The fact that I can make images like pic related for every single gym, not just the first ones, from gen 6 onward is absolutely fucking pathetic. This is failure in game design incarnate. Every single "boss" in the game is handicapped, not because "y-you just want everything to have a smogon moveset", but because Pokemon are intentionally designed to have what are typically the worst or most bland moves they could possibly have-- even if it means literally ignoring levels to give worthless moves or, and this is extremely common, just outright not giving a pokemon four fucking moves.
>>35928399"Turn off experience share" is not a substantive answer to concerns about the series' lack of difficulty settings, because it has nothing to do with difficulty, just the necessity to engage in superfluous battles.
Don't be an idiot, anon. Surely you know there's a difference between challenge built into a game at a design level and romhack style "difficulty" where the game is built with the expectation that you'll fuck around in grass with fast forward on.
