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A Conk on Cranidos's Cranium/VS. Cranidos

VSズガイドス

VS. Zugaidos

Info

Series

Pokémon Adventures

Other

Location

Oreburgh City

A Conk on Cranidos's Cranium/VS. Cranidos (Japanese: VSズガイドス VS. Zugaidos or ヒョウタとクロガネジム Hyouta and the Kurogane Gym) is the 342nd round of the Diamond & Pearl arc in the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Plot

The chapter begins with Diamond andPearl preparing to help Platinum train Piplup for it's upcoming battle with Roark. Roark returns to the mines, and impresses his mining crew with the fossils he found.Platinum appears and asks Roark for a battle. They agree on to battle in two days time.Pearl comments on how strong willed Piplup is and decides to help Platinum train. Platinum comments on her knowledge of type compatibilities, but claims that reading and experiencing are two different things.Diamond starts practice battling with Platinum in preparation for the upcoming gym battle. They the assign Platinum and Piplup a training regimen to help prepare. The next day, the group arrives at the Oreburgh Gym

Major events

• Platinum starts training her Piplup.
• Roark battles against Platinum.
• Platinum wins the battle and receives a Coal Badge for defeating Roark.

Characters

Humans

• Diamond
• Pearl
• Platinum
• Professor Rowan
• Roark
• Sir Berlitz
• Miners
• Youngster

Cameos

• Roark's grandfather (Flashback)
• Palmer (Silhouette)

Pokémon

• Munchlax (Lax ;Diamond's)
• Turtwig (Tru/Wig; Diamond's)
• Chatot (Chatler/Chahiko; Pearl's)
• Chimchar (Chimler/Chimhiko; Pearl's)
• Ponyta (Platinum's)
• Piplup (Platinum's)
• Cranidos (Roark's)
• Onix (Roark's)
• Geodude (Youngster's)

Trivia

• A snippit of this round was included in VIZ Media's San Diego Comic Con 2011 sampler sampler.

Errors

• In the Chuang Yi translation, Pomeg Berry is incorrectly referred as Rowap Berry.

This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.