An Elite Meet and Greet! (Japanese: 四天王ゴヨウとドータクン!Elite Four Goyō and Dotakun!) is the 35th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 501st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 24, 2007 and in the United States on November 3, 2007.
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In the Pokémon center, Brock, Ash, and Dawn are watching an Elite Four battle on a small television. Ash comments on how he wants to meet Lucian, the battle. Meanwhile, Lucian wins the battle. While leaving the Pokécenter, Dawn spots Lucian and his Bronzong. After some talking, Dawn challenges Lucian to a battle. Lucian's Bronzong continually uses Flash Cannon and faints Dawn's Pokémon. Dawn's Buizel then decides if he wants to continue battling or not. Later on they are attacked by Team Rocket. Lucian uses Dawn's Buizel and attacks Team Rocket. THey defeat Team Rocket and Dawn fianally realizes Buizel's battling style. Later Dawn battles Lucian again and Lucian pulls back Bronzong after Buizel do little damage to it. Lucian tells Dawn to continue training, and then leaves. The group then continues onto their next destination.
* No official credit was given for this character.
Trivia
The opening and ending animations are updated to include Dawn's Buizel.
The concept of needing to defeat all the members of the Elite Four before battling the Pokémon champion is explained. This is similar to what happens in the games.
Due to a possible error, the first English dub title was revealed as "The Bells are Bronzing!" and later on "The Bells Are Bronzong!"
In the Japanese version, a cold open intro is shown, then the opening theme, a scene where Dawn introduces her Buizel to others, and the title card. For reasons unknown, this episode shows the cold open intro, and then the Buizel introduction before the opening theme and the title card in the English dub.
In other languages
Finnish: Eliittitapaaminen
German: WER hat hier WEN im Griff?
Italian: Un Superquattro come amico & Buizel contro il Team Rocket
Iberian Spanish: ¡Encuentros y Saludos del Alto Mando!
Latin American Spanish: ¡Un encuentro con la Élite Cuatro!
