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!!

US air. 2012-09-29 JP air. 2012-05-31 Season. Black & White: Rival Destinies (S15) Position. Episode 81 of 142 in Black & White

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.

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Pokémon 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.