Melemele Island
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| Location: | Northwest Alola | |||
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| Region: | Alola | |||
| Generations: | VII | |||
 Location of Melemele Island in Alola. | ||||
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Melemele Island (Japanese: メレメレ島 Melemele Island) is the northwestern of the four major islands of Alola. Tapu Koko is the island's guardian deity.
Trials
Melemele Island has only one trial for the island challenge, leading to a grand trial with Hala.
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| Generation VII | Region: Alola | |||
| Trial Captain Japanese |
Location Japanese |
Type | Totem Pokémon | Ally Pokémon |
 Ilima イリマ Ilima |
Verdant Cavern 茂みの洞窟 Verdant Cavern |
 Normal |
 GumshoosSUS |
 YungoosSUS |
 Alolan RaticateMUM |
 Alolan RattataMUM | |||
Grand trial
| Grand trial | ||||
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| Generation VII | Region: Alola | |||
| Island kahuna Japanese |
Location Japanese |
Type | Trial Stamp | |
 Hala ハラ Hala |
Iki Town リリィタウン Liliʻi Town |
 Fighting |
 Melemele Trial Completion | |
Locations on Melemele Island
Animated series-exclusive locations
In the anime
Melemele Island serves as the main setting for Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, due to it being the location of the Pokémon School. It was first introduced in Alola to New Adventure!, where Ash and his mother Delia arrived to deliver a Pokémon Egg to Samson Oak. While there, Ash found out about the Pokémon School, and decided to stay behind and attend it. He also learned that the island's guardian deity, Tapu Koko, had taken a special interest in him.
Bewear's den, home to Bewear and her child Stufful, is located somewhere in the forests of Melemele. The den also served as the Team Rocket trio's base of operations while in Alola.
Ash and Goh visited Melemele Island on one of their research trips in That New Old Gang of Mine!. The boys attended a welcome party at the Pokémon School arranged by Ash's former classmates while Goh caught himself a Pyukumuku and Alolan Exeggutor.
Melemele Island's main settlement of Hau'oli City is home to many of Ash's friends including Sophocles, Lillie, Lana and Mallow. Professor Kukui, his wife Professor Burnet and their child Lei live on the coast on the Hau'oli Outskirts. Iki Town, meanwhile, is where many Trainers challenge Kahuna Hala in a grand trial as a part of the island challenge.
In the manga
Pokémon Adventures
Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon arc
Moon was seen at Melemele Island in her arrival at Alola, where she met Sun and delivered a Rotom to Professor Kukui while also coming in contact with Tapu Koko. The island kahunas decided to hold a competition to choose a person for an island challenge, and both Sun and Moon came to participate in it.
After battling the Masked Royal, Guzma, and Gladion, Sun managed to win the tournament, earning him an island challenge amulet and sending him on a journey to appease the enraged guardian deities.
Trivia
Origin
- Main article: Pokémon world in relation to the real world → Alola
Melemele Island's real-life counterpart is the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Golden yellow is the island's official color[1] and the ʻIlima is its official flower.[2]
Name origin
Melemele is Hawaiian for yellow.
In other languages
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References
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