What type of Exp. Share does everyone prefer?

Sheep

The Exp. Share has undergone a major change since the early generations, in that it now applies to your entire party rather one specific Pokémon you have it equipped to. So I'd like to ask you, JT community: What kind of Exp. Share do you prefer? Additionally, would you have liked the modern Exp. Share to have a toggle to disable the party-wide experience buff?

KomodoZero

All party experience, except you can choose when to turn it on or off. It makes party grinding much less of a chore, and you can choose exactly when you do or do not want to use it.
When they removed that option, the games became far too trivial. I can understand the developers wanting to give an easier time to children, but considering it was on by default it was already a solved problem. They have a habit of taking options away as of late, the most recent victim being optional autosaves.

Darren

I have mixed feelings on this, I used to enjoy the grind and the challenge of building up my team without the aid of experience share, but these days I don't really mind, because i'm not as invested in the Pokémon I am choosing I guess.

Fans are able to put in far less effort these days. For example, in Legends Z-A you don't even have move PP, you just charge your moves and with the addition of bottle caps allowing you to fix your stats, and shiny Pokémon being super common, there isn't really anything special about caught Pokémon anymore.

ICanSnake

In older games, I hated grinding for EXP and battles just to only level 2 Pokemon at a time. It's one of the reasons why I have a bad memory of playing Black and White. It's also why I used to love overleveling my starter, a practice a lot of kids do and one I took into my teenage years.

With the upgraded EXP Share to level your whole team at once, it makes it so much easier and more rewarding to decide on a full team and level up 6 Pokemon at once. It allows me to level up something other than my starter, while also keeping my starter around the same level.

I for one love the change that they made to the EXP Share, but I wish they had a toggle to turn it off if people wish. It's probably the most common sentiment I've seen for the EXP Share. Changing how it works is fine, just as long as you can revert back to the old style.

Dragonfree

I kind of preferred for the Pokémon that battle to get the experience, mainly because that creates an incentive to have all your Pokémon actually battle, which is how I like to play - training up all my Pokémon evenly, always prioritizing the lowest-leveled ones so that they get the experience. It just feels a bit cheap for a Pokémon that didn't battle, and hasn't been battling much at all, to be leveling up anyway; it undermines the bond you form with your Pokémon through battling with them. Obviously sometimes you'd have to train up a new team member to catch up, but I would let them start handling battles on their own as soon as feasible, and it would be a conscious act of training up that Pokémon, rather than just passively happening in the background.

Making it optional is a little bit hairy because it means players might be playing on two very different experience curves, so I can kind of see why they haven't done it that way... but the experience curve of the modern games currently does tend to make you end up hugely overleveled, so that may be kind of a moot point; I think OR/AS felt pretty good with a regular team of six and the Exp. Share turned off.