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Overworld encounters objectively added more to the franchise than the physical/special split.
>overworld encounters
>don't have to waste 15 seconds running from a pointless pokemon
>makes catching pokemon actually fun because you can immediately catch interesting things you see instead of wasting time encountering shitty pokemon
>makes the world more immersive by having things like abra teleporting away if you approach it from the front, carkol traveling around minecart tracks, emolga gliding down from a tree, impidimp interacting with mushrooms
>meme split
>uhhhh it helps autists who take game mechanics too literally cope with bite I guess?
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