>>43324235What Pokemon really needs is to put the focus on interactions with owned pokemon outside of battles (with the player, with the environment...etc).
You should be able to take your pokemon out anywhere (except for those too big) at any moment.
No more shitty locked mini-game like Amie and Camp.
Your pokemon could follow you, you'd be able to ride the ones large enough, some of them would dig items, others would be able to fetch unreachable items on trees or ledges...etc
But instead of giving us this much needed improvement, the recent games put the focus on trashy one-shot new battle gimmicks.
Even worse, they removed the few interactions we had with owned pokemon outside of battles (such as Surfing) and gave them to boring soulless rentals and the to....a goddamn bike!