>>43746728Increased difficulty (trainers have better pokemon, better moves, higher level, are EV trained, etc.). Late-game trainers have pokemon with levels in the 90s.
And many pokemon are rebalenced with base stat changes, learnset changes, different abilities, and a few type changes. For example, Dusknoir has 120 base attack, gets Drain Punch and Iron Fist, and Shadow Punch is 80 BP. Electivire is electric/fighting, gets some fighting moves and Plasma Fists. Kommo-o gets Shell Smash. Sparkling Aria is 100 BP. The Lycanrocs have different typing (mid-day is rock/ground, midnight is rock/dark, dusk is pure rock) and some new moves for each one. And I think every Pokemon has it's egg moves as normal level-up moves.
