PS533

New Sword Player
Tornadus: Therian Forme II

VSトルネロスれいじゅうフォルムII

VS Tornelos Sacred Beast Forme II

Info

Shogakukan full volume	Chapter 533 in Vol. 53
VIZ Media full volume	Adventure 9 in Vol. 2
Series	Pokémon Adventures

Other

Location

Route 20 Virbank City Virbank Gym Aspertia City

New Sword Player (Japanese: VSトルネロスれいじゅうフォルムII VS Tornelos Sacred Beast Forme II), titled VS Tornadus Therian Forme II in the Shogakukan Asia translation, is the 533rd chapter of the Pokémon Adventures manga, and the ninth chapter of the Black 2 & White 2 arc.

It is subtitled Tornadus: Therian Forme II (Japanese: ニュー・ソードプレイヤー New Sword Player) in the VIZ Media translation and New Sword Player in the Shogakukan Asia translation.

Plot

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Major events

• Blake battles against Tornadus with Dewott and Kelden.
• Tornadus reveals that its true target is Giallo, who refuses to accept Colress as Team Plasma's new leader.
• Dewott and Kelden freeze Tornadus, forcing the Team Plasma Grunts to recall it and retreat.
• Looker arrests Giallo.
• Whitley is revealed to have fallen asleep, preventing her from being able to recognize Giallo.
• Blake takes Whitley to a concert performed by Roxie and her band.

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

	Spoilers end here.

Debuts

• Roxie

Pokémon debuts

• Krookodile

Characters

Humans

• Blake
• Whitley
• Looker
• N (silhouette; fantasy)
• Roxie
• Colress (fantasy)
• Giallo
• Hugh's sister
• Billy Jo
• Nicky
• Team Plasma Grunts

Pokémon

• Dewott (Blake's)
• Keldeo (Kelden; Blake's)
• Foongus (Foongy; Whitley's)
• Croagunk (Looker's)
• Krookodile (Giallo's)
• Tornadus (Team Plasma's; Therian Forme)

Trivia

Errors

• Kelden uses Ice Beam in the online version of this chapter. Since Keldeo cannot legally learn Ice Beam, the move was changed to Icy Wind when the chapter was collected into Volume 53.
• The cut that Kelden made at the Pledge Grove is missing in the flashback.

In other languages

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