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Imitation Confrontation
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  EP174  
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!!
First broadcast
Japan November 23, 2000
United States October 27, 2001
English themes
Opening Born to Be a Winner
Ending
Japanese themes
Opening OK!
Ending ぼくのベストフレンドへ
Credits
Animation Team Ota
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
No additional credits are available at this time.

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.

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Synopsis

Entering the Pokémon Center, Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu found out that there wasn't anyone in it until a Chansey and Nurse Joy says that Nurse Joy is doing her pokémon examination. Ash and Misty were confused of what she says until Brock approach her and confirms that this Nurse Joy is an imposter. Praising him that he have seen through her disguise, Chansey and Nurse Joy turns out to be Ditto and Duplica. Duplica is here because she was invited to perform in the Pokémon Acting Competition and was waiting for her new Ditto named Mini-Dit since it's now doing its operation. Team Rocket from afar recognized Duplica and her Ditto and plans to steal it.

After the operation, while Pikachu, Togepi, Ditto and Mini-Dit are playing together outside, Brock wonders why Mini-Dit was under operation. Duplica shows Mini-Dit's transformation of Pikachu and Togepi in which it transform perfectly, but when it transform into Brock's Onix, it also transform perfectly, only in mini size form. Team Rocket was also amaze from Mini-Dit's transformation and set their eyes on stealing it. Duplica has no idea what's wrong with Mini-Dit's transformation. Despite Misty's complement about Duplica catching the weirdest pokémon ever, Ash challenges her Mini-Dit into a pokémon battle.

Ash decides to use his Totodile while Duplica uses her Mini-Dit. Mini-Dit transforms into Ash's Totodile and does Scary Face but Ash's Totodile is not scary but laughing instead. Totodile uses Water Gun and hits Mini-Dit. Duplica tells Mini-Dit to use Hydro Pump but nothing happens. It seems that Totodile haven't learned that move yet. Brock remembers that even Ditto can copies the pokémon moves perfectly, if that pokémon that it copies doesn’t learn that move yet, it can't uses it. Suddenly, there was an explosion in the Pokémon Center and the gang saw Jessie and James, who disguises as Duplica and Ash, on top of the roof. While Team Rocket tells the gang of their plans to steal every pokémon in the center, Meowth sneaks behind them and steals Mini-Dit. As Team Rocket enters the center, the gang decides to stop them only to find that Mini-Dit is gone. The gang also realized that Team Rocket was actually after Mini-Dit since none of the pokémon inside center was stolen.

Team Rocket praises themselves that their plan works. Instead of keeping Mini-Dit, they decide to follow Meowth's plan. Meowth tells them that they try to sell a mini Arbok and sooner or later, they might manage to trade it for a rare pokémon like Dragonite. In addition, they would steal back Mini-Dit after the trade and repeat this method over and over again. Meanwhile, the gang find no luck in finding Mini-Dit or Team Rocket. Not even Noctowl and Ditto, who transform into Noctowl find them. Just then, Nurse Joy came and tell them that a trainer says that a suspicious looking characters came selling a mini Arbok. Team Rocket, who is making an auction of trading the mini Arbok were attracted by Pokémon trainers when the gang came to check it out. Thanks to Meowth's sudden appearance and greedy about trading a rare pokémon, they reveal themselves while Mini-Dit was saved.

Team Rocket decides to battle out with them so Jessie summons out her Arbok and a sudden appearance from Wobuffet. Duplica too decides to battle them using her two Dittos in which her Ditto transform into Arbok while Mini-Dit transform into Wobbuffet. Ditto makes it first move but was knock back from a Counter attack from Jessie's Wobuffet. Mini-Dit also uses a Counter attack from Arbok's Poison Sting attack. Meowth tells James while they're battling, they can steal the Pikachu from them so James calls out his Template:James's Weezing but luckily, Duplica notice it and ask her Ditto to do a {m|Wrap}} attack on Weezing. Thanks to that, now it's a three on three battles as Ash uses his Pikachu on battle. Pikachu uses a {m|Thunderbolt}} but was countered by Wobbuffet's Counter attack. Just then Duplica taunts Team Rocket that they're afraid of attacking her Mini-Dit as it's ten times stronger then theirs. So Arbok does a Tackle attack to Mini-Dit but Arbok was knocked out by Mini-Dit's Counter attack but when Weezing does a Sludge attack onto it, Mini-Dit does a Mirror Coat, which knocked out both Weezing and James making Jessie wondering about that attack. Duplica explained that Wobbuffet has two attacks that is Counter attack that counters physical attacks and Mirror Coat that counters special attacks. Team Rocket understands and while James praises Wobbuffet for learning that move, Jessie isn't too happy about it as she doesn't want to lose to Mini-Dit. Meowth uses its Fury Swipes but Mini-Dit uses a Counter attack and scratches itself. Getting ready for the final attack, Pikachu , followed by Ditto and Mini-Dit which transform into Pikachu, does a Thunder attacks. Out of Jessie's confusion about Wobbuffet's next attack, they were hit and were sending blasting off again.

Back at the Pokémon Center, Duplica puts up a show by turning Mini-Dit into one of the trainer's Ursaring, which turns into a mini version of Ursaring. The gang tells Duplica that even though that Mini-Dit doesn't grow bigger, it still the same Pokémon only a bit special. Duplica decides to become the greatest performer by naming her team "Team Ditto". Ash tells her she can be a Ditto Master but Duplica reminds Ash that they still haven't finished their battle and the gang went outside to resume the battle.

Meanwhile, Team Rocket is hanging somewhere around the tree while Jessie is still upset of her Wobuffet and losing to a mini pokémon.

Major events

Debuts

Characters

Humans

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Ninetales

Pokémon that appear via fantasy or 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

Dub edits

In other languages

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

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