1) Designated driver - Phillip (carefully monitored)

2) Navigator - Wily (Looking at UB-caused traffic)

3) Spotify DJ - Polly (Never plays her own songs)

4) Snack Distributor - Salvador (All the snacks have protein in them)

5) Other - Mahra as the conflict mediator. Will literally turn the car around with telekinesis if they don't stop arguing.

Mahra: Careful planning, specific goals, careful with positive encouragement.

Phillip: "You don't need defense if you're too fast to hit"

Sivrit: Traditionalist warrior approach, fight the strongest opponents he can find.

Wily: Random default-profile twitter he posted once to and a default Instagram with photos taken by Cindy on his phone.

Polly: Is on everything, big following, zero media management on any of it.

Phillip: Instagram and twitter that's nothing but cars.

Mahra: Linkedin. (Did not like the horny attention when she tried to have an instagram.)

Polly: https://youtu.be/k_-Lyktkdhw

Polly: "Gramps is a bit of a grump, but to be fair, if you had 107 other people yelling in your ear you'd be mad too."

Wily: "That's not my 'ace'. Rusty's not a combat pokemon, he's family."

Phillip: "Fast? Nah, my car is fast. My buddy here is greased lightning."

Anyone who enters Wily's lab unprepared is convinced he's a serial killer of some kind.
I mean, this is the sight that food delivery people are treated to when they knock on his lab's door.
https://twitter.com/LudinVibes/status/1494850627255644164

Wily: Trying to fix it (With his Porygon's help)

Sivrit: "Trying to fix it" (Repeatedly kicking the panel)

Polly: Trying to call nearby Rotoms to possess it.

Mahra: Getting so antsy that she initially forgets psychic pokemon can teleport. Peacing out once she remembers.

Albright: "I bet if I just shoot the panel--"

Most of Polly's mons take a role in the music process, except her grumpy spiritomb who keeps its distance.

Wily's team is pretty civil together, even with his Kecleon being a little monster and type:null being distant. The big stand out is his Porygon being a absolute gremlin and regularly annoying his Cinderace.

Japan for sure, have never been and it's been on my list for years

Ah yes, my OC pair rosegold...
Quietly steals another OC

Wily: Black Coffee to keep him going, will reinvent the "Death wish" coffee, and make it with lab equipment over a coffee maker.

Mahra: Chai with varying spices, it's a vital part of her day.

Polly: Lots of cream and sugar, will often order overly sweet lattes because they sound good, and end up drinking only half of it.

Sivrit: Traditionally made tea with Moran herbs, but only in very rare occasions.

Phillip: Energy drinks, has his own sponsored flavor called "Greased Lightning", but drinks the default flavor instead.

Salvador worked on a Muscle Man Cafe one summer. It took him a couple of weeks to realize what the point of the place was.

Phillip: Danger Zone.

Albright: Take me Home, Country Roads.

Polly: She'll put up a stage level performance for anything Queen.

Mixed bag for Wily, who is kind of a workaholic but stresses out way too much about keeping his tech going to the right places.

Mahra finds her work as a therapist way more fulfilling than her work in the E4,

Polly adores her music career and is less enthusiastic about her performance as a gym leader, but just a serious about it.

Albright lives for his work as a ranger and a good 90% of his time is spent on the field.

...I'm working on it, but basically just cheating with tech every step of the way, and never ever would go for the "Let me fight the protagonist one-on-one with my ideals on the line".