DP068

A Triple Fighting Chance!

DP068   EP534 トバリジム！ルカリオVSブイゼル！！ Tobari Gym! Lucario VS Buoysel!!

First broadcast Japan February 28, 2008 United States August 2, 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 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

A Triple Fighting Chance! (Japanese: トバリジム！ルカリオVSブイゼル！！ Tobari Gym! Lucario VS Buoysel!!) is the 68th episode of Diamond & Pearl series, and the 534th episode of the Pokémon anime. It aired in Japan on February 28, 2008 and in the United States on August 2, 2008.

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

Synopsis

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Major events

• Ash's Staravia perfects Brave Bird.
• Ash's Buizel learns Water Pulse.
• Ash defeats Maylene, earning the Cobble Badge.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Maylene
• Connally

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Lucario (Maylene's)
• Machoke (Maylene's)
• Meditite (Maylene's)
• Croagunk (Gym Pokémon)

Trivia

• This is the 50th episode since Ash earned his first badge in the region. In Kanto, Ash already had six badges by this point, in Johto, he was going for his fourth badge, and in Hoenn he already had four badges.
• This was Buizel's first major battle, as well as its first Gym Battle with Ash. It was also Chimchar's first gym battle while under the ownership of Ash.
• Type: Wild was used as background music.
• This is the first time Ash earned a badge without technically winning since his Gym battle with Erika way back in Pokémon Scent-sation! (technically second, if Wattson is considered, as Ash tried to return the badge).
• This is the first time one of the two protection moves (Protect and Detect) failed due to overuse.
• This is the second time in a row that Pikachu was not used in a gym battle, which had never happened before.
• Ash's Buizel's ability, Swift Swim, is used for the first time due to the rainfall on the battlefield caused by an impact that destroyed the roof of the gym.
• It is revealed in this episode that, in the event of a Gym Battle ending in a tie, the Gym Leader is then required to decide if the challenger deserves to win the Gym Badge based on their performance.
• This is also the first time Ash ties with a Gym Leader.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Ash's Gligar

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• German: Heiß, heißer, am heißesten!
• Italian: Sfida a tre possibilità!
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Triple oportunidad de batalla!
• Polish: Potrójna szansa wygranej
• Czech: Trojí příležitost k zápasu
• Brazilian Portuguese: Uma Chance Tripla!
• Dutch: Drie winkansen!

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