Pokémon: Best Wishes (Black & White) · Best Wishes Season 2 arc
BW049 · Enter Elesa, Electrifying Gym Leader!
ジムリーダーはカリスマモデル！カミツレ登場！！
Synopsis
What happens.
As Ash, Cilan, and Iris depart from the Battle Subway, Ash is eager to finally challenge the Gym Leader of Nimbasa City. As they arrive at the Nimbasa Gym, Bianca runs in from out of nowhere and knocks Ash into a nearby fountain.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's BW049 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.
Story arc · BW049-BW097
Best Wishes Season 2.
Gym challenge continues. N (Team Plasma) introduced as a moral foil; the show's most ideologically interesting villain. Includes Meloetta movie tie-in.
Read the full Black & White guidePokémon featured · 8
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 Season 2.
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.