>>41120769>their environmentGood thing then that all the environment that GF develop is literally barebone or empty, so no case of any interaction occuring.
>Pokemon would in some cases be in packs or swarms, and part of catching them would require to eye out the best one in a groupThat sound fun as fuck actually, and will mate catching pokemon more engaging and less of a copy paste mechanic.
Also remember that not all pokemon are catchable on the wild, only the regional dex of any gen can be found in the actual game without transfer, and also a good portion of the regional dex cant even be found in the wild, like final stages evolution, legendaries and so on, so out of 400 pokemon, probably just 250 can actually be seen in the overworld, even if there are all 900 pokemon in the game, that's not a big task for an AAA developer at all, unless it's called gamefreak it seems.