R.B

When balancing battles, what assumptions do you make about how players battle? (E.g., do you assume they will or won't use items in battle, do you expect a certain amount of level grinding, etc.) With regards to pokemon distribution, especially in the early game, do you have common challenge runs like monotypes or nuzlockes in mind at all when making decisions, or do you mostly focus on the experience of a vanilla playthrough?

What was the process for designing the new fields? Darkness field and crowd field seem a lot more defensively-oriented than a lot of the pre-existing fields with crowd's anti-sweep mechanics and darkness's general damage reductions for ghost and dark types and relatively small damage boost; was that just to differentiate their designs from the reborn fields, or do you think you'll want to do more defensively focused fields going forward?

Comma in Seyo's introduction should be a period, semicolon, colon, or hyphen. Slowpoke is listed as psychic/psychic instead of poison/psychic.

Find item in the PC crashes the game.

Use of 'vindicate' doesn't make sense in context; should probably be 'villify' or similar.

Cramorant enters its gorging form and paralyzes with gulp missile after surf even when above 50% health.

Mirror armor doesn't reflect the speed drop from gooey or cotton down.

Rest fails sometimes even when the user isn't at full health; when this happens, the 'but it failed!' message is displayed twice. Both times I've seen the bug were on ashen beach, and the pokemon using rest had been statused.

Continue the story; during the Celia city section, you'll be given an upgradeable house; the guild is available as one of those upgrades.

You can leave after getting to Saphira's gym and talking to her, but as far as I'm aware, there's no way to leave before finishing the first three battles.

Arclight's now in the nightclub instead of the grand hall. To get McKrezzy's autograph, you have to talk to him again after Felicia asks for it (which happens after you give her her Makuhita back).

Unrealtime can be set to any number between 1 and 50 in the options menu; in-game time will pass at that multiple of real time (so if you set unrealtime to 30, every minute of real time half an in-game hour will pass).

For ghost coverage, maybe sharpedo? It completes a fire-water-grass trio, and speed boost destiny bond is a generally powerful tool to have access to. For a fairy type, I could see sticky web ribombee being pretty good - mamoswine and medicham are both on the slow end of offensive pokemon, so the speed support should make them a lot more effective. Not available yet, but IIRC you're pretty close to it.

In e19, hidden power no longer depends on your ivs; she lets you change the hidden power type by paying heart scales.

Yes; the elemental punch tutor is now at Agate Circus.