Re-starting Pokémon Ultra Sun

So, my story with Pokémon Ultra Sun:

About two years ago, I started playing Ultra Sun. Never got to finish it despite the game being fairly easy because of the bonus boss. See, it wasn't because of the difficulty of the bonus boss, but rather because I wanted to be able to beat the boss on my terms, aka no deaths. However, having played the game blind, I had no idea what to expect and my poor Bewear (who has a 2x weakness to one of the attacks) gets smeared into smithereens. Ultimately, my Goodra tanked a super-effective attack, due to Goodra's ridiculous special defense, and took the boss out with dragon breath.

So, with revenge in mind, I wanted to reset and try a different tactic. However, I had saved after the point of no return, which, of course, is terrible. That's like...nearly 70 hours. (I was trying to catch everything as I go, which meant running around in grass for hours at a time to make sure I've encountered everything, including the 1% a-holes that this stupid game insist on putting in for some reason.) Point is, realizing there was no way to go back and defeat the boss in a satisfactory manner, I decided, fuck it, I'm gonna restart.

About 15 hours into my new run (with a new starter, of course), I got distracted by other things and that was kind of the end of that.

Recently, I finally finished my first no-cheat completion of Pokémon. (I usually use item cheats because I don't like the idea of jumping through hoops when my strategy requires multiple hold items or be limited in TM usage because breeding is a pain in the butt and not really viable until after the game has been completed due to limited resources.) Having to plan and search and look through Bulbapedia so that I can plan my time and investment into the game without feeling like I've wasted experience leveling certain 'mons was kind of annoying and painful, but also strategically challenging. Anyway, it made me appreciate the quality of life updates that the later games give such as having EXP Share without taking up a hold slot, easy access to money so you're not carrying an Amulet Coin all the time. That appreciation, of course, made me decide to go back to Ultra Sun to try to complete what I did before: Run a team that can defeat the bonus boss without dying.

So, for this run, my personal goals would be:

1. SOS chain a high IV Pyukumuku

2. Toxic + Soak, then sustain to cherry tap the bonus boss into oblivion

3. SOS chain high IV Dittos for breeding purposes

4. raise another Goodra, b/c Goodra's are love

5. breed Moonblast onto a Ribombee so that it can sweep dragons for the luz

6. get a speedy ground type to cover the Poison/Dragon and Steel/Dragons that Ribombee can't sweep

At the moment, I've cleared the first island and have been running around capturing Smeargles for part 1 of the plan. I'm going to be in for the long haul...