Pokémon: Best Wishes (Black & White) · Best Wishes Season 2 arc
BW079 · Caution: Icy Battle Conditions!
セッカジム戦！氷のバトルフィールド！！
Synopsis
What happens.
Ash and his friends have arrived in Icirrus City for Ash's Gym battle with Brycen, the Gym Leader. Ash's Krokorok is showing off its punching skills as the gang looks on. Ash says he looks good, but Iris notes that Brycen's Beartic is a fierce battler.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's BW079 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.