"The Battle League is a joke- Most matches are decided by luck more often than they are skill."

#PokemonGO: I want to start this by saying I love the idea of the Go Battle League- just not the execution. There are a few things with it that I find incredibly frustrating.The switch cooldown is an issue. As is the complete mystery as to what your opponents are using. Most of my complaints stem from one of these two mechanics. For the sake of discussion, let’s refer to the Pokémon in this as Rock Paper Scissors.if I have the best team, but throw Rock as my lead, if my opponent leads with paper, I’m at a huge disadvantage- I either sacrifice Rock, or switch to Scissors. By switching to Scissors, it allows my opponent to switch to their Rock, and now I’m back in the same situation. My scissors will die, and now I have nothing to counter their original paper. It seems like every match I play goes exactly like this.Now, I could go off meta and play with counters to the top RPS, but then I’m not guaranteed to even face the top meta Pokémon, and I lose because I didn’t anticipate what my opponent was doing.For a while I was seeing a lot of scarmory and alteria, so I ran my shieldon. Then I stopped seeing them so I cut him for something better against the whiscash... But as soon as I cut Shieldon, I’m back against alteria and scarmory again.So in my opinion, it all comes down to luck- if you guess the right Pokémon to use, and in the right order. Now, how do we fix that? Some of my ideas include-Increase the team size. Even if you add one Pokémon, to make the battles 4v4, you could cover more types and not just get hosed because you didn’t anticipate a certain type.Keep it 3v3 but let us take in a party of 4-6. You can switch from your lead into any of the others, but can only use three total, so you can’t use more than three in battle, but you have some options as to team choice after pairingShorten the switch cool down- maybe give us the option of sacrificing energy for a faster swap out.(This could be abused or even broken, so it would require testing to see if it is to strong)Let us buy extra shields with our energy. After storing up enough energy, rather than use it for a charged attack, maybe we could use it for an extra shield. Again, that would have to be tested to see if it made anything too overpowered, but I think it would add another layer to the battle system, making it more dynamic.Thanks for coming to my TED talk, thoughts and comments can be left belowI’ve been at it pretty much all afternoon, trying with top meta Pokemon, as well as things specifically to counter top meta Pokémon and have yet to win more than 1 battle per set. Something is clearly wrong with this via /r/pokemongo https://ift.tt/38RmISt