I'm not so sure the developers completely missed these minor details... I mean, if a few players immediately found the glaring possibilities where this could go wrong, I'm sure Team Yoshi-P's taken pretty good care of them.

Honestly, I'm kind of excited for it... If done properly (which I have pretty good faith in, at this point) it could remove an old version of battle micro-management and open the door for a new (hopefully more fun) one.

I'm still pretty sure the animations will continue to scale as well. Level 1~15 small flame, 16~30 medium flame... etc etc etc.