EP111

Hello, Pummelo! (Japanese: ウィナーズカップ！フルバトル６ＶＳ６！！ ! Full Battle 6 VS 6!!) is the 111th episode of the Pokémon animated series. It first aired in Japan on September 2, 1999, and in the United States on September 23, 2000.
==Blurb==
After winning his way to the final competition for the Orange League Winner's Trophy, victory seems a long shot for Ash as the Gym Leader deploys a powerful Gengar that topples one of Ash's Pokémon after another.
==Plot==
As and approach Pummelo Island, they notice a mysterious flying around. Upon reaching the island, Ash registers himself for a against the Supreme Gym Leader of the Orange Crew. After having his Badges verified, he is informed that his battle will be held the following morning and that it will be a Full Battle. Ash gets ready to start , but tells him that he needs to know where the stadium is first. The assistant escorts Ash and his friends to Pummelo Stadium and the nearby Palace of Victory, also known as the Orange League Hall of Fame, where all victorious s and Pokémon are immortalized. The trio notices the statues decorating the Palace, and the attendant confirms that the Pokémon they saw earlier was indeed the belonging to Supreme Gym Leader , who has gone undefeated for a long time because his Dragonite is too strong. Meanwhile, on the Pummelo Stadium battlefield, appears to steal Drake's Dragonite. However, it uses a single , which sends them blasting off.
Ash gets ready to train, but finds that his won't wake up. Upon consulting Nurse Joy, she states that Snorlax, who had just eaten, probably won't wake up for several days and will have to miss the Full Battle. Ash calls , who suggests using one of instead. , , and one of his turn up, and Ash decides to use Tauros due to the "beginner's luck" factor that won him his battles with Kingler and Muk back in the Indigo Plateau Conference. Ash puts Snorlax's on the transporter and receives Tauros in return. Meanwhile, Jessie and James contemplate their humiliating defeat. A van drives past and informs everyone that a challenger has been found to battle the Supreme Gym Leader the next day. suggests that they can get Dragonite when the challenger has weakened it.
The next morning, Ash arrives at Pummelo Stadium, ready to battle. After the customary handshake between Ash and Drake, the referee explains that the state of the field will change after one of them has three unconscious Pokémon. At that moment, the flat field disappears and is replaced by a rocky field with a pool in the middle. Outside, Team Rocket watches from one of the television screens, and they are amazed to learn that Ash is the challenger.
Drake starts with , while Ash starts with . Ditto starts with to turn into a Pikachu. Pikachu begins with a powerful strike, and Ditto uses its own Thunder attack. Next, they both exchange a at the same time. The rocks begin to crumble underfoot, hurting Pikachu but not Ditto, who calmly hops from one to the other. Ash is frustrated and ignores Misty's suggestion that he substitute Pikachu for another Pokémon. Ditto starts using , while Pikachu tries to shock it with Thunderbolt, but it proves to be too quick and evades the attack. Ditto hits Pikachu with Thunder, but it has no effect as Pikachu channels it to the ground with his tail before using , something Ditto copies too. The two opponents confront each other midair with an attack before falling to the ground. However, Pikachu manages to get up and knock Ditto out with his electrified tail to win the round. surmises that Pikachu managed to win because he was in better physical shape.
Drake congratulates Ash on his first victory before sending out his next Pokémon, an . Ash recalls Pikachu and sends out . As Ash tells Squirtle to use , Drake has Onix to and avoid the attack. Initially unsure of what to do, Ash eventually tells Squirtle to get into the water. However, Onix gets to Squirtle first, knocking it into the air before holding it in a . Squirtle manages to counter this by using followed by . Onix is unable to escape the torrent, and Squirtle finishes off its opponent with .
Drake informs Ash that he won't have a ghost of a chance against his third Pokémon, . Misty and Tracey are worried as no Pokémon is strong against a type, so Ash decides to try his beginner's luck strategy and sends out Tauros. Tauros uses , but Gengar jumps into the air, making the attack useless. Gengar uses on Tauros, who becomes and starts running into the rocks, leaving Ash with no choice but to recall him. He sends out in the hopes of stopping Gengar's movements with . Lapras avoids Gengar's by diving underwater, emerging to hit Gengar with a Water Gun. Gengar tries , so Lapras uses Ice Beam. The two attacks collide in an explosion that engulfs the entire arena, leaving Ash and Drake in shock and with no idea which of their Pokémon will emerge victorious.
==Major events==
* and arrive on Pummelo Island, the final site of the Orange League.
* Ash's Lapras is revealed to know .
* Ash sends his to Professor Oak's Laboratory in exchange for one of his .
* Ash begins his first-ever Full Battle with , the Orange Crew Supreme Gym Leader.
* Ash uses one of his Tauros in for the first time.
* Ash's Tauros is revealed to know .
===Debuts===
====Humans====
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====Pokémon debuts====
* Drake's Dragonite
==Characters==
===Humans===
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* Jessie
* James
* Nurse Joy
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* Cissy (flashback)
* Danny (flashback)
* Rudy (flashback)
* Luana (flashback)
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* Referee
* Crowd
===Pokémon===
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==Trivia==
* When sees at the start of the episode, the theme used is "Dragonite Takes Flight" from the score of Mewtwo Strikes Back.
* In the Japanese version, the Pokémon featured in the Dare Da? segment is . It initially appears as a , but then s back into Ditto when it is revealed.
* During the between and Ditto, Pikachu's and Ditto's look the same.
* 's is able to hover over 's attack, rendering it useless. While impossible in the games at the time, the concept of certain Pokémon, including Gengar, floating to evade moves .
* This is the only time Ash's Lapras participates in an official battle.
* This episode was partially adapted into the book Thundershock in Pummelo Stadium.
===Errors===
* After falls into the water, 's bag is missing.
* Dragonite is incorrectly referred as a Legendary Pokémon.
* In the scene where Ash scans his Pokédex for Dragonite, the Dragonite statue he's scanning is above it, not underneath it, unlike in the preceding shot.
* Even though Ash caught each of his Tauros in a Safari Ball, from this episode onward, Tauros's Poké Ball is always depicted as a .
* When Ash recalls his Tauros, a part of one of his gloves is missing.
* In the English dub:
** says that there is no type which would be strong against a Pokémon. In reality, Ghost-type Pokémon are weak against themselves.
** The announcer refers to Gengar's as "Confusion Ray".
EP111 error.png|Tauros's Poké Ball
EP111 error 2.png|Ash's missing glove
===Dub edits===
* Pikachu's Jukebox: What Kind of Pokémon Are You?
* Although the English dub implies that Drake is merely a fifth Gym Leader in the Orange League, the Japanese version specifically uses the title Head Leader to denote his importance.
* Drake refers to the stadium as "Pummelo Gym" during the handshake in the dub, a term that is never used in the Japanese version.
* The announcer frequently calls out whether a move used during the battle is , something that the dub does more indirectly.
* In the Japanese version, Ditto speaks its own cry before using for the first time, despite having already ed. This does not occur in the dub.
* In the English dub, the second move Pikachu and Ditto use against each other is , while in the Japanese version, the move in question is .
* Tracey's original explanation for how Pikachu beat Ditto mentions Pikachu being on a higher level than it instead of him being in better shape.
* Drake's order to have use is much more direct in the Japanese version, using the move's name instead of saying, "You know what to do", as in the dub.
* In the English dub, after Ash has use , Drake says that the battle is over. In the original Japanese version, he says that Ash should give up.
* In the Japanese version, Tracey tells Ash to withdraw Squirtle because physical moves don't work on Gengar, rather than because Squirtle is getting tired.
* The announcer and Misty's respective comments regarding Gengar being a formidable opponent and it being a type are swapped around in the dub.
* When Ash is thinking about what Pokémon to use against Gengar, Tracey originally tells Ash to use - or moves against the Pokémon, making Ash choose Tauros due to him knowing Fissure. In the English dub, Tracey says that there is no type that is strong against a Ghost-type Pokémon, so Ash decides to use Tauros due to "beginner's luck".
==In other languages==
111
Category:Episodes written by Atsuhiro Tomioka
Category:Episodes storyboarded by Yoshitaka Fujimoto
Category:Episodes directed by Osamu Inoue
Category:Episodes animated by Shin'ichirō Kajiura
Category:Pokémon League episodes
Category:Episodes focusing on Ash
de:Hallo Pummelo
es:EP113
fr:EP111
it:GA111
ja:無印編第111話
zh:宝可梦 第112集