Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl · Diamond and Pearl arc
DP013 · A Staravia Is Born!
ムックルがんばる！
Synopsis
What happens.
Ash is in the midst of some special training with Starly. He orders an Aerial Ace, and Starly does so, flying along the ground towards a target on a tree trunk. Ash tells him to pull up, and he flies up the trunk of the tree, before looping around for another go.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's DP013 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.
Story arc · DP001-DP052
Diamond and Pearl.
Ash arrives in Sinnoh, meets Dawn and her Piplup, reunites with Brock. Picks Turtwig from Rowan; the Sinnoh badge run begins. Paul introduced as a foil.
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Who appears.
Linked entries open the species page on the Pokédex. Items without a sprite (alternate forms, regional variants, generic group references) fall back to a name pill.
More from this arc
Other episodes in Diamond and Pearl.
Episode synopsis from Bulbapedia, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5. Editorial context (arc affiliation, cultural moments, character signatures) hand-verified May 2026. Pokémon, character names, and series titles © Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc., The Pokémon Company, OLM Inc. This is an unofficial fan reference.