Welp. They managed to make Peck and Tackle look cool.
Ash and Rowlet did fairly well in their first official battle together, at least the owl seemed to be enthusiastic about it. Status ailments are still somewhat OP in the anime, wonder how different things would have been for Noivern if his Supersonic worked properly. The fact that they already showed Lillie's relatives excites me, I hope that they don't pull off a Team Plasma #2 and turn the potentially interesting plot into something lame.
Well so far, there haven't been any disasters that would prevent the story from coming to fruition like what happened with Team Plasma, and there doesn't seem to be anything in the story that would cause a disaster to bring it to an abrupt halt, so I have hopes that they'll do Lillie's story justice.