Unbeatable

Unbeatable is the opening theme song for the English dub of the eighth season, Pokémon: Advanced Battle. It was used from Clamperl of Wisdom to Pasta La Vista!, as well as in the movie Lucario and the Mystery of Mew.

The opening animation is composed of clips from the eighth and ninth Japanese openings, Pokémon Symphonic Medley and. It was written and produced by John Siegler and David Rolfe.

TV version
''Ohh oh-oh-oh oh-oh I'm unbeatable

Walking down this endless highway With nothing but my friends beside me We'll never give in, we'll never rest Advanced Battle is the ultimate test

From and They can never win, but they sure can try

Ohh oh-oh-oh oh-oh I'm unbeatable Pokémon (Advanced Battle!)

Oh oh-oh-oh oh-oh I'm undefeatable From  and the ancient past They come to play, but they'll never last

Ohh oh-oh-oh oh-oh I'm unbeatable Pokémon (Advanced Battle!)

Ohh oh-oh-oh oh-oh I'm undefeatable

Oh oh oh (Advanced Battle!) I'm unbeatable Pokémon''

Ending version
''Walking down this endless highway With nothing but my friends beside me We'll never give in, we'll never rest Advanced Battle is the ultimate test

Ohh oh-oh-oh oh-oh I'm unbeatable Pokémon (Advanced Battle!)

Ohh oh-oh-oh oh-oh I'm undefeatable

Oh oh oh (Advanced Battle!) I'm unbeatable Pokémon''

Movie version
''Ohh oh-oh-oh oh-oh I'm unbeatable

Walking down this endless highway Nothing but my friends beside me We'll never give in, we'll never rest Advanced Battle is the ultimate test

From the earth, the land The sea and sky They can never win, but they sure can try

Ohh oh-oh-oh oh-oh I'm unbeatable Pokémon (Advanced Battle!)

Oh oh-oh-oh oh-oh I'm undefeatable From the stars and the ancient past They come to play, but they'll never last

Ohh oh-oh-oh oh-oh I'm unbeatable Pokémon (Advanced Battle!)

Ohh oh-oh-oh oh-oh I'm undefeatable You think you'll win, but soon you'll see You may beat some, but you can't beat me

I'm undefeatable

There's a feeling deep inside me And it's always there to guide me It's in my heart and in my soul Leading me to the ultimate goal You can try your best, this might be fun You'll go down to defeat before you've begun

Oh oh-oh-oh oh-oh I'm unbeatable Pokémon (Advanced Battle!)

Oh oh-oh-oh oh-oh I'm undefeatable Every move, each attack you choose You think you can win, but you'll always lose

Oh oh oh (Advanced Battle!) I'm unbeatable''

Humans

 * Max
 * Jessie
 * James
 * Drew
 * Harley
 * Professor Birch
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Pokémon

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Opening animation spoilers

 * The return of.
 * The capture of.
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 * The capture of

Variants

 * 1) Clamperl of Wisdom - Solid as a Solrock: The original animation.
 * 2) Vanity Affair - Pasta la Vista!:  and  are removed from 's scene; the shot of  and  is replaced with a clip of  using.

This the first dub opening to have a running change to it as its tenure progressed. The reason for this is that the inclusion of animation from the Japanese opening revealed three new Pokémon to western audiences:, and. The former two did not even have official English names yet at the time, while on top of that, Mime Jr. was not captured by James until the following season.

Mime Jr. is simply painted out of the scene. Weavile, on the other hand, is removed by replacing the frames in which it appears with others from the same sequence, thus slightly changing the way Team Rocket dances. A particular frame, however, was created from scratch by mixing three different shots (the original one, plus one for Wobbuffet and one for James's upper body, as both of them were obscured by Weavile in the original), as shown below.

Trivia

 * This opening has the most Pokémon species in it, with 72.
 * Also, this opening has the most Pokémon in it, counting the same species. The scenes featuring wild Pokémon in their natural habitats feature roughly one thousand of them.
 * This opening also has almost every Legendary Pokémon released up to Generation III, excluding only.
 * The closing credits feature a shot of Zapdos and Moltres flying past Ash, which is not present in the opening credits.
 * This is the first opening to feature Pokémon that were from Generation IV that had not yet been revealed outside of Japan.
 * This opening features the Battle Frontier symbol along with the Frontier Brains, all of whom are shown as shadows with the exception of Noland. This is because it uses footage from the first variant of the Japanese opening, which had the Frontier Brains revealed in the sequence as they debuted in the episodes themselves.
 * Coincidentally, Noland is the only Frontier Brain to appear in Advanced Battle, while the others did not appear until the next season.
 * A karaoke version of the song was released on the  CD.