Lana Alola

Lana Akala Island

Lana

Father (unnamed)

Pokémon Battling

**Lana Alola**, or as she's known in game, **Lana**, is a Trial Captain of Akala Island, is a tertiary character of Pokémon Sun & Moon (the same game Incineroar hails from), and one of the few "meme choices" on SmashFAQs thanks to her popularization by the user CuterChihuahua2 and his odd obsession with her.

## History in Pokémon

### In the games

Lana is from the 3ds video games Pokémon Sun & Moon and Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon. She is a Trial Captain on Akala Island, and in order to complete her trial you must find the Totem Wishiwashi on Brooklet Hill via fishing.

In Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon she is one of the characters you fight in another Trial Captains trial, that being Mina of Poni ISland.

### In the anime

In the anime, Lana goes to the Pokémon Trainer's school and is one of the secondary characters in the anime along with the other Trial Captains. She is friends with Ash and most of the other characters, and uses Popplio as her Primary Pokémon, who eventually evolves into Primarina, and an Eevee named Sandy.

In the final episodes of the anime, Lana fights Guzma in a tournament and loses to his Golisopod.[1]

### In the series as a whole

Despite being propped up as a major character in the franchise as a whole by CC2, Lana is largely unimportant. In the games, she does absolutely nothing to stand out from the rest of the Sun/Moon captains (and, by extension, the rest of the series' gym leaders). Her role in the anime as one of Ash's companions is considerably more significant than her role in the games, but even that isn't very notable, as Ash's group in the Sun/Moon anime is larger than it was in any previous season (consisting of Lillie, Sophocles, Kiawe, and Mallow alongside Lana), meaning she naturally had less of a spotlight than predecessors such as Serena, Iris, Dawn, May, and Misty (all of whom had less travel companions to contend with for spotlight on the show, and, as a result, all left behind a bigger impact on the series than her).

## History on SmashFAQs

### CuterChihuahua2

Lana is a character that CuterChihuahua2 has a particular admiration for, going back to one of the first topics of his on the Ultimate board involving Lana, where he asked if she'd be represented in the game at all...

By now CC2's interest in little girl video game characters such as Lana became apparent when he called her,

—-CC2

in said topic above, starting the downward spiral of Lana Alola based topics, one of his next being a similar, though less blatant topic about Lana, being a support thread for her, Adeleine, Ashley, and Lip[2], where he wished for people to be respectful and not sexualize the characters, calling it "Disgusting pedo crap." (something conflicting with his other statements about Lana, which are more detailed on his page.)

#### The Chihuahua Roster

Lana is a character in the Chihuahua Roster, an infamous roster where CuterChihuahua2 remade the roster with character he likes, Lana being one of them.

—-CC2, The Chihuahua Roster

### General Reputation

crazybenjamin has pointed to CuterChihuahua2's placement of Lana on a pedestal as evidence that CC2 is out of touch. Specifically, crazybenjamin has a tendency to point out how Nintendo fans are more inclined to care about 3rd parties such as Mega Man, instead of Lana, showing that CC2 does not truly care about what Nintendo fans want.