Pokémon: Best Wishes (Black & White) · Best Wishes arc
BW015 · The Battle According to Lenora!
シッポウジム戦!VSジムリーダー・アロエ!!
Synopsis
What happens.
Continuing their visit in Nacrene City, Ash and his friends are led through the Museum by Lenora and her husband Hawes. Ash asks where the battlefield is, and Cilan remarks that there doesn't appear to be one on the premises.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's BW015 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.
Read the full Black & White guidePokémon featured · 9
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.