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Four Roads Diverged in a Pokémon Port!

DP180   EP646 サトシＶＳケンゴ！それぞれの船出！！ Satoshi VS Kengo! Sailing for Respective Roads!!

First broadcast Japan June 10, 2010 United States November 6, 2010

English themes Opening We Will Carry On! 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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Four Roads Diverged in a Pokémon Port! (Japanese: サトシＶＳケンゴ！それぞれの船出！！ Satoshi VS Kengo! Sailing for Respective Roads!!) is the 180th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 646th episode of the Pokémon anime. It aired in Japan on June 10, 2010 and in the United States on November 6, 2010.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Kenny, who has set his goal to the next Grand Festival, was having a special training session with Olivine City's Gym Leader, Jasmine. After hearing that, Dawn starts to stress about not making her future goal yet. At that moment, Kenny tells Dawn that if he beats Ash in battle, she has to travel with him. Team Rocket takes Kenny's Floatzel then Flint's Infernape saves Floatzel. Jasmine then challenges Template:E4 to a battle. Flint sends out Infernape and Jasmine sends out Steelix. Flint defeats Jasmine. Afterwards, Flint tells Ash about a past battle when his Infernape was still a Monferno. The next day, The battle Ash against Kenny starts.

Major events

• Ash and his friends encounter Jasmine.
• Dawn meets Jasmine.
• Ash battles Kenny and loses.
• Flint reveals he will battle Cynthia for the title of Sinnoh League Champion.

For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Kenny
• Jasmine
• Flint
• Giovanni (fantasy)
• Cynthia (fantasy)
• Pokémon Center attendant
• Kids
• Ship passengers
• Sunyshore citizens

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Infernape (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Empoleon (Kenny's)
• Floatzel (Kenny's)
• Steelix (Jasmine's)
• Infernape (Flint's)
• Monferno (Flint's; flashback)
• Garchomp (Cynthia's; fantasy)
• Snorlax (unnamed Trainer's; flashback)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Nidoran♀ and Nidoran♂
• As of this episode, half of the Johto Gym Leaders have appeared in the Diamond & Pearl series, though Jasmine is the only one who has appeared in person.
  • Aside from her, only Clair has been seen in her Generation IV outfit, with Whitney and Morty appearing in their Generation II designs. Jasmine is also shown in her Generation II outfit in flashbacks in this episode.
• Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew is used as background music in this episode.
• The dub title is a reference to the first line of Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken", "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood."
• Meowth's Boss fantasy in this episode is the last one before the Best Wishes series and could possibly be the last ever for the anime.

Errors

Flint and his Monferno

• When Steelix is knocked out and it falls over, its teeth are colored with the same gray as its body instead of the usual white.
• Flint's Monferno has blue eyes instead of black.
• In Flint's flashback in Flint Sparks the Fire!, he shows that his Infernape was still a Chimchar when he grew up. However, his flashback in this episode shows that it had evolved into a Monferno when he was still a kid.
• When Kenny's Empoleon used Metal Claw and Buizel used Ice Punch Empoleon's chest was colored blue.
• When Piplup turns around at the ferry station his beak is the same color as his body.
• When Ash calls for Infernape to watch the battle, his shoulder pads were white, but in the next scene, they were their original color.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		小智對健悟！各自的起步！！
Italian		Quattro strade si separano a un porto Pokémon!
European Spanish		¡Cuatro destinos distintos en un puerto Pokémon!

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