

Season 3
41 episodes · 191 planned · 2006
After defeating Brandon and declining the offer to be a Frontier Brain, Ash sets off to travel through the far away land of Sinnoh. Once he gets there, he meets up with Hikari, a local trainer from the region, and they decide to travel together.
E01Don't Touch That 'dile
★6.9Ash begins his journey in Johto, a largely unexplored region said to be thickly populated with Pokémon entirely new to him and his friends.
E02The Double Trouble Header
★6.7In a Pokémon battle, Ash soundly defeats an ambitious young Trainer, who runs away dejectedly.
E03A Sappy Ending
★7Ash and friends discover a forest where invading Pinsir are causing heavy deforestation.
E04Roll On, Pokémon!
★6.9Ash and friends stumble into a small valley where Donphan are used to harvest precious stones.
E05Illusion Confusion!
★6.7Who would be foolish enough to brave a thick forest in the dead of night without a Hoothoot guide? Certainly not Ash Ketchum...
E06Flower Power
★6.4Our heroes must help prepare an insecure Bellossom dance troupe for their upcoming exhibition.
E07Spinarak Attack
★6.6Ash and friends reach a new town and hear of three mysterious robbers apparently mimicking the crimes of a legendary master thief.
E08Snubbull Snobbery
★6.4With pet food prepared by a French chef, rooms of WalkMaster exercise equipment and closets stocked with the latest in Pokémon fashion, life couldn't be much better for a Palm Hills Snubbull.
E09The Little Big Horn
★6.7Brock saves a lost and frightened Stantler fawn and carefully nurses it back to health before releasing it.
E10The Chikorita Rescue
★7.9Ash encounters a wild Chikorita and engages it in battle, thinking to add it to his team.
E11Once in a Blue Moon
★6.9Professor Oak's errand—to deliver the mysterious GS Ball to a Poké Ball expert—is interrupted when a Quagsire with a penchant for spherical objects steals the GS ball for use in a nocturnal ritual.
E12The Whistle Stop
★6.6When Team Rocket attacks Ash and his friends, a brave young Trainer and her flock of Ledyba come to the rescue.
E13Ignorance Is Blissey
★6.8Team Rocket can't believe their luck when the Blissey employed in a Pokémon Center willingly gives them the cente's entire food supply.
E14A Bout With Sprout
★7Our heroes are recruited as guest instructors at a youth Pokémon Academy.
E15Fighting Flyer With Fire
★7With Pikachu's help, Ash is confident that winning the Zephyr badge will be a breeze.
E16For Crying Out Loud
★6.8Cute and cuddly is one thing, but a bawling Marill is too much even for Misty.
E17Tanks a Lot!
★6.8Team Rocket's most recent super vehicle, the Arbotank, is their ticket to world domination.
E18Charizard's Burning Ambitions
★7.8When Ash hears of the nearby Charicific Valley, he is sure a quick trip would be just the thing to reignite his Charizard's flagging spirits.
E19Grin to Win!
★6.8The annual Sunflora contest is only a day away and yet our hero's new friend and Sunflora Trainer is unable to convince her star Pokémon to compete.
E20Chikorita's Big Upset
★6.8A severe case of rivalry between Pikachu and Chikorita calls for therapy sessions with Nurse Joy.
E21Foul Weather Friends
★6.7Our heroes chance upon a Hoppip—the fluffy "Cottonweed" Pokémon that is able to drift for miles on a passing wind.
E22The Superhero Secret
★6.8When Ash and friends wander into town, they bring with them a challenge that threatens to be Gligarman's last—Team Rocket.
E23Mild 'n Wooly
★6.8Team Rocket comes in sheep's clothing to relieve a kind Poké-shepherd of her Mareep flock.
E24Wired for Battle!
★6.8When the most promising trainee at a Pokémon dojo abandons battle altogether, it's up to Ash and friends to convince him that battling is more than just a matter of probability.
E25Good 'Quil Hunting
★6.8With Charizard gone and no fire Pokémon to call his own, Ash is overjoyed to come across a Cyndaquil in the wild.
E26A Shadow of a Drought
★6.8Ash carelessly makes enemies of the Slowpoke-worshipping residents of a town.
E27Going Apricorn!
★6.2Ash delivers the mysterious GS Ball to a renowned Pokémon expert, but Team Rocket wreaks trouble when they attempt to harvest the Apricorns essential to local Poké Ball production.
E28Gettin' the Bugs Out
★7When Ash reaches the Hive Gym, he has just the Pokémon to challenge the Gym Leader's Bug Pokémon.
E29A Farfetch'd Tale
★6.2An inexperienced young Trainer mistakenly scares off his own Farfetch'd.
E30Tricks of the Trade
★7At the Pokémon Swap Meet, our heroes befriend a young Pokémon trainer who's having difficulties finding a trading partner willing to accept his Wobbuffet. When Jessie inadvertently deposits her Poké Ball across from his in the exchanger, this young trainer gets more than he had bargained for.
E31The Fire-ing Squad!
★7Rocket attempts to steal all the water Pokémon from the annual Fire and Rescue Grand Prix.
E32No Big Woop!
★6.8Ash and friends enthusiastically volunteer to watch over a troubled trainer's school of Wooper.
E33Tunnel Vision
★7While Ash and friends deliberate on how to pass through a tunnel replete with Onix, two wandering Pokémon arrive on the scene together.
E34Hour of the Houndour
★7Investigating a string of mysterious thefts, our heroes discover a pack of Houndour, struggling to survive in the wild.
E35The Totodile Duel
★7Ash and Misty's friendly rivalry is tested when they both try to capture a Totodile at the same time. Unable to determine whose Poké Ball had captured the wild Pokémon, the two must battle it out to determine the Totodile's new master.
E36Hot Matches!
★7When Ash and friends hear of a virtually undefeatable trainer operating nearby, they seek her out.
E37Love, Totodile Style
★6.7Ash's Totodile falls head over tail for a passing Azumarill, but is still unsuccessful in having its feelings requited when Team Rocket kidnap the Pokémon before Totodile's eyes.
E38Fowl Play!
★6.8Ash has his sights set on a rare and brightly-colored Noctowl.
E39Forest Grumps
★7.2When an Ursaring attack leaves Team Rocket and our heroes in compromising positions, compromise they do, members of each team being paired with members of the other.
E40The Psychic Sidekicks!
★6.8Our heroes come to a town whose residents all raise Psychic Pokémon to repel the Ghost Pokémon that lurk nearby
E41The Fortune Hunters
★7A Pokémon Fortune Telling boom turns out to be a Team Rocket plot to steal Pokémon from local trainers.
