The theorising has gotten to me. I don't want to hype up part 2 of the DLC TOO hard for myself, but... What if this toxic chain didn't just get a hold of Kieran but his Pokémon too...
TLDR: I set Kieran up for success and idk what happened.
I planned to help Kieran get his confidence back but his AI broke and it backfired. I like to think he just couldn’t look as he beat up his grandparents so Poliwrath was like ‘this seems right’ not knowing type matchups