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Pokémon Move Specialist Professor Kukui
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研究！！技の博士・ククイ！ Research!! The Doctor of Moves - Kukui!
Info Collected in Vol. 1 Chapter number 3
Other Location Hau'oli City Route 1 Iki Town Manga series Pokémon Adventures
Chapters Previous Chapter The Delivery of Rotom and the Girl Next Chapter The Decision and the Tournament of Six

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, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon arc of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Plot

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

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.

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

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Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Mudsdale
• Bewear
• Lycanroc (Midnight Form)
• Persian (Alolan)

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; Alolan; debut)
• Tauros (Ride Pokémon)
• Mudsdale (Ride Pokémon; flashback; debut)
• 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, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon arc, this round was collected in Volume 1.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		研究！招式博士・库库伊！

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