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Top-Down Training!
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Top-Down Training! (Japanese: チャンピオン・シロナ登場！ Enter Champion Shirona!) is the 40th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 506th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on July 19, 2007 and in the United States on December 8, 2007.
Synopsis
The episode starts off with a stadium filled with people. Lucian and Cynthia are battling with their Pokémon, Bronzong and Garchomp. Bronzong used its Flash Cannon on Garchomp which Garchomp was easily able to escape, coming out unscathed by blocking the attack with its fin.
Ash and friends were sitting in a Pokémon Center, watching the battle on television. Garchomp was able to use Giga Impact, knocking out Lucian's Bronzong. Ash was pumped as he watched the battle. He and the gang overheard someone say that Cynthia had shown up at a place called Amity Square.
The episode then switches to Cynthia and Team Rocket. Cynthia seemed indecisive about what kind of ice cream she wanted. She is later seen with a stone containing images of Palkia and Dialga. This is when Ash and friends show up, adding more to the people surrounding Cynthia. All of sudden, Paul shows up.
Ash is seemingly excited about seeing Paul, saying that he's finally got two badges. After asking how many Paul has received, Paul replies with 'it's none of your business'. He then challenges Cynthia to a battle. Many people in the crowd are shocked when Cynthia agrees. Paul says that he wants a six-on-six match. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is watching the battle.
Cynthia calls out her Garchomp, while Paul chooses Chimchar. Paul commands Chimchar to use Fire Spin and then Dig. Once hit with Fire Spin, Garchomp also used Dig under Cynthia's command. The dig collided with Chimchar, knocking it out.
Paul then uses Weavile against Garchomp. He commands for his Weavile to use Blizzard, which seems to have no effect on Garchomp, despite being super-effective. Garchomp then uses Dragon Rush, which causes Weavile to freeze. Instead of trying to dodge, Paul tells Weavile to use Ice Beam. However, Garchomp was able to dodge the attack and slammed itself into Weavile, knocking it out cold.
Paul then sends out Murkrow. Immediately, he tells Murkrow to use Haze, which Garchomp dodges. Murkrow flies behind Garchomp and Paul tells it to use Sky Attack. Cynthia counters with Giga Impact. After returning his fallen Murkrow, he sends out Torterra.
He commands Torterra to use Giga Drain. Since Giga Impact left Garchomp unable to move, Giga Drain was able to hit. After Giga Drain, Torterra uses Frenzy Plant. Garchomp is able to block the attack with its fins. Cynthia then tells Garchomp to use Brick Break. Garchomp pushes the vines from Frenzy Plant away and jumps into the air, hitting Torterra with Brick Break on its head and knocking it out.
Paul then gives up the battle, to which the crowd responds by poking fun at him. Ash, with new found respect, tells them to knock it off and compliments Paul. Paul says goodbye to Cynthia and walks away. Ash realizes that isn't where the Pokémon Center is, and Cynthia demands that Paul go to the Center to heal his Pokémon.
Unfortunately, when the got there, Nurse Joy claims that she needs to perform surgery on an injured Pokémon. Cynthia decides to heal Paul's Pokémon by herself, to which Brock says that he'd love to help out. Croagunk comes out of its Poké Ball to use Poison Jab, but stops once it sees Cynthia.
The episode switches to Cynthia treating Paul's Torterra. She moves over to Chimchar, giving it a pill. Chimchar falls asleep and the episode goes to Team Rocket, who are hiding outside the window. Team Rocket claims that they are going to steal Paul's Pokémon.
Cynthia then tells Paul that his Pokémon are all healed and well trained, especially his Torterra. This is where Paul reveals that Torterra was his very first Pokémon. He also says that he traveled around Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn, where he caught his Murkrow and Weavile, before coming back to Sinnoh, where he caught his Chimchar.
When Cynthia compliments Chimchar, Paul complains that Chimchar didn't do well against Garchomp. Ash then argues that he didn't care how many of Pokémon got hurt, to which Paul responds with "your point?". Ash asks why Paul doesn't care about his Pokémon. Paul claims that his Pokémon will then become spoiled and not try hard enough in battle, and Chimchar was the perfect example.
Ash becomes angrier, saying that he has to support his Pokémon. Upon Paul saying that he wants to become stronger, Cynthia took them back to the stone tablet she was at earlier in Amity Square. She reads the tablet to them. She claims that before reading this tablet, she used to train endlessly. Then she discovered that all Pokémon have different personalities and she wanted to get to know all of them.
Meanwhile, back at the Pokémon Center, Team Rocket hover over the still sleeping Chimchar. Before trying to steal all of Paul's Pokémon, Nurse Joy catches them. Team Rocket makes a run for it, just grabbing Chimchar. Outside the center, the gang is headed back and sees Team Rocket with Chimchar. They chase after Team Rocket, who try to make a get away in their balloon. Chimchar then wakes up, using Flamethrower on Team Rocket. Before Ash could react and call out Staravia, Paul sends out his Ursaring and tells it to use Hyper Beam. Chimchar jumped away from Team Rocket right before the attack collided with them, sending them blasting off.
Chimchar fell to the ground, getting injured once more. However, Paul didn't care, calling Chimchar useless for being captured by Team Rocket. Dawn said that it wasn't Chimchar's fault, since Chimchar was sleeping. Cynthia was able to stop the yelling when she said the only thing that matters was that Chimchar is okay. She advised Paul to stay the night at the Center.
The episode switches to the Center. Ash and the others are watching Sinnoh Now. A newscast about ancient ruins in Celestic Town held the Lustrous Orb, which is related to the legendary Pokémon Palkia. The Lustrous Orb is related to the Adamant Orb, on display in Eterna City. The Lustrous Orb is said to increase the powers of Palkia.
Cynthia then decides it was time to head to Celestic Town, saying goodbye to our heroes.
Major events
- Ash, Brock, Dawn and Paul meet Cynthia, the Sinnoh League Champion.
- Paul reveals he has a Torterra (his starter Pokémon), a Weavile, and a Murkrow.
- Paul battles Cynthia and loses.
- Paul's Chimchar is revealed to have learned Fire Spin.
- Paul is revealed to have traveled through Hoenn, Johto, and Kanto and participated in their respective leagues.
- The Lustrous Orb is discovered near Celestic Town.
Debuts
Pokémon debuts
Characters
Humans
- Ash
- Dawn
- Brock
- Jessie
- James
- Cynthia
- Paul
- Nurse Joy
- Lucian (on TV)
- Rhonda
- Announcer (Seiyū: 堀川 仁 Jin Horikawa)
- Sinnoh Now staff
- Boys
- Boy 1 (Seiyū: 川上とも子 Tomoko Kawakami*)
- Boy 2 (Seiyū: 早水リサ Risa Hayamizu*)
- Boy 3 (Seiyū: 佐藤智恵 Chie Satō*)
- Pokémon trainers
* No official credit was given for this character.
Pokémon
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
- Croagunk (Brock's)
- Garchomp (Cynthia's; debut)
- Ursaring (Paul's)
- Torterra (Paul's; debut)
- Weavile (Paul's)
- Chimchar (Paul's)
- Murkrow (Paul's)
- Bronzong (Lucian's; on TV)
- Chansey (Nurse Joy's)
- Furret
- Unown (inscription)
- Dialga (tablet)
- Palkia (tablet)
Trivia
- No Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture was aired; instead, a promotion for Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai aired.
- The tablet that Cynthia was reading before battling Paul had Unown on it. The inscription is the Japanese version of the inscription in Solaceon Ruins. The inscription is in Rōmaji, and is as follows (note that some parts of the inscription do not match the standard Hepburn romanization system):
FRIEND
SUBETE NO
INOCHI HA
BETSU NO
INOCHI TO DEAI
NANIKA WO UMIDASU
The translation which is recited by Cynthia in the dub is When every life meets another life, something will be born; this is correct, although she omits the "Friend" at the beginning of the inscription.
- Music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew was used as background music.
- The music that plays in the background during the battle between Paul's Chimchar and Cynthia's Garchomp is the same music played in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl when the player faces Cynthia after defeating the Elite Four.
- Dawn narrates the next episode preview.
- When the flame on Chimchar's tail goes out, Dawn and Ash seemed surprised. However, in When Pokémon Worlds Collide, when Ash scanned Chimchar with his Pokédex, it said that the flame on Chimchar's tail goes out when it sleeps.
- This is one of the few episodes of the Diamond & Pearl series where Dawn's Piplup does not appear.
Errors
- Right before Torterra is hit by Garchomp's Brick Break and by the end of the episode, the top half of Torterra's face was brown, instead of the normal green.
Dub edits
- The dub places the setting of the episode as Amity Square, while the Japanese version just places it in a nature park that is unique to the anime.
In other languages
- Brazilian Portuguese: Um Desafio de Elite!
- Chinese (Taiwan): 冠軍‧竹蘭登場！
- Czech: Vrcholový trénink
- Dutch: Supertraining!
- Finnish: Unohtumaton opetus
- French: Une belle leçon de dressage
- German: Der große Traum der Meisterin!
- Italian: Il coraggio di Paul
- Polish: Tajniki treningu
- Spanish:
- Iberian Spanish: ¡Una entrenadora de primera!
- Latin American Spanish: ¡Entrenamiento especial!
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