DP154

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Mastering Current Events!

DP154   EP620 エアバトルマスター登場！グライオンＶＳハッサム！！ The Air Battle Master Enters! Glion vs. Hassam!!

First broadcast Japan December 3, 2009 United States April 24, 2010

English themes Opening Battle Cry - (Stand Up!) Ending

Japanese themes Opening ハイタッチ！ 2009 Ending ドッチ～ニョ？

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 大橋志吉 Yukiyoshi Ōhashi Storyboard 大庭秀昭 Hideaki Ōba Assistant director 近橋伸隆 Nobutaka Chikahashi Animation director 木下和栄 Kazue Kinoshita Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

Mastering Current Events! (Japanese: エアバトルマスター登場！グライオンＶＳハッサム！！ The Air Battle Master Enters! Glion vs. Hassam!!) is the 154th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 620th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on December 3, 2009 and in the United States on April 24, 2010.

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

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis While on the way to Daybreak Town, Ash and friends seem to be completely lost, so Ash sends out Gliscor in order to check out the surrounding area. Along the way, they see a battle between a Chimecho and a Scizor. After the battle is over, they are introduced to the Air Battle Master, McCann, and his granddaughter. The Scizor turned out to be McCann's and was helping the Chimecho train. After hearing about McCann's strength and skill as an air battle master, Ash decides to have an air battle with him: Scizor vs Gliscor. Ash wanted to test Gliscor's flying abilities and fought a one-on-one battle against Scizor. After a short battle, Scizor was victorious, with Gliscor feeling terrible and ashamed. Then, McCann gives Ash some advice about how to "read" the wind. As the day went on, Gliscor was feeling bad; refusing to eat and not wanting to get into its poke ball. That night, Gliscor goes out to do some late training and trying to read the wind. Ash also couldn't sleep feeling bad about his loss. So Ash leaves the house and finds Gliscor training and trying to overcome the recent loss. Ash decides to help train Gliscor over the night. Ash has Staraptor fly around with a ribbon tied to it so Gliscor can follow the wind pattern and how Staraptor flies. Dawn wakes up and comes to help Ash train by giving him some shredded tin foil. SHe explains that if you throw it in the wind, they can see the wind's direction and help Gliscor glide much better. So they release it into the wind. The tin foil pieces blow with the wind so Gliscor can see what direction the wind is going and follow it. While training, Gliscor has a little run-in with Team Rocket and explains to them that its training so that it can defeat McCann's Scizor in a rematch tomorrow. Team Rocket is then moved by Gliscor's spirit, however, they crash into a mountain-side and Gliscor then continues to train. The next morning, Ash informs McCann that they have been training all night, trying to read the wind and challenges him to another air-battle and McCann reluctantly accepts, believing that Ash's Gliscor has improved enough. The battle begins and McCann sees great improvement in Gliscor as it was able to land a couple of Fire Fangs on Scizor and showing how to use Sand-Attack in a different variation. During the battle, Scizor landed many hits on Gliscor but this time, Gliscor seemed to be gaining the upper hand. Towards the end of an epic battle when things started to get shaky, Ash tells Gliscor to dig deep and encourages it to never give up. With that in mind, Gliscor begins to charge towards Scizor, and uses Giga Impact, revealing to have learned a new move. After an intense shot from Scizor's Hyper Beam, Gliscor plummets to the ground, losing for a second time. Ash come to Gliscor revealing that even though they lost, he has really improved and learned a new move doing it. McCann sees Gliscor's potential and suggests Ash to leave Gliscor to stay and train. McCann includes how it was like the day that he first met his Scizor, so Ash leaves the decision to Gliscor, and it accepts and Ash does as well. Ash give McCann Gliscor's poke ball and says good-bye to the Fang Scorp Pokemon. In the distance, you can see that Team Rocket is there feeling sad to see Gliscor leave. Despite his friendship with Ash and his desire to help Ash on his adventures, Gliscor stayed with McCann.

Major events

• Ash's Gliscor learns Giga Impact.
• Ash leaves his Gliscor with McCann for training.

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

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• McCann
• Maya

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Staraptor (Ash's)
• Gligar (Ash's; flashback)
• Gliscor (Ash's; leaves)
• Scizor (McCann's)
• Bastiodon (Byron's; flashback)
• Chimecho (Maya's)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Ditto
• Dawn narrates the next episode's preview.
• Together With the Wind and music from Celebi: Voice of the Forest, Jirachi Wish Maker and Giratina and the Sky Warrior are used during this episode.
• The English version of the episode uses a remixed version of I'll Always Remember You as background music.
• This episode marks the first time one of Ash's Pokémon has left his party mid-region since Bulbasaur... the Ambassador, almost 400 episodes previously.
• This episode resembles a similar episode, where a main character's Pokémon learns a new move and is left to train. That episode also takes place exactly 100 episodes previous to this one.
  • It also takes place 30 episodes after To Thine Own Pokémon Be True!, another episode where a main character's Pokémon is put under the training of another Trainer.
    • It also takes place more than 400 episodes after an episode with a similar name.
• The Finnish title is a word play. When someone is in good mood you can say "Olen hyvällä tuulella", however, if translated literally, it can also mean "I'm on a good wind", since "tuuli" can mean both, mood or wind in Finnish.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		空中對戰大師登場！天蠍王對巨鉗螳螂！！
Dutch		Hoe de Wind Waait!
Finnish		Hyvällä tuulella!
German		Eine frische Brise!
Italian		Padrone degli eventi!
Portuguese	Brazil	O Senhor dos Eventos!
	Portugal	Dominando os Acontecimentos!
Russian		Куда дует ветер? Kuda duet veter?
Latin American Spanish		¡Dominando los Eventos Actuales!
Swedish		Ha koll på rådande händelser!

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Diamond & Pearl series

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