>>36706776Their are specialists, take in mind you usually access their area after defeating the champion, the champion and the frontier brains are pretty much the same, each has a chance to defeat the other one.
Basically they are experts in a specific battle style and challenge and own strategy rather than just monotype and singles, which pretty much fits the pokemon world where there is not an actual canon battle mode if not a more commonly used one instead.
Plus have a higher poke-international appeal compared to the regional leagues and attracts more foreign trainers to it compared to the local league associations because in the end every region has their league.