BW078 · Guarding the Guardian of the Mountain!

Synopsis

What happens.

Ash and his friends have nearly reached Icirrus City but must first traverse a rocky mountain. The group hears a sound coming from the top of the ridge on their left. Suddenly, two large boulders become dislodged and begin tumbling down toward them.

Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's BW078 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.

Pokémon featured · 6

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.

Volcarona

Pikachu

Axew

Krokorok

Beartic

Jellicent

More from this arc

Other episodes in Best Wishes Season 2.

• BW049 Enter Elesa, Electrifying Gym Leader! 2012-02-18
• BW050 Dazzling the Nimbasa Gym! 2012-02-25
• BW051 Lost at the Stamp Rally! 2012-03-03
• BW052 Ash Versus the Champion! 2012-03-10
• BW053 A Maractus Musical! 2012-03-17
• BW054 The Four Seasons of Sawsbuck! 2012-03-24
• BW055 Scraggy and the Demanding Gothita! 2012-03-31
• BW056 The Lonely Deino! 2012-04-07