XY025/Trivia


 * Professor Oak's Pokémon Holo Caster:
 * In this Gym, used    while Grant only used his  and , making it a two-on-three Gym battle, the first one of its kind seen in the anime.
 * This is the third Gym battle that Ash had where he was allowed to use more Pokémon than the Gym Leader. The first two were his rematch with Whitney in A Dairy Tale Ending of the original series and his battle against Roxie in Rocking the Virbank Gym! Part 1 and Part 2 of the.
 * and Ash narrate the preview for the next episode.
 * Ash reveals that is his favorite move.
 * Music from Kyurem VS. the Sword of Justice is used in this episode.
 * This episode bears some coincidental similarities to Battling for the Love of Bug-Types:
 * Both were the first episodes to have their air dates moved forward due to the postponement of other episodes: BW023 (unaired), BW024 (unaired), and An Undersea Place to Call Home!.
 * Both episodes involve Gym battles.
 * The featured Gym Leaders, Burgh and Grant, already made their debut exactly five episodes prior, in Sewaddle and Burgh in Pinwheel Forest! and Breaking Titles at the Chateau! respectively (if the aforementioned postponed episodes aren't counted).
 * This episode was originally scheduled to air on May 8, 2014, but was pushed up two weeks after the postponement of An Undersea Place to Call Home!.
 * The dub of the episode first aired in on June 22, 2014, 13 days before  airing.
 * 's method of jumping on the rocks to gain momentum and get closer to Onix is derived from how it saved in the previous episode, a detail that was not apparent due to the postponement.

Errors

 * Right after they enter the gym, the camera from behind shows next to, as well as the gang spread out, despite the front camera angle showing Bonnie behind  and  and the group being closer together.
 * Grant's is depicted much larger than normal  in some scenes.
 * In the and  dub, just when Ash reaches the top of the wall climb, his English voice can faintly be heard.