Yeah, I think it'd be as fun. I mean, every single battle in the main Pokemon series uses those mechanics. Every wild Pokemon encounter, every trainer battle, e

Yeah, I think it'd be as fun. I mean, every single battle in the main Pokemon series uses those mechanics. Every wild Pokemon encounter, every trainer battle, every gym leader battle, etc. The time it takes obviously varies based on what exactly you're battling and how strong your team is, but it's clearly something that millions of people consider fun when done thousands or hundreds of thousands of times per game. It'd also only need to be the case for gym battles, so hey, most people wouldn't be spending tons of time on these battles anyway. As for the coding required... I see what you mean (the amount of work they put into the mechanics in the main series is absolutely insane given all the strange possibilities for moves and strategies), but it's apparently easy enough for fan game developers to be able to copy it. If amateurs can code similar systems for fan games like Pokemon Uranium, Niantic can code it for Pokemon GO.