The way they've handled animation this league has been weird, the battle royale was mostly either stills or reused animation, the top 16 matches were all greatly animated (especially Lana vs Mallow, Hau vs Oak, and Sophocles vs Mina), James vs Gladion was mostly stock footage, Ash vs Hau was ok but only had 2 sorta standout moments (SAR and Sky attack), the rest of the top 8 were stiff, Gladion vs Kiawe was great in the first part but the end was barely animated, and finally Ash vs Guzma was very well animated overall, but not to the level one would expect of such an important match (even Iwane's part of Ash vs Guzma felt like he wasn't going all out tbh).