Again, Silvally is awesome. Period. No doubt about it. Feels more like a form change though... I find it interesting how they're doing things this gen: we have a pokémon whose form change could have been its evolution (Wishiwashi) and now a pokémon whose evolution could have been just a form.
RKS System? Are there any doubters left as to whether Type: Null/Silvally have something to do with Arceus?
Okay, this is nitpicking but I don't like that. The correct pronounciation of "Arceus" is the one with the soft 'c', not the the one with the hard 'c' that the english dub of the movies came up with. I'd prefer if they had just kept the "AR System" name the japanese use as it is already a pretty obvious reference to ARceus. I think I'll just call this ability RCS System instead cause even though it's not that big of a deal, it annoys me beyond belief.
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Hakamo-o is one of the few middle stages that actually looks better than its evolution. I wish they had kept the upright stance for Kommo-o. It's doesn't look that bad but that detail just makes me feel "meh" about it. Still, it's the best candidate for the Dragon type of my planned team.
Steenee, Tsareena and Ribombee are all nice designs and look cute. Not disappointed in that regard.
My only note is Steenee and Tsareena could probably have a secondary-type. Not that I think every pokémon needs to be dual-typed but we already have Fomantis and Lurantis as pure Grass-types. That makes it kinda boring.
I also think Ribombee will evolve second time.
Isn't Bruxish's Dazzling ability the same as Tsareena's Queenly Majesty ability, or is there something i'm missing here.
I was going to say the same. Weird because they don't usually introduce abilites clones in the same generation (other than Gen 3, but that was the debut of abilities). I believe the only other time they did that after gen 3 was with Turboblaze and Teravolt in Gen 5 but that was because they were the signature abilities of the cover legendaries.
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I highly dislike Alolan Grimer but Alolan Muk is a totally different case. Alolan Grimer is pretty much a recolor while Muk has a more detailed design and color variety. It looks like a living psychadelic trip which is pretty cool to me. It also looks more intimidating than regular Muk. Overall, it's an improvement over the original. I only find it uninteresting that its type change was just an added Dark-type, which they don't really explain why it became one specifically. Sure, Poison/Dark is a good defensive typing but I could easily see this being Poison/Rock due to the crystals on its body.
Speaking of Rock-type, with the newest Kahuna being a Rock-type specialist, there goes down the thoery of the guardian dieties having the same primary types as the Oricorio forms. And I guess this means the guardian deity she uses is probably a Rock/Fairy-type.
