Don George
Sad they didn't keep him around. Really enjoyed seeing all those interactions and mash ups that you'll literally never see again. You never see Brock facing Paul, Misty facing Gary, Ash facing Solidad.... Cilan beating Trip was just straight awesome! Galar would be a great place for him to come back, seeing how the region loves battling.... but I doubt it
Ash's first fully evolved team. Everyone save for the gym hog Talonflame was an awesome Pokemon and I loved them all! Hope the Galar team is like this, or close enough like AG/DP where only one ain't fully evolved
SM..... Team Rocket/Bewear, Kiawe and Gladion/Lusamine. Team Rocket finally got fixed after Best Wishes broke them, I do hope Bewear gets to stay otherwise they'll likely just end up like their BW/XY selves again. And Kiawe is the first male since Brock to not feel like a waste of space in the last half of the series, plus the first one to have a battle aligned goal and focus. Making him more interesting, sure Clemont may have been... but he also had the invention thing as a focus, and his goal was mediocre as hell "I wanna be a good gym leader" Okay.... that happened when you battled Ash, he basically did nothing after that and Ash was the only battle he actually did.... yet somehow people actually think that guy's better than Brock? lol Kiawe's the only male that can compete with Brock, sorry.
I love how Lusamine wasn't resorted to her game form, and Gladion's change was also cool although I feel he got too close to Ash too fast. Those changes actually worked, unlike Lillie who just acts like a straight up brat to her mother for no valid reasoning. Lillie and SM fanboys try and fail every time, Lillie has no reason to act that way. Lusamine's the best mother she can be