PS493

Underground Showdown (Japanese: VSワルビル VS  or 感知 Perception) is the 493rd round of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Major events

 * defeats Clay and earns the.
 * Clay reveals that Team Plasma is planning to steal the Dark Stone.
 * Black and Clay arrive at Mistralton City to meet with the other Gym Leaders.

Pokémon debuts

 * (Red-Striped)

Humans

 * Lenora (flashback)
 * Burgh (fantasy)
 * Elesa (fantasy)
 * Clay
 * Skyla (fantasy)
 * Brycen (fantasy)
 * Hawes (flashback)
 * Hawes (flashback)

Pokémon

 * (Musha; 's)
 * (Nite; 's)
 * (Tula; 's)
 * (Costa; 's)
 * (Clay's)
 * (Clay's)
 * (Red-Striped)
 * (multiple)
 * (fantasy)
 * (multiple)
 * (fantasy)
 * (fantasy)

Trivia

 * In the VIZ Media mini-volumes of the, this round was collected in.
 * In the Kurokawa translation from, this round was released in.

In other languages
Kapitel 493 (Pocket Monsters SPECIAL) PS493