DP077

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(Japanese: みんなライバル！ミクリカップ！！ Everyone's A Rival! Mikuri Cup!!) is the 77th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on May 8, 2008 alongside DP078 as part of a one-hour special.

Ash and his friends have arrived at the Lake Resort where the Wallace Cup will take place. They reunite with Zoey who has caught a Finneon. Dawn becomes nervous and has trouble keeping her composure. Meanwhile, May decides to enter with Wartortle, and Ash with Buizel...!

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

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash, Dawn, Zoey, Jessie and May participate in the Wallace Cup.
• May meets Zoey.
• May's Squirtle has evolved into a Wartortle during her travels in Johto.
• Zoey has caught a Finneon.
• Jessie loses in the Appeal Round.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• May
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Paul
• Kenny
• Zoey
• Sukizō
• Marian
• Contesta
• Nurse Joy
• Wallace
• Max
• Drew
• Harley
• Solidad
• Norman
• Caroline
• Rhonda
• Sinnoh Now Staff
• Kaito
• Pokémon coordinators
• Wallace's fans

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Mime Jr. (James's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Munchlax (May's)
• Squirtle (May's) (flashback)
• Wartortle (May's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Finneon (Zoey's)
• Milotic (Wallace's)
• Cloyster (Kaito's)

Trivia

• This is the first Pokémon Contest in which Ash and May have competed in costume. Ash has already participated in a Sinnoh region contest, but did not dress up.
• Both May and Dawn had most of their rivals appear in the episode either in cameos or throughout the course of the episode: Drew, Solidad, and Harley for May; and Zoey and Kenny for Dawn. It should be noted that Ash's rival, Paul, also had a brief appearance. Nando was the only one of Dawn's main rivals not to appear.
• Two girls near the beginning of the episode look like Sakura Kinomoto and Tomoyo Daidōji from Cardcaptor Sakura.
• One of the other coordinators had a strong resemblance to Oscar from The Bicker The Better.
• Instead of Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture, the end of the episode featured a memorial to Spell of the Unown. This is part of a countdown to Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Shaymin.

Errors

• When Croagunk drags Brock away from the woman selling food, May's gloves disappear.

Dub edits

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