| EP# | English title Japanese title | Air Date | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 551 | 546 | "A Crasher Course in Power!" (Nomose Gym! VS Maxium Mask!!) "Nomose Jimu! VS Makishimamu Kamen!!" (ノモセジム！VSマキシマム仮面!!) | June 19, 2008 | November 22, 2008 | January 31, 2009 |
| At the Pastoria Gym Ash challenges Crasher Wake to a 3-on-3 Gym Battle using Pikachu, Turtwig and Buizel, while Wake uses Gyarados, Quagsire, and Floatzel. However, Pikachu accidentally shocks Buizel and this causes them to argue which makes a difficulty in helping Ash defeat Wake. Suddenly, thanks to that Buizel had rescued Pikachu from the attack; their argument concludes. Ash manages to defeat Wake and he earns the Fen Badge. | |||||
