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I started to rewatch the first SM season and I still think that they handled the first Trail and Grand Trial pretty well. The regular Trial was probably trying a bit too hard to be like a Gym battle, but I thought it worked out okay. The Grand Trial in particular was pretty solid, especially for Ash only having two Pokemon at the time. I'm not surprised that they basically gave up on regular Trials halfway through the Island Challenge though. It also amazes me to see Rowlet in those early episodes. They didn't go overboard with its sleeping gag yet and it came off as a pretty decent battler, so I wish they had kept that up with it throughout SM.