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Evil Garchomp - LOVE the idea. (I also love the idea of Yveltal seeing bringing death to all as a mercy, since in a way, that's not an invalid perspective to take on the subject of life and death in the universe - a bit akin to Cyrus' "incomplete human spirit leads us to strife and pain" before he went down the Slippery Slope and got all "so I must wipe out all creation in order to wipe out spirit, and also become the new God because reasons!" ). The Garchomp reminds me of Luciano Bradley from Code Geass, joining up to fight for a cause solely because you can torture and kill people and get away with it because it's for that cause.

In terms of how you handle him, I'd say his crimes are just the right amount of unsettling and heinous for this setting. You could add at least one big action at the climax of his arc just to cement how far gone he is, like attempting to decimate a populated area with the power of whatever Pokemon he summons. As far as characterization goes, be sure he possesses no decent, altruistic, redemptive qualities or any mitigating features, and make sure to expose his thought process to the reader, since that makes it clear that he doesn't even have true loyalty to the side he's on and secretly mocks their beliefs and cause as being worthless - he doesn't believe in death as a mercy and if he could have his way, he'd choose inflicting Fates Worse Than Death on people rather than sparing their lives or killing them, but since he often lacks the resources to make that happen, he opts for killing them instead, but in the most painful way possible as compensation. His attitude and core belief should basically be "you can't live your own life to the fullest unless you thoroughly wreck the lives of others in the process!"