PASM03

Pokémon Move Specialist Professor Kukui (Japanese: 研究！！技の博士・ククイ！ Research!! The Doctor of Moves - Kukui!) is the third round of the Sun & Moon arc of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Plot

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Major events

• Sun delivers Moon and Rotom to Professor Kukui.
• Moon gives Rotom to Professor Kukui.
• Professor Kukui reveals he needed a Rotom to have it combine with the Pokédex he gave to Sun.
• Due to Sun's mishandling of the Pokédex, Rotom refuses to enter the device.
• The Island Kahunas plan to host a tournament at a festival to determine who will travel the islands and calm the Guardian deities.
• Professor Kukui enters Sun in the festival.

	Spoilers end here.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Mudsdale
• Bewear (Hala's)
• Lycanroc (Olivia's; Midnight Form)
• Persian (Nanu's; Alola Form)

Characters

Humans

• Sun
• Moon
• Professor Kukui
• Hala
• Olivia
• Nanu
• Lillie (picture)
• Hau (picture)
• Grunt A (picture)

Pokémon

• Rowlet (Professor Kukui's)
• Popplio (Professor Kukui's)
• Rotom (Professor Kukui's; newly obtained)
• Bewear (Hala's; debut)
• Lycanroc (Olivia's; Midnight Form; debut)
• Persian (Nanu's; Alola Form; debut)
• Tauros (Ride Pokémon)
• Mudsdale (Ride Pokémon; flashback)
• Rotom (Normal, Heat, Wash, Frost, Fan, Mow forms; image)
• Tapu Koko (fantasy)
• Tapu Lele (fantasy)
• Tapu Bulu (fantasy)
• Tapu Fini (fantasy)
• Pyukumuku (flashback)

Trivia

• In the VIZ Media mini-volumes of the Sun & Moon arc, this round was collected in Volume 1.

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