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To air on February 9th
No further information as yet, courtesy of Dephender on Serebii
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Lance is back, everyone! Prepare for a showdown of Champions!Promises to be a very exciting episode
Brief Summary courtesy of Serebii:
The third episode features Ash & Go travel to Galar to watch the Pokémon World Championships final between Lance and the undefeated trainer in Galar, Leon
It'll be cool seeing Lance again plus Leon being introduced.The third episode features Ash & Go travel to Galar to watch the Pokémon World Championships final between Lance and the undefeated trainer in Galar, Leon
Technically, he was referred to as Champion already in Johto. AG just decided to randomly call him an Elite Four member, likely due to FireRed and LeafGreen.With Lance being in this episode, I wonder if they’ll refer to him as the Kanto Champion like they did for Steven in the Mega Evolution Special.
Even if he doesn't, it'd probably be awesome to see how good of a fight Lance puts up against a Dynamax Pokémon.I'm also curious whether Lance will use Dynamax here. That certainly seems logical given the title and the fact it takes place in Galar.
Lance has been confirmed to have a regular Gyarados too in the anime. Him not using the red one wouldn't contradict anything we already know.And that they completely forget about the latter's Red Gyarados.
Oh, boy! That's some talented people working with this episode! I expect high-scale epicness!Screenplay 米村正二 (Shōji Yonemura)
Storyboard 浅田裕二 (Yūji Asada)
Episode Director 浅田裕二 (Yūji Asada)
Animation Director 岩根雅明 (Masaaki Iwane)
Even if they don't interact, Ash could still recognize him.As for continuity I wouldn't be surprised if they have Lance and Ash never meet to avoid having to do anything either way.
This is a tournament for Champions. Raihan isn't officially recognized as a Champion.The only thing that bums me out is Lance being here. Could they really not have just used Raihan, Leon's canon rival, who's also a Dragon trainer, and a Galar character? Seriously, this show is already probably gonna give Kanto more focus than any other region. The least they could do is focus entirely on new characters when in the new region, but nah, of course they'd rather just shove a Kanto trainer in here, as if they're aren't 100 other places they could have used Lance.