>>49845158Because its a mechanic in the games that has been in the game since its inception and while I did say catching isn’t the focus I didn’t say it needed to be gone. From the very beginning I have been saying that catching through battling is different to action oriented catching but both provide the same end result.
>pla has traditional catchingIts not the same because the battle system is different, even if you implement mainline battle system mechanics to it, it still doesn’t change the fact that the focus of the game is being a turn based battler and having action oriented catching mechanics would essentially make that aspect of the game not turnbased oriented
>but optionsThere is a difference between a self imposed challenge and the game being built with a specific mechanic in mind. Exp share isn’t a fair comparison because we are talking about balancing the games leveling curve when that comes into mind, catching is pretty much on its own bubble without affecting the game in such a way that would make it imbalanced so its not really comparable. Its kinda complicated to put it into words but basically the catching aspect needs to be turn based in a turn based game, that is exactly why i am advocating to keeping action oriented mechanics out of the mainline gen 9 game and bringing them back for a legends title because those titles are built entirely around action oriented mechanics and the turn based battling is more of a supplement.
>>49845118Its way more than that and you know it since you’re skimming over all other aspects that involve catching the pokemon. Some of these aspects are even shared across pla and swsh since random encounters are not a thing anymore.
