Which of these special types of wild pokemon battle do you prefer the most? Out of the ones where you can find or battle pokemon in an unusual way to unlock special pokemon.
For instance, I really loved S.O.S. Battles. You had to think outside the box to get certain mons to come out. And keep things like wild mons with recoil moves alive on low health. Or protect one pokemon that was being attacked by another. While checking the wild pokemon's abilities mid-battle. So it was quite challenging, and encouraged creative thinking.
But you could also still collect a specific mon with a hidden ability quite reliably when you did come up with the solution.
Meanwhile, I really grew to hate Max Raids. They're so heavily luck based. With certain hidden abilities and min-speed IV G-Max pokemon being very unlikely. Its particularly annoying that there was no indication that certain mons didn't have their hidden abilities available at all (ie. Boltund and Liepard).
Not to mention, the AI trainers are too weak and stupid, and playing with real people usually leads to lazily picking a mon with a type advantage to smash into the Dynamaxed pokemon.
Plus it only exists in one area of the game. So if you want special pokemon, you have to get them from one chunk of the region, rather than re-visiting a full region with all its lovely scenery and weird NPCs.
For instance, I really loved S.O.S. Battles. You had to think outside the box to get certain mons to come out. And keep things like wild mons with recoil moves alive on low health. Or protect one pokemon that was being attacked by another. While checking the wild pokemon's abilities mid-battle. So it was quite challenging, and encouraged creative thinking.
But you could also still collect a specific mon with a hidden ability quite reliably when you did come up with the solution.
Meanwhile, I really grew to hate Max Raids. They're so heavily luck based. With certain hidden abilities and min-speed IV G-Max pokemon being very unlikely. Its particularly annoying that there was no indication that certain mons didn't have their hidden abilities available at all (ie. Boltund and Liepard).
Not to mention, the AI trainers are too weak and stupid, and playing with real people usually leads to lazily picking a mon with a type advantage to smash into the Dynamaxed pokemon.
Plus it only exists in one area of the game. So if you want special pokemon, you have to get them from one chunk of the region, rather than re-visiting a full region with all its lovely scenery and weird NPCs.
