>>37745345what if we ditch the "your pokemon sits on grass patch A and mine sits on grass patch B" business and adopt a positioning mechanic into the battle system? So the bug trainer jumps you on the tall grasses? Why not order your Onix onto the rocks off to the site and pelt him with ranged attacks. If you want to do brawling/close attacks, you have to come to your enemy, or make them somehow come to you!
That would solve all this "your dude waggles in place against twenty different backdrops" and that is somehow variety.
