He meets the girl Misty along the way, as well as many others, and the group are often at odds with the silly and mostly incompetent Team Rocket, who seek to capture Pikachu, and fail every time. Much of Pokémon: The Series was a monster-of-the-week style, with each episode ...
Ash carries with him half of a broken Poké Ball, while Gary Oak has the other half, as a symbol of their ongoing, but now friendly, rivalry; Misty's special lure, which she sent to him as a gift; and half of the Terracotta Medal he received after his Contest Battle with May in ...