Ash and Pikachu continue their epic journey in the next exciting season of Pokémon the Series: XY! While Ash continues his quest to win eight Gym badges so he can enter the Kalos League, he and his traveling companions will make new friends, forge new rivalries, and, of course, meet some brand-new Pokémon! Serena, with her partner Fennekin and new friend Pancham, will take on the Pokémon Showcase world; Clemont will continue to create inventions and hope some of them are a hit; and Bonnie, as ever, will try to find someone to take care of her big brother!
| Name | Pokémon Season 18 |
|---|---|
| Air Date | November 13th, 2014 |
| Genres | Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
| Network | TV Tokyo |
| Production Companies | The Summit Media Group, Inc., Shogakukan Production, The Pokémon Company, Nintendo, TV Tokyo, 4Kids Entertainment |
| Number of Episodes | 45 Episodes |
| Plot Keywords | pokémon, children, creature, based on video game, fantasy world, adventurer, pikachu, anime |
Episodes List
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 1 : Pathways to Performance Partnering!
November 13th, 2014After Pancham and Chespin get into a fight, Ash, Serena, Clemont, and Bonnie meet Nini, a Pokémon Performer preparing for the Pokémon Showcase. Sere...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 2 : An Undersea Place to Call Home
November 20th, 2014The episode begins with Ash and his friends taking an excursion to the Muraille Coast before heading out to the Cyllage City for Ash's Gym battle with...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 3 : When Light and Dark Collide!
November 27th, 2014Ash with the intention of helping a Snubbull disrupts a play rehearsal. This sends its star Gallade out of commission. Ash's Hawlucha and the Pokemon ...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 4 : A Stealthy Challenge!
December 11th, 2014Ash and his friends meet up with Sanpei and his Greninja who comes to them for help in dealing with another Ninja Trainer. They help Sanpei out, but s...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 5 : A Race for Home!
December 18th, 2014When Serena's mother Grace visits the group on their journey and learns of her daughter's new goal of becoming a Pokémon Performer, Grace wonders if ...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 6 : Facing the Grand Design!
December 25th, 2014Clemont and James must work together to save their friends from the evil Malamar that they last encountered when it controlled Officer Jenny and made ...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 7 : A Slippery Encounter!
January 8th, 2015Ash and his friends encounter an extremely timid but friendly Goomy, which finds itself in a slippery situation when Team Rocket sets their eyes on Pi...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 8 : One for the Goomy!
January 15th, 2015Team Rocket kidnaps Goomy, but Dedenne manages to track them down to save its new friend. ...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 9 : Thawing an Icy Panic!
January 22nd, 2015Ash and his friends team up with the Coumarine City's Gym Leader to stop Team Rocket from stealing a Vanillite, which incurred the anger of its fellow...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 10 : Green, Green Grass Types of Home!
January 29th, 2015Ash challenges Ramos for the Plant Badge and gets backed into a corner by his powerful Grass-type Pokémon. ...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 11 : Under the Pledging Tree!
February 5th, 2015Coumarine City holds an annual festival to celebrate the bond between trainer and Pokémon. However, when Ash has trouble deciding on a present for hi...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 12 : Showcase, Debut!
February 12th, 2015The day of the Coumarine City Showcase arrives, and the group reunites with Shauna. Serena makes a step towards her dream but quickly learns that firs...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 13 : An Oasis of Hope!
February 19th, 2015The gang encounters a Grumpig in the badlands, which uses its superior strength to dominate the Spoink in the area's oasis. When they end up getting c...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 14 : The Future Is Now, Thanks to Determination!
February 26th, 2015Clemont and the others arrive at the Kalos Power Plant and discover Team Rocket is manipulating the Electric Pokémon in the area....
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 15 : A Fork in the Road! A Parting of the Ways!
March 5th, 2015Jessie and Wobbuffet are separated from James and Meowth after being sent flying by Pikachu's Thunderbolt. A doctor named White then saves Jessie from...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 16 : Battling with Elegance And a Big Smile!
March 12th, 2015Pancham and Fennekin start fighting while training with Serena for their next Pokémon Showcase, and she inadvertently yells at them. However, a perso...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 17 : Good Friends, Great Training!
March 26th, 2015Ash reunites with Tierno and decides to prepare for his Lumiose Gym match by challenging his friend to a double battle. When Team Rocket attacks with ...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 18 : Confronting the Darkness!
April 2nd, 2015Ash and the others arrive in Lumiose City and reunite with Clemont and discover that a mad scientist, Belmondo, had invented a Dark Clembot robot, whi...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 19 : The Moment of Lumiose Truth!
April 9th, 2015Ash and Clemont finally begin their promised Gym battle at the Prism Tower and show off their strategies for countering the other's unique battle styl...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 20 : Garchomp's Mega Bond!
April 16th, 2015Ash and the others visit Professor Sycamore to observe his experiment with a Key Stone and a Mega Stone. However, when Team Rocket crashes the experim...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 21 : Defending the Homeland!
April 23rd, 2015Ash and his friends meet a man named Keanan while on their way to Laverre City and they learn about Goodra's history. At the same time, they encounter...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 22 : Beyond the Rainbow!
April 30th, 2015Team Rocket deceives Florges into an alliance and then double crosses it when they attempt to drain all of the Spring water of the wetlands....
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 23 : So You're Having a Bad Day!
May 7th, 2015After an ambush by Team Rocket and a group of Pangoro, the gang gets separated from each other and Bonnie finds herself lost in the forest with Meowth...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 24 : Scary Hospitality!
May 14th, 2015Ash and his friends find themselves lost in the forest and happen upon a creepy house of folklore. They are invited in by its host Lon and despite his...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 25 : A Fashionable Battle!
May 21st, 2015Ash and his friends finally arrive in Laverre City and immediately head over to the Gym only to find that it's closed due to its seasonal Fashion Show...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 26 : Fairy-Type Trickery!
May 28th, 2015Ash challenges Valerie to a battle for the Fairy Badge and finds that appearances aren't everything when he faces her Fairy-type Pokémon....
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 27 : Rivals: Today and Tomorrow!
June 4th, 2015Before parting ways, Ash and Sawyer decide to have a three on three battle where the former helps give the novice trainer gain useful experience....
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 28 : A Not-So-Flying-Start!
June 11th, 2015The gang helps a newly hatched Noibat learn how to fly, but Team Rocket tries to take it for themselves, leaving Hawlucha to keep Noibat safe....
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 29 : A Relay in the Sky!
June 18th, 2015While training Noibat to fly, Ash and the gang learn about a competition called the Pokémon Sky Relay. Ash decides to compete in it with his three Fl...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 30 : Lights! Camera! Pika!
June 18th, 2015Ash and his friends arrive at a village, where they meet a group of Pikachu and their owners, Frank and Jean. Impressed with Ash's Pikachu, Frank want...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 31 : A Frenzied Factory Fiasco!
June 25th, 2015When Ash and his friends arrive at a factory where workers make Poké Balls, Team Rocket appears in another plot to steal all the Poké Balls made in ...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 32 : Performing with Fiery Charm!
July 2nd, 2015The time has come for Serena's second Pokémon Showcase. Only this time, she faces a tougher competition when a familiar face also appears entering th...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 33 : Rotom's Wish!
July 9th, 2015Ash and the others spend the night at a run-down hotel and find it under the control of a gang of thugs who wager Pokémon as prizes for battles. Howe...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 34 : A Festival Trade! A Festival Farewell?
July 23rd, 2015Ash, his friends, and Team Rocket arrive at a costume festival to have fun. During the festivities, Jessie witnesses a Pumpkaboo falling in love with ...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 35 : Over the Mountain of Snow!
July 30th, 2015While continuing on their next adventure, Ash and his friends ride on Mamoswine through the hills as it has heavy snow and come across an Abomasnow, w...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 36 : Adventures in Running Errands!
August 13th, 2015When a Pokémon Center suddenly loses power, Clemont sends Chespin and Bunnelby on an errand to pick up a part so he can fix the generator....
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 37 : Mending a Broken Spirit!
August 20th, 2015When Braixen accidentally breaks her branch while practicing for the next Pokémon Showcase, Serena seeks help after seeing that the branch meant so m...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 38 : A Legendary Photo Op!
August 27th, 2015Ash and the gang reunite with Trevor. He explains his interest in snapping a picture of the legendary Moltres rumored to have been spotted nearby on M...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 39 : The Tiny Caretaker!
September 10th, 2015When Team Rocket tries and fails to capture a Tyrunt, Ash and the gang help to protect it....
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 40 : A Trip Down Memory Train!
September 17th, 2015After defeating Team Rocket, Clemont and Bonnie tell Ash and Serena a story of how they first met Bunnelby....
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 41 : A Frolicking Find in the Flowers!
September 24th, 2015Serena finds an Eevee who loves dancing and performing, but it turns out to be shy and afraid of people. Serena sets out to bond with it....
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 42 : Tag Team Battle Inspiration!
October 1st, 2015While Serena helps her newly captured Eevee, Tierno and Shauna, along with their newly evolved Blastoise and Ivysaur, appear and help her to attempt t...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 43 : A Performance Pop Quiz!
October 8th, 2015The time has come for Serena's third Pokémon Showcase. Serena gets ready to begin her next performance hoping to obtain her second key in the Showcas...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 44 : Cloudy Fate, Bright Future!
October 15th, 2015With the Showcase a success for Serena, Ash and his friends continue their visit to Anistar City for Ash's next gym battle with Olympia. After meeting...
Pokémon Season 18 Episode 45 : All Eyes on the Future!
October 22nd, 2015The time for Ash's Gym Battle has finally arrived. He gets prepared to win his next Gym Badge....