6th Gen Sky Battling

I was never really big for Sky Battles myself. Again, the limitation of Pokémon and even moves you can't use are what I dislike them for. When you don't really know what to expect and you get thrown a curveball, that's what i'm not comfortable with.

Throughout the entire game, I've probably only actually participated in a couple sky battles, mainly because a flying type Pokemon is never usually in my party at any given time. Since I'm too lazy to go back to the nearest town to exchange them, I've never bothered with them \: Though I would have liked to do more considering it often times gives you a nice experience boost.

Honestly, I didn't notice much difference between them and "normal" battles. Still went out of my way to hunt them down for the extra experience just for my flying types, but battle-wise they didn't feel much different. Though I had a Vivillon and Charizard X from the beginning of the game, both of which I adored using, so I may have been a tad biased.

Definitely not incorporated into the story, but at least these gave you a little extra experience if you had at least one flying pokemon to use Fly. I imagine everyone does.. I can't say how many of those are 'battle ready' and kept in the party, but I have always kept mine as an active party member. Just made travel easier.
I'm honestly surprised at how many people don't have at least one flying type at the ready.. I thought that was more common than this, lol.

Sky battles aren't much different, besides looking pretty. I still enjoyed them though.

I also like how every eligible Sky Battle Pokemon was animated to be flying in the air, even if their sprites were grounded last gen. xD

Paparazzo said:

+1

The idea was good, but it wasn't at all incorporated into the story. You could easily play a full runthrough without encountering them once.

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Did it, my first run through of X, i saved the world, beat the E4, and the after stories w/o ever knowing of sky battles, finally ran into one while looking for all items, and was like what is this? But i demolished it with my rayquaza lol. On that note, I like the sky battles, it is a bit annoying with the small selection but if we could make water battles, fire battles, etc, then i think it would be more fun.

It looked epic from trailers but.. that was the extent of it ahah. I tried out one or two sky battles but usually only had one Pokemon at most eligible for them. Recall a time when I even lost because I didn't realize what I had wasn't the strongest 'mon.

Very forgettable feature that I can't see myself utilizing much. gimme experience for all my Pokemon, not just a select few!