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I loved what they did with Kukui's team
5/6 of his Pokemon are all Melemele native, since he spends most of his time there, and the starter as a refrence to role as professor
The last one, A-Nintales, is because he lost against Lance, so he picked a mon that is 4x good against Dragon, and since he hung around Mt. Lanakila a lot since he was building his league