For me, it's exploration with world interaction. I feel like there's a lot of potential with pokemon that have all these different powers and capabilities to be able to make an intricate world designed around using them to interact with the world and progress through it.

I know it sounds like HMs but I feel like HMs is the very extremely barebones version of this. HMs are most of the time something you just go up to something and press A on to initiate. And there are so few of them that it doesn't require any sort of problem solving mindset.

We'll call them traits, each pokemon would have only one. Say you see something that looks like it could be melted and you have a pokemon with a heat trait, so you switch to that pokemon (on the field) and use their trait. Or say something's hanging and it looks like you could cut it down, so you switch to a pokemon with a razor-leaf (or any other long distance cutting) trait. There's a lot you could do with this and I think pokemon has the best aptitude for it.

Then you could have an item that can call for pokemon in your box that has these specific traits you're looking for and have them come out onto the field and follow you til you call another pokemon. So you basically have this huge toolbox where you're constantly testing your imagination to see if you can interact with the world. I feel like this could be a ton of fun.