>>48938768>Younger or less skilled players can get around hard challenges by spending more time getting stronger. Level capsYes, that's why I specifically accounted for it by saying
>drastically slow down the grinding when the player goes past that cap, so autists can do their thing if they wantI did not say hard cap, I said cutting the exp so that the player can't easily bruteforce through a certain boss, but they can if they commit to it enough
>which can be achieved in many other waysIf you're always giving the player an easy out, then no, difficulty isn't really possible to do well in Pokemon, that's just a consequence of the battle system
I don't mind grinding as an out, but make the player work for it
Also, this is irrelevant because the level caps are meant to help players with level scaling in my theoretical model, as said in the post you clearly didn't bother to read. It's so you don't end up overleveling something and then have to play catchup with everything else constantly, it's meant to be beneficial to the player
