DP173
This article is about an episode of the Pokémon anime that has not been dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names. |
|
|
|
DP173
| ||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||
First broadcast
| ||||||||||||
English themes
| ||||||||||||
Japanese themes
| ||||||||||||
Credits
| ||||||||||||
|
(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
- 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.
- Ditto came back in its natural form before transforming in another Pokémon. However, when they changed their form from Staraptor and Gible to Pikachu, it was direct transformation.
Errors
Dub edits
This anime-related article is a stub. You can help Bulbapedia by expanding it. |
|
|
|
This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime. |