>>49480881I'd also argue that the distribution of EXP candies is also something useful. You can argue it's more menuing to be able to level up, given the alternative is just dumping EXP into all your Pokemon automatically, but on the other hand Pokemon games have always been easy enough that you never needed all that extra EXP and the alternative is having to menu a lot more in order to EV train instead which is where the most time will be spent (but not by most players, who again wouldn't give a shit about how much EXP they're being given unless something went horribly wrong in the game design).
I do generally agree that outside of capturing, the more action orientated elements of the game don't really need to be there and specifically the lord fights just need to go or be more developed in their own separate series (a new Pokemon Ranger game would appeal to a lot of people I think).
