>>29649968>Money could be scarcerLiterally what would that solve? You can always grind.
>Bosses require more strategic playsAnd how would they do that?
>Fewer gift PokemonFine I guess.
>Less direct counters to fights before said fightsLevel 100 Pokemon counter the whole game.
>>29649975At what, level 20? As soon as you can sweep one Pokemon, you can sweep them all. Even if you try to implement a cheese FEAR strat, the player can always just use a potion.
Protip: the only way to ever make a mainline Pokemon game hard is to make it like the Stadium/PBR games. Everybody is at max level, and you can't change teams between fights.
