While I agree on the Gym Leader rematches/E4 upgrades, the ONLY Gym where there should be 2 on 2 battles is Mossdeep with Liza & Tate. The rest should be battled the regular way, just with the tougher teams.

And the potential advantage to having the phone is that sometimes the other trainers did come up with something useful. You could manipulate the swarms to an extent, or get rare items depending on who you register. While you may have to deal with some of the inane crap in the process, at the very least you would have the Vs. Seeker to punish them for making you listen to it.

Oh, and I did figure that the location-based evolvers had viable locations in Johto and maybe Kanto. Leafeon in Ilex Forest, Glaceon in Ice Cave, Magnezone and Probobass in either Mt. Mortar or maybe Mt. Moon (speaking of places that got cut down originally). I very much doubt we're gonna lose day and night, especially since some new 4th gen things have that as an evolution trigger as well as just Espeon and Umbreon. Feebas...ugh. PLEASE let them NOT do the stupid tile thing for that thing again. Same for anything that at any point had a 1% encounter rate. Give us a break from the impossible, please...

And what's wrong with the Safari Zone? Frustrating as it is to catch things sometimes, it was always fun.