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Riding the Winds of Change! (Japanese: グライオンとグライガー！風の迷路をぬけて！ Glion and Gligar! Escaping the Maze of Wind!) is the 64th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on January 24, 2008 and in the United States on July 5, 2008.

While training in a town, a Gliscor with a crowd of Gligar attack the group, stealing their lunch before flying away. Officer Jenny comes up with a plan to capture them and return them to their forest.

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash catches a Gligar.
• Paul catches a Gliscor.
• Turtwig perfects the move Energy Ball.

Debuts

• Gliscor

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Nurse Joy
• Paul

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Gligar (Ash's; new)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Weavile (Paul's)
• Murkrow (Paul's)
• Electabuzz (Paul's)
• Gliscor (Paul's; new)
• Gligar (group)
• Metapod
• Butterfree
• Pidgeot
• Spearow
• Wurmple
• Beautifly

Trivia

• Professor Oak's lecture: Chatot
  • Pokémon senryū: ペラペラと　ラップでおしゃべり　ペラップよ Perapera to, rappu de oshaberi, Perappu yo "Blablabla and Chattering rap, it's Perap"
  • Chatot has much more involvement than most Pokémon, appearing before the reveal and during the senryū.
• This is Paul's Weavile's first appearance since Top-Down Training!.
• In Kanto, Ash filled his party with Squirtle two episodes before he first met Lt. Surge, Kanto's third Gym Leader. In this episode, he captures Gligar, while in Lost Leader Strategy! he met Maylene, Sinnoh's third Gym Leader. Another parallel is that both Squirtle and Gligar were part of a group of Pokémon of their same species that caused trouble in a town. Both of them also voluntarily followed Ash.
  • It also marks the first time that Ash had two Template:Type2s in the same party since Pallet Party Panic, when he released Pidgeot.
• The featured town is apparently located on Route 215, which is one of the routes where wild Gligar appear in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl via the dongle method.
• This is the fourth time that Ash and one of his rivals have caught a Pokémon of the same type of species, the first being both Ash and Gary owning a Krabby. The second time was Ash and Tyson each having a Sceptile, though not at the same time. The third was for a very short time, with Ash and Paul having Starly.
• The episode features many Template:Type2 moves used against Template:Type2 Pokémon with visible effect (Pikachu's Thunderbolt and Electabuzz's ThunderPunch). In the games Template:Type2s like Gligar and Gliscor are immune to them.
• This episode first aired in the US in the same week as DP085, the episode in which Gligar evolved, first aired in Japan.
• A reference to the the fanbase's negative response to Brock was made in this episode. James mentions that Brock doesn't do anything when Brock mentions that the attack didn't affect the cages at all.

Errors

• In one scene where Nurse Joy is looking at her laptop, her hat is colored the same has her hair.

Dub edits

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