Pokémon Black & White

by Nintendo / Game Freak

Pokémon Black & White takes the franchise to the Unova region, a land inspired by New York City where familiar Pokémon are nowhere to be found. N, the enigmatic king of Team Plasma, challenges everything players take for granted about catching and battling Pokémon. With 156 all-new Pokémon, a story about liberation vs. partnership, and the legendary dragons Reshiram and Zekrom representing truth and ideals, Gen V is widely considered the narrative peak of the franchise.

85 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Alder — Unova's wandering Champion — a man who lost his partner Pokémon years ago and never stopped grieving, who walks the region not to defend his title but
• Anthea — One of N's foster sisters — the Goddess of Love who cared for N in his isolation, offering him the only human tenderness Ghetsis allowed.
• Benga — Alder's grandson and the wild child of Unova — a battle-obsessed trainer who inherited his grandfather's fire-red hair and none of his existential dou
• Bianca — The girl who left home against her father's wishes, lost every important battle, and found her purpose not as a champion but as someone who helps othe
• Brycen — Icirrus City's Ice-type gym leader and former action movie star — a man who abandoned fame for discipline, and battles with the cold precision of some
• Burgh — Castelia City's Bug-type gym leader and avant-garde artist — a man who finds more beauty in the patterns on a Leavanny's wings than in any gallery.
• Caitlin — Unova's Psychic-type Elite Four member — a woman whose psychic powers were once so uncontrollable she wasn't allowed to battle, who mastered herself t
• Cedric Juniper — Professor Juniper's father — an older researcher who studies Pokémon mythology and entrusts the player with upgrades that keep pace with their growing
• Cheren — The smartest kid in Nuvema Town who wanted strength above all else — until he won everything he could measure and realized he'd never asked himself wh
• Chili — The hottest-headed Striaton triplet — a Fire-type specialist who battles with all the subtlety of a Flamethrower and wouldn't have it any other way.
• Cilan — One of the Striaton City triplet gym leaders — a Grass-type specialist and Pokémon Connoisseur who evaluates trainer-Pokémon compatibility like a somm
• Clay — Driftveil City's Ground-type gym leader and mining tycoon — a hard-nosed businessman who built his fortune underground and runs his gym the same way:
• Cobalion — The Iron Will Pokémon — leader of the Swords of Justice, a legendary protector who shields Pokémon from human cruelty with a body of steel and a heart
• Colress — Team Plasma's chief scientist in BW2 — a man who doesn't care about liberation or conquest, only about one question: what is the ultimate method to dr
• Concordia — N's other foster sister — the Goddess of Peace who understood Ghetsis's manipulation before N did and carries the weight of that knowledge like a woun
• Cress — The coolest of the Striaton triplets — a Water-type specialist whose calm exterior and precise battling style complement his brothers' fire and growth
• Drayden — Opelucid City's Dragon-type gym leader and mayor — an old warrior whose white beard could cut steel and whose philosophy on strength shaped an entire
• Elesa — Nimbasa City's Electric-type gym leader and supermodel — a woman who moves between the runway and the battlefield with equal confidence, and means eve
• Genesect — A 300-million-year-old Pokémon resurrected and weaponized by Team Plasma — a living fossil turned cyborg, the ultimate expression of the line between
• Ghetsis Harmonia — The man who adopted a child, raised him in a cage of curated suffering, and called it love — all to rule Unova through a puppet king who could command
• Grimsley — Unova's Dark-type Elite Four member — a fallen aristocrat who gambles with battles the way he gambles with everything else: all in, every time, becaus
• Hilbert — A quiet kid from Nuvema Town who set out to fill a Pokédex and ended up dismantling a cult, befriending a god, and saving an entire region before dinn
• Hilda — A girl from a tiny town who took Professor Juniper's starter and walked straight into the biggest ideological crisis Unova had ever seen — and won.
• Hugh — The BW2 rival who isn't chasing strength or knowledge — he's chasing a stolen Purrloin and the people who took it from his little sister, and god help
• Iris — A wild-hearted dragon trainer raised in the Village of Dragons who climbed from gym leader to Champion of Unova — the youngest in the region's history
• Keldeo — The Colt Pokémon — the youngest Sword of Justice, an orphan taken in by the legendary trio and still learning what it means to be a protector.
• Kyurem — The Boundary Pokémon — the frozen, hollow shell left behind when the original dragon split, an incomplete god that feeds on cold because it has forgot
• Lenora — Nacrene City's museum director and Normal-type gym leader — an archaeologist who guards Unova's history as fiercely as she guards her gym badge.
• Looker — An International Police agent who appears across multiple regions tracking criminal organizations — in Unova, he's hunting the Seven Sages after Team
• Marlon — Humilau City's Water-type gym leader — a surfer and swimmer who cares more about the ocean than about titles, and battles with the easy strength of so
• Marshal — Unova's Fighting-type Elite Four member — Alder's former student who channels his master's question about strength into every battle, searching for th
• N — Natural Harmonia Gropius — A mathematical genius raised in isolation to believe Pokémon suffer under trainers — the purest heart in the franchise, weaponized by the cruelest fat
• N's Zoroark — N's most loyal companion — an illusionist fox who was one of the abused Pokémon Ghetsis curated for N's childhood, and who chose to stay anyway becaus
• Nate — The BW2 male protagonist — a kid from Aspertia City who inherits the consequences of a story that happened two years before he was ready for it.
• Professor Aurea Juniper — Unova's Pokémon professor — a warm, brilliant researcher who studies the origins of Pokémon and sends three kids into the world with a smile and a Pok
• Reshiram — The Vast White Pokémon — a dragon god of truth whose flame burns lies to ash, who chose one of two ancient heroes and waits in stone for the next wort
• Rood — The Sage who chose N — after Team Plasma split, Rood took the true believers and tried to undo the damage Ghetsis had done, one returned Pokémon at a
• Rosa — The BW2 female protagonist — an energetic trainer from Aspertia City who takes on Neo Team Plasma and a weaponized legendary dragon with the determina
• Roxie — Virbank City's Poison-type gym leader and punk rocker — she plays bass in a band called Koffing and the Toxics, and her gym battles are concerts where
• Shadow Triad — Three identical ninja servants bound to Ghetsis by an unknown debt — they appear from nowhere, deliver messages or violence, and vanish, loyal to the
• Shauntal — Unova's Ghost-type Elite Four member — a novelist who draws inspiration from the boundary between life and death, and whose battles read like chapters
• Skyla — Mistralton City's Flying-type gym leader and cargo pilot — a woman who lives in the sky and battles like the wind: fast, unpredictable, and impossible
• Team Plasma — The best villain team in the franchise — an organization built on a genuine moral argument about Pokémon liberation, corrupted from within by a man wh
• Terrakion — The Cavern Pokémon — the strongest of the Swords of Justice, a bull-like guardian who charged through human armies to reach the Pokémon trapped behind
• Victini — The Victory Pokémon — a tiny fire-psychic mythical being that guarantees victory to whoever it sides with, trapped on Liberty Garden Island to keep it
• Virizion — The Grassland Pokémon — the swiftest Sword of Justice, a graceful guardian who confounded human armies with speed and struck them down with blades of
• Volcarona — The Sun Pokémon — a moth deity worshipped as a replacement sun when volcanic ash darkened the skies, found deep in Relic Castle guarding ancient flame
• Zekrom — The Deep Black Pokémon — a dragon god of ideals whose lightning shatters complacency, who demands not honesty but conviction from those who would wiel
• Zinzolin — One of Team Plasma's Seven Sages — the one who stayed loyal to Ghetsis's darker vision, freezing in service to a man who promised warmth and delivered

Locations

• Accumula Town — The first town past Route 1 — and the place where the player first hears Ghetsis speak, where the seeds of doubt are planted in an entire crowd.
• Aspertia City — The starting city of BW2 — a hilltop town with a lookout point where Nate/Rosa can see all of Unova below them, and where Cheren became the gym leader
• Castelia City — Unova's Manhattan — a towering metropolis of skyscrapers, piers, and overwhelming scale, the biggest city in any Pokémon game and the heart of the reg
• Celestial Tower — Unova's memorial tower — where trainers lay their Pokémon to rest and ring a bell that echoes across the region, a quiet acknowledgment that in this w
• Chargestone Cave — A cave of floating magnetic stones and electric energy — where N walks beside the player as an uneasy companion, philosophizing about Pokémon while th
• Desert Resort — A vast desert area in central Unova — sandstorms, buried ruins, and the entrance to Relic Castle where ancient civilizations left their secrets beneat
• Dragonspiral Tower — The oldest structure in Unova — a crumbling tower where the legendary dragon sleeps in stone, waiting for a hero who believes hard enough to wake it.
• Driftveil City — A port and mining city built on hard work and harder ground — where Clay runs the economy and reformed Team Plasma members quietly try to make amends.
• Giant Chasm — A massive impact crater where Kyurem lurks — the coldest place in Unova, where the broken god feeds on warmth and Lacunosa Town built walls to keep it
• Humilau City — A city built on boardwalks over the ocean — the newest settlement in Unova, where Marlon surfs between houses and the last gym badge waits.
• Icirrus City — A frozen marshland city at Unova's northern edge — where Brycen trains in the cold and Dragonspiral Tower rises from the mist, holding a sleeping god.
• Lacunosa Town — A walled town where no one goes outside at night — because the legends say something in the Giant Chasm comes to feed when the sun goes down.
• Liberty Garden — A small island with a lighthouse, accessible only by boat — where Victini was sealed away to protect it from those who'd exploit the power of guarante
• Lostlorn Forest — A hidden forest clearing where N's Zoroark waits — creating illusions of things that aren't there, guarding memories of a friend who flew away.
• Mistralton City — A mountain city with a cargo runway carved into its center — where planes take off between buildings and Skyla keeps Unova connected by air.
• N's Castle — Team Plasma's hidden fortress — built underground, erupted through the Pokémon League during the climax, and containing the room where N was raised in
• Nacrene City — An arts district built in converted warehouses — home to Lenora's museum-gym where Unova's ancient history and its gym challenge share the same buildi
• Nimbasa City — Unova's Broadway — an entertainment capital of stadiums, amusement parks, and fashion runways where Elesa dazzles and N rides the Ferris wheel with th
• Nuvema Town — A tiny coastal town at the southeastern edge of Unova — where three kids grew up together and one morning changed everything.
• Opelucid City — A city that looks different depending on which version you play — futuristic in Black, traditional in White — home to dragon masters and the philosoph
• P2 Laboratory — An abandoned Team Plasma research facility — where the Genesect project was conducted, turning ancient predators into cyborg weapons while the organiz
• Pinwheel Forest — A dense forest where the player first chases Team Plasma after the museum theft — and where Virizion guards the ancient trees from those who'd exploit
• Plasma Frigate — Neo Team Plasma's flying warship — a high-tech fortress that can freeze entire cities from above, powered by Kyurem's stolen cold.
• Pokémon League (Unova) — Unova's ultimate challenge — an ornate fortress atop Victory Road where four masters and a Champion wait, and where N's Castle erupts from the ground
• Pokémon World Tournament — A tournament facility in Driftveil City where Champions and gym leaders from every region come to compete — the franchise's ultimate fan service and t
• Relic Castle — A buried civilization in the desert — layer after layer of sand-choked ruins descending into darkness, where Volcarona has burned for centuries.
• Skyarrow Bridge — The longest bridge in Unova — a sweeping suspension span connecting Pinwheel Forest to Castelia City, and one of the most visually stunning moments in
• Striaton City — Home of the triplet gym leaders and their restaurant-gym — where food, battle, and Pokémon Connoisseurship blur into one experience.
• Unova Region — The first Pokémon region based on the United States — specifically New York City and its surroundings, a land of bridges, boroughs, and ideological co
• Village Bridge — A bridge that became a village — where people built homes on a crossing and musicians play layered music that builds as you walk, creating one of Poké
• Virbank City — A gritty port city with a punk rock gym and a movie studio — where Roxie plays bass loud enough to shake the walls and Pokéstar Studios turns battles

Items

• Colress Machine — A device that amplifies Pokémon power through technological means — Colress's life's work, and the proof that science alone isn't enough when love doe
• Dark Stone — The dormant form of Zekrom — a black sphere that crackles with static and waits for someone with ideals strong enough to wake the lightning within.
• DNA Splicers — A device that forces Kyurem to absorb Reshiram or Zekrom — technology that turns reunion into violation, used by Ghetsis to forge a weapon from broken
• Liberty Pass — A ticket to Liberty Garden Island — the key to reaching Victini, distributed as an early event that made Gen 5's first mythical encounter feel like a
• Light Stone — The dormant form of Reshiram — a glowing white stone that hums with fire, waiting for someone who pursues truth to wake the dragon god within.

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