Pokémon: Best Wishes (Black & White) · Best Wishes Season 2 arc

BW097 · Unova's Survival Crisis!

Name: Unova's Survival Crisis!
Released: 2013-01-26

霊獣フォルム総進撃！イッシュ最大の危機！！

US air. 2013-01-26 JP air. 2012-10-04 Season. Black & White: Rival Destinies (S15) Position. Episode 97 of 142 in Black & White

Synopsis

What happens.

Continuing from where the previous episode left off, Giovanni has raised the Abyssal Ruins using Meloetta's song, bringing Team Rocket's Operation Tempest to its final phase.

Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's BW097 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 · 16

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.

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.