Pokémon: Best Wishes (Black & White) · Best Wishes Season 2 arc
BW083 · Rocking the Virbank Gym!: Part 1
激闘タチワキジム！VSホミカ！！（前編）
Synopsis
What happens.
In order to get his eighth Badge required to enter the Unova League, Ash prepares to challenge the Virbank Gym. While in the Virbank City Pokémon Center, he sees many Trainers entering with poisoned Pokémon.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's BW083 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.