Hello Bill, I recently caught an Absol and raised him. We are trying to take on the Battle Tree but usually lost, so I tried to take him and my Goliosopod to Resolution Cave, but my Absol seems completely against going too deep within the cave, only seeming to accept the early foggy section with the hanging vines. Is there something deep within the cave that seems to continually concern my Absol? Both he and Goliosopod are more than capable of handling the wild Pokemon.

Hm. Resolution Cave is located on Poni Island, yes? If so, I must admit I’ve never been there myself, and Poni Island is notoriously rough and barely charted territory. There are rumors among Alola natives of dangerous pokémon deep within Resolution Cave, but other than common but rather ordinary pokémon of exceptional strength, many of these rumors are unsubstantiated. Likewise, according to the Alolan administrator Molayne (who himself has a team strong enough to protect him against the wild pokémon of Poni Island), the terrain of Resolution Cave itself is rough and dangerous, but he admits he’s never been much further than the area you’ve described. It could very well be that your absol is simply reacting to the risks presented by these pokémon, or perhaps risks presented by the terrain of Resolution Cave itself. Either way, I would trust your absol on the matter.