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

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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