DP068

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DP068   トバリジム！ルカリオVSブイゼル！！ Tobari Gym! Lucario VS Buoysel!!

First broadcast Japan February 28, 2008 United States

English themes Opening Ending

Japanese themes Opening Together Ending 風のメッセージ

Credits Animation Team Iguchi Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard 日高政光 Masamitsu Hidaka Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

(Japanese: トバリジム！ルカリオVSブイゼル！！ Tobari Gym! Lucario VS Buoysel!!) is the 68th episode of Diamond & Pearl. It aired in Japan on February 28, 2008.

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

Major events

• Ash challenges Maylene.
  • Ash's Staravia defeats Maylene's Machoke.
  • Ash's Chimchar fights against Maylene's Meditite, before being recalled by Ash.
  • Ash's Staravia defeats Maylene's Meditite.
  • Ash's Staravia is defeated by Maylene's Lucario.
  • Ash's Chimchar is defeated by Maylene's Lucario.
  • Ash's Buizel ties with Maylene's Lucario, resulting in a draw. However, despite this, Ash receives the Cobble Badge anyway.
• Ash's Staravia perfects the move Brave Bird.
• Ash's Buizel is shown to have learned the move Water Pulse.

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Brock
• Dawn
• Jessie
• James
• Maylene

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Lucario (Maylene's)
• Machoke (Maylene's)
• Meditite (Maylene's)

Trivia

• This is the 50th episode since Ash earned his first badge in the region. In Kanto, Ash already had six badges by this point, in Johto, he was going for his fourth badge, and in Hoenn he already had four badges.
• This was Buizel's first major battle, as well as its first Gym Battle with Ash. It was also Chimchar's first gym battle while under the ownership of Ash.
• Type Wild was used as background music.
• This is the first time Ash earned a badge without technically winning since his Gym battle with Misty way back in The Water Flowers of Cerulean City.
• There are a lot of similarities between this match and Ash's 2nd battle against Roark as shown by Croakgunk wandering off from the match to deal wth Team Rocket and Dawn wearing her cheerleading outfit again

Dub edits

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