>>56991019Fischl is pretty much already a Pokémon trainer. And a good quarter of all NPC in the new region are too.
>>56991054Because fuckos keep buying whatever come out of gamefreak's butt, and GF know they suck ass as a developer so they don't even have any pride left that could push them to at least try to pretend to simulate the beginning of attempting to put some minimal effort into it.
>>56992361They have a semi-recurring event were you lead a team of sentient shrooms into battling for you, that is clearly a testing phase for a real-time pokémon battle system.
They change the system slightly each time, so clearly they aren't happy with any iteration of it.