DP179
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(Japanese: 電撃バトル!最後のバッジ!! Electric Shock Battle! The Final Badge!!) is the 179th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 645th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on June 3, 2010.
Synopsis
Template:Incomplete synopsis With Sunyshore Gym fully repaired, Ash is ready to finally battle Volkner for the Beacon Badge, the final Gym Badge he needs to enter the Sinnoh League. However, as the final Gym Leader before the league, Volkner won't be so easy to beat. Can Ash and his team find the strength needed to defeat Volkner and his powerful Template:Type2 Pokémon?
Major events
- Ash arrives back at Sunyshore Gym for his Gym Battle against Volkner.
- Ash's Infernape's Blaze is activated again, and it gains control of the ability for the first time.
- Ash defeats Volkner and earns the Beacon Badge, allowing him to participate in the Sinnoh League.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Piplup (Dawn's)
- Torterra (Ash's)
- Infernape (Ash's)
- Chimchar (Ash's; flashback)
- Monferno (Ash's; flashback)
- Buneary (Dawn's)
- Electivire (Volkner's)
- Luxray (Volkner's)
- Jolteon (Volkner's)
- Empoleon (Barry's; flashback)
Trivia
- Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Caterpie
- This episode marks the first time Ash has won a Gym Badge since Sliding Into Seventh!, 52 episodes, and just over one year, previous. This is the longest gap between badges of the same region.
- This episode marks the first time Pikachu has defeated a member of the Electabuzz evolutionary line by himself.
- Volkner uses his team from Pokémon Platinum to battle Ash in this episode, whereas all the other Sinnoh Gym Leaders in the anime used the teams they had in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.
- This is the fourth Gym battle in a row where Infernape defeats two of the Gym Leader's Pokémon. This battle, as with all the previous battles (which all occurred before Chimchar evolved into Monferno) involved it defeating one of the Gym Leader's Pokémon, being temporarily recalled and then being reused to defeat the second Pokémon.
- The Greatest - Everyday! is played as background music after Infernape had gained control of Blaze.
Errors
- Despite Shock Wave is a move that cannot miss, Infernape was able to dodge it.
Dub edits
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Categories:
- Undubbed episodes
- Stubs
- Episode stubs
- Anime stubs
- Diamond & Pearl series episodes
- Episodes written by Masashi Sogo
- Episodes storyboarded by Hiroyuki Yamada
- Episodes by one-time directors
- Episodes animated by Izumi Shimura
- Episodes featuring Elite Four members
- Episodes focusing on Ash
- Episodes with gym battles
- Episodes in which Ash gets a badge