EP174
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| Imitation Confrontation | |
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| 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!! | |
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| Broadcast dates | |
| Japan | November 23, 2000 |
| USA | October 27, 2001 |
| Theme songs | |
| Opening | Born to Be a Winner |
| Japanese theme songs | |
| 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 |
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: Major plot or ending details may follow.
Contents |
Synopsis
Major events
- Duplica returns with a new Ditto named Mini-Dit.
- It is confirmed that Ash's Totodile does not know Hydro Pump.
Debuts
Characters
Humans
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 Poison-type 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
| This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each episode of the Pokémon anime. |
Categories: Episode stubs | Original series episodes | Episodes written by Atsuhiro Tomioka | Episodes storyboarded and directed by Yūji Asada | Episodes animated by Masaaki Iwane
