A Totem awaits us at the top of a volcano. So what do I have on hand that can help?
To absolutely no one's surprise, the lead will be our (surprisingly still freshly) Schooling Wishiwashi. No Waterium Z, curious.
K9 takes up flank, also holding an Amulet Coin. This Trial is going to be a little weird, and he might as well have it at hand.
That's HP Ground there. Flambebe, in spite of her obvious downsides, has a plan to actually be good here.
I mean, how can you not bring Murphy to a battle with Fire types? Maybe if it was a Fletchling-themed Trial, admittedly. That'd be funny, but the Rock Tomb TM would be too good in that case.
Woodstock is... a peculiar choice, but chiefly it resists the non-Fire STAB we'll be facing, Disable might come in clutch at the right time, and if things ever go south, we can always Infestation our way to victory.
Snaggletooth's job is, and always will be, to slap the enemy really hard. It will say more about the rest of the team if she comes out.
...No, he did introduce himself at the Royal Dome, I'm not mistaken there.
...Also, uh... did you, uh... plug up the crater for this field? Or are we on a different "top of the volcano" here? Just saying, all this steaming around the various holes on Akala is giving me anxieties...
Kiawe is a fire twirler, a kind of dance popular in Hawai'i, and his signature ace is the Alolan Marowak, who can say the same.
He is correct on this matter. We will not have control of our character for the duration of this Trial. No Bag Items to heal between fights, no rearranging the party order to share EXP as we please, nothing. We have our lead, we have our teammates, and we have to carry this team to the Totem through whatever gets thrown at us on the way.
This is the only Trial like this in USUM, although there's a second one like it in SM.
Bring it.