The Winner by a Nosepass – Pokémon Season 6, Episode 16

Season	Pokémon: Advanced (Season 6) · The Stone Badge, Devon & Mr. Briney arc (AG016–AG018)
Episode	Season 6, episode 16 · English episode 289 · Japanese episode 292 · Bulbapedia code AG016
English title	The Winner by a Nosepass
Japanese title	カナズミジム！ノズパスの秘密兵器！！ Kanazumi Jimu! Nozupasu no Himitsu Heiki!! — “Kanazumi Gym! Nosepass’s Secret Weapon!!”
First aired (Japan)	13 March 2003 · TV Tokyo
First aired (US)	10 January 2004 · Kids’ WB
Screenplay	Atsuhiro Tomioka
Opening / ending (Japan)	Advance Adventure – GARDEN · Soko ni Sora ga Aru Kara (Because the Sky Is There) – Toshiko Ezaki
English opening	I Wanna Be a Hero – David Rolfe
Who’s That Pokémon?	Pupitar (US)
Previous episode	Gonna Rule the School! (AG015)
Next episode	Stairway to Devon (AG017)

Plot episodeStone BadgeMay chooses Contests

The Winner by a Nosepass is the 16th episode of Pokémon: Advanced, the sixth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 289th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 292, Bulbapedia code AG016). It first aired in Japan on 13 March 2003 and in the United States on 10 January 2004. It falls within the season’s The Stone Badge, Devon & Mr. Briney stretch (EP16–EP18).

Synopsis · Major Events · Trivia · All episodes

Synopsis

May finally admits to everyone that she wants to be a pokémon coördinator. Ash battles Roxanne for the Stone Badge and wins. All this fuss over teaching Pikachu Iron Tail, knowing that Treecko trained at that waterfall learning to break rocks with his tail using Pound.

Observation: Treecko can learn Iron Tail too. Imagine the possibilities….

Major Events

• Stone Badge. May decides to become a Pokémon Coordinator
• Pikachu masters Iron Tail after taking a Zap Cannon head-on
• Team Rocket skip the motto
• Nosepass debuts

Pokémon making their anime debut

• Nosepass#0299 · AG016

Trivia

• The English title plays on "winner by a nose".
• The screenplay is by Atsuhiro Tomioka.
• This is a plot episode: it advances the Hoenn storyline.

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