Pawmot is one of my top 6 favourites! Great choice.

If you had to pick two more to round it up for a team of six, what would they be?

Let's go! I've been waiting for this for years!

How did you feel when Alolan Marowak dropped?

Comfey

It's definitely come a long way since then, plenty of quality of life updates.

It's a slow process of building up better starters, you'll get there if you keep going! You only need a couple good carries to speed it up.