>>54285601As someone who's played FRLG a while ago and Emerald very recently, it doesn't seem *impossible* at all to beat a gym leader that's higher level than your pokemon if you know what you're doing and have good equipment. I marched through FRLG without deliberately grinding, but fighting every trainer and knocking out wild pokemon when I could. I ended up being a good 13 levels lower than the champion and having to revivescum a *lot*. For Emerald I didn't grind until the E4 and it was smooth sailing when I didn't make some dumbass move or misinput. It's been too long since I've touched HGSS, but I do recall certain things being harder due to the lack of badge boosts from GSC. I dunno if thats true or not.
