>>55815493I feel like we’ve lost a bit of the quirkiness of Kingdra and Dragalge, but I can see Gyarados and Salamence working. Koa’s father was a super aggressive battler, so specialist or no, these are good picks.
>PupitarSandy’s a Larvitar, not a Pupitar. I think it’d be kind of nonsensical for Koa to end the story with his entire team fully evolved, and the one evolution I do see happening is
Rebel the Gabite evolving into Garchomp. If I have one of Koa’s NFE Pokémon evolving per major fight, that’d be 4 evolutions, and the reader’s going to come to expect it. You might say it wouldn’t make sense for an NFE to beat a pseudo or something, but the writing is what matters to me most.