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Dealing With a Fierce Double Ditto Drama!
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Dealing With a Fierce Double Ditto Drama! (Japanese: メタモン・へんしんバトル!本物はドッチ~ニョ!? Metamon - Transformation Battle! Which One is the Real One!?) is the 173rd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 639th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 22, 2010 and is scheduled to air in the United States on September 11, 2010.
Synopsis
Major events
- The gang arrive at Valor Lakefront for the Grand Festival.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
- Ash
- Dawn
- Brock
- Jessie
- James
- Flint (fantasy)
- Makina
- Giovanni (fantasy)
- Team Rocket grunts (fantasy)
- Unnamed Trainer (flashback)
- Unnamed girl
Pokémon
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Piplup (Dawn's)
- Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
- Staraptor (Ash's)
- Infernape (Ash's)
- Gible (Ash's)
- Togekiss (Dawn's)
- Sudowoodo (Brock's)
- Croagunk (Brock's)
- Happiny (Brock's)
- Seviper (Jessie's)
- Carnivine (James's)
- Ditto (Makina's)
- Ditto (Makina's; shiny)
- Zapdos (flashback)
- Marowak (unnamed Trainer's; flashback)
- Cubone (unnamed Trainer's; flashback)
- Giratina (fantasy)
- Regigigas (fantasy)
Trivia
- Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Wobbuffet
- The lecture marks the first animated appearance of a female Wobbuffet, which displays the lipstick that is present on female Wobbuffet in the games.
- This episode explains that Ditto in the anime are able to transform into any Pokémon that is in the immediate area. This differs from the games, where Ditto can only transform into any Pokémon that is currently in battle.
- When the Ditto got transformed into Meowth, they also were able to speak human language.
Errors
- During the battle between Ash and Makina, Ditto would revert to its natural form before transforming into another Pokémon; later in the episode, however, (when changing from Staraptor and Gible to Pikachu) both Ditto made a direct transformation instead.
Dub edits
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