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Totem battles were so much better than gym battles. Gym battles are just so boring and repetitive. Most gym battles nowadays just involve you sweeping the entire thing with one pokemon that has a type advantage against it. The fact that gym leaders also use 3-4 pokemon at most, whilst you can use a full team of 6 is just baffling to me, and ruins most of the challenge/enjoyment. Items should also be disabled in them, cause you have way more of an advantage and can just heal spam your way through their team and undo any status conditions (which makes them kinda lose their impact). Besides, you have way more usage of items than them, and given how overlevelled you can be nowadays (thanks to the forced exp share) most of them are so one-sided. Boss battles are supposed to be challenging and make you strategise, and 90% of gym battles have none of that.
But totem battles are great. Right off the bat you’re in a disadvantaged position, due to the totem pokemon having stat buffs and it becoming a 2v1 situation. They’re way more creative in this aspect as well, as SOS pokemon synergise really well with the totem pokemon with their custom movesets. This forces you to actually strategise and think about how’ll you approach it, rather than mindlessly spamming whatever super effective move you have. It’s also a lot harder to heal spam due to the 2v1 situation, as you also run the risk of the totem pokemon getting healed from its allies. There’s a very real chance that you’ll lose and have to try multiple times.
It’s just a way more satisfying and well designed experience. Gym battles need either an overhaul or should be replaced altogether in my opinion.
But totem battles are great. Right off the bat you’re in a disadvantaged position, due to the totem pokemon having stat buffs and it becoming a 2v1 situation. They’re way more creative in this aspect as well, as SOS pokemon synergise really well with the totem pokemon with their custom movesets. This forces you to actually strategise and think about how’ll you approach it, rather than mindlessly spamming whatever super effective move you have. It’s also a lot harder to heal spam due to the 2v1 situation, as you also run the risk of the totem pokemon getting healed from its allies. There’s a very real chance that you’ll lose and have to try multiple times.
It’s just a way more satisfying and well designed experience. Gym battles need either an overhaul or should be replaced altogether in my opinion.
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