I agree, the Battle Hall was easily my favorite. Having never spent much time in the Generation 3 Battle Frontier, I can’t speak much for the facilities there. However, I can’t be the only one who absolutely hates the Battle Tower. Am I right? I think it’s insanely tedious, and the computer has a bad habit of stretching probability in its favor rather egregiously.

*-Palace. It sounds interesting but its way too boring when you cannot influence the battle after it starts… I don’t think they should try to improve it, cause it’s too flawed.

**-The Dome didnt use its potential. It already even had that setup with it all being a huge show. All that was missing is familiar faces.
Something along what they’re doing with that world tournament for BW2 now. Imagine if every other people battling in the dome was a gym leader/E4/champ from the past. Yeah. It would have been equal with the other top facilities of the Emerald frontier.

**-Tower. Classic. Being able to to doubles with a friend is the coolest part, but its so slow..

**-Castle. Well it’s interesting, but it lacks something big. Wouldn’t want to see it again unless they expanded it, which I’m sure they can here.

***-Arena. Interesting take on battles, but it should have gone even further away from the normal battle formula, or added more factors and scoring ways.

****-Pike. Luck game, the usual addictive stuff. It works because its fast-paced :B

****-Arcade. It has a Pike vibe to it, but battle focused. Fun 😀

*****-Factory. Ingenious. It makes you try out all those pokes you may have never used. There is a reason it made a return in PtHGSS, its fun as heck and doesn’t need you to prepare your own anything!

*****-Pyramid. OMG. This is the other really smart one. It had elements of casual adventure, wild pokes and the levels followed a theme. Also a strategic element of risking to run in the dark hoping to be lucky and find the exit, or slowly enchancing your sight and systematically checking the whole place. I want a return of a facility like this for BW2 more than any other one.

*****-Hall. You go in with ONE pokemon. And try beating opponents of each type. Awesome 😀
I loved it how you could choose the order, like eliminating the disadvantages first, or taking out the weak of each first etc. It doesn’t get old as fast from replaying because of this.
This one would be really welcome in BW2, because battling has changed when BW introduced pre-battle team showing. Meaning pokemon that are ok all-around are useful instead of just one-strategy sweepers and such.
It made you prepare your (fav) pokemon for as many threats as possible. Good move there gamefreak.

Also, I remember beating the Crawdaunt in Hax Tower (Gen3) with my Torkoal and Sceptile was one of the biggest accomplishments I ever made as a child.

And The Battle Palace and Battle Hill are the worst. I like the idea of the Pokemon making their own moves from what they see is fit but it can be the hardest facility because of how much it relies on PKMN having the correct natures and moves. The Battle Hill/Trainer Hill was the worst recreation of the Battle Tower ever, case closed.

Dome because the competition was always cool and it ranked you aswell. And when Tucker shows up, hes just a boss. xD
Factory for many a reasons. The strategy is always shifted and that makes for being on your feet when coming up with new strategies.
Hall because it was just so simple. The leader was cool and all but just the idea of choosing the type you wanna go against and it could be a duel type was interesting. (I also make sure I have something against Shedinja… If not, you’re screwed.