Sooooo.... as of actually playing the game, my team is looking to be like this:
Incineroar - Meowstache (intended) (FEMALE FIRST TIME
)
Snorlax - Pancake (intended)
Lurantis - Vita (intended)
Mimikyu - Kawaii (intended)
Ribombee - Lola (considering but wasn't actually expecting to use)
Carbink - Not (DEFINITELY didn't plan this one)
"Meowstache" the Incineroar is my cool and cute starter, and will never leave my team. I've shared so many memories with her :,'D seeing her way back in May in the trailer, picking her up as a Litten, discovering she was female, levelling her up, using the Care feature... just so many things.
"Pancake" the Snorlax is my Z-move user, and is adorable and bulky. He was there from close to the beginning and has been a great friend on my team. I like to think his Z-move relates to me when I get up on a school morning, or when I see news of something I'm interested in, and so on and so on...
"Vita" the Lurantis is my choice to take a new spin on things, considering I don't usually have a grass type in plot, but he happens to be good in both design and battle too.
#SpamTheHellOuttaLeafBlade Also he was the only reason I won against totem wishiwashi (which was hard AF).
"Kawaii" the Mimikyu was awesome from the moment I saw the Corocoro leak, so when I eventually found her and caught her I loved her. It's also really good in competitive. It took me ages to catch her, due to a) the encounter rate and b) she called for an ally THREE TIMES, but I did eventually. I'm gonna treasure her forever.
"Lola" the Ribombee was too adorable to pass as a cutiefly, and she only got cuter, but she also wrecks dragons and dark types like they're nothing with dazzling gleam and pollen puff. This adorable fly has saved my skin multiple times, especially using fairy wind 29 times against Hala due to the 6x accuracy loss from sand attack... but she did it eventually.
"Not" the Carbink was the practical joke of the team. I encountered it in Ten Carat Hill, and thinking it was rare I caught it. Then its Dex entry proved me wrong. I tried to nickname it "NotDiancie", but I ended up clicking enter by accident, causing the name. I didn't realise at the time that I'd bond so much with it, and it also became the only thing on my team at the time that could take down Olivia's Lycanroc.
Overall, despite the team not
quite going to plan, I love it. So far they've done great coverage over types, and they've all done really well in times where I thought they'd lose. I'm not gonna forget them
I'm such a nerd.....