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This article is about an episode of the Pokémon anime that has not been dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.

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Playing the Leveling Field! (Japanese: 踊るジムリーダー！メリッサ登場!! Dancing Gym Leader! Enter Melissa!) is the 93rd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 559th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on September 11, 2008.

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

Synopsis

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Major events

• Fantina has a battle with Zoey and wins.
• Ash has an informal battle with Fantina.
  • Fantina's Drifloon defeats Ash's Buizel.
  • Fantina's Drifloon puts Ash's Chimchar to sleep and Chimchar is recalled.
  • Fantina's Drifloon evolves to Drifblim in the battle against Ash's Pikachu and puts it to sleep. Ash then forfeits the match.

Debuts

• Fantina

Pokémon debuts

Anime debuts

• Drifblim Fantina's

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Zoey
• Fantina
• Juan (flashback)
• Alan (flashback)
• Enta (flashback)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Gliscor (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Yanmega (Jessie's)
• Glameow (Zoey's)
• Misdreavus (Fantina's) (flashback)
• Mismagius (Fantina's)
• Drifloon (Fantina's; evolves)
• Drifblim (Fantina's; newly evolved)
• Gengar (Fantina's) (flashback)
• Nosepass (Alan's) (flashback)
• Probopass (Alan's) (flashback)
• Luxray (flashback)
• Ponyta (flashback)
• Abra (flashback)

Trivia

• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea is used as background music.
• Professor Oak's lecture: Riolu
• The dub title is a reference to the phrase "level the playing field".

Errors

Dub edits

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