DP173
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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(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.
Synopsis
Major events
- The gang arrive at Valor Lakefront for the Grand Festival.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
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
- Marowak
- Cubone
- 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.
- The Zapdos that appears in this episode is presumably the same Zapdos that Team Rocket saw from their balloon and attempted to capture in Doc Brock!.
- The Japanese names of Makina's Ditto are Ichigō (1号) and Nigō (2号), which means Number 1 and Number 2, respectively. Those names are most probably a reference to the classic 1971 Henshin Heroes series, Kamen Rider. Also, both in Kamen Rider and with Makina's Ditto, Nigō has a slightly different color scheme from Ichigō.
Errors
Dub edits
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