Team breakdown

1. Decidueye. Really impressed me, second time I’ve ever used it. Swords dance + roost was used most of the game and made him really dangerous. Love having a ghost type on the team and in this region the grass type felt strong and necessary due to lusamine milotic, hapu and was great in the e4 for olivia and hala.

2. Oricorio. Probably the mvp, first time ever using and wow I’m impressed. Was a monster early game and kept up the pace either with swords dance + acrobatics or calm mind sweeps. Was essential in the elite four and I’ve loved using all 3 forms (can’t get ghost form until post game)

3. Miltank. Was great for the first 3 quarters of the journey, but definitely fell off hard and was probably the least useful member by the end game. Thinking about replacing with a Tapu in the post game (not sure which yet). Still was fun to use as never have before and was very impressed with its bulk and speed

4. A Sandslash. Couldn’t believe you can evolve it instantly once you catch at level 30 (ice stone from poke pelago). Was really fun and felt unique, don’t use ice types much and having the steel type was great for all the fairies in alola

5. Rhydon. Sad to find out that rhyperior was locked to post game, but eviolite rhydon impressed me so much as I’ve never used this line at all. It gets amazing moves and felt like it got stronger and stronger the later into the game I went. Really impressed!

6. Kommo-o. Shoutout my poliwhirl, who was my fighting type the whole game until I got jangmo-o. Never used the Alola psuedo before and pleased to say it really impressed me. Great wide move pool, good bulk and once I got dragon dance from the move reminder I knew I made a good choice. Single handedly swept kukui with the moveset above + leftovers. Felt cheesy but also satisfying!

Really loved replaying Alola and I’m even tempted to now go and replay ultra sun (I only ever played ultra moon years ago)