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title: "Pokemon Sword/Shield – Ash’s Master Tournament Team distribution"
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description: "The Pokemon Company announced that Pokemon Sword and Shield will get a special set of distributions (at least) in Japan."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2022-08-11 21:21:45"
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Pokemon Sword/Shield - Ash's Master Tournament Team distribution | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Pokemon Sword/Shield – Ash’s Master Tournament Team distribution](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/pokemon-sword-shield-ash-master-tournament-team-distribution.jpeg "Pokemon Sword/Shield – Ash’s Master Tournament Team distribution")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/pokemon-sword-shield-ash-master-tournament-team-distribution.jpeg)The Pokemon Company announced that Pokemon Sword and Shield will get a special set of distributions (at least) in Japan.

Starting the week of August 11, a series of serial codes for Pokemon Sword and Shield will be given out with episodes of the Pokemon Journeys anime. Each code can be used to redeem a different Pokemon that Ash is using in the Masters Tournament arc of the anime. Five Pokemon will be given away, and Pikachu will be given away as part of a separate tie-in to a movie.

## [](#ashs-masters-tournament-team)Ash’s Masters Tournament Team

- Dracovish – August 12th
- Dragonite – August 26th
- Gengar – September 2nd
- Sirfetch’d – September 9th
- Lucario – September 16th

At the time this was written, we didn’t know what these Pokemon’s exact traits were.

Also there seems to be no indication of this coming to the West.

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