>>56268535Yeah.... I just found out about Werster's response. Wish I had seen it before making that post.
So I guess Easy Mode really is just easier in the end. And considerably so.
It also seems to be intentionally designed that way (too many coincidences), but it's still such a bunch of weird decisions. They could've just left it at "different levels"=="different stats", but oh well.
I'm still a bit doubtful about how much of an actual difference there's between Normal and Challenge.
I guess the slightly improved Gym Leaders and the significantly better League in Challenge may just do it for me, I mean 99% of normal overworld trainers in any game are always pushovers anyways so those don't really matter that much.