PS499

School of Hard Knocks (Japanese: VSプロトーガ VS  or 暴走 Wild-riding) is the 499th round of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Major events

 * Brycen discovers that has been awakened.
 * meets the Gym Leader, Drayden.
 * Black discovers that Iris is being trained by Drayden.
 * Iris has a quick battle with Drayden, but loses.
 * Black faces the and defeats them.

Humans

 * (fantasy)
 * Lenora (fantasy)
 * Burgh (fantasy)
 * Elesa (fantasy)
 * Clay (fantasy)
 * Skyla (fantasy)
 * Brycen
 * Drayden
 * Iris
 * Logan
 * Jeremy
 * Jeremy

Pokémon

 * (Musha; 's)
 * (Bo; 's)
 * (Tula; 's)
 * (Costa; 's)
 * (Brycen's)
 * (Brycen's)
 * (Drayden's)
 * (Iris's)
 * ('s)

Trivia

 * The VIZ English title is nearly identical to the English title of the ninth episode from the original Pokémon anime.
 * When this round was collected into, the scene of beginning his Gym battle against Brycen was moved to Tooth and Claw and an extra scene was added in its place.
 * In the VIZ Media mini-volumes of the, this round was collected in.
 * In the Kurokawa translation from, this round was released in.

Errors

 * Musha is revealed to know, a move his species cannot learn legally.

In other languages
Kapitel 499 (Pocket Monsters SPECIAL) PS499