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

BW098 · Beauties Battling for Pride and Prestige!

Name: Beauties Battling for Pride and Prestige!
Released: 2013-02-02

世界一華麗なポケモン！？チラチーノVSツタージャ！

US air. 2013-02-02 JP air. 2012-10-11 Season. Black & White: Adventures in Unova and Beyond (S16) Position. Episode 98 of 142 in Black & White

Why this episode matters

Key episode in Black & White

Episode N begins. Team Plasma's ideology vs. trainer ethics gets full screen time.

Synopsis

What happens.

In Undella Town, Cynthia tells Ash and his friends that the Pokémon Center has informed her of the Unova League's location, which Jervis says is Vertress City. Cynthia suggests that the three head there right away so they will have time for preparations before the League.

Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's BW098 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.

Story arc · BW098-BW108

Best Wishes Season 2: Episode N.

Eleven-episode mini-arc focused entirely on N. Considered the era's peak.

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Pokémon featured · 14

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 N.

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.