Pokémon: The Original Series · Indigo League (Kanto) arc

EP079 · The Fourth Round Rumble

Name: The Fourth Round Rumble
Released: 1999-11-13

くさのフィールド! いがいなきょうてき!

US air. 1999-11-13 JP air. 1999-01-01 Season. Indigo League (S1) Position. Episode 79 of 276 in Original

Synopsis

What happens.

Ash and Ritchie find themselves battling each other in the fifth round of the Indigo League.

Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's EP079 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.

Story arc · EP001-EP082

Indigo League (Kanto).

Ash collects eight Kanto badges, faces rival Gary Oak, and competes at the Indigo Plateau Conference. Misty and Brock complete the original trio. Team Rocket's Jessie / James / Meowth introduced in EP002.

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Pokémon featured · 12

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 Indigo League (Kanto).

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.