>>41011414Just allowed catching as unrestricted any time, anywhere, as in previous titles, was it so fucking hard? The gym badges allowing high levelled mons to obey made since as it offers natural progression whereas this is just arbitrarily restricting the player for no reason. If they can beat it down despite it being a higher level, there's no reason besides muh balance bc it stops you steamrolling gyms. It's not exactly too difficult anyway in most games, but it's even more dumb here because what the fuck is a sneasel going to accomplish against a water leader anyway?
Restricting the player from catching mons is retarded in enough in previous games, primarily gsc where you can encounter up to nine types of pokemon before you can even get balls after backtracking from new bark to mr. pokemon's gaff and back. it's just such a pointless restriction and another example of nintendo being so fucking afraid to let the player go from their endless tutorials and shallow experience