Pokémon Black & White
Unova with only new Pokémon until the credits: 156 species, seasons, triple and rotation battles, Team Plasma and N.
More about the game
The fifth generation starts the player in a region where none of the 493 older Pokémon appear until the main story is over. It introduces 156 species, a four-season cycle that changes some wild tables, rustling grass and dust clouds for rarer encounters, and triple and rotation battles. Black has Reshiram and Black City; White has Zekrom and White Forest.
Game Freak
This is an official game, not a ROM hack, and this page is here so that the guides for the ROM hacks built on it have the original numbers to point at. Encounters, stats, learnsets and TMs come from PokéAPI's data for this version; trainer teams, where present, from the pret decompilation. The game itself is Game Freak's and Nintendo's.
What this guide covers
This is an official game, so there is no creator documentation to read: the numbers come from PokéAPI's data for this version and, for trainer teams, from the pret decompilation of the game. A section the site has not compiled yet says so below rather than being filled in from memory.
| Section | Source | |
|---|---|---|
| Wild Pokémon by area | From the game itself | |
| Encounter rates | From the game itself | |
| Wild levels | From the game itself | |
| Stats, abilities and movesets | From the game itself | |
| TM and HM compatibility | From the game itself | |
| Where TMs are found | Not published by the creator | TM locations are not yet compiled for this game; the TM list and compatibility above are PokéAPI's. |
| Trainer and boss teams | Not published by the creator | Trainer teams are not yet compiled for this game: PokéAPI carries no trainer data, and the site only takes rosters from a game's own decompilation. |
Credits
- Game: Game Freak / Nintendo / Creatures Inc.
- Encounter tables, species, learnsets, moves and TM lists: PokéAPI
- Sprites via PokéAPI; base move and TM data from PokéAPI and Bulbapedia.
Reading the tables
SourceThis is an official game, not a ROM hack. Wild tables, species data and TM lists are PokéAPI's records for Black & White. Nothing is typed in from memory.
RatesPercentages are the game's encounter-slot chances summed per species; * marks anything at 5% or less. Levels are the range across those slots.
VersionsTables and fights that exist in one version only are labelled with that version; everything else is the same in both.
SeasonsWhere a table changes with the season it is labelled with the season; unlabelled tables apply year-round.
StagesCheckpoints follow the game's own badge order. Where an HM or a rod opens a method, the checkpoint is the site's reading of when the story hands it out; the item's map comes from the game data where it is compiled.