Mount Lanakila

Mount Lanakila (Japanese: ラナキラマウンテン Lanakila Mountain) is the tallest mountain in Alola, located on Ula'ula Island. It is located north of Tapu Village and its peak is the site of Alola's newly-established. While the area is initially under construction, the construction will be complete by the time the player has ended the situation with Lusamine in Ultra Space or has completed all of their island challenge trials, creating Alola's Victory Road (Japanese: チャンピオンロード Champion Road).

After the player has completed all of their trials, Nanu/Hapu tells them that in the past, prior to the establishment of the Pokémon League, Mount Lanakila was the location of the final trial, where, similar to the Elite Four, a Trainer had to defeat all four Island Kahunas in a row in order to become the island challenge champion.

will evolve into if leveled up here, and an Ice Rock is present inside the mountain's cave, which will cause  to evolve into  if leveled up inside. In, the player could not enter Mount Lanakila at all until defeating Lusamine. In, however, the player can access the base of the mountain and the tall grass now present there as soon as they first reach Tapu Village, allowing them to level up and evolve their Crabrawler much earlier than in Sun and Moon.

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In the anime
Mount Lanakila was first mentioned in Lillie's Egg-xhilarating Challenge!, where received an  found there from Samson Oak.

The mountain made its physical debut in Getting a Jump on the Competition!, where it was the site of the Pokémon Sled Jump Games, which, , Lillie, and Hala participated in. While preparing for the event, Hala evolved his into, and Lillie, with the help of the expert PokéSled Jumper Cerah and her , taught Snowy how to use. The competition ended with Hala's victory.

In Not Caving Under Pressure!, Ash and, on their way back from Hokulani Observatory, took a shortcut through caves that ran under Mount Hokulani and Mount Lanakila. However, they were separated after a clash between Kiawe's Marowak and caused an explosion. On their way to rejoin their friends, Lillie,, and ran into a small group of  Alolan , led by a larger Sandshrew, which were being driven from their territory by a wild. After being caught in the middle of battle, Lillie and Snowy teamed up with the leader Sandshrew and were able to drive off the Tyranitar. In the process of repairing the cave, Sophocles's Charjabug found an Ice Stone, which the leader Sandshrew used to evolve into. This caused the group to realize that the cave was in fact an Ice Stone mine where Sandshrew come to evolve, as well as to wonder if the large Sandslash was in fact a Totem Pokémon. The grateful Sandslash then gave Lillie an Icium Z.

Pokémon found on Mount Lanakila
In addition to these Pokémon, an Alolan and a  were also mentioned to be amongst the Pokémon seen here.

Trivia

 * Mount Lanakila is the first Victory Road to appear in the main series.

Name origin
Lanakila is Hawaiian for "victory", in reference to the Victory Roads of other regions.

In other languages
Victory Road

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