EP174

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Imitation Confrontation (Japanese: めざせメタモンマスター！イミテふたたび!! Aim to Be a Metamon Master! Imite, Once Again!!) is episode 174 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on November 23, 2000 and in the United States on October 27, 2001.

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Duplica returns with a new Ditto named Mini-Dit.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Duplica
• Nurse Joy
• Crowd

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Ninetales

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Totodile (Ash's)
• Noctowl (Ash's)
• Onix (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Chansey (Nurse Joy's)
• Ditto (Duplica's)
• Ditto (Mini-Dit; Duplica's)
• Spinarak (Unnamed trainer's)
• Mareep (Unnamed trainer's)
• Ursaring (Unnamed trainer's)

Pokémon that appear via fantasy or poster

• Scizor (fantasy)
• Clefairy (fantasy)
• Omastar (fantasy)
• Dragonair (fantasy)
• Dragonite (fantasy)
• Bellsprout (poster)
• Wooper (poster)
• Teddiursa (poster)
• Shuckle (poster)

Trivia

• This is the first time Mirror Coat is used by any Pokémon (Mini Dit transformed into Wobbuffet). However, because Jessie doesn't know which move is used to counter certain types of attacks (Jessie doesn't even know about Mirror Coat until Duplica tells her), she relies on Wobbuffet to counter the attack by telling it to decide independently. Up to this point, Wobbuffet had been using the correct move to match to the situation, even though Jessie always only ordered Wobbuffet to use Counter.
• The Japanese title is a reference to the opening song Aim to Be a Pokémon Master

Errors

• When James's Weezing used Sludge, Mini Dit used Mirror Coat and was able to reflect it. This is incorrect as Sludge is a Template:Type2 move (which relies on a Pokémon's Attack prior to Generation IV). The correct counter would be Counter since Counter is used against physical attacks and Mirror Coat is used against special attacks. In Generation IV and beyond, however, since Sludge is itself a special attack, Mirror Coat would reflect it.

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Imitation, Confrontation
• Italian: Imitazioni
• Latin American Spanish: ¡Duelo de imitación!
• Spanish: Combate de imitaciones

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