XehanortI

Just to be clear, I played Pokemon for years, and I understand that with strategy you can beat the game, but the mmo really is a pain sometimes, is easy to say train this or that (note: my mons are all fully EV's) but for people who are starting the game is a lot harder sometimes. So I appreciate the tips, but there's no need for you guys to kill each other like that :/

I started playing 2 weeks ago, and I progressed through the game slowly, and finally got to the E4! But the game is always making me struggle to progress, I lost count of how many times I was obligated to grind in the wilds or buy stronger Pokemons so I can have just a chance to defeat my rival, and when I got to the Victory Road, I made sure I have battle every trainer possible through the game, got in Indigo Plateau with lvl 55/50 mons just to get my a** kicked. The E4 mons do extremely overpowered demage on Pokemon of the same level and above, I later spend almost 6 hours grinding hordes in the Victory rode to get all my mons to 62, and it still absurd the amount of damage and how "luck" the E4 trainers are to avoid or inflict status to my mons, I can't even buy Full Restores because someone thought it was a good idea removing them from the Indigo Plateau store, com'on, it's the end game, and even if it was Full Restores the money you earn isn't enough if you have to spend it buying exp share/mons on the "trade" store. For me, they buffed too much the trainers moves and stats to make it harder so the player is obligated to grind, get tired and resolve to buy the donator status (or some other things to get more exp), but in my opinion they should nerf the trainers a little, there's nothing wrong with being more difficult due the fact that you have more tools in hand, like trades, mons, moves that you usually won't have, but giving such overpowered stats and sometimes moves (like thunderbold to Giovanni Nidoking, that I at least can't remember him having in the FR/LF games) is unnecessary. And I'm still trying to defeat my rival at the final battle of the league...