This Encourage ability could be amazing. For example, the aforementioned Flare Blitz on this thing: Base 180 (with STAB), 100 accuracy move with no recoil? Sounds pretty nice. I just hope it's an offensive pokemon!
Watch GameFreak pull a Flareon and just give it Fire Fang :naughty:
Honestly though, I'm starting to get psyched about Hihidaruma. Aesthetically, I don't like it...yeah, OK, it's based on a dharma doll and a baboon, but it still looks like the bastard lovechild of Infernape and Heatran. However, that "Encourage" ability could make it a competitive staple, assuming GF doesn't screw its movepool and stats over. It's name is a pun on the phrase "body cloaked in fire" so it's almost guaranteed to get Flare Blitz...then again, Flareon has the word "flare" right there in it's freakin' name, so I'm not getting my hopes up. However, unlike Flareon, Hihi also has arms, so it's more likely to get a few Fighting moves and maybe even an Elemental Punch or two to round out its coverage.
At the end of the day though, the one I'm most excited about is Meguroko. Talk about sick abilities...an automatic attack boost after every KO? Win. Not to mention he gets two great STABs and two immunities to switch in on. Six weaknesses is never nice, and he'll probably be pretty slow...but anyone who thinks those two faults automatically send him to NU should have a word with a certain green dinosaur. My one fear is that Megu won't get an evolution...I tell myself that his in-game sprite is simply too small to not evolve at some point, but Dunsparce and Castform haunt my nightmares.