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| Season | Pokémon DP: Sinnoh League Victors (Season 13) · On the road to Daybreak Town arc (DP158–DP160) |
| Episode | Season 13, episode 1 · English episode 620 · Japanese episode 625 · Bulbapedia code DP158 |
| English title | Regaining the Home Advantage! |
| Japanese title | 爆走！ジバコイルＶＳメタグロス！！ Bakusō! Jibakoiru Tai Metagurosu!! — “Rampage! Jibacoil VS Metagross!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 7 January 2010 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 5 June 2010 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Yukiyoshi Ōhashi |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Saikō – Everyday! (The Greatest – Everyday!) – Fumie Akiyoshi · Dotchi~nyo? (Which One ~ Is It?), Version 1 – Moomoo Milk and Araki-san |
| English opening | We Will Carry On! – Adam Elk |
| Next episode | Short and To the Punch! (DP159) |
Filler / stand-alone episodeSeason premiereNew openings
Regaining the Home Advantage! is the 1st episode of Pokémon DP: Sinnoh League Victors, the thirteenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 620th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 625, Bulbapedia code DP158). It first aired in Japan on 7 January 2010 and in the United States on 5 June 2010. It falls within the season’s On the road to Daybreak Town stretch (EP158–EP160).
Premiered on Cartoon Network at 7 a.m. on Saturday 5 June 2010, three weeks after the Galactic Battles finale, with the new opening We Will Carry On!; Cartoon Network repeated the new episodes on Sundays.
Synopsis
On the way to Sunyshore City, Ash, Dawn and Brock help a Pokémon Ranger return a rampaging wild Magnezone and Metagross to the mountain basin where they normally battle. The pair have been tearing towards a nearby town, injuring Trainers whom Brock patches up, and neither Monferno, Mamoswine nor Happiny can stop them.
Pikachu’s Thunderbolt and Pachirisu’s Discharge lure the two Steel-types down the mountain while Team Rocket, trying to recruit them, get blasted away. Ranger Crispin explains that the pair spar in a crater to release built-up magnetism, but a boulder has diverted a stream and flooded it.
Croagunk’s Brick Break shatters the boulder, Buneary’s Ice Beam freezes the remaining water, and Happiny hurls the ice block, frozen Team Rocket included, into a valley. With the basin dry, Magnezone and Metagross resume their battle safely. Gible’s wayward Draco Meteor knocks Piplup into the crater for one last scare before the friends continue towards Daybreak Town.
Major Events
- Season premiere, with the new Japanese opening The Greatest – Everyday! and English opening We Will Carry On!, the first time both change in the middle of a region
- Ranger Crispin and a wild Magnezone and Metagross that spar to release built-up magnetism
- Croagunk, Buneary and Happiny drain the flooded crater
- Gible’s Draco Meteor hits Piplup
- Magnezone’s TV debut
Pokémon making their anime debut
Magnezone#0462 · DP158
Trivia
- The English title plays on the sporting “home advantage”, for a Magnezone and Metagross led back to the basin where they battle.
- The screenplay is by Yukiyoshi Ōhashi.
- This is a stand-alone episode: it can be skipped without losing the thread of the Sinnoh story.
Changes in the English Dub
- Brock’s “boys don’t cry” becomes “You can do it”
- “yesterday” becomes “a few days ago”
- Sources disagree about Brock’s flirting with Officer Jenny: Bulbapedia says he speaks in rhyme only in Japanese, Dogasu’s Backpack that only the dub rhymes
- Metagross keeps its Japanese voice
- New Japanese opening The Greatest – Everyday! (Fumie Akiyoshi)
- New English opening We Will Carry On! (Adam Elk)
- The dub reportedly uses all-new music
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