Blaze Black 2 Redux & Volt White 2 Redux Guide
The definitive Black 2 / White 2 overhaul: all 649 catchable, Gen VIII stats and abilities, the Fairy type, and every trainer rebuilt.
- Author
- AphexCubed & Drayano
- Base game
- Pokémon Black 2 / White 2
- System
- Nintendo DS
- Version
- 1.4.1
- Region
- Unova
- Difficulty
- Hard
Every fight the hack's documentation covers, in story order: gym leaders, your rival, the villain admins and their boss, the Elite Four and the Champion, plus any post-game rematches. Numbers on move chips are base power. Click a Pokémon for its full stats.
Search a route to see what's in the grass, water and hordes, or search a Pokémon to see where it lives. Click any Pokémon for its full moveset, TMs and stats.
About Blaze Black 2 Redux & Volt White 2 Redux
A modern rebuild of Drayano's Blaze Black 2 and Volt White 2, maintained by AphexCubed with Drayano's blessing. Every Pokémon from the first five generations is catchable in Unova, base stats and abilities are updated to Sword and Shield values, the Fairy type is added, level-up movepools are rewritten, and trainers throughout the game run full, competitively built teams. Redux ships in two flavours: the Complete version with custom stat, type and ability changes, and the Classic version that keeps official values. Black 2 and White 2's built-in Easy, Normal and Challenge modes are all supported, with separate teams for important Challenge Mode trainers.
What's changed
- All 649 Pokémon obtainable before the Elite Four
- Base stats, abilities and TM learnsets updated to Sword and Shield
- The Fairy type added, plus non-canon retypes in the Complete version
- Level-up movepools rewritten for every species, including Legends: Arceus moves
- 26 forgotten moves replaced with modern ones (Play Rough, Moonblast, Wave Crash…)
- Separate Challenge Mode teams for gym leaders, admins and the Elite Four
- Guest Gym Leaders from earlier regions appear throughout the story
- Trade evolutions changed to level or item evolutions
- EVless builds available for players who want the AI on level terms
What this guide covers
Every guide here is built from the hack's own documentation. Where a hack changed something but never published the numbers, this says so rather than quietly filling the gap with the original game's — which would be worse than leaving it out.
| Section | Source | |
|---|---|---|
| Wild Pokémon by area | From the hack | |
| Encounter rates | From the hack | The hack's own percentages, including the separate tables for rippling water and shaking grass. |
| Wild levels | From the hack | |
| Stats, abilities and movesets | From the hack | |
| TM and HM compatibility | From the hack | |
| Where TMs are found | From the hack | |
| Trainer and boss teams | From the hack | Every trainer in the game, not just the bosses — including the separate Challenge Mode rosters the document gives for important battles. Colress fields Pokéstar Studios creations (MT, UFO, F-00, MT2), which aren't Pokémon and so have no sprite or stat page. |
Credits
- Redux hack, balancing and documentation: AphexCubed
- Original Blaze Black 2 / Volt White 2: Drayano
- Trainer documentation framework: gippal
- Sprites via PokéAPI; base move and TM data from PokéAPI and Bulbapedia.
Reading the tables
RatesPercentages are the hack's own encounter rates; * marks anything at 5% or less.
Ripples‘Rippling water’ and ‘shaking spot’ entries are the dark patches that appear at random — different tables from ordinary surfing and grass.
ModesTrainer teams marked Challenge Mode replace the Normal team entirely. Where a section says levels shift, Easy subtracts and Challenge adds the stated amount.
BuildsAbilities marked with an asterisk in the source documents exist only in the Complete version; the Classic column is shown when you switch versions.
BugBlack 2 and White 2 have a vanilla bug where Easy and Challenge Mode Pokémon fight at slightly different levels than displayed. Levels here are the displayed ones.
ColressColress fields Pokéstar Studios creations — MT, MT2, UFO and F-00. They aren't Pokémon, so they have no sprite or stat page here; the hack's own documents link to their movie-opponent stats.