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| Season | Pokémon: Master Quest (Season 5) · New Bark Town, Larvitar & Mt. Silver arc (EP256–EP264) |
| Episode | Season 5, episode 50 · English episode 259 · Japanese episode 262 · Bulbapedia code EP260 |
| English title | A Crowning Achievement |
| Japanese title | ヤドキング! おうじゃのしるし! Yadokingu! Ōja no Shirushi! — “Yadoking! King’s Symbol!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 8 August 2002 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 23 August 2003 · Kids’ WB |
| Screenplay | Junki Takegami |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Ready Go! – Naomi Tamura · Pokettāri Monsutāri – Kana |
| English opening | Believe in Me – David Rolfe |
| Who’s That Pokémon? | Kadabra (US) · Slowpoke (Japan) |
| Previous episode | Entei at Your Own Risk (EP259) |
| Next episode | Here’s Lookin’ at You Elekid! (EP261) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeSlowkingLast cel-animated episode
A Crowning Achievement is the 50th episode of Pokémon: Master Quest, the fifth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 259th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 262, Bulbapedia code EP260). It first aired in Japan on 8 August 2002 and in the United States on 23 August 2003. It falls within the season’s New Bark Town, Larvitar & Mt. Silver stretch (EP256–EP264).
Synopsis
Ash and company hear a waterfall on the path ahead of them and decide to have a picnic there. When they get there though, they find the water level of the lake is extremely low and many slowpoke and slowbro suffering from the lack of fresh water. They also see a king’s rock perched atop a tall rock in the middle of the lake. They meet an archaeologist and his daughter who has a pet slowpoke, who show them a cave drawing of a legend that tells of a slowpoke paradise that was revealed the last time the water level of the lake dropped. According to the legend a slowpoke was able to reach the king’s rock, then bitten on the head by a shellder and evolved into a great leader who was able to find the way to the slowpoke paradise. They hope to find the special slowpoke who will become that leader, but they must make sure that the king’s rock is not stolen by the annoying Team Rocket.
Major Events
- Slowking TV debut
- Last cel-animated episode
Pokémon making their anime debut
Slowking#0199 · EP260
Captures and evolutions
- Slowpoke → Slowking#0199 · Arthur
Trivia
- The English title plays on a crowning achievement (Slowking’s crown).
- The screenplay is by Junki Takegami.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Johto story.
- The Who’s That Pokémon? segment features Slowpoke in Japan, where it almost always matched the episode, but Kadabra in the US, where 4Kids picked the Pokémon at random.
Part of our Pokémon: Master Quest guide. Browse every season of the Pokémon anime.