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From the time they first went to the Poni Canyon on Poni Island to help Lillie and Gladion rescue their mother, Lusamine, who had been kidnapped by Nihilego,...

After evolving the Bug-type Power-Up into a Viperbug along the way...

Mamane and the stag beetle began practicing incessantly for the competition.

Ash remembers that the last Bug-Electric Race was called the Tapu Cocktail Cup.

This time, the stag beetle is running in a fin cup, which is quite interesting.

The difference is that in the last Bug Power Bank race, the champion prize was just a complete set of Bug Power Bank merchandise.

What's the point?

It would be great if they gave us Gardevoir merchandise or a life-size plush toy.

However, the prize for winning the Buccaneer Race this time was actually Bug Z.

Mamane is full of energy for this.

The VR glasses he was wearing had a microphone that allowed him to give commands to the stag beetle.

The VR device worn by the vajra bug also has a camera, which can transmit the images seen by the vajra bug to the VR glasses worn by Mamane.

This allows Mamane and the Vulture Bug to share vision to some extent.

This makes command easier and increases their chances of winning.

Furthermore, the last Bug-Electric Race was a team competition, and Mamane asked Ash and Kiawe to help form a team.

However, this time the Buzkashi race is an individual event, so Mamane can participate by himself.

However, everyone will go to the match venue to cheer for Mamane.

Ash mainly thinks that the Vikadounon race is ridiculous and doesn't understand why it's become so popular in the Alola region, with so many competitions being held.

You can make the stag beetles do anything, even race them.

With a base speed stat of only 43, what's the point of running a race?

Why don't you organize a coal tortoise race?

This would be more like a race between Calycanthus or Milerton.

This is why the stag beetle can fly; if it couldn't, it would be no different from a coal turtle in a race.

For the rest of the day, Mamane and Tanuken Pao Worm prepared for the match.

That evening, Mamane stayed up late to check the weather near the venue and made various contingency plans to minimize the possibility of any unforeseen circumstances.

The next morning, the group gathered at the Pokémon School and then took a boat to the venue of the Vikanon Race on Poni Island.

Thousands of spectators had already gathered there. After offering a few words of encouragement to Mamane, the group headed to the stands.

This is the 34th annual stag beetle race held in the Alora region, with quite a few participants, including a man named Derossa, the champion of the previous stag beetle race.

Another formidable rival is the Gale Trio, who previously used a shiny red Gale in the Gale Race.

Now, his red Bug-type Powerball has naturally evolved into a white and green Shiny Viperbug, changing from a red Meteor to a white Comet.

To be honest, the Flash Stag Beetle is really cool.

The host for the competition was still Anna from Alora TV.

Before the competition began, the island queen, Hapuu, was invited to the stage to give a speech.

The rules of the competition are simple: all the contestants' stag beetles start from the starting point of the venue, fly over the sea track, the forest track, the cave track, and the beach track, and circle the track once. The first stag beetle to return to the finish line is the champion.

The route was long, but it wasn't a problem for Mamane and the stag beetle, who were already very well prepared.

With the referee's starting gun, all the Vikados took off rapidly from the starting line, and Derosha's Vikados temporarily took the lead.

De Rosa was very pleased with himself, opened half a glass of champagne, and believed that he would definitely be the champion of this year's stag beetle race again.

Seeing this, Mamane's stag beetle was unwilling to give up and wanted to speed up and overtake it, but Mamane stopped it.

The initial sea track has a sharp turn here.

The key to overtaking will be finding the shortest route through this sharp turn.

The leading players in the first tier all accelerated their Viper Bugs, hoping to take advantage of the terrain to overtake others.

But just as they were making that sharp turn, a sudden gust of wind blew up at sea, which affected the rapidly moving stag beetles, causing a chain collision and resulting in the crashing of a large number of stag beetles.

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Meanwhile, Mamane's Vikavolt, without accelerating and following Mamane's instructions, used its String Shot to cushion the impact of the gust of wind, perfectly avoiding its effects and even taking advantage of the wind to reach the top position – a truly remarkable achievement.

This is why Mamane didn't let the shovel worms speed up before; the weather in this area had already been thoroughly studied by the tech-savvy Mamane.

Meanwhile, thanks to the results of his hard training, Gale has jumped to second place, closely following behind Mamane's stag beetle.

This competition, which involved dozens of participants, seemed to have turned into a one-man show between the two of them.

Both players' stag beetles easily traversed the densely wooded forest section in the middle of the track and the most challenging cave section.

We've entered the final sprint stage, which is the beach track.

In the end, the stag beetle in Mamane won the championship of this stag beetle race by less than one millimeter.

Mamane also got his wish and received the championship prize, Bug Z.

After this fair and square duel, Gale acknowledged Mamane's defeat, accepting his loss gracefully and promising to fight him again.

Compared to the arrogant young master I met at first, he has grown a lot.

After the match, a deeply moved Hapuu presented Mamane with a yellow-green Z-bracelet.

At this point, Mamane also possessed his own Z Crystal and Z Bracelet.

Among the companions, only Mao is left without Z-Crystal and Z-Bracelet.

The day after returning from Pony Island, everyone gathered at the beach to go fishing.

This time, it was Mao's fishing rod that took the first bite. She used a sweet bamboo-shaped bait and caught a gnawing, colorful fish.

The ferocious, tooth-grinding rainbowfish was extremely angry and even after being caught, it still tried to attack Mao.

Finally, he was kicked away by the sweet and cold beauty and slunk away.

Immediately afterwards, something took the bait on Lillie's side—a heart-shaped fish.

Mamane also used the high-tech fishing rod he had previously showcased, calculating the opponent's weight and speed on the rod's screen to determine the optimal reeling time, successfully catching an extra-large fist sea cucumber.