Pokémon: Best Wishes (Black & White) · Best Wishes Season 2 arc
BW056 · The Lonely Deino!
アイリスとモノズ！育て屋修行！！
Synopsis
What happens.
En route to Driftveil City, Ash and Ashfr are having a practice battle between Swadloon and Stunfisk. Ash commands Swadloon to use String Shot but out of nowhere a Deino uses Dig to disrupt the battle.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's BW056 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.
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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 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.