Pokémon: Best Wishes (Black & White) · Best Wishes arc

BW004 · The Battle Club and Tepig's Choice!

バトルクラブ!謎のポケモン現る!!

US air. 2011-02-26 JP air. 2010-10-07 Season. Black & White (S14) Position. Episode 4 of 142 in Black & White

Synopsis

What happens.

As Ash leaves the forest, he is amazed to see a large city in front of him. Thinking of it as Striaton City, he is pumped for the Pokémon Gym. However, Iris says that Striaton City is in fact the next town.

Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's BW004 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.

Story arc · BW001-BW048

Best Wishes.

Ash arrives in Unova; meets Iris in Cilan's Striaton restaurant; trio formed. Pikachu battles return after Zekrom's lightning depowers him in the premiere.

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Pokémon featured · 11

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 Best Wishes.

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.