All episodes Season 16 S16E07 2013-03-16 22 min 1990s

Pokémon

Mission: Defeat Your Rival!

Season 16, Episode 7 · Aired 2013-03-16

Pokémon — Mission: Defeat Your Rival! (S16E07)

Synopsis

The preliminaries of the Unova League continue and the battle between Ash and Trip is unbelievably tense. With Serperior constantly evading Pikachu's attacks, Ash soon finds that he may be out of the tournament earlier than he thought. Will Ash manage to get through Serperior's defences and win? In the other side of the Unova League, Kotetsu and Bianca start a battle. Using Samurott against Escavalier, the battle gets even more tense than before when Samurott's attacks seem to do no damage on Escavalier. Who will win the battles and get through to the finals?

In the series

This episode is part of Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication.

Gotta catch ’em all — late-’90s kids’ globalization in pocket-monster form.

Key cast

Also in season 16

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