I feel like this franchise is getting more and more gimicky. They've given a few chosen pokemon some buffed stats and new abilities, and that's cool. But this whole Alolan forms thing? Does Pikachu and its evolutions really, really need more freaking attention?
There are a few pokemon from first and second generation who I'd really like to have seen get some love. Jynx is one. The Hitmon line is another example. Or how about Arcanine? Or Victrybel? Or Bellossom/Vileplume? Or Parasect?
Not to mention most of the new pokemon have bad speed, or just plain bad stat totals. Oracorio is an example of this. No truly terrible stats, it's true, but four forms and apparently it's really cute. And Komala, which has a neat ability, good attack, and every other stat is fairly bad...but again, cute. And all the ridiculously cute grass types that aren't going to make it competitively? And the fairy type in general? Ugh, just ugh. Give some buffs to poison types. I see a lot of people wailing about how strong Toxapex is. I say bring on the era of the poison type. It's about time. They've been basically shafted in every generation thus far.

Glad to see some of you enjoying the series, but I jumped off the wagon in generation 5.

Hi everyone! I have now completed all 7 trials! YAY!!!

Go all the way left and follow the other type of step that kind of sounds like grass to the bottom left of the city, then head right to the other kind of terrain and go down, that's where Hau is, he'll automatically talk to you, sorry this is a bit hard to explain, let me know if it helps.

Oh and the Magearna event comes out tomorrow.

ah never mind, I got it, now looking for alima and team skull.

I'm now at the elete four and it is super haaaaaard.

I'm pleasantly surprised to hear how successfully blind people are playing this, I thought we were out of luck as well. Even so, I recently sold my 2DS and all of my games, as I just don't use them anymore. Even if I can play through and beat the story, I can only do that so many times before I get bored, and want to breed and train for competitive battles or at least battle facilities. That's always needed sighted help to read natures and stats and such, and practical sighted help isn't something I have readily available anymore (I am not making hundreds of be my eyes calls to play Pokémon). Even with XY and ORAS, I was finding it harder to find the motivation to play. ORAS' soaring around thing really put me off too, as here were a crap ton of legendaries that weren't accessible to reach because there was no indication at all of when I was flying over their islands.

Listenning to let's plays though, I must say I'm impressed with the sounds that they've put in, like the return of fully featured footsteps HGSS style! Also glad to hear about the bag returning to how it used to be, I hated and never understood why the bag had to be laid out differently during battle. SOS battles also sound a hell of a lot easier than Pokeradar or Dex Nav chaining, so blind people can actually chain for shinies and hidden abilities reliably now! But not I, I guess. If they ever manage to get this on an emulator and write save file editors that let me see what natures and stuff I have, then I'll definitely give this a whirl.

Yessss! I finally made it to the champion with only 1 of my pokemon fainted I think!
@Loxias: After I beat the story I will wondertrade/gts a ton of starters/starter-evolutions (since I have all three starters) then I do shiny hunting and hopefully get lots of shinies.
@Pulseman45: PKhex is available for gen 7 games, but you need to have custom firmware or homebrew, which is hard to do.

In fact, you can literally generate any Pokemon with PKHex and even play with them online, provided you respect some rules (for example, you have to select where the pokemon was caught and as such make sure it comes from a place where it can be found, as well as not giving it a move it normally can't learn, and many other things). I believe there are tutorials on the Internet for this. Though, the version I had was not very accessible because NVDA didn't say the labels of some elements, for example you have to remember that HP is before attack and speed after special defense. Plus, unless it works differently now, transfering the pokemon in the game is not doable without sighted help, because it needs a 3DS web browser. Hopefully this changed.

Sorry for posting right after I just did, but the web browser method was patched  last year.

Hi Everyone! I just beat the game! You don't know how many times I just have to say get a mudbray as soon as you can! It saved me so many times, including the final battle!!!!!!

It has an ability, when it gets hit it's defense raises, and it has decent defense.
It is a ground type and can learn lots of great moves like high-horse power, heavy slam and earthquake.