>>55348006Basically turn the encounters with wild pokemon into an ARPG similar to the Mana series and bring back following Pokemon.
You would instruct your Pokemon to follow a certain strategy through a menu on how to deal with the wild Pokemon: "engage all wild pokemon", "avoid weak pokemon", "do not confront any wild pokemon", "follow me", "find hidden pokemon", etc.
Depending on the strategy your Pokemon may or may not battle wild Pokemon by itself. Depending on how it fulfills its strategy it may expect a reward from you, which would raise friendship with you. If you just go away while it is battling, friendship with it will drop.
You will also need your following Pokemon in order to find and scare rare Pokemon for you to catch. For example you might need Growlithe's sense of smell, Noctowl's sense of vision or Riolu's sense of aura accordingly.
The idea is to show Pokemon in a more natural way, just like people use dogs to hunt or to herd cattle.
As for battles with legendary Pokemon I think PLA boss battles are a good start, but I'd like them to be much more dynamic like in Nier Automata or The Wonderful 101.
