Home/Episode Guide/Satoshi VS Kotetsu! The Secret Weapon: Sazandora!! / The 5th PokéSma Champion Position Tournament, where the Previous Champion Director Shoko-tan, the Original Champion Group Member Baba and the 3rd Champion Group Member Yamamoto All Compete for Victory!/サトシ対コテツ! 秘密兵器サザンドラ!! / 第5回ポケスマ最強王座決定大会、前回王者のしょこたん部長に初代王者・馬場隊員や第3回王者・山本隊員らが挑む!
Satoshi tai Kotetsu! Himitsuheiki Sazandora!! / Dai5kai PokéSma saikyō ōza kettei taikai, zenkai ōja no Shokotan-buchō ni shodai ōja Baba-taiin ya dai3kai ōja Yamamoto-taiinra ga idomu!
Satoshi VS Kotetsu! The Secret Weapon: Sazandora!! / The 5th PokéSma Champion Position Tournament, where the Previous Champion Director Shoko-tan, the Original Champion Group Member Baba and the 3rd Champion Group Member Yamamoto All Compete for Victory!
The announcer introduced the show by telling the audience that this is the 5th PokéSma Champion Position Tournament, where the previous Champion Director Shoko-tan and the Original Champion Group Member Baba and the 3rd Champion Group Member Yamamoto all Compete for Victory. Clips from the previous tournaments were shown.
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Golgo and the entire Smash crew were then on hand to wish the viewers a happy new year. They had all made banner scrolls that said: Championship (優勝) as they were all hoping to become the champion. The announcer then went over the previous four tournaments and discussed how each of them went. Baba has made it to the finals in every tournament and Shoko-tan had been in the finals three times and won twice. Shoko-tan is the current champion from the fourth tournament.
Golgo then noticed that Akiyama's banner did not say Championship (優勝) like everyone elses. Instead it said "Runner up" (準優勝)
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International Division - Match 1 - Niccolo VS Maru
This battle was only briefly shown. Only one person from the International Division would make it into the Smash Tournament, so the Internation Division all battled each other to determine the champion of the Internation Division and the person who would advance to the main tournament. Niccolo had a Braviary and Buffron while Maru had a Swanna and a Frost Rotom. The battle ended with Nicollo winning as he defeated her Chandela.
International Division - Match 2 - Neese VS Noemi
Once again this battle was quickly shown but Neese had a PorygonZ and a Roubushin while Noemi had a Tsubotsubo and a Kekking. His PorygonZ used Tri Attack on Tsubotsubo and managed to freeze it. Roubushin then attacked and managed to confuse Noemi's Kekking. The battle then fast-forwareded to a point where Neese still had his PorygonZ but also had an Ulgamoth while Noemi had a Raichu and a Aiant but both her Pokémon were defeated at the same time to give Neese the victory.
International Division - Match 3 - Neese VS Niccolo
As the winner of the last tournament, Shoko-tan go a buy into the second round of the tournament while Baba was placed at the other end of the tournament tree as he was the runner up from the last tournament. The remaining contestants drew numbers out of a box to determine which matchups they would be in for the first round. Yamamoto was the last person to draw numbers and he didn't want to get 5 because he'd be matched up with Baba in the first round, a rematch of the 3rd tournament final battle that Yamamoto won. Unfortunately for him he picked 5.
The battles in the first round were 4VS4 level 50 Pokémon. The battle started with Neese using his PorygonZ and a Roubushin while Golgo countered with Yamirami and Hariteyama. Golgo started off the battle by using Fake Out with Yamirami which damaged both of Neese's Pokémon. Hariteyama used Toxic Orb (どくどくだま) which is an item that poisons the Pokémon holding it. Yamirami then used Confuse Ray on Roubushin and confused it. Then Hariteyama used Close Combat on PorygonZ and knocked it out. Neese's Roubushin used Drain Punch on Hariteyama which critically injured it and restored all of Roubushin's HP. Neese's PorygonZ was replaced with his Ulgamoth. Yamirami then used Confuse Ray on Ulgamoth and confused it. Neese's Ulgamoth used Heat Wave and damaged both of Golgo's Pokémon and knocked out Hariteyama. Golgo sent out his trusty Okutank to replace his fallen Hariteyama. It used Ice Beam on Ulgamoth and froze it. Yamirami then knocked out Roubushin leaving Neese with just his frozen Ulgamoth. Okutank then used Hydro Pump to finish it off. Neese then sends out his final Pokémon Dredear but Golgo still had 3 active Pokémon. Dredear used on Yamirami and it became infatuated and less likely to attack. Okutank had a trick up its sleeve though and it used Fire Blast to one hit KO Neese's Dredear and give Golgo the victory in the battle. Golgo moved on to the second round while Neese and the International Division were eliminated from the tournament.
Akiyama started off the match by sending out Onigohri and Yukinooh while Red sent out Lizardon and Hassam. Red's Hassam started off by using Bullet Punch on Akiyama's Onigohri and critically hitting it. Onigohri then attacked using Blizzard and damaged both of Red's Pokémon. Lizardon then attacked Yukinooh with Inferno and almost 1 hit KO'd it but it wasn't enough as it was holding a Focus Sash (きあいのタスキ) which allows the holder to endure one potential KO attack by only having 1 HP. Yukinooh then used Blizzard and knocked out Lizardon. Yukinooh was then knock it out as well as it sustained damage from the previous Inferno which had burned it. Red then sent out Dainose while Akiyama sent out Todoseruga. Red's Hassam started off the round by using Bullet Punch on Todoseruga. Blizzard was then used twice by Akiyama and the second time it froze Dainose. Red then decided to switch out his Dainose for a Charem. Onigohri then used Blizzard again and froze Charem this time and knocked out Hassam. Blizzard was used yet again and Charem was knocked out so Dainose returned to battle in a frozen state. Blizzard was used yet again and knocked out Dainose to give Akiyama the victor and Red was eliminated from the tournament.
Yamamoto started off the battle by sending out Crecelia and Metagross while Akiyama countered with Onigohri and Yukinooh. Yamamoto started off by switching out Metagross for Bangiras. Onigohri then attacked using Blizzard and damaged both of Yamamoto's Pokémon. The match then fast-forwards and Yamamoto has a Chandela out with his Bangiras while Akiyama has his Nokocchi out with his Onigohri. Bangiras uses Rock Slide on Akiyama's Pokémon, knocking them out. It then fast-forwards again to just show Yukinooh also being knocked out with Rock Slide. Yamamoto did not loose any of his Pokémon in the battle and he advanced to the finals against Shoko-tan.
Shigeki Morimoto is scheduled to appear once again in this episode according to Junichi Masuda's Twitter feed. Contrary to what many fansites are speculating about his appearance, this is a scheduled appearance as the last time he was on Smash was for the 4th Smash tournament as a judge/spectator.
He will be taking a similar role in this episode as he did in the previous episode. Despite there being a large announcement on January 8th, 2013, it is VERY unlikely that Masuda or Morimoto will announce anything on Smash 117 as most of the live action part of the episode will be filled with the tournament like last time. There is even more participants in this 5th tournament than in the 4th tournament, so they will already be stretched for time.
It is also VERY unlikely that The Pokemon Company would trump their own announcement by two days. Whatever the announcement is, Smash will cover it in their Marketing Department segment sometime mid to late January 2013.