>>53276753Recently, my way is to just play through the game as blind as I manage to get myself and only use new Pokemon, cycling through them until I start getting a liking to those that I end up loving.
I was already planning to keep my starter, who was fuecoco, but I had absolutely no idea about Scovillain, and Veluza, so when I eventually got them, I fell in love and kept them in my team.
Same thing goes for seeing the full proper model of Revavroom after only seeing it's engine on Team Star