PS499

School of Hard Knocks

VSプロトーガ VS Protoga

Info Chapter Black & White Collected in Vol. 48 Round number 499

Other Location Dragonspiral Tower Tubeline Bridge

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School of Hard Knocks (Japanese: VSプロトーガ VS Protoga or 暴走 Wild-riding) is the 499th round of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Plot

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Major events

• Brycen discovers that Zekrom has been awakened.
• Black meets the Opelucid Gym Leader, Drayden.
• Black discovers that Iris is being trained by Drayden.
• Iris has a quick battle with Drayden, but loses.
• Black faces the Black Empoleon biker gang and defeats them.

For a list of all major events in the Pokémon Adventures manga, please see the timeline.

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Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Druddigon

Characters

Humans

• Black
• White (fantasy)
• Lenora (fantasy)
• Burgh (fantasy)
• Elesa (fantasy)
• Clay (fantasy)
• Skyla (fantasy)
• Brycen
• Drayden
• Iris
• Doctor Logan
• Biker Jeremy
• Black Empoleon bikers

Pokémon

• Munna (Musha; Black's)
• Emboar (Bo; Black's)
• Galvantula (Tula; Black's)
• Tirtouga (Costa; Black's)
• Cryogonal (Brycen's)
• Beartic (Brycen's)
• Druddigon (Drayden's)
• Fraxure (Iris's)
• Scraggy (Jeremy's)

Trivia

• The VIZ English title is nearly identical to the English title of the ninth episode from the original Pokémon anime.
• When this round was collected into Volume 48, the scene of Black beginning his Gym battle against Brycen was moved to Tooth and Claw and an extra scene was added in its place.
• In the VIZ Media mini-volumes of the Black & White chapter, this round was collected in Volume 12.
• In the Kurokawa translation from France, this round was released in Pokémon Black and White volume 5.

Errors

• Musha is revealed to know Teleport, a move his species cannot learn legally.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		VS 原蓋海龜 - 失控
European French		Entraînement draconique
German		VS. Galapaflos - Außer Kontrolle
Italian		VS Tirtouga - A tutto gas
Korean		VS 프로토가
Brazilian Portuguese		VS Tirtouga - Delinquência
European Spanish		Contra Tirtouga
Vietnamese		VS Protoga - Côn đồ

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