LogFAQs > #980252155

Mina's island trial gauntlet went well. The first battles against Mina herself and Ilima were pretty easy, but then Lana gave me the most trouble out of all of them. It took me a few tries to plan and maneuver around her Lanturn's Thunder Wave and Volt Absorb so I could beat her other two Pokemon. Kiawe was easy using a combination of Popplio and Magnemite to deal with his Arcanine and then Mudbray for the other two. I couldn't lead with Mudbray to solo the battle due to Arcanine's Intimidate. After that, Cutiefly set up Quiver Dance on Nanu's lead Sableye and then swept through all of his Dark-types, though that one took a couple of tries simply because Sableye kept getting annoying critical hits to KO Cutiefly while it was setting up.

The battle against Totem Ribombee was easier than I expected too. I led with Gastly and immediately had it use Curse on Ribombee while it used Quiver Dance, then it SOS-called a Pelipper. After Gastly was KO'd, I sent in Magnemite and used Discharge, which KOd the Pelipper and did a little bit of chip damage to Ribombee. Ribombee eventually succumbed to Curse but managed to SOS-call a Blissey into the battle before it went down. I switched to Crabrawler and rearranged the Blissey's face with Brick Break, so that's the last island trial done.

For the grand trial battle against Hapu and her Ground-types, I led off with Popplio (holding the Eviolite for this battle) and hit her Golurk with Scald as it set up Stealth Rock. I tried to get creative and use Encore to lock Golurk into Stealth Rock so I could switch to Cutiefly and set up, but Hapu was smart and also switched to Gastrodon. Cutiefly was only able to set up a single Quiver Dance before being taken down to very low health, so it KO'd Gastrodon and put a big dent in Mudsdale with Energy Ball before going down. Popplio finished off Mudsdale and Golurk with Scald, then took down her Flygon with a couple uses of Icy Wind to finish the battle and cap off the Island Challenge!