>>27958433It depends, OP, how did you play the game?
The game is designed to played a certain way and it's sort of explained in game when you're told what to do/asked to go research Pokemon.
You go out and explore and catch everything, switch your party a lot and get to understand the region and it's culture by learning about its geography and the Pokemon in it. Beating the league has never really even been part of the story, it always just comes up as "oh by the way, there's this Pokemon League thing you can challenge if you want". Even fighting the gyms is always forced in with "you need a badge to get a HM to cut this tree", there's never actually any reason for the protag to get involved in that side of the game besides minor obstructions you have to go out of your way to deal with.
Sun/Moon apparently dropped gyms so it's already helping you out.
