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Friendship ended with Mallow, now Lana is my best friend. Now that she's become the third member of the Alola crew to get a Z-ring and crystal, Lana's just kind of slowly, surely, crept up the power rankings over time. She's rarely the focus for an entire episode at a time, but the few she's had have all been bangers. Plus, she shows up really well as a side gag character in things like the Morelull and the baseball episode.
Plus, four episodes straight of no TRio, with only a brief cameo at the beginning for the sake of having the sight gag of Bewear yanking them from the beach and nigerundayo'ing back to the cave. Excellent stuff.