PS499

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

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.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

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

Pokémon

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

Trivia

• The VIZ English title bears a near resemblance 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.

Errors

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

In other languages

Language		Title
European French		Entraînement draconique

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