Walkthrough:Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon/Part 16

This is the Bulbapedia walkthrough for Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.
These pages follow the enhanced versions, not Pokémon Sun and Moon. The guide for those games can be found here.


Route 10

Route 10

Route 10 climbs out of Malie City toward Mount Hokulani through a stretch of tall grass and trees. Some of the trees rustle as you pass and a Flying-type Pokémon hiding inside, will burst out to attack if you get too close. A Trial Guide stationed about halfway along heals your team if you talk to her.

An elderly woman near the Malie City entrance stops you with a favor. Her eight Stufful slipped out of their Poké Balls to play and have not come back, and she asks you to chase them down for her. Track down all eight scattered across the route and each one trots home on its own once you interact with it. Report back to her afterward for a Muscle Band and $15,000.

The bus stop at the north end of the route is under siege when you reach it: two Team Skull Grunts are trying to make off with the sign itself. Beat them one after the other and they scatter, at which point Professor Kukui catches up with you, wishing aloud that Team Skull would challenge the Pokémon League instead of picking fights. He tells you that your next trial waits inside Hokulani Observatory and that the Exeggutor Express is the only way up, then rides along with you once you interact with the sign to call the bus.

Mount Hokulani

Mount Hokulani

Mount Hokulani is Alola's second-tallest peak, and the Exeggutor Express drops you off at a parking lot near its summit, alongside a Pokémon Center. Once you step off, Kukui draws your attention to another mountain visible through the haze: Mount Lanakila. He explains that this is where he intends to build Alola's own Pokémon League, believing the region is overdue for a name of its own in the wider Pokémon world.

Kukui then introduces the man waiting outside the observatory as Molayne, an old friend he once traveled with on his own island challenge. Molayne no longer holds the title of captain here, but he still runs the region's PC Storage System, and he hands you a Steelium Z on the spot rather than making you earn it in a fight. With introductions made, Kukui heads back down the mountain, leaving you and Molayne at the observatory entrance.

Hokulani Observatory

Hokulani Observatory

Hokulani Observatory studies distant planets and galaxies with the help of Pokémon like Charjabug and Togedemaru, whose senses pick up wavelengths no human instrument can catch. A Scientist behind the reception desk hands out a Comet Shard, and another near the entrance has a Stardust for whoever can work out one of his magnitude riddles.

Pass through the door behind the reception desk and step into the Captain's Gate to find Sophocles, the inventor behind Festival Plaza. After talking to Sophocles, go back outside to gather the Charjabug. Unfortunately three are missing and yo are tasked with retrieve them by the bus station. You can find each of buried by a rock in the muddy enclosure South of the bus. After searching each rock, Molayne will tell you that "Sevenjabug" is always wandering to strange places. You will find Sevenjabug behind the fence North of the bus, near the corner with the observatory.

Once the Charjabug gathered, you will be able to start the challenge. You will be presented the "Roller," a set of panels you rotate counter-clockwise from their corners to line up a group of three Charjabug in a row, feeding their electricity into a second machine called the "Pinger".

Line up the first group of Charjabug and the surge of power draws in a wild Elekid instead of the Totem Pokémon Sophocles is hoping for. Defeat it to keep going.

The second completed line pulls in an Electabuzz next.

Form the third and final line of Charjabug and the Pinger draws far more power than Sophocles expected. The cables holding it in place tear free, and the device swings around to point at the Charjabug themselves. Sophocles's Togedemaru throws herself in the way and tries to soak up the coming blast with her Lightning Rod Ability, but there is too much electricity for her alone to hold. A Totem Togedemaru bursts in at the last second and absorbs the rest with its own Lightning Rod, then turns to challenge you.

Totem Togedemaru fights inside an aura that raises its Defense by two stages, so expect a longer fight than its size suggests. It calls in an ally Skarmory on its first turn, or a Dedenne instead if its HP has already dropped below roughly two-thirds; whichever ally survives longer gets called again once the other has fainted.

Defeat the Totem Pokémon and Sophocles hands you an Electrium Z, along with the pose for Gigavolt Havoc. Molayne then asks you to carry his Professor's Mask back to Kukui, who left it behind on his way down the mountain. Later, once you have defeated Guzma at Malie Garden, a Scientist will take over the trial room, running a set of timed Charjabug puzzles built on the same Roller, each harder than the last. Clearing every one of them is worth a PP Max.

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