PASM23

Battle in Vast Poni Canyon (Japanese: 対決！！ポニのだいきょうこく！ Showdown!! The Great Canyon of Poni!) is the 23rd round of the Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon arc of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Plot

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Major events

• Crabominable returns, asking to join Hapu's team. When Hapu refuses and suggests it join Sun, Crabominable reluctantly agrees and is nicknamed Loot.
• Hapu reveals she is in possession of the Moon Flute.
• Gladion and Lillie head to the Poni Altar, but are attacked by a Xurkitree.
• Faba and the Aether Foundation Employees arrive at Vast Poni Canyon and split into two groups: one to capture Hapu, and the other to head to the Poni Altar.
• Plumeria confronts Faba, demanding to know where Guzma was taken to.
• Plumeria reveals she has the Cosmog Guzma received from the Aether Foundation, though it has since evolved into a Cosmoem.
• Moon and Anabel arrive to confront Faba.
• Faba has the Employees battle in his place while he tries to escape.
• Nebby and the other Cosmoem fly into the air and meet each other.

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

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Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Sun
• Moon
• Lillie
• Ilima (flashback)
• Kiawe (flashback)
• Mallow (flashback)
• Hapu
• Hau (flashback)
• Anabel
• Gladion
• Guzma (flashback)
• Plumeria
• Lusamine (fantasy)
• Faba
• Aether Foundation Employees

Pokémon

• Meowth (Alolan; Dollar; Sun's)
• Crabominable (Loot; Sun's; newly captured)
• Charjabug (Moon's)
• Mareanie (Moon's)
• Grimer (Alolan; Moon's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex; Moon's; flashback)
• Rowlet (Moon's's)
• Cosmog (Nebby; Lillie's; flashback)
• Cosmoem (Nebby; Lillie's)
• Mudsdale (Hapu's)
• Flygon (Hapu's)
• Golurk (Hapu's)
• Gastrodon (East Sea; Hapu's)
• Salamence (Anabel's)
• Type: Null (Gladion's; flashback)
• Silvally (Gladion's)
• Salazzle (Plumeria's)
• Hypno (Faba's)
• Lileep (Aether Foundation Employee's)
• Magneton (Aether Foundation Employee's)
• Raticate (Alolan; Aether Foundation Employee's)
• Vanilluxe (Aether Foundation Employee's)
• Sliggoo (Aether Foundation Employee's)
• Ledian (Aether Foundation Employee's; ×2)
• Lumineon (Aether Foundation Employee's)
• Machamp (Ride Pokémon)
• Cosmoem (Adventures)
• Tauros (×2)
• Miltank
• Petilil
• Cottonee
• Xurkitree
• Solgaleo (silhouette; fantasy)
• Lunala (silhouette; fantasy)
• Kartana (silhouette; fantasy)
• Buzzwole (silhouette; fantasy)
• Pheromosa (silhouette; fantasy)
• Celesteela (flashback)
• Guzzlord (flashback)
• Nihilego (flashback)
• Tapu Lele (flashback)
• Cosmog (flashback)

In other languages

Trivia

• In the VIZ Media mini-volumes of the Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon arc, this round was collected in Volume 8.

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