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* BigEater: After winning the competition, Snorlax scarfs down a bunch of food until it falls asleep.

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* BigEater: After winning the competition, Snorlax scarfs down a bunch of his hard-earned food until it falls asleep.and [[FoodComa goes to sleep]] once he was finished.



* YearsSupplyPrize: The sumo competition offers a prize of a King's Rock and a year's supply of Pokémon food. Naturally, Ash's Snorlax devours the year's supply within minutes.

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* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: Snorlax's sheer girth is such that he breezes through his matches simply by letting his opponent bounce back off against his belly and out of the ring. It isn't the final match against Feraligatr that he actually has to work for a victory.
* YearsSupplyPrize: The sumo competition offers a prize of a King's Rock and a year's supply of Pokémon food. Naturally, Ash's Snorlax devours the year's supply within minutes. It's just as well, as Misty notes, since they didn't really have a practical way of transporting so much food with them on foot.
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* PaperThinDisguise: Team Rocket enters Wobbufett into the tournament disguised as a Miltank. The disguise manages to fool everyone despite Wobbufett's face is clearly seen, although some people do think "Miltank" does look strange.
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* GracefulLoser: When Snorlax is able to defeat Feraligatr in the final match of the competition, Raiden isn’t upset about losing and congratulates Ash on his victory.

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* TemptingFate: A year's supply of Pokémon food is no match for Snorlax!

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* TemptingFate: A year's supply of Pokémon food is no match for Snorlax!Snorlax!
* YearsSupplyPrize: The sumo competition offers a prize of a King's Rock and a year's supply of Pokémon food. Naturally, Ash's Snorlax devours the year's supply within minutes.

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* SumoWrestling: The subject of this episode is Pokemon Sumo competition, where moves are forbidden during the battles and have to pass a weight limit to enter.

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* NeverTrustATitle: The Japanese title translates to Feraligatr vs Blastoise. The match is over in five seconds and the real climatic bout is Snorlax vs Feraligatr.
* SumoWrestling: The subject of this episode is Pokemon the Pokémon Sumo competition, where moves are forbidden during the battles and have to pass a weight limit to enter.enter.
* TemptingFate: A year's supply of Pokémon food is no match for Snorlax!

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* CheatersNeverProsper: Team Rocket tries to cheat their way to victory by disguising Wobbufett as a Miltank and have it sneakily-use Counter to win the tournament. However, Shonosuke, the director of the competition, notices the trick and quickly lodges a protest and disqualifies the TRio.

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* BigEater: After winning the competition, Snorlax scarfs down a bunch of food until it falls asleep.
* BrokeTheRatingScale: Snorlax is so heavy that it crushes the weighting scale just by sitting on it.
* TheBusCameBack: Ash brings back Snorlax to enter the competition, since he [[BrokeTheRatingScale overqualifies]] by a massive margin, but he [[PutOnTheBus sent back to Oak's Lab]] at the end of the episode, as he goes in a food coma after eating much of the year's supply of Pokemon food.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Team Rocket tries to cheat their way to victory by disguising Wobbufett as a Miltank and have it sneakily-use Counter to win the tournament. However, Shonosuke, the director of the competition, notices the trick and quickly lodges a protest and disqualifies the TRio.Trio.
* JustHereForTheFreeSnacks: Snorlax wasn't exactly motivated (i.e. sleeping) when the competition started, but once the announcer revealed that one of the prizes is a year's supply of food, he immediately wakes up and is ready to fight.
* SumoWrestling: The subject of this episode is Pokemon Sumo competition, where moves are forbidden during the battles and have to pass a weight limit to enter.
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!!Japanese Title: ''Ordile VS Kamex! Sumo Match''
!!!Original Airdate: April 19, 2001
!!!US Airdate: March 16, 2002
Our Heroes arrive at an intriguing village and come across a Feraligatr fighting and defeating various Pokemon. This juggernaut of a Pokemon belongs to a trainer named Raiden and he informs our heroes that the battles in this intriguing village take notes from Sumo wrestling; forbidding moves and only allowing heavyset Pokemon to enter. Ash, excited over this special art of Pokemon battling, decides to enter the yearly competition with his Snorlax and luck would have it, one of prizes is a year's supply of Pokemon food, inspiring the gluttonous Pokemon to perform at its best.

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*CheatersNeverProsper: Team Rocket tries to cheat their way to victory by disguising Wobbufett as a Miltank and have it sneakily-use Counter to win the tournament. However, Shonosuke, the director of the competition, notices the trick and quickly lodges a protest and disqualifies the TRio.

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