BW069: Cilan Takes Flight!

Episode Plot
After a long time getting here, Ash and co. finally arrive at Mistralton City. Ash plans on challenging the gym leader but Mile, grandfather of Skyla (the current Gym Leader), says that she's knows how the battle will turn out without having an actual battle which she develops an imaginary battle which she calls the "Air Battle" because every trainers around Unova flopped here to challenge her in an actual battle. So she became busier everytime and the time to persue her flight had been taken away. So Cilan challenges her to prove that her "Air Battles" are wrong. Can Cilan do it? No, not at all when he came so close to defeat her third and last pokemon Swanna.

Humans

 * Skyla
 * Mile

Pokémon

 * Unfezant (Male Form)

Items

 * Jet Badge

Trivia

 * This is the fourth episode in which a Gym Badge was seen before Ash won it. The first was in AG055: Poetry Commotion! with the Heat Badge, the second was in DP015: Shapes of Things to Come! with the Coal Badge, and the third being DP163: Fighting Ire With Fire! with the Beacon Badge.
 * Also this is the second episode in which a Gym Leader gives away a badge without battling trainers. The first being DP165: Flint Sparks the Fire!
 * This is the third episode in which one of Ash's friends challenges a Gym Leader and loses. The other two being DP067: Crossing the Battle Line! when Dawn challenges Maylene to a gym battle first. And BW051: Enter Elesa, Electrifying Gym Leader! when Bianca just made an appointment first before Ash would challenge Elesa to a gym battle just to prove to her father that she can continue her journey.
 * This is the first episode when a gym leader from another town challanges another gym leader for instance Cilan, the Striaton City Gym Leader V.S Skyla, the Mistralton City Gym Leader.
 * This is the third time Ash looked up Swoobat on the Pokedex. First was BW027: Emolga the Irresistible! when a whole Swoobat group is chasing Iris, Axew, and Emolga. Second was BW056: The Four Seasons of Sawsbuck! when one Swoobat is with a Pokemon Photographer name Robert.
 * This is the second time Ash looked up Swanna on the Pokedex. The first was BW021: The Lost World of Gothitelle! when Officer Jenny brings out Swanna to clear the fog away near the Skyarrow Bridge that goes to Castelia City.
 * In this episode, Sarah Natochenny not only provided the voice of Ash in this episode, but also Skyla.
 * In addition, Bella Hudson provided the voices of both a young challenger and Skyla's Unfezant.
 * Sean Schemmel provided the voice of one of the appointment checkers.
 * "Who's that Pokemon?": Unfezant (Male Forme) (US)