So why is GameFreak so insistent on never including difficulty levels in their games? I don't see any way in which it could negatively affect online play since the stats and movepools would remain exactly the same in the end.
They did it in B/W2 and it's one of the reasons why the game gets so much praise, so why never again? Are they simply too lazy to balance more than one difficulty mode? Do they think it'll scare off the kiddies?