Nice so far I got shiny Donphan. been running him in my team. gardevoir, azumaril, fletchinder (really not a lot of options for fire types in this game), starter Grass Cat, and Rotom. seems like ive been able to deal with everything pretty easily for the most part, i think honestly you can beat this game with any team
only used a few TMs to make my shiny donphan reall cool / more useful. put gunk shot cause i had no poison moves, and rock blast to deal with flying types (lot of steel mons with levitate in this game again). its too bad he is not also a rock type to get that extra Same Type Ability Bonus.
I am not sure if i did the game in the correct order? lol i was at a part where my guys seemed way underlevelled but i powered through pretty easily still. then my guys seemed overlevelled for a long ass time. now finally to a point where wild mons are level 50
I am just a bit over 200 in the dex. i stopped noticing the performance issues after awhile but yeah they are definintely there. you gotta keep in mind switch is an older handheld at this point now, its even weaker than a ps4. but they should have been able to optimize that better i agree.
all in all, i am really loving this game so far, cant wait to do battles online and shiny hatching. i hope they put out expansions for this too, im sure thats the plan