Pokémon: Advanced Generation · Battle Frontier arc
AG169 · Talking a Good Game!
タワータイクーン、リラ登場！
Synopsis
What happens.
Running alongside Pikachu, Ash heads towards the III for his sixth Frontier Symbol. Pikachu comes to a stop as a Beedrill starts to attack him and Ash. As the Beedrill closes in on Ash, Anabel appears to stop Beedrill from attacking them.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's AG169 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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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.