Poni Coast

A complete walkthrough of Poni Coast in Pokémon Sun and Moon, including trainer battles, item locations, and Pokémon encounters.

This pathetically tiny route is located north-east from Poni Plains. To start off, you can climb up the nearby slope to discover a photo spot. Next, head back down and travel north along the east side. Call Tauros and smash through the pile of rocks ahead.

Next, dismount from Tauros, so you can go along the narrow path by the edge of the cliff. Grab the Zygarde Cell (92) hiding here and return to where you smashed the rocks. From here, head west, then up the nearby slope. Up on higher ground, proceed north towards the end.

Search around here for a hidden Max Revive. After that, go all the way south. Leap over the ledge, where you’ll find TM97 Dark Pulse, nearby to the east. Jump over the second ledge to return back to the entrance. Now you can smash the rock between the ledge and the photo spot.

Afterwards, dismount so you can carry on north through the narrow path. You’ll return to just before you climbed the slope. From here, head north a short distance. Between the higher ground and the rocky hill is a narrow path with a burrowing Pokemon.

Step inside and grab the Zygarde Cell (93) halfway along the path. If you’re athletic, you can wait for the burrower to reach the south-most point of its journey, then run in to grab the Zygarde Cell and run back out to avoid a battle.

Either way, smash through the rocks to the east of the entrance to the narrow path and continue north from there. Further north is the exit to Poni Gauntlet and another rock you can smash to the left. Give it a good throttle with Tauros and go greet the pair of trainers beyond.

Honeymooners Noriko and Devin

Noriko has a Ninetales and Exeggutor, while her fiance has a Sandslash and Golem. The best Pokemon to send out is a Water-type, since both Ninetales and Sandslash are weak to Water. Ground-types can also work since they’re super-effective against Ninetales and neutral against Sandslash.

Once Ninetales is gone, you’re safe to send out a Grass-type to take out Golem, although a Water-type will work just as well. Meanwhile, a Bug-type can easily smite Exeggutor, but is weak to Golem. If Golem is around, use Dark or Ghost-types instead.

Past the fortunate pair is a Comet Shard to the north.

Poni Gauntlet

The toughest trainers in the game are all waiting around here…

Scientist Kyle

Both of his Pokemon are Normal-types, so a strong and suitably fast Fighting Pokemon can make mincemeat out of this. Otherwise, Ditto can be a pain since it uses Transform to copy your Pokemon. If that happens, you can switch to a Pokemon that’s super-effective against your own.

Meanwhile, Porygon Z has sky-high Special Attack and good Speed. On top of a powerful STAB Tri Attack, it has the Electric-type Discharge. If you don’t have Fighting-types, use Rock or Steel-types to resist Tri Attack.

Next, carry on north, across the small bridge. On the other side in a tough trainer in the far corner, to the west of the Trainer Tips sign. Meanwhile, in the opposite corner, towards the east, is a Zygarde Cell (94), the second-to-last one.

Veteran Sheri

All tough Pokemon here. Weavile has high Attack and Speed, but fragile defences. It takes 4x damage from Fighting-types and the standard 2x damage from Bug, Fairy, Rock, Fire and Steel-types.

Magmortar is the fully evolved form of Magby, with high Special Attack and mostly decent stats, with Defence being its weakest. It only has Fire-type attacks, but can boost their power with Sunny Day.

Trevenant is an evolved Phantump with high Attack, but poor Speed. It has strong STAB moves, but the thing you should beware of is Destiny Bond. After it is used, if you KO Trevenant, your Pokemon will be KO’d as well.

Finally, Kommo-o is strong as always. This one doesn’t have