PS493

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Underground Showdown
Krokorok

VSワルビル

VS Waruvile

Info

VIZ Media mini-volume	Adventure 33 in Vol. 10
Kurokawa mini-volume	Chapter 33 in Vol. 5
Shogakukan full volume	Chapter 493 in Vol. 47
VIZ Media full volume	Adventure 33 in Vol. 5
Series	Pokémon Adventures

Other

Location

Driftveil Gym Route 6 Chargestone Cave Mistralton City

Underground Showdown (Japanese: VS ワルビル VS Krokorok), titled VS Krokorok in the Shogakukan Asia translation, is the 493rd chapter of the Pokémon Adventures manga, and the 33rd chapter of the Black & White arc.

It is subtitled Krokorok (Japanese: 感知 Perception) in the VIZ Media translation and Underground Showdown 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

• Black defeats Clay and earns the Quake Badge.
• 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.

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

	Spoilers end here.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Basculin (Red-Striped)

Characters

Humans

• Black
• Lenora (flashback)
• Burgh (fantasy)
• Elesa (fantasy)
• Clay
• Skyla (fantasy)
• Brycen (fantasy)
• Hawes (flashback)

Pokémon

• Munna (Musha; Black's)
• Pignite (Nite; Black's)
• Galvantula (Tula; Black's)
• Tirtouga (Costa; Black's)
• Excadrill (Clay's)
• Krokorok (Clay's)
• Palpitoad (Clay's)
• Basculin (Red-Striped)
• Karrablast
• Ferroseed
• Joltik (multiple)
• Zekrom (Adventures; fantasy)

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		VS 混混鱷 - 感知
European French		Le mystère du Galet Noir
German		VS. Rokkaiman - Der 6. Sinn
Italian		VS Krokorok - Percezione
Korean		VS 악비르
Brazilian Portuguese		VS Krokorok - Detecção
Spanish	Latin America	VS Krokorok: Percepción
	Spain	Contra Krokorok
Vietnamese		VS Waruviru - Nhận thức

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