>>56272060Remember PokéRinger? Copypasting this piece of trivia from Bulbapedia.
>The depictions of the PokéRinger competition in That's Just Swellow and Pursuing a Lofty Goal! have a lot in common:>They took place exactly ten episodes after Ash won a Gym Badge.>Ash participated with his first capture in the new region, a Normal/Flying-type which evolved into its final stage in the final round, and won after his newly-evolved Pokémon hit the ring with its wing to make a goal from a distance.>Due to not having a Pokémon capable of flying, James borrowed the Bug-type Pokémon that Jessie had at the time.>The defending champions, Volt for Hoenn and Provo for Sinnoh, were both overconfident, had remarkably similar Japanese names (ボルト Boruto and ポルト Poruto, respectively) and did not make it past the first round after losing to a first-time PokéRinger (Ash and Paul, respectively). 