The seventh gym is psychic type. To proceed you have to answer some simple questions. Surprisingly the fight is a double battle; he uses a mega evolved Alakazam and an earthquake spamming Claydol. Nice battle, overall.
After getting to use rock smash outside of battle, I return to Mt. Press to get the replacement item for it. On the way I also found my first megastone, a Banettite.
The eigth gym lies in a city you can only navigate through with surf. Ironically the gym is fire-type.
As I am about to challenge the leader, my rival steps in. It's another double battle gym, but this time with my rival (who has now a Victini) as my partner. He dies on me again, which makes things quite fun. Could've been a decent gym, but that double battle really ruined it.
Next step is Victory Road I guess, hope my shitmons will make it through.
>>21892875Of course I can't speak for the end game, but the only real difficulty I've faced until now is running out of PP because the game just keeps throwing trainers at you. However, the RNG tends to fuck you over a lot.
It's supposed to get harder and a lot of trainers use fully evolved Pokémon which is a plus I guess.