Battle Royal is a positive sign in that regard. With Sun and Moon feeling like something of a placeholder ahead of the next-next-generation of Pokémon, I'm really hoping that Game Freak goes all out with this one. Try to predict which pokemon will die first is the key to the battle so you dont waste your attack. I'll cling to whatever hope I can, I guess. They only auto focus on the pokemon with low hp or if they have a type advantage. The last time Pokémon really nailed the postgame content was Black 2/White 2 which, not coincidentally, is probably my very favorite Pokémon game ever. Lately, there seems to be an assumption on the part of the developers that high-level players will just go play competitively but for those of us who are retired from the competitive scene, it would be nice to have some powerful AI opponents to fight. Whatever it turns out to be, I'm mostly just hoping that Pokémon Sun and Moon has some good, meaty postgame content for higher level players. Maybe we'll even get the Battle Frontier back (hah. No, what interests me about Battle Royal is that there appears to be a full-blown Battle Royal hall, which makes me think that there might be a much-expanded version in the postgame ala The Pokémon World Tournament. I could see a situation in which a bunch of computer opponents gang up on your uber-powerful monster, which would finally resolve the question of why enemies only ever attack one at a time, but that's speculation on my part. I actually kind of doubt that Battle Royal will have a major impact on competitive battling, mostly because it's less of a chess match than a no-holds-barred beatdown.