Practice sucks
Everyone either is the bad soloq random, or has very bad problems with soloq randoms. No in between. I think I have a solution for this. Revamp bots entirely.
Right now there is no good way to practice a mon outside of ranked. The only ways right now are offline mode (which isn’t convenient to get to and is easy and doesn’t provide realistic scenarios.) Custom lobbies with other people (which isn’t convenient) or mismatches against current bots (which isn’t realistic).
The solution I propose is this: Make bot ais customizable. Maybe on a level of 1-10 1 being the current bots ai, 10 being a cordinated 5 stack trying their absolute hardest to win, and can do more advanced combos, have great map awareness, and know how to time their abilities properly, among other things. Each bots AI should be able to be customizable independently, so you can simulate a situation where maybe your jungler is worse than the enemies jungler, or your lane partner is really good, but the other lane is terrible. Among other important things. You should also be able to choose what pokemon that your teammates play, and the enemies play, and also their lanes, held items, and battle item.
I think this will greatly improve everyone’s ability to practice, and give a better way to learn a mon without having to go practice area → bot game → ranked.