>>37806990Both examples are bad in their own right.
There's no real benefit to random encounters. All the difficulty claim is dumb since you can just run or use repels. And wild pokemon AI is set to literally use a random move even if it doesn't affect your pokemon.
Surprise is only a good reason if its your first run through a region and you don't know what pokemon are where. Once you know where everything is, it's just a chore to run away from route 1 mons or try to find something with 4% encounter rate.
But LGPE is a terrible OW encounter system.
Kanto wasn't designed with OW pokemon in mind. And they all act mostly the same.
A better OW system would have different pokemon acting in different ways. Some pokemon run away when you get near, some charge toward you to start a battle, some are in herds, etc.
I'd rather chase down a rare pokemon than run around in the grass for twenty minutes. And there could be other mechanics that could trnaslate to OW encounters like DexNav.
I remember I was playing BoTW and seeing Faroosh for the first time (basically a giant flying serpent). At first, I didn't know what it was, just some huge thing moving between some mountains. I started running toward it as fast as I could to see what it was. But before I could reach it, it started flying off and I could see it clearly. I just watched in awe as this serpent as big as a mountain flew off into the clouds where I couldn't reach it. Afterwards, I found myself wishing that this same encounter could play out in a pokemon game and I was watching Rayquaza flying off in the distance. Knowing that it roosted somewhere in the region and setting out on a journey to find it.
