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The Champ Twins! (Japanese: サトシとヒカリ！タッグバトルで大丈夫!? Satoshi and Hikari! Any Need to Worry in a Tag Battle!?) is the 29th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on April 12, 2007 as part of a one-hour special with Drifloon on the Wind!, and in the United States on September 22, 2007.

Following a TV interview, Ash and Dawn challenge a pair of brothers to a tag battle for the program. Will they be able to compete with the twins' strongest combination that has allowed them to win their last 16 battles?

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Dawn has her first double battle with Ash against two twins.

Debuts

• Rhonda and the Sinnoh Now staff

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Ryan and Bryan
• Rhonda
• Sinnoh Now Staff (Japanese: シンオウ・ナウスタッフ Sinnoh Now Staff)
  • Voice staff (Seiyū: 三木眞一郎 Shin'ichirō Miki*)
  • Timekeeper (Seiyū: 古島清孝 Kiyotaka Furushima*)
  • Cameraman
• Boy trainer A (Seiyū: 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō)
• Boy trainer B
• Boy trainer C (Seiyū: 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara*)
• Boy trainer D (Seiyū: 阪口大助 Daisuke Sakaguchi*)
• Trainers

* No official credit was given for this character.

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Quilava (Ryan's) (Seiyū: 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura)
• Croconaw (Bryan's) (Seiyū: 石塚運昇 Unshō Ishizuka*)
• Slakoth (Boy trainer A's)
• Lombre (Boy trainer B's)
• Nuzleaf (Boy trainer C's)
• Doduo (Boy trainer D's)
• Abra
• Growlithe
• Magnemite
• Skiploom
• Spheal
• Starly
• Bidoof
• Budew
• Shinx

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• This episode is one of the very few that doesn't feature Jessie's Wobbuffet.
• This episode returns to the preview cold open format used in earlier episodes in the Diamond & Pearl series.
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and the instrumental version of By Your Side ~Hikari's Theme~, Pokémon Symphonic Medley and the TV version of Ready Go! are used as background music.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Pokémon food
  • Pokémon senryū: かくしあじ　あいじょうたっぷり　ポケモンフーズ
• The next episode preview is narrated by Ash.
• The English dub title of "The Champ Twins" is clearly a pun on another animated television show, The Cramp Twins.
• The Champ Twins' Pokémon are the evolutions of two of Ash's starter Pokémon from Johto that never evolved (Cyndaquil and Totodile).

Errors

• Swift cannot miss under normal conditions in the game. However, Piplup and Turtwig are both able to dodge it.

Dub edits

In other languages

• Italian: I gemelli imbattibili & Una squadra in perfetta sintonia
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Los gemelos campeones!
• Dutch: Dubbel gevecht, Dawn en Ash!

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