Lets say they Release a Pokemon MMORPG that is exactly like the DS/GBA Rpg but 3D, the battles I could see as live action.
BATTLE START
Charizard VS. Arcanine
Your Trainer character is standing on the Sidelines, the camera is behind and slightly above charizard, tilt the joystick left and he starts side stepping left, Charizard is always facing the opponent (think of a semi Auto-target thing)
You can run foward, and and do basic attacks like hitting the opponent or in Arcanine's case, run the enemy and jump on them knocking them back etc, they aren't actual attacks so they don't do much damage.
But you would still have your 4 main attacks.
- Flame Thrower
- Wing Attack
- Another
- Another
Anyway, Arcanine uses Extremespeed, You double tap jump for Charizard and he'll start hovering in the air, use Flamethrower, obviously it'll do crap all damage.
Arcanine is suddenly at a disadvantage, It uses Arial ace by building up momentum and launches into the sky knocking charizard to the ground.
Basically the camera is always third person but from behind Charizard (for you)
I think it would work well like that, and all stats can work, I mean obviously high speed pokemon are gonna be annoying to kill since they just move so fast.
A good example of this kind of fighting is that Naruto Ninja storm game on PS3, but different camera angles.
I think it would be epic to have people witness you online using venusaur to use vines to trap the enemy and then Solar Beam them (if your quick enough)