Pokemon Episode 154 - Hot Matches!
Season 3: The Johto Journeys
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| 154 | 152 | "Hot Matches!" (Airmd VS Hinoarashi! Wings of Steel!!) "Eamūdo VS Hinoarashi! Hagane no Tsubasa!!" (エアムードVSヒノアラシ！はがねのつばさ!!) | June 15, 2000 | May 12, 2001 |
| Ash meets an unbeatable trainer with a Skarmory, a Steel-type bird. To defeat her, Ash's Cyndaquil will have to learn to start using his fire attacks earlier in battle. (Or) When Ash and friends hear of a virtually undefeatable trainer operating nearby, they seek her out, only to see first Brock’s Vulpix and then Ash’s Cyndaquil take heavy abuse from her Skarmory-despite its disadvantage against the Fire element. | ||||
