Pokémon the Series: XY / XYZ · XYZ arc
XY097 · A Fiery Rite of Passage!
シシコとカエンジシ！炎の旅立ち！！
Synopsis
What happens.
Ash and his friends' journey to the Snowbelle City Gym takes them through an open grassland. They stop momentarily for Clemont to catch his breath, to which Bonnie suggests Clemont keep up, or he will get left behind.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's XY097 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.
Story arc · XY094-XY140
XYZ.
Ash-Greninja's Bond Phenomenon stabilizes. Z2 / Squishy (Zygarde Core) bonded to Bonnie; the Zygarde plot escalates. Team Flare's endgame; Kalos League finals.
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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 XYZ.
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.