Yeah he seems like a tanky beast so I'm looking forward to actually trying him out for once!! and not the standard Luxray, Lucario, Floatzel etc, I think that may be a little boring to do again aha
okkk actually same. We've played the games so often that I guess it's something we get a little bit less attached to nowadays. I do like being able to change my starter's ability to its HA though, like I did for my Cinderace, and then fixing it up a bit with bottlecaps/mints etc. That way I can have a strong, competitively viable Pokémon that I got as my first for that region. <3