Marmalade

Helping hand + rock slide does wonders here. Just need a fast pokemon with rock slide or some form of speed control

Congrats on your jounery! I don't like switching out my main team, so I stubbornly ran almost all my playthroughs in a similar fashion you did! (Except for Rejuvenation V13 Intense, That version broke me). I'd often be running around with a team of less than 6 that consisted of pokemon I wanted on my main squad and HM slaves. It really makes me appreciate the potential of a lot of pokemon that I never thought I would add to my team. For example, my most recent Reborn team: 1. Charizard (Having dragon rage early on really helped with not having a full squad early on) 2. Whiimsicott 3. Lanturn 4. Shiftry 5. Weezing 6. Solrock I never really thought of using Weezing or Solrock before, but after a lot of thinking and finally deciding to add them onto the team, I realized how well unexpected pokemon can round out a team.

What I'm going to say isn't particularly pertaining to the spoiler provided, but way later down the Rejuvenation story, there is more insight provided on the MC that might add more depth to the whole 'blank state' topic.

I'm still running my v12 intense team of Swampert, Bisharp, Mr. Mime, Vivillion, Pachirisu, and Talonflame. I'm excited to start a new playthrough to experiment with new teams after finishing this one!

Mine would definitely be Whimsicott! People think I'm a friendly and kind person, but I like causing chaotic situations because it's entertaining

I like to replay the game and experiment with teams/pokemon that I normally wouldn't use

What is everybody's favorite pokemon?

I haven't played it, but Pokemon Nameless is a rom hack that features gen 8 pokemon. It might have Corviknight

The insurgence mod got moved to ExpScale.rb. Open it with notepad or something and look for the exp cap section and change the value there. There should also be an option in your ingame options to use it too.

I haven't finished v12 yet, so sorry if these questions are already answered in the current release! Seeing as the Garufa tried to keep mega evolution locked away in the hidden library, is that mega ring special compared to other mega rings or are characters that can currently mega evolve associated with the Garufa in some way? Also, will we see more Sharon and Eli?

Cincinno takes my pick!