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Pokémon: Johto League Champions is the fourth season of the dubbed version of the Pokémon animated series. It follows the adventures of , , and in the Johto region, from Goldenrod City up to Cianwood City.
It originally aired as part of the 2001-2002 Saturday morning lineup. The season began with A Goldenrod Opportunity, which originally aired on August 18, 2001, and ended with Machoke, Machoke Man!, which originally aired on September 7, 2002.
It is preceded by Pokémon: The Johto Journeys and succeeded by Pokémon: Master Quest.
==Blurb==
From the sprawling metropolis of Goldenrod City to the icy peak of Snowtop Mountain, the Johto region presents Ash, Misty, and Brock with exciting new adventures—along with a few familiar faces like their old friends Todd, Duplica, and Suzie! Johto’s rich past means plenty of Pokémon mysteries for our heroes to solve, and its exciting present means some tough challenges—Ash tackles three more Gyms, while handling competitions like the Pokémon Sumo Conference along the way.
==Important events==
* Todd Snap travels with . (EP187 - EP189)
===Party changes===
====Additions====
The following Pokémon are obtained:
*Ash's Beedrill (EP161)
====Evolutions====
The following Pokémon evolve:
* Brock's → (EP165)
* Brock's → (EP196)
* Ash's → (EP199)
====Releases====
The following Pokémon are released:
* Ash's Beedrill (given to , EP161)
* Brock's Vulpix (returned to Suzie, EP169)
===Gym battles===
Ash battles the following Gym Leaders:
Badge	Opponent	Epicode	Result
 	Whitney 	EP158 	Defeat
 	Whitney 	EP159 	Victory
 	Morty 	EP182 	Victory
 	Chuck 	EP209 	Victory
==Episodes==
Epicode	Episode Title 	#
EP158 	A Goldenrod Opportunity 	1
EP159 	A Dairy Tale Ending 	2
EP160 	Air Time! 	3
EP161 	The Bug Stops Here 	4
EP162 	Type Casting 	5
EP163 	Fossil Fools 	6
EP164 	Carrying On! 	7
EP165 	Hassle in the Castle 	8
EP166 	Two Hits and a Miss 	9
EP167 	A Hot Water Battle 	10
EP168 	Hook, Line, and Stinker 	11
EP169 	Beauty and the Breeder 	12
EP170 	A Better Pill to Swallow 	13
EP171 	Power Play! 	14
EP172 	Mountain Time 	15
EP173 	Wobbu-Palooza! 	16
EP174 	Imitation Confrontation 	17
EP175 	The Trouble With Snubbull 	18
EP176 	Ariados, Amigos 	19
EP177 	Wings 'N' Things 	20
EP178 	The Grass Route 	21
EP179 	The Apple Corp! 	22
EP180 	Houndoom's Special Delivery	23
EP181 	A Ghost of a Chance 	24
EP182 	From Ghost to Ghost 	25
EP183 	Trouble's Brewing 	26
EP184 	All That Glitters! 	27
EP185 	The Light Fantastic 	28
EP186 	UnBEARable 	29
EP187 	Moving Pictures 	30
EP188 	Spring Fever 	31
EP189 	Freeze Frame 	32
EP190 	The Stolen Stones! 	33
EP191 	The Dunsparce Deception 	34
EP192 	The Wayward Wobbuffet 	35
EP193 	Sick Daze 	36
EP194 	Ring Masters 	37
EP195 	The Poké Spokesman 	38
EP196 	Control Freak! 	39
EP197 	The Art of Pokémon 	40
EP198 	The Heartbreak of Brock 	41
EP199 	Current Events 	42
EP200 	Turning Over A New Bayleef 	43
EP201 	Doin' What Comes Natu-rally	44
EP202 	The Big Balloon Blow-Up 	45
EP203 	The Screen Actor's Guilt 	46
EP204 	Right On, Rhydon! 	47
EP205 	The Kecleon Caper 	48
EP206 	The Joy of Water Pokémon 	49
EP207 	Got Miltank? 	50
EP208 	Fight for the Light! 	51
EP209 	Machoke, Machoke Man! 	52
 	 	
==Home video releases==
===North American DVD releases===
===Australian DVD releases===
==Trivia==
* This season, along with Pokémon: The Johto Journeys, did not air in and .
* In , only the first 26 episodes were aired.
* In , only the first 25 episodes were aired, and the first 16 episodes was released on DVD, with the following four being released on MiniDVD.
** The MiniDVD release misspelled the name of the season as Jhoto League Champions.
* This is the last season of the anime to air in before the release of Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl, seven years later.
==In other languages==
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