Elliot Gale

There's a Rift battle up there too.

There are NPCs in the Ferry Terminal you must interact with first, then meet the Buizel in the easternmost section of Gearen and win a trainer battle to claim it.

It is time gated. I believe you have to wait until after beating Narcissa.

We're not going to know anything about their stats/movepools until release, though... if even. Mind you that these new mons are not even going to exist in a multiplayer environment, and I don't know how well that kind of data is represented in Pokemon Home when you transfer mons there.

Breed a Sturdy Togedemaru with Encore (you can use Plusle or Minun as the parent, they get it at level 10 or something). Max out its speed to be in the safe side. Send it up first and use Nuzzle, followed by Encore to lock Kyogre into Surf. From here you can use a mon with Water Absorb or Storm Drain and take advantage of the couple of free turns you get to break shields. Something else will have to clean up, physical attackers preferred since the seed it starts with buffs its Sp Def. You could potentially do other things, like transform the field with Blizzard, or lower its Sp Atk with enough Snarls, but I think the above takes the least overall prep time for how well it works.

There are a handful of in game trades that will have IDs that differ from yours.

It's the ability Merciless that was supposedly removed. But who knows, maybe they reverted that when they increased the amount of options the player has against her by enabling many many more things to evolve.

It's a quality of life improvement insofar as there is no longer any risk of losing key moves while breeding.

Nope, those early help quests were specifically outlined as being time limited. Once you lock yourself out of them, that's it.

You can find them in Venam's Graveyard as of 13.0.4, I know that for sure. Otherwise you'd have to wait for the alleyway at night, which I'm pretty sure only opens after the gym anyway.

Interact with the first Rift Den you saw.

Mankey is in Gearen Park, at least early on. Mildly rare. Ekans is in the Gearen Sewers and has been for as long as I can remember. I hear Abra is in rift dens after a certain point.

There have been prior reports about the normality badge going missing, but I guess it hasn't been investigated enough for the bug to be fixed.

The AP earned from achievements scales upward almost exponentially after the first few. Just keep chipping away at the things you can do, like walking, hatching eggs, catching pokemon (which in turn fuels the encounter and item usage achievements), etc.

I've noticed that you can buy Rift Fragments and other things from Cairo without actually having enough money, so it wouldn't surprise me if the Den also presented the option to dump 15k essence even though you don't have enough. In general I've found it absurdly troublesome that there is no visual UI anywhere that tells you how much essence you have.

Rifts ignore Flinch outright, with the given message "X endured the pain".

Either parent can pass egg moves. You do not need a male specifically. Though in the case of Cinderace x Ditto, your offspring should have the moves.

It is at the summit, with the arena. Or at least that was the case with V12. Wouldn't be surprised if that was changed...

I used to think it had something to do with rarity, but it quickly became apparent that's not the case. Solosis (a 1-star encounter) seems to be rarer than anything. Maybe it has to do with "strength" of the poke. Tail Glow Finneons can hurt a bit...

Yeah, I don't think there's any good reason to gate the EV cards. It takes long enough to rack up AP in the early stages, so it's not like you're going to steamroll Venam or Keta.

You can actually just walk around her and through the portal to leave.

Hypnosis and Will o Wisp have 90 acc on the Haunted Field. They are most likely not ever missing.

Evidently the same way you evolve any other Feebas. Link Heart while holding Prism Scale.

Morning is probably fine too, but I wouldn't know for sure. I'm just certain it doesn't appear at night, which makes sense.

Cherubi was moved to Route 2 in V13. It is not rare at all, but it will only appear during the day.