Getting bodied by Rock, Ground and Water types isn't fun especially considering two Kahunas in this region have these typings...
For those who want to do one for your team go
here...
For those wondering how I added nicknames....my answer is
very carefully (aka photoshop)
At this point I'm just about ready to head to the "Final Trial" otherwise known as Sun/Moon's Pokemon League...for now I'm doing some exploring throughout the region perhaps collecting any missed Zygarde Cells/Cores (just over 50% of the cells and I think I found 4 cores?), and catching more pokemon for my pokedex...last big catch was Turtonator...
Some random things...
-Battle with Kahuna Hanu was a pain because I had nothing that could deal heavy enough damage to Gastrodon (see above weaknesses), plus it knows Recover...I ended up winning the battle by PP Stalling simply because I couldn't deal enough damamge to kill it and I was able to tough it out with Ictus since it resists both of it's STAB's...This is what happens when you go into a battle when you don't know how to properly prepare for while being under leveled...smh....Pleasantly Surprised she had a Flygon though...
-Lillie has some serious character development going on...Traveling through the Vast Poni Canyon (which is the Victory Road of this game) with nothing but Repels....Even though she insisted on travelling separately through the Canyon she feels like a proper travelling companion through this whole part of the game in a way, and not in an annoying way like the rivals of X and Y...She even heals your team at certain points so she kinda takes up the role of the cave doctors...though she'll only heal them once at a time...but it's still useful...
But I have a question....Where the heck does she buy Ethers? And why won't she tell me?
Either way Lillie is definitely one of my favourite characters in this game...In fact I like a lot of the characters in this games...
I liked Hau as your rival even though he's the once again the friendly rival but he's appealing in a way that doesn't come across as being very annoying, he kinda reminds me of Barry in a way actually...except better (not that I really disliked Barry keep in mind)
Edgelord Gladion is pretty cool as well...It cracked me up whenever there's a serious conversation and he does his edgy pose and everyone else acts like it's natural for people to talk like this...
-That final battle with Lusamine was just plain ****ed...and her Team of Pokemon looked evil as ****...probably the most disturbing part was that her Bewear had no change in expression which made it even more unsettling...
Lusamine in general was pretty damn psychotic...though I guess it was due to the Nihilego's influence...
-The music in this game is AMAZING!!!