| Shield with a Twist!
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ヨスガジム戦！VSメリッサ!!
Yosuga Gym Match! VS Melissa!!
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First broadcast
| Japan
| November 13, 2008
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| United States
| April 18, 2009
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| English themes
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| Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
| Team Iguchi
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| Screenplay
| 冨岡淳広 Atsuhiro Tomioka
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| Storyboard
| 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada
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| Assistant director
| 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada
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| Animation director
| 岩根雅明 Masaaki Iwane
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| Additional credits
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Shield with a Twist! (Japanese: ヨスガジム戦！VSメリッサ!! Yosuga Gym Match! VS Melissa!!) is the 102nd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 568th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on November 13, 2008, in the UK on April 16, 2009 and in the United States on April 18, 2009.
Synopsis
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Ash finally faces
Fantina, the Gym Leader of
Hearthome City. Ash chooses
Buizel to
battle against her
Gengar, but will he be able to win?
Major events
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Trivia
- The English version of this episode first aired in the UK on April 16, 2009 along with Jumping Rocket Ship!.
- As of this episode, every member of Ash's Sinnoh team, other than Gliscor, has been used in at least two gym battles, and Grotle, Pikachu, and Buizel have been used in three. This also includes Aipom, who is no longer a member of Ash's team.
- Music from Pokémon Heroes is used as background music.
- This is the first episode where a Pokémon Contest and a Gym Battle are depicted in the same episode.
- Jessie is not seen in her standard Team Rocket uniform throughout this episode, instead remaining in her Jessalina disguise for the Majolica Contest.
- This episode is one of the few where Jessie's hair is seen down.
- An earlier episode has a similar title to this one.
- The Contest featured in this episode is the only one in which none of Ash's friends participate in while Jessie does.
- This Gym battle is similar to Ash's Gym battle with Morty in From Ghost to Ghost.
- Both were Gyms that specialize in Ghost-type Pokémon.
- Ash and the Gym Leader had a 3-on-3 battle.
- Ash used the region's Fire-type starter Pokémon.
- Pikachu was used, and it did not win a single match.
- Both gym leaders had a Gengar, which did not defeat any of Ash's Pokémon.
- Ash used the same Pokémon to defeat the previous Gym Leader's Pokémon, and used it again to defeat the leader's main Pokémon.
Errors
Dub edits
In other languages
- Dutch: Iets In Z'n Schild Voeren! *
- German: Drei gegen drei!
- Korean: 연고체육관 시합! 지우 VS 멜리사
- Brazilian Portuguese: O Escudo!
- Latin American Spanish: ¡Protegidos con un Escudo!
- Czech: Nelehký zápas
- Italian: Il controscudo!
- Polish: Z tarczą czy na tarczy?
