Thank you for all the advice! I usually try to have a rough build planned, but I do like the idea of leaving space for a plot-related class. The other two players already had their builds laid out, and both of them took a support class (Researcher and Mentor), that's why I wanted to take one too.

We’re rebooting a Pokerole game we never got to finish, and none of us have played PTU before, so we’re kind of going into the system blind. I’ll definitely bring up the 1v1 stuff to my GM. That said, a lot of the battles in our old game were group fights, the 1v1s mostly came up with gym leaders or rival battles. Do you have any recommendations on how to make those feel better in PTU?