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School of Hard Knocks
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Info Collected in Vol. 12 Chapter number 39
Other Location Dragonspiral Tower/Tubeline Bridge Manga series Pokémon Adventures
Chapters Previous Chapter Decisions, Decisions Next Chapter With a Little Help from My Friends

School of Hard Knocks is the thirty-ninth round in the Black & White arc of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

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.

Characters

Humans

• Black
• Brycen
• Logan
• Drayden
• Iris
• 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 9th episode from the original Pokémon anime.

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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