>>43865604>The options available to a player at this stage of the game are not dynamic enough to provide a proper battle of this lengthNot...really? Have you ever played Blaze Black/Volt White 1/2 or Renegade Platinum? Roark in Renegade Platinum has a full team with diverse movesets, items, and good natures, but this is counterbalanced by giving the player access to things like Diglett, Cubone, Lotad, and slightly shuffling/adjusting movesets. It works out perfectly fine and provides a decent early game challenge that you're not forced to overlevel for.
>Then there's no reason to complain about OP's criticism of the gameThis doesn't logically follow. You're the one inventing a strawman, you claimed
>>43864990 was saying that adding more Pokemon was the only way to increase difficulty when that's not implied by him or anybody else who's favoring '6 Pokemon on early gym leader' in this thread. I don't know why OP's whining about the first gym having a full team, I don't particularly care, either.