>>46662838>>46663597>Either you permalose pokemon or the battles are piss easyThe pokemon AI is shit and even when you are not overleveled, it does not offer challenge. At most, if I dont overlevel, i may lose only one or two pokemon after a strong npc battle, which isn't a real drawback because i'll just have to pick a substitute and grind it enough to get it to a usable level for the team.
It's unironically more challenging and fun to play a difficulty hack, or to attempt "underleveled" runs, where you can choose your team, you can retry and your pokemon can faint, but you must find a way to defeat the enemy while your team is severely underleveled, around 5 levels at first gyms, and around 15 for the league. And it takes no grinding.
Nuzlockes are a meme playstyle, and have earned their popularity solely thanks to the permadeath and to pokemon streamers. Only your generic poketuber or pokestreamer that barely knows how to play, would lose or find nuzlockes challenging.