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Revealing the Stuff of Legend!

SM052   EP991 日輪の祭壇！ソルガレオ降臨！！ The Altar of the Sun! Solgaleo Descends!!

First broadcast Japan November 30, 2017 United States April 6, 2018* April 7, 2018*

English themes Opening Under The Alolan Moon Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 松井亜弥 Aya Matsui Storyboard 小平麻紀 Maki Kodaira Assistant director 小平麻紀 Maki Kodaira Animation director 志村泉 Izumi Shimura No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf Dub review thread on BMGf

Revealing the Stuff of Legend! (Japanese: 日輪の祭壇！ソルガレオ降臨！！ The Altar of the Sun! Solgaleo Descends!!) is the 52nd episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 991st episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on November 30, 2017 and in the United States on April 7, 2018.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Blurb

Lillie and Gladion, along with Ash and the other students of the Pokémon School, have arrived at the Altar of the Sunne—and all four of Alola’s Island Guardians are there, too. Our heroes ask Tapu Koko, Tapu Lele, Tapu Bulu, and Tapu Fini for assistance in opening an Ultra Wormhole so they can rescue Lusamine. Before these Pokémon can help, however, they must perform an elaborate ritual—a ritual that requires something special from Nebby!

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• Professor Kukui is revealed to own a Braviary.
• Nebby evolves into Solgaleo and learns Sunsteel Strike.
• Ash obtains a Solganium Z.
• The guardian deities upgrade Ash's Z-Ring into a Z-Power Ring.
• Ash, his classmates, and Gladion enter an Ultra Wormhole with Solgaleo in search of Lusamine.
  • In the process, Ash and Nebby perform Searing Sunraze Smash for the first time.

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Kukui
• Gladion
• Professor Burnet

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Tapu Koko (US and international), Cosmoem (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Braviary (Professor Kukui's)
• Munchlax (Professor Burnet's)
• Tapu Koko (anime)
• Bewear (anime)
• Tapu Lele (anime)
• Cosmog (Nebby; flashback)
• Cosmoem (Nebby; evolves)
• Solgaleo (Nebby; newly evolved)
• Tapu Bulu (anime)
• Tapu Fini (anime)
• Jangmo-o (×4)
• Hakamo-o (×4)
• Solgaleo (flashback)
• Lunala (flashback)

Trivia

• Poké Problem: ProtoKoffing evolves in today's episode! What does it become?
  • Host: Meowth
  • Choices: Weezing, Solgaleo, Lunala, Koffing
  • Answer: Solgaleo
• The scene where Lillie pets the newly evolved Nebby resembles a picture shown during the credits of Pokémon Sun.
• Ash, Sophocles, Mallow, Lana, Kiawe narrate the preview for the next episode.
• The English dub was released on Amazon Video on April 6, 2018, one day before the episode aired in the United States.

Dub edits

• The Japanese text depicting Searing Sunraze Smash's names is edited out in the dub.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		日輪祭壇！索爾迦雷歐降臨！！

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