Pokémon Journeys: The Series · Pokémon Ultimate Journeys arc
JN114 · Friends, Rivals, Lend Me Your Spirit!
炎の特訓バトル！サトシ対シンジ！！
Synopsis
What happens.
Ash and his team are hard at work training for the Masters Eight Tournament, when he receives an unexpected phone call from Professor Oak, which gives him the idea to bring his team to meet all of his Pokémon at Oak's lab to get them fired up.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's JN114 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.
Story arc · JN089-JN146
Pokémon Ultimate Journeys.
Masters Eight tournament. Ash defeats Steven, Cynthia, and finally Champion Leon in the finale. Becomes the canonical World Champion.
Read the full Journeys guidePokémon 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.
More from this arc
Other episodes in Pokémon Ultimate Journeys.
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.