Pokedex5E
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Design change - Separate "Group" screen to show Pokemon in your Party
Instead of going directly to the PC, I suggest the button in the bottom-right of the Current Pokemon screen should bring you to an overall "Group" screen that shows the Party (and this Group screen would itself has a shortcut to the PC).
This Group screen would better allow for things like:
- swapping the order of Pokemon in the party
- releasing or exporting Pokemon from your party
- other features that happen to your entire party
This screen could also be repurposed for an eventual "Encounter" system (part of a DM Mode). An Encounter would just be another "Group" of Pokemon. It could show all the Pokemon in an Encounter (which could be > 6) and have additional features related to changing the encounter as a whole.
Having this screen would also allow removing the bottom "Party" bar from the PC screen, as it would not be needed anymore. You would at any given time either be looking at the PC or your Party Group, not both. I can say from experience that having the party bar at the bottom is confusing, notably because tapping on a Pokemon in that bar behaves differently when you are in the PC vs. looking at your party Pokemon (in the latter case it shows the full details of that Pokemon, in the former case it shows a brief summary with "Release", "Move to PC", and "Export" options).