With the new changes i've been battling a lot more frequently and have noticed a few things that could be adressed. The first is relatively minor: if energy could update after a battle like it does when you lose in explore that would be great, it's a only mild inconvenience but i'd still find it useful.

The other is more of an issue, although i'm not sure if this suggested fix would be ideal, and i'd love to hear other potential ideas. Even now, when everyone has premium (and therefore autobattle), it can be difficult to find challengers battling manually. Often my higher levelled pets will only get battled 5-10 times a day because of the lack of higher levels on autobattle. Once beta ends, it will be even harder to battle our pets, and therefore level them (especially for those without a ridinghall). On the updates post, someone suggested NPC battlers; this would be great. What I envision is a couple of pets with randomly generated genes between a series of levels, say two pets every five levels, perhaps that rotate every day, or few days. I'm not sure how feasible this is, and it's just a basic idea, but anything that was available for me to battle at all times would be great really, as long as it wasn't too powerful. While this idea does take away from the PvP aspect somewhat, autobattle isn't really PvP anyway, and of course other people's pets would still be available to fill in the level gaps and provide actual PvP (through manual).

I don't think NPC pets would be a good idea because it would completely remove the "PvP" aspect of battling and it would discourage people from putting up their own pets for battle because they could just hit the NPC pets to get their wins/exp.

Also the first suggestion has been put forth a few times now but never given a reply by the devs. Speculation is that due to technical limitations it hasn't been done yet since it seems like something that would be fairly easy to add.