>>57183222I'll agree with this
For a first run through of a challenge hack, whiting out under ten times is actually kinda piss baby easy mode.
Bear in mind that this means, on average, a gym leader, team leader, rival, elite 4, ect did not have anything the game demanded you respect, and you could just faceroll with whatever random bullshit you walked into it with. This means, on average, the player never needed to learn or adapt to anything, and just steamrolled most of the peaks of challenge the game offered. Whiting out 5 or fewer times in general also implies that the main reason for those 5 were either encountering a hard gimmickmon that your team just had no answer for, or just simple carelessness because the game hadn't demanded enough to bring higher level critical reasoning online.
It should be the STANDARD in a difficulty hack that you usually lose round 1 against such an opponent, but gain knowledge of their team, strategies, and key pokemon, that you then build around and take round 2, unless you rather coincidentally happened to be built to handle a particular kind of opponent, that this fight happened to be. If this isn't happening, then either you haven't made a difficulty hack, or you don't know how to make a difficulty hack because you don't understand what makes a difficulty hack hard, so used a crutch to make the hack hard that any seasoned romhack player has encountered a dozen times and is just in their back pocket of things to ge prepared for anyways, fucking Reborn style.
Not every hack needs to be a difficulty hack, mind, there's perfectly good shitpost hacks, enhancement hacks, and tons of other good shit out there. But the "this shit is so hard, unf" angle that sputters out into a wet fart like this is just fucking romhack NTR.
