Pokémon: Advanced Generation · Battle Frontier arc

AG163 · Cutting the Ties That Bind!

ジュカイン!復活の夜明け!!

US air. 2006-11-04 JP air. 2006-02-09 Season. Battle Frontier (S9) Position. Episode 163 of 192 in Advanced Generation

Synopsis

What happens.

Ash and his friends are out behind the local Pokémon Center, preparing for their next challenges: Ash is training for the Battle Palace, and May is training with Eevee for her upcoming Contest.

Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's AG163 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.

Story arc · AG146-AG192

Battle Frontier.

Cast returns to Kanto. Ash faces seven Frontier Brains (Spencer, Tucker, Lucy, Greta, Noland, Brandon, Anabel). Defeats all of them, including legendary Brandon (Regice + Registeel + Regirock). Turns down a Frontier Brain offer.

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Pokémon featured · 16

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.

More from this arc

Other episodes in Battle Frontier.

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.