EP174

Imitation Confrontation

EP174   めざせメタモンマスター！イミテふたたび!! Aim to Be a Metamon Master! Imite, Once Again!!

First broadcast Japan November 23, 2000 United States October 27, 2001

English themes Opening Born to Be a Winner Ending

Japanese themes Opening OK! Ending ぼくのベストフレンドへ

Credits Animation Team Ota Screenplay 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Animation director 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane No additional credits are available at this time.

Imitation Confrontation (Japanese: めざせメタモンマスター！イミテふたたび!! Aim to Be a Metamon Master! Imite, Once Again!!) is episode 174 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on November 23, 2000 and in the United States on October 27, 2001.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Major events

• Duplica returns with a new Ditto named Mini-Dit.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Duplica

Pokémon

• Ash's Pikachu
• Ash's Totodile
• Brock's Onix
• Meowth
• Jessie's Arbok
• Jessie's Wobbuffet
• James' Weezing
• Duplica's Ditto
• Duplica's Ditto "Mini Dit"

Trivia

• This is the first time Mirror Coat is used by any Pokémon (Mini Dit transformed into Wobbuffet). However, since Jessie doesn't know which move is used to counter certain types of attacks, she relies on Wobbuffet to just counter it by telling it to use it's head.

Errors

• When James' Weezing used Sludge, Duplica's Mini Dit used Mirror Coat. This is incorrect as Sludge Bomb is a Poison move (a physical move). The correct counter would be Mirror Coat since Counter is used against physical attacks and Mirror Coat is used against special moves. However, this would be true in the fourth generation due to moves being changed based on the moves itself and not by type.

In other languages

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