DP027
Settling a Not-So-Old Score!
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Settling a Not-So-Old Score! (Japanese: 決戦!ポッチャマVSポッタイシ!! Decisive Battle! Pochama vs. Pottaishi!!) is the 27th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on April 5, 2007 as part of a one-hour special with DP026, and in the United States on September 8, 2007.
Synopsis
With Dawn's Pokémon Contest coming to its end, she is pit up against her childhood friend, Kenny. Its Piplup vs Prinplup... But who will win?
Major events
- Dawn wins her first contest ribbon.
- Dawn beats Jessie's Dustox with her Piplup in the quarterfinals of the contest.
- Dawn narrowly beats Kenny's Prinplup in the finals.
Debuts
Characters
Humans
- Ash Ketchum
- Dawn
- Brock
- Jessie
- James
- Marian
- Contesta
- Sukizō
- Nurse Joy
- Kenny
- Johanna
- Coordinators
- Audience
Pokémon
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
- Mime Jr. (James's)
- Piplup (Dawn's)
- Buneary (Dawn's)
- Pachirisu (Dawn's)
- Seviper (Jessie's)
- Dustox (Jessie's)
- Prinplup (Kenny's)
- Alakazam (Kenny's)
- Nidoking
- Magneton
- Koffing (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
- Magmar
- Sneasel
- Sealeo
- Solrock
- Bagon
- Kricketune
- Buizel
* No official credit was given for this character.
Trivia
- Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and a reduced cut of Ready Go! are used as background music.
- Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: James's Carnivine
- Pokémon senryū: マスキッパ きょうもはらぺこ すきっぱら Muskippa is also starving today: empty stomach.
Errors
After Dawn's win against Jessie, Marian says that Dawn and Piplup are off to the final round, but Dawn vs. Jessie was a first round match, Piplup is later seen defeating Bagon and then fighting against Kenny and Prinplup in the final round.
Dub edits
In other languages
- Italian: Il primo Fiocco di Lucinda & Un avversario leale
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