S09

Pokémon: Battle Frontier is the ninth season of the dubbed version of the Pokémon animated series. It is the fourth and final season of Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire. It follows as he continues to collect Symbols from the Kanto while participates in Pokémon Contests.
It began on September 8, 2006 with the dub premiere of Fear Factor Phony, and concluded on March 3, 2007 with Home is Where the Start Is!. It originally aired in as part of the 2006-2007 Saturday morning lineup. It also began broadcasting on / on October 30, 2008 in , this is the first time this series has been shown on .
The English dub underwent many changes at the start of the season. 4Kids Entertainment's licensing rights to the dub expired and in an agreement with they decided not to renew. Meanwhile, Kids' WB! (a broadcast network) dropped all anime from its lineup, leading to Cartoon Network, a cable network, picking up the series, where it remained until season 19.
It is preceded by Pokémon: Advanced Battle and succeeded by Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl, the first season of the dub of Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl, which is based on the Generation IV .
==Blurb==
The territory might be familiar, but even Ash and Brock can find more than a few surprises in their home region of Kanto, like a Pokémon Ranger hot on the cases of two Legendary Pokémon! May’s back on the Contest path, blazing a trail to the Kanto Grand Festival, while Ash seeks out the hidden facilities of the Battle Frontier. If finding them wasn’t hard enough, he’s still got battles with the Frontier Brains to deal with—much tougher than any Gym Leader he’s ever faced.
==Important events==
* and meet Ranger Solana, who is searching for an injured . (AG155)
* Brock enters his first Pokémon Contest at Gardenia Town. (AG167)
* Ash and company runs into Solana again, as they encounter a wild . (AG171 - AG172)
* The Kanto Grand Festival takes place at Indigo Plateau. (AG180-AG182)
** , Drew, Harley, and Solidad get past the preliminary Appeals Round. (AG180)
** May defeats Harley in the Contest Battles, putting her in the Top 8. Drew and Solidad also make it to the Top 8. (AG181)
** May defeats Drew in the quarterfinals but loses to Solidad in the semifinals, finishing in the Top 4. (AG182)
** Solidad wins the Grand Festival, receiving the Ribbon Cup and becoming a Top Coordinator. (AG182)
* Ash and his friends learn from about Sinnoh, a region located north of Kanto. (AG187)
* May learns that Drew, Harley, and Solidad plan to enter Pokémon Contests in the Johto region. (AG187)
* Ash calls for his , , and for his match against . (AG189)
* Ash is offered a position as a Frontier Brain, but he declines. (AG190)
* Ash enters his first Pokémon Contest at Terracotta Town. (AG191)
* Ash and his friends go their separate ways. Brock and Max go back home in Pewter City and Petalburg City, respectively. May plans to compete in Johto Pokémon Contests. Ash returns to Pallet Town. (AG192)
* Ash meets up with , who came from Sinnoh. The two have a battle, with Ash's Pikachu losing to Gary's Electivire. (AG192)
* Ash decides to travel to Sinnoh, and leaves , except Pikachu, at Professor Oak's Laboratory. However, quickly follows Ash and rejoins him. (AG192)
* continues to follow Ash into Sinnoh. (AG192)
===Party changes===
====Additions====
The following Pokémon are obtained:
* James's Mime Jr. (AG147)
* Brock's Bonsly (AG156)
* May's Eevee (AG157)
* Ash's Aipom (AG182)
====Evolutions====
The following Pokémon evolve:
* Brock's → (AG148)
* Ash's → (AG154)
* Ash's → (AG161)
* Brock's → (while under Forrest's care; between AG133 and AG177)
* May's → (AG191)
====Other====
* James's Chimecho (left with the caretakers of James's summer home; AG147)
* Ash's Sceptile (left at Oak's lab; AG192)
* Ash's Corphish (left at Oak's lab; AG192)
* Ash's Swellow (left at Oak's lab; AG192)
* Ash's Donphan (left at Oak's lab; AG192)
===Battle Frontier===
Ash battles the following Frontier Brains:
Symbol 	Opponent	Epicode 	Result
Guts Symbol 	Greta 	AG149 	Victory
Tactics Symbol	Tucker 	AG153 	Victory
Luck Symbol 	Lucy 	AG158 	Victory
Spirits Symbol	Spenser 	AG164 	Victory
Ability Symbol	Anabel 	AG169 	Defeat
Ability Symbol	Anabel 	AG170 	Victory
Brave Symbol 	 	AG178 	Defeat
Brave Symbol 	 	AG186 	Defeat
Brave Symbol 	 	AG189AG190	Victory
===Pokémon Contests===
May participates in the following Pokémon Contests:
Location 	Epicode 	Result
 	AG151 	Victory
Wisteria Town 	AG160 	Defeat
Chrysanthemum Island	AG162 	Victory
Gardenia Town 	AG167 	Victory
Mulberry City 	AG174AG175	Victory
Terracotta Town 	AG191AG192	
==Episodes==
Epicode	Episode Title 	#
AG146 	Fear Factor Phony 	1
AG147 	Sweet Baby James 	2
AG148 	A Chip Off the Old Brock 	3
AG149 	Wheel of Frontier 	4
AG150 	May's Egg-Cellent Adventure 	5
AG151 	Weekend Warrior 	6
AG152 	On Olden Pond 	7
AG153 	Tactics Theatrics!! 	8
AG154 	Reversing the Charges 	9
AG155 	The Green Guardian 	10
AG156 	From Cradle to Save 	11
AG157 	Time Warp Heals All Wounds 	12
AG158 	Queen of the Serpentine! 	13
AG159 	Off the Unbeaten Path 	14
AG160 	Harley Rides Again 	15
AG161 	Odd Pokémon Out! 	16
AG162 	Spontaneous Combusken! 	17
AG163 	Cutting the Ties that Bind! 	18
AG164 	Ka Boom with a View! 	19
AG165 	King and Queen for a Day! 	20
AG166 	Curbing the Crimson Tide! 	21
AG167 	What I Did for Love! 	22
AG168 	Three Jynx and a Baby! 	23
AG169 	Talking a Good Game! 	24
AG170 	Second Time's the Charm! 	25
AG171 	Pokémon Ranger - Deoxys' Crisis! (Part 1)	26
AG172 	Pokémon Ranger - Deoxys' Crisis! (Part 2)	27
AG173 	All That Glitters is Not Golden! 	28
AG174 	New Plot, Odd Lot! 	29
AG175 	Going for Choke! 	30
AG176 	The Ole' Berate and Switch! 	31
AG177 	Grating Spaces! 	32
AG178 	Battling the Enemy Within! 	33
AG179 	Slaking Kong! 	34
AG180 	May, We Harley Drew'd Ya! 	35
AG181 	Thinning the Hoard! 	36
AG182 	Channeling the Battle Zone! 	37
AG183 	Aipom and Circumstance! 	38
AG184 	Strategy Tomorrow - Comedy Tonight! 	39
AG185 	Duels of the Jungle! 	40
AG186 	Overjoyed! 	41
AG187 	The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing! 	42
AG188 	Pinch Healing! 	43
AG189 	Gathering the Gang of Four! 	44
AG190 	Pace - The Final Frontier! 	45
AG191 	Once More With Reeling! 	46
AG192 	Home is Where the Start Is! 	47
 	 	
==Home video releases==
===North American DVD releases===
===Australian DVD releases===
==Trivia==
* Battle Frontier is the only English season to have its own , instead of just a shortened or instrumental version of the opening theme.
* Battle Frontier is the only English season of Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire not to contain the word "Advanced" in its title.
* In Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), this season was initially skipped, and the broadcast of Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl started immediately after AG145 with the dub. However, in the Netherlands, Battle Frontier was not skipped.
* In the Hindi Hungama TV/MarvelHQ dub, the narrator parodies Indian actor in each episode. This practice continues in the Sinnoh and Unova arcs, with his accent becoming less humorous in Unova.
* This is the first season:
** to consist of less than 52 episodes under the television definition.
** to be dubbed by Pokémon USA, as well as the first not to be dubbed by 4Kids.
** to premiere on Cartoon Network in , with the final season being Pokémon the Series: XYZ.
** to not feature any eyecatches at all, and the only one outside of Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl.
** where doesn't earn a Badge, as he's competing for Symbols instead.
==In other languages==
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