BW099

A Surface to Air Tag Battle Team! (Japanese: 大空と大地のタッグバトル！ The Tag Battle of the Sky and the Earth!) is the 99th episode of Pokémon the Series: Black & White, and the 756th episode of the Pokémon animated series. It first aired in Japan on October 18, 2012 and in the United States on February 9, 2013.
==Blurb==
On the way to Vertress City, site of the upcoming Unova League, our heroes notice a Drilbur and a Braviary who seem to be watching them. Their Trainers—brothers Rocko and Soren—show up soon after and challenge Ash to a Tag Battle! Ash is happy to accept, and decides to pair up with Cilan for a similar land-and-air team of Pansage and Unfezant.
The first move the brothers call for is Drill Wing, which none of our heroes has ever heard of before! It turns out Soren and Rocko are skilled at using double-move attacks—in this case, Drilbur’s Drill Run combined with Braviary’s Wing Attack. It doesn’t take Ash and Cilan long to pick up on this technique, and with some impressive teamwork, they defeat the brothers...who immediately start blaming each other.
Cilan steps in to break up the fight, and wields his Pokémon Connoisseur skills to offer them some advice: each brother is well matched with his own Pokémon, but they need a Water-type Pokémon to round out their land-and-air team. And of course, since Cilan is also a Fishing Connoisseur, he’s happy to give them some lessons on how to catch one. They first hook two feisty Frillish, but can’t agree on a strategy for catching them, so the Frillish get away. Once Soren and Rocko calm down and start working together, they manage to catch a Buizel and a Corphish to add to their team. Now they can boast of being rulers of the land, the air, and the water!
Our heroes say goodbye to the brothers with promises of a Tag Battle rematch if they meet again, and the journey to the Unova League continues!
==Plot==
While walking in the middle of a cornfield, and come across a . Then, points to a flying above, which and suggests could be watching them. They continue to walk, only to be interrupted by laughter. Suddenly, two boys pop out, and challenge Ash and his friends to a Tag Battle, Ash accepting this challenge, but Cilan and are reluctant. Cilan asks for the boys to introduce themselves, which they do, stating their names are Soren and Rocko, and that they are brothers. Soren and Rocko claim they are the world's greatest Tag Battlers, even crushing their rivals es Ingo and Emmet. Cilan is astounded by the feat, but the brothers clarify that they actually dreamed of beating the Subway Bosses. After hearing from Cilan that he is a Gym Leader and Ash is a would-be competitor of the Unova League, the brothers decide they want to battle them.
Iris referees the match while Ash and Cilan respectively bring out their and while Soren and Rocko battle with their Braviary and Drilbur. The brothers call for a "Drill Wing" attack, a combination of Braviary's and Drilbur’s , which hits it mark. Ash and Cilan call for their own battle combination. Unfezant takes to the sky with Pansage in her claws, quickly turning the match into an aerial battle. Braviary outmanuvers Pansage’s barrage of s. Next Rocko and Soren call for a "Brave Dig". Cilan realizes the brother's strategy as Drilbur s a hole, and Braviary dives underground as well. Braviary soon emerges and knocks Pansage and Unfezant out of the sky with a attack. The brothers follow up with an "Aerial Claw" combination, with Drilbur slashing at Pansage with and Braviary striking with an .
Soren and Rocko amaze them with their dazzling combination moves, and they get Ash and Cilan cornered. But Ash and Cilan manage to come up with their own unique combination moves, borrowing from their opponent's "Brave Dig" strategy. Pansage Digs underground, and Unfezant follows it inside before striking its foe with a . The brothers are undeterred and call for a "Fury Rock", a combination of and . However, Unfezant flies through the falling rocks and Pansage delivers the finishing blow, a to win the match.
After the loss, the brothers become crestfallen. Cilan their Pokémon, and comes to the conclusion that they need to catch a to gain mastery over the third aspect of the nature that comes after land and sky. To do so, Cilan goes with them to a river to fish. First they spot out a male and a female , but fail to catch either of them because of meaningless bickerings. Then they spot a and a , and after a successful "Brave Dig" combination, the brothers throw their s. However the catch fails as the Water types emerge once again, so Clan suggests the brother's attack again. After a Drill Wing combination, they taste the fruit of success. Ash and the group congratulate Rocko and Soren on the catches. Soren and Rocko are thrilled, and decide to show off their new Pokémon in a combination showcase. Soren has his Buizel and Braviary perform Aqua Jet and Brave Bird for a "Jet Brave" attack, while Rocko performs a "Bubble Drill" combo. The group soon part ways with the brothers on good terms.
After parting ways, Cilan, Ash, and Iris come upon a and a , and Cilan is dismayed to realize that they would have been the ultimate perfect match, one being Water and , the other Water and . Ash and Iris reassure him that Soren and Rocko seemed happy with their new Pokémon so Cilan decides things did work out well after all.
==Major events==
===Debuts===
====Pokémon debuts====
=====TV episode debuts=====
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==Characters==
===Humans===
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* Chili (fantasy)
* Cress (fantasy)
* Emmet (fantasy)
* Ingo (fantasy)
* Soren and Rocko
===Pokémon===
Who's That Pokémon?: 
* ()
* ()
* (; female)
* ()
* (Emmet's; fantasy)
* (Ingo's; fantasy)
* (Soren's)
* (Soren's; new)
* (Rocko's)
* (Rocko's; new)
* (×2; male and female)
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==Trivia== 
* Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: 
* breaks the fourth wall twice during the episode by pushing the split-screens featuring Soren and Rocko apart from each other.
* owns a Pokémon from both of the species that Soren and Rocko : and .
* In the dub, is referred to as both Golpe Aéreo and Ás dos Ares. Future episodes would retain the latter as the preferred version.
* narrates the preview for the next episode.
===Errors===
* Ash's Unfezant takes damage from 's , even though Pokémon are supposed to be immune to attacks.
===Dub edits===
==In other languages==
099
Category:Episodes focusing on Cilan
Category:Episodes written by Shōji Yonemura
Category:Episodes storyboarded and directed by Kazuomi Koga
Category:Episodes storyboarded by Kazuomi Koga
Category:Episodes directed by Kazuomi Koga
Category:Episodes animated by Kunihiko Natsume
de:Ein Zweiermatch-Team voller Überraschungen!
es:EP761
fr:NB099
it:NB099
ja:BW編第99話
zh:宝可梦 超级愿望 第99集