Pokémon: Best Wishes (Black & White) · Best Wishes Season 2 arc
BW081 · Crisis at Ferroseed Research!
テッシード研究所！アイリスとバイバニラ！！
Synopsis
What happens.
Acting on a suggestion by Mr. Hatterly's butler, Ash and his friends are walking in a harbor to take a boat to Virbank City. As they walk, a Vanilluxe suddenly levitates past them, which sends a chill down Iris and Axew's spines.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's BW081 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 · 19
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.