Pokémon: Best Wishes (Black & White) · Best Wishes Season 2 arc
BW080 · Clash of the Connoisseurs!
ポケモンソムリエ対決！テイスティングバトル！！
Synopsis
What happens.
After Ash's victory in the Icirrus City Gym, he and his friends are about to get on their way to Opelucid City and Ash's final Gym battle. Just as they leave the Pokémon Center, Nurse Joy appears and asks if they are going to the Opelucid Gym.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's BW080 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.