The episode centers on Ash befriending a Passimian and assisting it in a contest to determine the leader of a Passimian pack.
Touchdown of Friendship!!, if you’re going by the characters’ English-version names) will be skipped over in the U.S. TV broadcast.
The episode, the 1005th for the Japanese series, was shown in Japan back in March, and would have appeared in the U.S. in early August.
An exception to this trend, however, is the Pokémon franchise, for which U.S. TV broadcasts of the show’s current arc, Sun and Moon, lag about four months behind their Japanese dates.