It's fun. But it's like, the game is so much wasted potential. It's a bunch of good ideas by very incompetent devs. It feels like indie devs taking a crack at Xenoblade combat flavored with Pokemon moves. Like it's almost great, but it's obviously half baked. Still fun but held back. Gamefreak needs to really just get help from another studio to execute properly on their ideas.

Using movies like Dig and Fly to evade attacks with good timing is fun. Using protect in real time is fun. The entire trainer control aspect should honestly have just been fucking thrown in the trash and they should have just let you control your fucking Pokemon. Or at the very least they need to make the positioning way more fluid and snappy. I haven't played online because I pirated it but it looks like a retarded clusterfuck from what I've seen. The core strategy all the people making videos seem to have is "lol fucking zone with Ampharos (cause everyone is just spamming Gyarados) or some shit and never engage in combat, just killsteal haha" which sounds like absolute dogshit.