In detail, I think I know why you're asking this, but author, be strong those are just opinions that differ from most of us here, as you can see

it kind of threw me off tbh, mareep? really dude? I don't like that pokemon at all, except for being cute it has no redeeming qualities, however your story made me happy as storm got to show it's uses, realizing that mareep isn't that good in games but in an actual world where Pokemons could move freely while tactics are in play made me really pumped for this ff