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All About Arceus VIII/VS Arceus VIII

VS アルセウスVIII

VS Arceus VIII

Info

Shogakukan full volume	Ch. 459 in Vol. 43
VIZ Media full volume	Adventure 18 in Vol. 2
Series	Pokémon Adventures

Other

Location

Sinjoh Ruins Ilex Forest

All About Arceus VIII/VS Arceus VIII or Final Evolution of Hope!/Final Evolution of Hope (Japanese: VS アルセウスVIII VS Arceus VIII or 希望の最終進化! The Final Evolution of Hope!) is the 459th chapter of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• Giovanni, Pryce, and Lance continue their battles outside the Sinjoh Ruins.
• Celebi is revealed to be gathering the cure to Giovanni's disease with Pibu's assistance.
• Giovanni's disease begins to affect him again, forcing Silver to take his place in the battle against Giratina.
• Gold's team is defeated, except for Togebo.
• Gold manages to fully connect with Togebo, allowing him to evolve into Togetic and then into Togekiss.
• Togebo attacks Arceus, not doing any damage, but manages to calm it down.

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

	Spoilers end here.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

• Gold
• Silver
• Crystal
• Professor Oak (flashback)
• Giovanni
• Koga (flashback)
• Whitney (flashback)
• Pryce
• Bruno (flashback)
• Lance
• Will (flashback)
• Karen (flashback)
• Masked Man (flashback)
• DJ Mary (flashback)

Pokémon

• Ambipom (Aibo/Ataro; Gold's)
• Politoed (Polibo/Poltaro; Gold's)
• Typhlosion (Exbo/Explotaro; Gold's)
• Sunkern (Sunbo/Sintaro; Gold's; flashback)
• Sunflora (Sunbo/Sintaro; Gold's)
• Sudowoodo (Sudobo/Utaro; Gold's)
• Togepi (Togebo/Togetaro; Gold's; evolves)
• Togetic (Togebo/Togetaro; Gold's; newly evolved; evolves)
• Togekiss (Togebo/Togetaro; Gold's; newly evolved)
• Mantine (Tibo/Mantaro; Gold's; flashback)
• Remoraid (Gold's; ×20; flashback)
• Pichu (Pibu; Gold's; fantasy)
• Weavile (Silver's)
• Honchkrow (Silver's)
• Ursaring (Silver's; with Giovanni)
• Rhyperior (Silver's)
• Xatu (Natee/Xatee; Crystal's)
• Swinub (Pryce's)
• Dragonite (Lance's)
• Celebi (Adventures)
• Arceus (Adventures)
• Dialga (Adventures)
• Palkia (Adventures)
• Giratina (Adventures)

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		VS 阿爾宙斯 VIII
French		L'ultime espoir
German		VS. Arceus (Teil 8)
Italian		VS Arceus VIII
Korean		VS 아르세우스 VIII
European Spanish		Contra Arceus VIII
Vietnamese		VS Arceus VIII - Hi vọng và tiến hóa!

This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.