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Lost Leader Strategy!

DP066   EP532 ルカリオ！怒りのはどうだん!! Lucario! Pulse Bomb of Anger!!

First broadcast Japan February 7, 2008 United States July 19, 2008

English themes Opening We Will Be Heroes Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together Ending 風のメッセージ

Credits Animation Team Iguchi 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 Additional credits

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Lost Leader Strategy! (Japanese: ルカリオ！怒りのはどうだん!! Lucario! Pulse Bomb of Anger!!) is the 66th episode of Diamond & Pearl series, and the 532nd episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on February 7, 2008, and in the United States on July 19, 2008.

The group are introduced to Maylene and Ash immediately asks for Gym Battle. However, Maylene declines his request because she has lost her self-confidence as a Gym Leader due to Paul...

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash and his friends reached Veilstone city, excited at the prospect of the upcoming gym battle. The group look over the city from above, in awe of the large city and huge buildings. All of a sudden, a large ball of blue enrgy comes flying towards them from the forest, which the group narrowly dodge. The group finds several of this balls flying out of the forest, and Ash realises that it is Aura, a small form of energy known to a very small amount of people...

Major events

• Ash and his friends arrive in Veilstone City and meet Maylene, the local Gym Leader and her Lucario.
• Ash meets Reggie, Paul's brother and a Pokémon Breeder who takes care of Paul's additional Pokémon (including, at this point in time, his Electabuzz).
• Paul's Murkrow is revealed to have evolved into Honchkrow during the events of the previous episode.
• Paul is revealed to have a Magmar on his team.
• Paul is revealed to have won the Cobble Badge.
• Reggie is revealed to have traveled through Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and the Battle Frontier before, getting the eight badges of each region and six of the seven Frontier Symbols.

Debuts

• Maylene
• Reggie

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Lucario (Maylene's)
• Honchkrow (Paul's)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Maylene
• Reggie
• Paul (flashback)
• Connally
• Gym assistants

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Gligar (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Electabuzz (Paul's)
• Magmar (Paul's, new, flashback)
• Honchkrow (Paul's; newly evolved, flashback; debut)
• Machoke (Maylene's, flashback)
• Meditite (Maylene's, flashback; Seiyū: 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura)
• Lucario (Maylene's; debut)
• Swalot (Reggie's)
• Bibarel (Reggie's)
• Staraptor (Reggie's)
• Starly
• Bidoof
• Cherubi
• Shinx
• Kricketot

Trivia

• This episode begins the four-part Veilstone City arc.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Ambipom
• Rachael Lillis (previously the voice of Misty and Jessie among others when the show was dubbed by 4Kids) returns to the series in this episode as the voice of Maylene, making her the first main cast member to return to the series since the voice change.
• The Lucario of Lucario and the Mystery of Mew is referenced by Ash's enthusiasm on seeing Maylene's Lucario, Ash knowing some things about it, such as its name and its move, and Jessie offering a bar of chocolate to it.
• This episode first aired in Japan one week after the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which features Lucario as an unlockable playable character.
• This episode aired in the US the same weekend as the premiere of Giratina and the Sky Warrior.

In other languages

• German: Erfolg ist ein hartes Geschäft!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡La estrategia del líder perdido!
• Finnish: Mestaritason ratkaisu
• Italian: Strategia da Capopalestra perduta!
• Brazilian Portuguese: Animando uma Líder Derrotada!
• Polish: Zagubiona liderka
• Czech: Strategie ztracené trenérky

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