DP173

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DP173

DP173   EP639 メタモン・へんしんバトル！本物はドッチ～ニョ！？ Metamon - Transformation Battle! Which One is the Real One!?

First broadcast Japan April 22, 2010 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening サイコー・エブリディ！ Ending ドッチ～ニョ？

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 大庭秀昭 Hideaki Ōba Assistant director 近橋伸隆 Nobutaka Chikahashi Animation director 木下和栄 Kazue Kinoshita No additional credits are available at this time.

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(Japanese: メタモン・へんしんバトル！本物はドッチ～ニョ！？ Metamon - Transformation Battle! Which One is the Real One!?) is the 173rd episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 639th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on April 22, 2010.

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

Synopsis

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Major events

• The gang arrive at Valor Lakefront for the Grand Festival.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Makina
• Trainer

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Staraptor (Ash's)
• Infernape (Ash's)
• Gible (Ash's)
• Togekiss (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Ditto (Makina's)
• Ditto (Makina's; shiny)
• Zapdos
• Marowak
• Cubone
• Giratina (fantasy)
• Regigigas (fantasy)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Wobbuffet
  • The lecture marks the first animated appearance of a female Wobbuffet, which displays the lipstick that is present on female Wobbuffet in the games.
• The Zapdos that appears in this episode is presumably the same Zapdos that Team Rocket saw from their balloon and attempted to capture in Doc Brock!.

Errors

Dub edits

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