>>14510595if you lose to a trainer chances are you're going to lose again unless you grind, which is a folly of all rpgs.
There was one gym leader in b/w I got my ass handed to at least 5 times because my team was shit against it and I had low cash, also I can't imagine beating Ghetsis as a ten year old.
Even so, it is a kids game and the entire meta has been essentially adults abusing its system (EVS and IV's were originally convenient number generators not meant to be discovered) since forever, nobody ever expects the main game to be hard outside of endgame challenges.