Lord Drakyle

It is still a spoiler to those who haven't had a chance to play the episode at all yet and the spoiler lock shouldn't be seen as flexible, as for Riolu, here's a video guide on how to obtain it though you can always request one with egg moves you want and/or ivs you want be traded to ya.

Excuse me please do not reveal the name of the gym leader in ya title as the spoiler lock IS in effect. Now for tips:

Only just noticed what ya said, The field note 37 can be found, iirc it's in mysidia railnet cave not entirely sure though memory is foggy

No it's not, those same stats the AI can achieve will be the same you can achieve even if it had 252 in all it's stats that doesn't mean it can one shot everything, because only two stats are for damage and they are for seperate types of damage and you can max them out too and and the defence side against them. I do feel this is starting to slide away from the purpose of this thread though.

I remind you: As well as there has been no confirmed information only theories on what is meant by what Eve said, we both have the advantage that we are sentient beings with an intelligent mind and the potential for limitless amounts of healing items and strategies the AI could not think of, we cannot assume we will battle that PULSE for sure, as far as things go, we are still much more difficult of an opponent for the AI, it needs every bit of help it can get when facing us and if you actually use the field effects, change or destroy them you can find very little difficulty in overcoming what you seem to believe is too strong.

Alolarachium-z iirc was in some cave that requires blizzard and stuff to climb a waterfall near to Apophyll beach, Incinium-Z is a reward from a side quest involving a girl wanting to give her crush a Sweet Heart and Primarium-Z is underwater in one of the underwater houses (the ones related to the Klefki/Sanctum Key side quest) i don't believe any of those are available in the game yet. Metagrossite would be unbelievably powerful at this point and there is nothing unfair about withholding any mega stone that Ame so chooses to do so, we know there is a PULSE made for we do not know if we will BATTLE the thing though, they may all have 252 evs in their respective stats (i dont think at any point was it said they would have 252 in ALL stats) but so do you (if ya train ya pokemon)! and that only adds a bit more challenge to it beating them and making them actually feel like they are getting stronger, anything Ame so chooses to withhold in the game is her choice entirely and there is still plenty to offer in the game to make up for what you dont have, furthermore why should she give you all these things now when you ain't going to face those challenges until next episode? Some TMs, Mega Stones and other items may very well be considered too popular or too strong and be pushed back to the Post Elite 4.

For a start you need 15 badges to begin the mega ring quest, you also need the 7th street pokemon: Loudred, Makuhita, Vanillite, Roggenrola, Jigglypuff If you recieved these pokemon in i think it was Episode 16 or earlier then any pokemon hatched in 7th street of those species should work otherwise ya need to get someone to trade you the 7th street pokemon.

i think you are misexplaining some tiny details such as a stat at max can have 255 EVs but those last 3 would be wasted as you require 4 EVs for 1 base stat point, also Power Items dont make it so you only gain a specific EV, they give you additional points for the respective EV they represent ON TOP OF the EV yield from what you fainted. ideally with IVs unless you are good at IV breeding for the perfect pokemon your best option is a destiny knot on a male pokemon with 31 IV points in both stats you most want for your female pokemon's egg such as wanting it to have the highest iv in atk and speed, the destiny knot will at least improve your odds of getting those two 31 IVs onto the egg pokemon though i may be mistaken about how it fully works, they are great and all but most of ya stats come from ya EVs and your nature.

i think you set it to default music, to undo the background sound override

Pretty sure Ame never liked having her character in the game in the first place, i doubt she would bring the character back from the dead as for the theory:

pretty much. It isn't incredibly clear what you are supposed to do to progress and even then to get into the encounter but eh you kinda figure it out after a bit.

One dead Budew at a time, one Klink, Klang and KlinKlang to take it's place...or just a bunch of Sylveons with ribbons to tie it all together...or fluffy Alolan Vulpixs or Alolan Vulpix/Ninetales with ribbons for tails!

Well for gastly apart from the police mystery egg Litten:

Well now that you have made it spoiler friendly, which i thank you for abiding by the spoiler lock, ill see if i can offer any advice. Usually in double battles like this one, it's much easier by focusing your attention on getting rid of the trainer who is posing more of a threat to you, if your Blaziken has speed boost i would target : This allows for it to gain speed while rapidly fainting each newcomer, your Gardevoir in the mean time you could faint the other trainer's pokemon to keep them off Blaziken, i cant remember the team they used except for like one pokemon and i know very little about the abilities of your pokemon or their moves so there is that.

Spoiler Lock, please put this in a spoiler and change the title name to not include episode 18 spoiler information, something like: '[Episode 18 Spoilers] Help with Battle' would do.

Those events can ONLY be done after speaking to simon. ^ E18 Spoilers in regards to Simon.

If we can find 3 more people the game can begin with a few roles knocked off

Nothing special, just download the new episode and play it like you do episode 17, the save file will still be read by it just make sure to check you aren't in an area that would be unsafe to load episode 18 in from episode 17 (inside pokemon center's is very safe, if ya reached the end of episode 17 story then just start from inside Amaria's Gym