No PC in Festival Plaza: Missed Opportunity?

[rawcomrade91]

Ever since the Pokemon Bank update for Sun and Moon, I've been playing a bunch with a few friends online: trading, battling, testing out new team ideas, etc. Usually, though, after each battle, I have to run to the PC to swap out Pokemon, items, etc. The ability to have multiple battle teams this time around certainly helps with some of the headache, but...I don't know about anyone else, but I generally don't have multiples of the same item (gotta save that BP!), so I find myself having to at least swap items between battles.

That being the case, I was surprised to find there's no PC in the Festival Plaza to use to swap out your items or Pokemon. Especially if you're online battling with friends or using Battle Spot, you have to disconnect from the Internet, leave Festival Plaza, run to your nearest in-game PC, then re-enter festival plaza and reconnect to the Internet. Seems a bit cumbersome, especially since in Gen 6, you could be online and find your trading and battling partners while running around the game world, so you could easily save near a PC and have instant access between battles.

Am I the only one who finds this annoying and something the devs potentially overlooked? Or do you think there's a reason they decided to leave it out (to prevent cheating, somehow)?

 

[NeoSpeedFreak]

You can modify your premade Teams on Battle Spot (and it probably works on Link Battles too), it's better than nothing.

 

[Ducolamia]

Ever since the Pokemon Bank update for Sun and Moon, I've been playing a bunch with a few friends online: trading, battling, testing out new team ideas, etc. Usually, though, after each battle, I have to run to the PC to swap out Pokemon, items, etc. The ability to have multiple battle teams this time around certainly helps with some of the headache, but...I don't know about anyone else, but I generally don't have multiples of the same item (gotta save that BP!), so I find myself having to at least swap items between battles.

That being the case, I was surprised to find there's no PC in the Festival Plaza to use to swap out your items or Pokemon. Especially if you're online battling with friends or using Battle Spot, you have to disconnect from the Internet, leave Festival Plaza, run to your nearest in-game PC, then re-enter festival plaza and reconnect to the Internet. Seems a bit cumbersome, especially since in Gen 6, you could be online and find your trading and battling partners while running around the game world, so you could easily save near a PC and have instant access between battles.

Am I the only one who finds this annoying and something the devs potentially overlooked? Or do you think there's a reason they decided to leave it out (to prevent cheating, somehow)?

No you aren't the only one. It's more of pain with trading for me though. Having the ability to change teams on Battle Spot is great, but I don't understand why they don't have a PC in the FP to easily access Pokemon for trades (Especially Wondertrade). Want to trade a Pokemon holding a King's Rock? You got to disconnect from the internet, put the item on your Pokemon and reconnect. Forget something? Disconnect Reconnect. Need to put in a Friend Code? Wash, Rinse, and Repeat. It really does get super annoying and I'm pretty patient when trading. Everything else is so convenient and it really sticks out like a sore thumb when something as simple as putting in a PC in a Wifi Plaza is not there.

I doubt they did this to get rid of cheaters as you can still use Hacked Mons in Battle Spot( I tested it out and yes, it's entirely possible. In the case of items, I'm not sure how you cheat with those though). I just feel like they tried to make an improved Joint Avenue and sadly, I feel like it's quite lackluster to say the least.