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| Season | Pokémon DP: Sinnoh League Victors (Season 13) · The Lily of the Valley Conference arc (DP182–DP185) |
| Episode | Season 13, episode 28 · English episode 647 · Japanese episode 652 · Bulbapedia code DP185 |
| English title | Working on a Right Move! |
| Japanese title | 恐怖のトリックルーム！サトシ対コウヘイ！！ Kyōfu no Torikku Rūmu! Satoshi Tai Kōhei!! — “Trick Room of Terror! Satoshi VS Kōhei!!” |
| First aired (Japan) | 22 July 2010 · TV Tokyo |
| First aired (US) | 11 December 2010 · Cartoon Network |
| Screenplay | Atsuhiro Tomioka |
| Opening / ending (Japan) | Saikō – Everyday! (The Greatest – Everyday!), Band Version – Fumie Akiyoshi with The Greatest-Band · Kimi no Mune ni LaLaLa (In Your Heart, LaLaLa) – MADOKA. |
| English opening | We Will Carry On! – Adam Elk |
| Previous episode | Casting a Paul on Barry! (DP184) |
| Next episode | Familiarity Breeds Strategy! (DP186) |
Plot episodeAsh beats ConwayGible masters Draco Meteor
Working on a Right Move! is the 28th episode of Pokémon DP: Sinnoh League Victors, the thirteenth season of the Pokémon anime, and the 647th episode of the English dub overall (Japanese episode 652, Bulbapedia code DP185). It first aired in Japan on 22 July 2010 and in the United States on 11 December 2010. It falls within the season’s The Lily of the Valley Conference stretch (EP182–EP185).
Synopsis
Ash defeats Conway’s Trick Room strategy in the third round as Gible finally masters Draco Meteor. In training Infernape learns Flare Blitz against Brock’s Sudowoodo, while Conway secretly observes. In the battle, his Shuckle, its Attack boosted by Power Trick, knocks out Noctowl and Donphan with Gyro Ball.
Ash’s Gible shrugs off Sludge Bomb and defeats Shuckle with a perfect Draco Meteor, and the returning Noctowl outflies Lickilicky’s Power Whip and Thunderbolt to win with Extrasensory. Then Conway’s Dusknoir sets up Trick Room, which lets slower Pokémon move first, and defeats Noctowl with Thunder Punch and the trapped Donphan with Shadow Punch.
Gible, Ash’s last Pokémon, is driven into the ground but surfaces beneath Dusknoir, bites its fist, launches it skyward with Draco Meteor and finishes it with Dragon Pulse. Ash advances to the quarter-finals against Paul, and Tobias advances too. That night, as Cynthia watches the rivals’ tension, Professor Oak returns Buizel, and Gliscor swoops down from the moonlit sky to rejoin Ash.
Major Events
- Ash beats Conway in the third round as Gible masters Draco Meteor. Infernape learns Flare Blitz
- Conway’s Trick Room
- Gliscor returns from McCann
- The first use of the word “Shiny” in the anime, in the dub
Trivia
- The screenplay is by Atsuhiro Tomioka.
- This is a plot episode: it advances the Sinnoh storyline.
Changes in the English Dub
- Barry says “Shiny” where the Japanese says “a different colour”, the first use of the word in the anime
- Professor Oak’s line about Ash’s “third Pokémon” is a slip in the dub
- Aim to Be a Pokémon Master 2001 for Gible against Dusknoir — replaced in the dub by This is the Moment
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