I didn't watch the Presents since I'd rather spend 35 minutes on more enjoyable things. Just watched the trailers afterwards. I have some short thoughts on what was shown, and on other things that were revealed.
- I'm very happy we have a release date for the Teal Mask, 13th September! ...a Wednesday. I won't be playing it on the release though, I'll wait until the weekend afterwards. It feels better that way, and this way, I'll be safe if there should be any major glitches/bugs involved, the fandom should let us know.
- New Pokémon. Totally didn't expect Applin to get another evolution. Looks way more similar to Applin itself than either of the previous evolutions, but that's okay. Wasn't expecting a Duraludon evolution either, looks kinda cool and weird. Really cool how the two new evolutions are of Gen 8 Pokémon! The new Paradoxes were expected though. Raging Bolt looks like a giraffe with its head in the clouds, Iron Crown looks as I would have expected a future Paradox Cobalion to look. I assume there will be Paradox versions of Entei and Terrakion as well, either in the Teal Mask (but they haven't been revealed yet) or in the Indigo Disk.
- Wasn't expecting Terapagos to have a different form when it is Terastallized. That solves the mystery with the little turtle shown in the anime at least.
- Still curious about Ogerpon. What is hiding behind that mask? Unless it was shown already and I missed it.
- Being able to reset EVs is nice. If it is relatively easy and not too expensive, I might do it for my imported teams from L:A and properly EV-train them afterwards.
- There's a new way to fly on Koraidon/Miraidon, and from what it looks like in the trailer, it seems like this will allow them to soar upwards! If this is the case, then this is really great as it solves one of my issues with their flight in the base game, it really annoyed me how you were unable to gain altitude.
- Mew event, kinda cool. I'll be sure to get it before it expires, thankfully there's no rush.
- Paldean Winds, another non-anime animation, which is amazing. I hope it will be as great as the previous mini-series. I'll watch it for sure.
Overall, I'm very happy about the DLC news and it has made me quite excited! Really looking forward to when it releases next month. In the meantime, I guess I should start planning my first DLC team...