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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

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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 see a battle between a Chimecho and a Scizor. After the battle, 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, Ash decides to have an air battle with him. Ash wanted to test Gliscor's ability and fought a one-on-one battle against Scizor. After a short battle, Scizor was victorious. Then, McCann gives Ash advice to learn how to "read" the wind. That night, Ash couldn't sleep. He couldn't get over his loss. So Ash leaves the house to find Gliscor weeping about its loss. Ash decides to train Gliscor over the night. Dawn wakes up and comes to help Ash train. She gives him some shredded tin foil and 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. The next morning, Ash challenges McCann again, believing his Gliscor has improved enough. The battle begins and McCann sees great improvement in Gliscor. During the battle, Scizor landed many hits on Gliscor but this time, Gliscor landed a few on Scizor as well. Towards the end of an epic battle, Gliscor learns a new attack, Giga Impact. After an intense shot from Scizor, Gliscor plummets to the ground, losing for a second time. McCann sees Gliscor's potential and suggests Ash to leave Gliscor to stay and train. Gliscor accepts and Ash does as well. 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!

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Diamond & Pearl series

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