Sun & Moon Melemele Sea
Sharpedo Jet is what makes this open Melemele water worth crossing: it blasts apart the rocks hiding a secret passage through to Ten Carat Hill. Without that ride the sea is just islets and reef, nowhere in particular to reach.
Melemele Sea is in Alola, with Hau'oli City to the north and Kala'e Bay to the west. In the story it comes after Route 6 and before Royal Avenue.
HIGHLIGHTS
Pokemon Encounters
The Super Rod off this coast runs a reef cast, Corsola and Luvdisc over schooling Wishiwashi, with the barbed Mareanie creeping toward its Toxapex form and Gyarados the deep-water threat.
Super Rod6
Magikarp
Also found in 21 other locations
ITEMS
Out on the water, TM80 Rock Slide leads, with Soft Sand to feed Ground damage. A hidden Rare Candy is the best of the rest, because a Big Pearl, a Pearl, a Pearl String and Stardust are pure sale value.
TM80 Rock Slide
Rock Slide deals damage and has a 30% chance of causing the target to flinch (if the target has not yet moved).
TM80 Rock Slide
Rock Slide deals damage and has a 30% chance of causing the target to flinch (if the target has not yet moved).
Rare Candy
Causes a level-up and raises happiness.
Big Pearl
Sell for 3750 Pokédollars, or to Ore Collector for 7500 Pokédollars.
Pearl
Sell for 700 Pokédollars, or to Ore Collector for 1400 Pokédollars.
Pearl String
Sell to Ore Collector for 25000 Pokédollars.
Soft Sand
Held: Ground-Type moves from holder do 20% more damage.
Stardust
Sell for 1000 Pokédollars, or to Ore Collector for 2000 Pokédollars.
Super Repel
For 200 steps, prevents wild encounters of level lower than your party’s lead Pokémon.
TRAINERS
Water is the only type at sea, six Swimmer battles topping out at Lv18, so one Grass or Electric hitter sweeps the entire route.
Melemele Sea Guide
Fishing in Alola only happens at set spots, which look like a pile of rocks with a hole in the middle sitting on the surface, and the prompt appears when you walk up to one rather than from your bag. Plenty of water has no spot at all. Lapras Paddle reaches the ones out past the shallows.
Bubbles mean that spot has swapped to a rarer table for a single cast, reeling anything in spends them, and they'll pop early if you sprint over or ride straight across, which is before you get to the fact that plenty of fishing areas never bubble at all.