>>135743882v2 is way better for actually having strategy, but 1v1 sorta feels more personal between you and your pokemon and better creates a sense of bond or whatever IMO.
The real way to fix the franchise is to stop making all the entries worse than they used to be, and stop pandering to player convenience. Nowadays we have no random encounters, no HMs (meaning your pokemon dont get to interact with the environment anymore and destroy that sense of going on an adventure with your pokemon since they exist only in battle), no postgame facilities, or special daily events, or recurring calls and battles with trainers who end up as small minor characters instead of one-off battle obstacles, no side challenges like contests, it doesnt matter how many pokemon the games have in them when there is fuckall to do with them except for soulless online play.
