reward.
** In addition, Goh earns two tokens for finishing second.
* is revealed to have collected a total of 12 Project Mew tokens, while Horace is revealed to have collected 8.
===Debuts===
====Humans====
* Sterling
* Lyla
====Pokémon debuts====
==Characters==
===Humans===
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* Goh
* (flashback/image)
* Danika
* Quillon (screen)
* Horace
* Sterling
* Lyla
* Challengers
===Pokémon===
* ()
* ()
* (; flashback)
* (; flashback)
* (Horace's; flashback)
* (Horace's)
* (Horace's; Rotom Phone)
* (Professor Cerise's; Rotom Phone)
* (Sterling's)
* (Lyla's)
* (Trainer's)
* (Trainer's)
* (Trainer's)
* (Trainer's)
* (Trainer's)
* (Trainer's)
* (Trainer's)
* (Trainer's)
* (Trainer's)
* (Project Mew's)
* (Project Mew's; multiple)
* (Project Mew's; multiple)
* (Project Mew's; multiple)
* (Project Mew's; multiple)
==Trivia==
* Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: 
* The Dare da? segment is replaced with eyecatches of , Goh, and for this episode.
* This is the first main series episode since its debut where Goh's Grookey does not appear.
* This marks the first time Goh's Inteleon has been defeated in battle.
* This episode marks the first appearance of a in the since A Festival of Decisions!, 296 episodes earlier.
** This episode also marks the first appearance of a in the animated series since Coming Apart at the Dreams!, 263 episodes earlier.
* Ash's Pikachu, Ash, Chloe, and Goh narrate the preview for the next episode.
** A special preview for JN113 was aired after this episode.
===Errors===
===Dub edits===
* The Japanese text depicting Sea Mauville's name is edited out.
==In other languages==
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Category:Episodes written by Michihiro Tsuchiya
Category:Episodes storyboarded by Hiromasa Amano
Category:Episodes directed by Sumito Sasaki
Category:Episodes animated by Toshiya Furuike
Category:Episodes animated by Shunsuke Igarashi
Category:Episodes animated by K-Production
Category:Episodes animated by Toshiko Nakaya
Category:Episodes animated by Tomoki Ogawa
Category:Episodes by multiple animation directors
Category:Episodes focusing on Goh
Category:Project Mew episodes
Category:Episodes which aired in Australia before the United States
Category:Episodes which aired in Canada before the United States
Category:Episodes which aired in South Africa before the United States
Category:Episodes which aired in the United Kingdom before the United States
de:Jetzt geht's um alles oder nichts!
es:EP1199
fr:LV110
it:EP110
ja:新無印編第110話
zh:宝可梦 旅途 第110集