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Battle in Vast Poni Canyon
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対決！！ポニのだいきょうこく！ Showdown!! The Great Canyon of Poni!
Info Collected in Vol. 4 Chapter number 23
Other Location Ancient Poni Path Poni Plains Vast Poni Canyon Manga series Pokémon Adventures
Chapters Previous Chapter The Truth and Island Kahuna Hapu Next Chapter Play the Melody That Echoes in the Altar

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.

	Spoilers end here.

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

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		对决！波尼大峡谷！

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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