I finally started up Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield today; I decided to choose Sobble in both since I like Inteleon more than the other two fully evolved starters. I just defeated Hop in the first battle in both games (I tend to like the fastest fully evolved starter most of the time), so yeah, it's a good start for both games.

I'm not 100% ready to play through these two games just yet though; when I finish Pokemon (Ultra) Sun/Moon (I'm aiming to not only get a complete Pokedex in these games; I'm hoping to get every TM and Z-Crystal I can find), I'll play Pokemon Sword/Shield more.