Pokémon: Best Wishes (Black & White) · Best Wishes arc
BW040 · Cilan Versus Trip, Ash Versus Georgia!
熱闘ドンバトル！ツタージャVSコマタナ！！
Synopsis
What happens.
As the next Club Battle match begins, Luke is filming everything for his documentary. Freddy O'Martian declares that Trip will be fighting Cilan, who Don George notes will be a tough opponent as one of Striaton City’s Gym Leaders.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's BW040 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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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.