Mithy

Well that demo was a lot harder than I expected but I enjoyed the level of difficulty a lot, had to change the team up a little in order to beat Fern/florinia. I don't envy the amount of work you have given yourself after looking at how much you change even the random npc fights (that shiinotic can burn in hell). Really liked the changes to the starter movesets, sure some are far better than others at the start but perfect balance is overrated. I'm not sure what madness drove you to design the scraggy gang fight that way but props for originality, good fun. I didn't really notice any major bug

I'd start with Empoleon and Flygon. If you don't mind grinding exp you can down-level Empoleon to get Swords Dance over Peck/Brine. Alternatively you can look at the Item Guide and sort by location and look through the maps you have already been through to find X items (X Attack, X Sp.Def etc). If you have gotten all the department store stickers available up to this point and buy an Air Balloon on the 4th floor and get empoleon to hold it so the Nidoqueen won't attack it directly the first turn. Spam Rock Slide with Flygon to hope for flinches while you setup with either swords dance or spam

Just finished up a Normal monotype run (no items, no terrain moves, set mode) and first off wanted to say thanks for making it, was a lot of fun to play and secondly I'll give my two cents after playing through it. I always like mods that encourage using pokes that have traditionally been useless/weak and Fearow and Delcatty were early game monsters and of all pokes it was probably Gogoat that put in the most work over the run. Difficulty is always hard to accurately talk about when I've only done one playthrough but I really liked the difficulty curve this game has. The other mods

If I remember correctly Shieldon is found via Headbutt in Seacrest's Garden.

Catch and train up a bronzong with Heatproof as the ability and teach it Trick Room. Teach one of your other pokemon Rain Dance, you should have the TM for it at this point. Send Bronzong +Rain dancer in first. You can give the bronzong an amplified rock for more trick room turns and the Rain Dancer a Quick Claw and just reset until it activates on the first turn. Alternatively if you value more Rain turns give the bronzong the quick claw and the other one a damp rock but they'll probably faint before setting up rain.

iirc you can continue that quest once you beat Souta.