PS499

School of Hard Knocks
Tirtouga

VSプロトーガ

VS Protoga

Info

VIZ Media mini-volume	Adventure 39 in Vol. 12
Kurokawa mini-volume	Chapter 39 in Vol. 5
Shogakukan full volume	Chapter 499 in Vol. 48
VIZ Media full volume	Adventure 39 in Vol. 6
Series	Pokémon Adventures

Other

Location

Dragonspiral Tower Tubeline Bridge

School of Hard Knocks (Japanese: VS プロトーガ VS Tirtouga), titled VS Tirtouga in the Shogakukan Asia translation, is the 499th chapter of the Pokémon Adventures manga, and the 39th chapter of the Black & White arc.

It is subtitled Tirtouga (Japanese: 暴走 Wild-riding) in the VIZ Media translation and School of Hard Knocks in the Shogakukan Asia translation.

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

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 history page.

	Spoilers end here.

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 of Pokémon the Series: The Beginning.
• When this chapter 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

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