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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

On their way to Lily of the Valley Island, site of the Sinnoh League, Ash, Dawn, and Brock are seen waiting for their ship to come. While waiting they run into Kenny, who has set his goal to the next Grand Festival, was having a special training session with Olivine City's Gym Leader, Jasmine. Kenny tells Dawn how great she was in the Grand Festival and was impressed that she made it to the Top 2. 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. Suddenly, Team Rocket shows up and takes Kenny's Floatzel until Flint's Infernape saves Floatzel with a powerful Overheat. Jasmine then introduces herself and challenges Template:E4 to a battle. Flint sends out his Infernape and Jasmine sends out Steelix. Dawn scans Steelix with her Pokédex and comments on the type advantage Infernape has, but Ash comments on how Steelix is also Jasmine's strongest Pokémon. Ash then decides to send out his Infernape so that it could watch Flint's Infernape battle and take notes. After a tough battle and because of a type advantage, Flint's Infernape defeats Jasmine's Steelix with a powerful Flare Blitz. After the battle, Kenny (carrying on with his plan) challenges Ash to a battle, and Ash happily accepts, so the battle is then scheduled to go on for tomorrow. Afterwards, Flint tells Ash about a past battle when his Infernape was still a Monferno and of the time he won the Sinnoh League. Flint also tells Ash that he is training for his upcoming match with Cynthia, and how he was unsure if he was either ready or not. Later on, Ash sees Kenny training his Empoleon, encouraging Ash to train Buizel, but Buizel's Sonicboom is deflected of a tree and then Empoleon deflects it back at Buizel. Because the two water types are so eager to battle each other, Kenny makes the request for the battle to be Buizel vs. Empoleon, and Ash happily excepts the offer. The next day, the battle Ash against Kenny starts. Ash sends out Buizel and Kenny sends out Empoleon, much to Dawn's surprise. During the battle Ash uses Flint's battling style and remarks that he wanted to polish Buizel's defense. The battle ends with Buizel losing after taking a direct hit with Drill Peck. After, Flints decided to go ahead and battle Cynthia, and Dawn decided to go cheer for Ash at the Sinnoh League and then start her own journey. Kenny then leaves and continues his own journey.

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 most recent boss fantasy occurs in this episode.

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, its 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！！
Dutch		Een Viersprong in een Pokémon Haven!
Finnish		Neljä tietä pois Pokémon-satamasta!
German		Nur wer an sich glaubt, kann auch gewinnen!
Italian		Quattro strade si separano a un porto Pokémon!
Brazilian Portuguese		Quatro Estradas Divergiam em um Porto Pokémon!
Spanish	Latin America	¡Cuatro Caminos Bifurcan en un Puerto Pokémon!
	Spain	¡Cuatro destinos distintos en un puerto Pokémon!
Swedish		Fyra vägar skiljs åt i en Pokémonhamn!

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