DP061
Team Shocker!
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Team Shocker! (Japanese: ポケモンコンテスト!ズイ大会!! Pokémon Contest! Zui Convention!!) is the 61st episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on December 20, 2007 along with Journey to the Unknown!.
Dawn prepares for the Contest taking place the next day. Although the training flows smoothly, she has fierce competition this time, including Kenny and his new partner, a Breloom. Will Dawn be able to win her second ribbon despite dropping out after the first round in her last Contest?
Synopsis
Major events
- Jessie wins the Solaceon Contest with her Dustox.
- Dustox participates in what turns out to be its final contest.
- Dawn loses in the Appeal Round for the second contest in a row.
- Ash's Turtwig is learning Energy Ball.
Debuts
Characters
Humans
- Ash Ketchum
- Brock
- Dawn
- Jessie
- James
- Nurse Joy (from Solaceon Town)
- Zoey
- Kenny
- Johanna
- Marian
- Contesta
- Sukizō
- Pokémon Coordinators
- Audience
Pokémon
Trivia
- Professor Oak's lecture: Bibarel
- Pokémon senryū: たいぼくを かじれビーダル はがいのち
- This is the first official contest that Jessie has ever won though she uses another name in her entry, Jessalina.
- This marks the second time that Dawn hasn't made it through the appeals round.
- This is the last episode to use 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜 (Winter Version) as an ending theme well as 君のそばで 〜ヒカリのテーマ〜 in general.
- This episode was aired with Journey to the Unown!. As a result, the opening was shown in DP060.
- The credits are of DP060 and DP061.
- Ambipom's performance was similar to May's Skitty's performance in the Grand Festival where they kept using the same move over and over again.
- In every contest shown since those in the Kanto region, contestants have been shown to be able to use a different Pokémon for the Appeal and Battle rounds. Despite this, Jessie used Dustox in both rounds.
Errors
Dub edits
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