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The Last Battle IV (Japanese: 最終決戦IV The Last Battle IV) is the 170th round of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Plot
Misty, Lt. Surge, and Blaine order their new companions, respectively, to attack the Masked Man. The Masked Man responds by blowing the three attacks away and commanding and  from  to knock the beasts back into the Indigo Plateau wreckage. sees the confrontation from a distance, and also see the Gym Leaders counteract the Masked Man's claim by breathing through pumps attached to their forearms. They then open up their forearm cases and toss a Mystic Water, Magnet, and Charcoal to their respective beasts, powering up their attacks to push Lugia and Ho-oh back.

Without warning, the Masked Man knocks Misty off Suicune. Misty breaks her fall with her forearm case, and orders Suicune to use. This, combined with, nullifies Ho-Oh's Sacred Fire. Misty uses the opportunity to open up with what Suicune communicated to her, and accuse the Masked Man of kidnapping children and training them up to be mere assistants in his quest to control time. The Masked Man makes no attempt to deny, and turns away, only to notice Misty stubbornly holding onto him. Suicune then crosses its tails together, creating its crystal wall to surround the Masked Man and Misty.

Back at New Bark Town, Professor Elm and his assistant, Joey, fail to receive signal from their radio, and begin to worry about  who was at the Indigo Plateau at the time disaster struck.

Major events

 * Misty, Lt. Surge, and Blaine battle the Masked Man.

Humans

 * Professor Elm
 * Misty
 * Lt. Surge
 * Blaine
 * Masked Man
 * Joey
 * Pokémon Association Chairman
 * Joey
 * Pokémon Association Chairman

Pokémon

 * (Professor Elm's)
 * (Masked Man's)
 * (Joey's)
 * (Masked Man's)
 * (Joey's)
 * (Joey's)
 * (Joey's)
 * (Joey's)

In other languages
Kapitel 170 (Pocket Monsters SPECIAL) PMS170 Chapitre 170 (Pocket Monsters Special) PS170