Shadowlarvitar
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What was the point of hiding Kukui’s team? I get why he would hide Incineroar from the students, what with his whole Masked Royal charade (we were also never told why he made such a big deal out of that secret and then said “fuck it, Imma fight unmasked”), but how would the rest compromise him in any way? It took us 50 episodes to even find out he has... a Braviary. When did they even eat?
This is made further weird by the fact that his team has types, moves and experience that would definitely teach the students more about pokemon and maybe even directly help developing their own (e.g. Braviary teaching Rowlet Brave Bird, Empoleon using its tides knowledge to aid on Primarina’s bubbles, Lucario teaching Turtonator Dragon Pulse...). I feel like it would have been more logical and satisfying if we had known them before the showdown.
Bad writing.
They should have made Gladion the endgame and give the guy a full proper team instead of trying to pass off that an entire team have been living in the same house as Ash for the past 100 episodes. It just makes Kukui come off as cruel and inhumane, never letting his Pokemon outside and keeping them locked away.
Torracat not evolving until the very last possible moment was a BIG mistake, further improved by Lycanroc battling Kiawe instead of him!
They should have let Torracat beat Incineroar and evolve earlier then wrap up the League with Ash vs Gladion + Nebby vs Lunala, while Ash utilizing Tapunium against Guzzlord(He should have been the one to utilize it, Kukui jacked it from him!)
To tell the truth I don't mind that Barrierd's now Satoshi's Pokemon. Even if they waited 20 years for the big reveal it's not a plothole or inconsistency of any kind, and in my opinion it sorta makes sense (since Hanako is not a trainer I'd expect Satoshi to get it before if started working on his house).
Of course it's a Pokemon I don't care about, at all. And its PM 2019 portrayal kinda annoys me... Back in OS it ate just as any other Pokemon would, so why they had to bring Detective Pikachu's Barrierd personality and make it mimic instead?
Although I'm a little biased on this as I don't really like the Detective Pikachu movie.
I love Detective Pikachu but I hate what they did to Mimey, he was just fine the way he was and it just makes me further sickened they left Incineroar and the others in Alola if they were going to leave Delia alone in two episodes. If Incineroar was living with her I'd find Mimey hanging out with Ash more acceptable