Pokémon: Advanced Generation · Advanced Challenge arc

AG050 · Pros and Con Artists

Name: Pros and Con Artists
Released: 2004-10-30

ポケモンコンテスト・ハジツゲ大会！！

US air. 2004-10-30 JP air. 2003-11-06 Season. Advanced Challenge (S7) Position. Episode 50 of 192 in Advanced Generation

Synopsis

What happens.

Ash and his friends arrive at Fallarbor Town, where May will participate in her second Pokémon Contest. May is far more confident than last time that she and Beautifly will win.

Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's AG050 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.

Story arc · AG041-AG092

Advanced Challenge.

May enters Hoenn Contests; Ash continues the gym challenge. Includes the Mirage Island filler and Norman's Petalburg Gym battle (a high point of the era).

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Pokémon featured · 20

Who appears.

Linked entries open the species page on the Pokédex. Items without a sprite (alternate forms, regional variants, generic group references) fall back to a name pill.

Other episodes in Advanced Challenge.

Episode synopsis from Bulbapedia, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5. Editorial context (arc affiliation, cultural moments, character signatures) hand-verified May 2026. Pokémon, character names, and series titles © Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc., The Pokémon Company, OLM Inc. This is an unofficial fan reference.