Argent, a bashfull shiny Tsareena with chlorophyll. She was caught in Petalburg woods as Bounsweet and was weak. After getting crushed to Roxanne I trained her up until she evolved, taught her the bullet seed tm and she swept the now under-leveled Roxanne and did the same to Brawly. She became my in story starter and despite never learning a better physical grass move her miracle seed powered bullet seed combined with return for coverage made her a dependable great early game mon who was still fine in the late game, taking down Wallaces Milotic single handidly.

Ivanka, a naive Gumshooes with runaway. She was my first official pokemon, caught as a yungoose with pick up. She was not useful against Roxanne and Brawly due to type match ups. She then became a solid team mate, hitting extremely hard while being not too slow and not too frail. She pulled her weight the entire game and sadly only learned extreme speed at the very end.

Jemina, a naive Alolan Golem with Rock Head. She was caught as an Alolan Geodude in Granite Cave and sadly was incompatible with the Wild Charge Tm in all stages and didn't a rock recoil move. She was a good mon, tanking physical hits like a champ and having a great offensive movepool.

Firecream, docile salazzle with flash fire. She was caught in Firey Pass, and due to knowing dragon rage was horribly overpowered for that stage of the game. She was the teams fastest mon and it's only special attacker, giving her a vital niche as a revenge killer with a great fire stab and massive tm movepool. She was vital to defeating the fairy champion Wallace by nasty plot sweeping most of his team.

Meet Doctor Chomp,a Quiet Shiny Bruxish with Water Viel caught on the old rod on route 114. He was great in the midgame with a good typing against flannery and getting surf as a good water move. He fill off abit in the second half of the game until he learned psychic fang for coverage the early 40s and got a good physical water move. As a fast attacker with a priority move he was a great revenge killer.

My first permanent team member, Maximus a lax levivating Vikavolt I caught as a Grubbin at the start of the game. I also wanted a Shiny Vikavolt because it looks great. Maximus's good early movepool made it decent pretty soon and I kept Crunch and Acrobatics due to lack of better special options. Reaching his final form post Norman, his high power electric and bug special moves were great against Winona, Juan and Grimsley.

Grimalda the Bewear, caught as a brave Stufful in Rosturf Tunnel. I have never used this line before, and it's available early this game. Did great early on, even if bad against Brawley, and the first team member to reach his final form. She hit hard and was relatively fast, and her gut's ability came in useful several times. She was a solid reliable teammate.

Barbara, a Limber Topapex caught with an old rod at Slateport as a Hardy Mareanie. I had never used this line before, and wanted to give it a try. Great at taking hits, but hard problems with both learning good attacking movies and later low attack stats. Not useful against Watson, Flannery due to not having a water move, and decent against Norman. With Surf and a Leftover I stole off Norman using Maximus's Bige Bite, became better but still took so long to evolve and even then not good at dealing damage. The sheer power of strong trainers meant she could rarely set up spikes and the existence of full restores made Toxic Venoshock a poor strategy. Even against Champion Wallace, a fairy user, she struggled due to his love of psychic moves and full restores. Finally, with the aid of healing items she Toxic Stalled his Water/Fairy Milotic and allowed me to revive and heal up the rest of my team.

Isabelle, the Relaxed Pallosand caught before Watson. I have never used this line before, really liked this lines Shiny form, and after finding out this line has Water Absorb in this game during the previous playthrough I was really excited to use one. So I hunted a Shiny One with Water Absorb, only for it evolve late game and change abilties to Sand Viel post evolution. As a Sandyghast she had a ton of immunities, and while she started out with a terrible movepool she steadily improved as she learned more abilties throughout the game. Her Slow speed, Losing Water Absorb before Juan and going up against Dark and Ghost elite four members made her vulnerable and short lived, but she hit hard and her hypnosis proved vital to beating Drake's Dragon Dancing Kommo-o.

Anastasia, the Modest Alolan Ninetails with Inner Focus, caught as a Vulpix post-Watson. I always wanted to use an A-Ninetails, and she was a non-pregen5 pokemon that avoided tripling up on weaknesses. She was my teams fastest member, and was very good at sniping off weakened mons or taking advantage of ice and fairy coverage. She was great against Winona, the ground using new third elite four member, and was vital against Drake, outspeeding and OHKOing his opening Mega Garchomp and devastating much of his team.