>>42527141>Funny you post SMT because I love me that series and its spinoffs.Nice. I love it too, SMT is probably my favorite JRPG series. Their enemy design is some of the most creative and fun to figure out I've seen in any game.
>But believe it or not you can make the games better and more difficult without inflating the number of Pokemon and giving every prominent trainer stupidly powerful teams.You definitely can make a hard boss without six perfect IV/EV Pokémon, but it's tricky to pull off and requires either really clever moveset design or really good AI. I just don't know if we can expect expertly designed teams from the main series anymore. At least if they had six Pokémon it would stop players from winning by just having more mons than the leader.
I played a Pokémon XD hack recently and the hard trainers were extremely well-made. They didn't give them six Pokémon until near the end of the game, but they had good team synergy and there was often a trick to each one. I think the double battle format helps with that, but I'd still love to see a mainline game where the leaders had well-made teams.
