Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's Open World Sounds Great for Team Compositions

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Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are finally on the way. In some respects, these Generation 9 titles seem perfectly traditional; for instance, it looks like Pokemon fans will once again be cooperating with some kind of Pokemon professor to fill out the Pokedex. However, other elements of the experience sound totally alien. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are reportedly completely open-world, allowing players to explore the length and breadth of the yet-unnamed region from the very beginning. Core Pokemon games tend to be surprisingly linear in spite of their sprawling world maps, so Scarlet and Violet's level of freedom is a major change of pace.

The open world shift in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet isn't all too surprising, considering Game Freak's experimentation with the model in Pokemon Legends: Arceus, but it still raises many questions about what it'll make a core Pokemon game look like. One major upside of the open world is the higher availability of Pokemon that it can enable. Thanks to the open world, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet players may have unprecedented freedom to start sculpting their ideal team composition within the first hours of the game. In this way, Scarlet and Violet's monster-training elements sound very promising.

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Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's open world is extremely valuable in part because it could mean players have more access to all the Pokemon types than ever before. In most Pokemon games, individual monsters are understandably isolated to specific environments that they're adapted for — Bug-types appear in forests, Water-types appear in the ocean, and so on. However, this occasionally means that certain types are a little