>>51324645what the fuck
>repels were a 'whole portion' of the game's designno, they simply removed the tedium of running into wilds and allowed cheesing for certain spawns and roamers, that's it. meanwhile in PLA you have to weave and dodge between ranged and physical attacks from hostile mons, backstrike to avoid getting into 1v3s, can stun with mud and sticky globes, and so on
overworld encounters also allow for pokemon to have different personalities and cool interactions like blissey coming over to heal you if you're hurt, abra teleporting around, murkrows fleeing when honchkrow is defeated/captured, the genies throwing tornadoes and shit at you, mr mime blocking you off, etc
you get like 50 improvements and you focus on the 2 or 3 mechanics that get scrapped, it boggles the mind
