>>35276856A lot of people have this misconception but it balances the arena material with traditional fighting mechanics. It's this reason exactly that most people over look the title but the stages are designed in a way that you can do your wall or open space combo setups or adapt depending on when or where the field and arena phase changes.
It's a slow start but if you give it a chance you'll find the game has everything for a pokemon fan service fighting game should have. You know what I'll wait until someone's got an actual argument instead of writing it off.