JN114

Friends, Rivals, Lend Me Your Spirit! (Japanese: 炎の特訓バトル！サトシ対シンジ！！ Training Battle of Flames! VS !!) is the 114th episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, and the 1,199th episode of the Pokémon animated series. It first aired in Japan on June 10, 2022, in Canada on November 19, 2022, in South Africa on January 10, 2023, in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2023, in Australia on January 22, 2023, and in the United States on February 24, 2023.
==Blurb==
With the Masters Eight Tournament approaching, Ash is training hard when he receives a call from Professor Oak encouraging him to visit all his Pokémon at the lab. So, he and Goh set off to Pallet Town. There, Ash’s current team begins training with his other Pokémon, but when Gengar ends up in the forest, our heroes unexpectedly run into Paul, Ash’s rival from Sinnoh! Although Paul isn’t in the World Coronation Series, he agrees to battle Ash using his Gyarados, Garchomp, and Metagross—all Pokémon used by members of the Masters Eight. Though Paul’s skills are formidable, Ash wins after Gengar unleashes a fiery new move!
==Plot==
 and his team are hard at work for the Masters Eight Tournament, when he receives an unexpected phone call from , which gives him the idea to bring his team to meet all of at Oak's lab to get them fired up. The instant he and Goh arrive there, Ash's Pokémon swarm over them in a wave of welcoming friendliness. Ash lets his team out and asks his other Pokémon to help them power up for the big tournament. The Pokémon express their willingness to help by showing off a display of their moves, with taking a particular interest in Ash's types. When it touches , it is surrounded by fire and flies off into the distance. When Ash and Goh catch up to it, they also find an and its , who is none other than Paul, Ash's former rival from his time of traveling through Sinnoh. Professor Oak joins in, along with most of Ash's Fire Pokémon, and reveals that Paul had turned up here the day before, having come to learn more about Pokémon from him, given the fact that he is a leading expert in Pokémon research.
Gengar heads off to train with Ash's Fire Pokémon, and Ash intends to join in, but Paul tells him to leave it to his Pokémon. Infernape initially stays behind, but Paul tells him to go along as well, which he does. Goh is surprised to see Infernape listening to Paul until Ash explains that Infernape used to be back as a until he was by him as a failure and taken in by Ash, who raised him into an Infernape. While Ash's Pokémon train and relax with each other, Ash and Paul sit down to talk, with Paul revealing that he didn't participate in the World Coronation Series, uninterested in all the noise of the event. Ash decides to take advantage of the situation and challenges Paul to a . Paul accepts, dictating that the battle will be three-on-three, but also telling Ash to only use Pokémon he intends to use in the Masters Eight Tournament. Ash accepts these conditions and goes to get his team, finding Gengar just in time to see it learn a new move in .
All of Ash's Pokémon gather to watch his and Paul's battle. Ash chooses as his first Pokémon, while Paul leads with . Lucario makes the first move with , surrounding Gyarados with illusionary copies of itself. Gyarados attacks the copies with and , but is forced to recharge after the latter move. Ash tries to exploit this with a close-range , but Lucario gets caught by Gyarados's tail before it can go off and is struck by a flurry of Ice Fangs. After freeing itself with , Lucario starts gathering energy around its fists, signifying that a new move is coming. Ash recognizes the new attack and has his partner hit Gyarados with , right before Gyarados fires right back with Hyper Beam. As the smoke clears, Gyarados is revealed to have fainted, giving Ash the first win of the battle.
Ash and Paul recall their Pokémon, before Ash chooses as his second, and Paul sends out his in response. After a clash of a flurry of s, Dragonite goes in for a , but is beaten to the punch by Garchomp's super effective and takes a lot of damage. Garchomp's assault continues with , which also lands a hit. Ash has Dragonite use its own Draco Meteor in return, even having it charge at Garchomp along with the attack, demonstrating Ash's unpredictable improvisational skills. However, Garchomp's counterattack with Dragon Claw overpowers Dragonite and takes it down, giving Paul one win and evening the score. Ash dubs his new improvised tactic "Dragonite Meteor," but Paul is unimpressed and mocks the name, much to Ash's chagrin.
As Ash recalls Dragonite, Paul recalls Garchomp and sends out his last Pokémon, , whom Ash sends Gengar out against. Metagross uses to match Gengar's speed, before throwing it back with . Paul berates Ash for calling himself one of the Masters Eight if he's struggling against him this much and has Metagross attack with , dealing another big hit. With Infernape's encouragement, Gengar stands back up, not wanting to let Ash and his Fire types who worked so hard to train it down. Gengar then puts its new Will-O-Wisp into practice and successfully lands it. Metagross strikes with another Meteor Mash, but the it received from the Will-O-Wisp weakens the attack, allowing Gengar to withstand it and strike back with , defeating its opponent and making Ash the winner of the battle.
While Ash's Fire types congratulate Gengar and Ash thanks them for their help, Goh points out that Paul's Pokémon were all the same as the respective aces of , , and , and wonders if this was intentional. Paul responds to this observation with a simple smile, bids farewell to Oak, Ash, and Infernape, and heads off. Professor Oak reveals that Paul has been asked to become a Gym Leader, which is why he had come to visit the lab to learn more about Pokémon. Feeling confident thanks to this visit, Ash is eager to head to the Masters Eight Tournament right away, but he and Goh are stopped by the appearance of , who had arrived partway through the battle and invites them to stay a night at the Ketchum household before they leave, which they accept.
==Major events==
* and Goh visit Pallet Town again.
* Ash meets Paul again, with Goh meeting him for the first time.
** In the process, Paul is revealed to have traveled to Kanto and met .
* Ash's Infernape is revealed to have learned .
* Ash's Gengar learns .
* Paul is revealed to own a , a , and a , and to have received an offer to become a Gym Leader.
* Ash's Lucario learns .
* Ash has a three-on-three with Paul and wins.
===Debuts===
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==Trivia==
* Get Inspired! Let's Solve a Poké Riddle!!: 
* The English dub was released on the iTunes Store in Australia on November 6, 2022, 13 days before the episode aired in Canada.
* The opening animation is updated to include Goh's .
* This episode marks the first physical appearance of Paul in the since The Semi-Final Frontier!, 544 episodes earlier.
* This episode marks the largest gathering of to date.
** This episode marks the first physical appearance of several of 's Pokémon after long absences:
*** , who last appeared in The Right Place and the Right Mime, 792 episodes earlier. 
*** and , both of whom last appeared in Working on a Right Move!, 548 episodes earlier.
*** , who last appeared in Battling a Thaw in Relations!, 545 episodes earlier.
*** , , , and , all of whom last appeared in The Semi-Final Frontier!, 544 episodes earlier.
*** and , both of whom last appeared in Memories are Made of Bliss!, 542 episodes earlier.
*** , , , , , and , all of whom last appeared in The Dream Continues!, 400 episodes earlier.
** This episode also marks the first time that all of Ash's Pokémon in his current party and at Professor Oak's Laboratory up to this point have physically appeared since The Right Place and the Right Mime, 792 episodes earlier.
* This episode features the following flashbacks, which have all been remade to match the style introduced in Pokémon Journeys: The Series:
** Ash and Paul's first battle in When Pokémon Worlds Collide!.
** Paul and Ash later offering him a spot on his team in Glory Blaze!.
** Ash comforting Chimchar over his traumatic past in Tears For Fears!.
** Ash and Paul battling in the Lily of the Valley Conference and ending their rivalry in Battling a Thaw in Relations!.
* This is the first time since it became a in The Right Place and the Right Mime where Ash does not get hit by any of his while visiting Professor Oak's Laboratory.
* This is the first episode to show inflicting a on its target.
** This episode also marks the first time that a burned Pokémon is shown to have its Attack power affected by its condition.
* The scene in which Paul meets is similar to how he first met Ash's Gligar in Chim - Charred!.
* Ash and Paul's battle in this episode follows the same ruleset as their first battle in When Pokémon Worlds Collide!, being a three-on-three battle where the first one to win two rounds is the winner. Coincidentally, this battle takes place at Professor Oak's Laboratory, while their first battle took place at Professor Rowan's laboratory.
* The way Paul's traps Ash's Lucario with its tail is similar to the strategy Paul used with his and at several points during their Lily of the Valley Conference battle.
** Furthermore, the way Gyarados repeatedly attacks Lucario with is similar to how Lance's Gyarados did the same to Leon's Charizard in Flash of the Titans!.
* The scene with and Glalie underneath the waterfall resembles a similar scene with Ash and in the second Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire opening, Challenger!!.
* Ash, Goh, and Pikachu narrate the preview for the next episode.
* Mika Kanai, Daisuke Sakaguchi, and Misato Fukuen return to reprise their original Japanese-language voice roles as , , and , respectively.
* Ash's Bayleef receives a dubbed voice for the first time in this episode.
* The English dub title is a reference to the line "" from 's .
* Stephen Fu and Bill Rogers replace Tom Wayland's voice roles as Ash's Gible and , respectively.
===Errors===
* When Ash's Pokémon swoop past to tackle Ash and Goh, Pikachu is left behind. However, in the next shot, he is seen with Ash, Goh, and the other Pokémon.
===Dub edits===
* The Japanese text depicting Professor Oak's Laboratory's name is edited out.
==In other languages==
114
Category:Episodes written by Atsuhiro Tomioka
Category:Episodes storyboarded and directed by Yūji Asada
Category:Episodes storyboarded by Yūji Asada
Category:Episodes directed by Yūji Asada
Category:Episodes animated by Masaaki Iwane
Category:Episodes animated by Izumi Shimura
Category:Episodes by multiple animation directors
Category:Episodes in which a main character's Pokémon learns a new move
Category:Episodes focusing on Ash
Category:Episodes focusing on Paul
Category:Episodes in which an alternately colored Pokémon appears
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
Category:Episodes which aired in Australia before the United States
de:Freunde, Rivalen, stärkt meinen Kampfgeist!
es:EP1203
fr:LV114
it:EP114
ja:新無印編第114話
zh:宝可梦 旅途 第114集