6. Triple Battles
I do admire Game Freak’s attempt at iterating on Ruby and Sapphire’s Double Battles with Black and White’s Triple Battles. It feels like a lot of classic turn-based RPGs in which you have a party of three and are making decisions about how best to utilize a round based on your opponent’s team composition. But triples just didn’t have the longevity of double battles, which are still a standard format for competitive play. Because they didn’t have that staying power, it’s hard to imagine triple battles ever coming back when so many strategies and abilities are geared toward the 2v2 structure. It was interesting, but I imagine a lot of people are glad it didn’t become the standard.
