As a long term pokemon games player I've noted PokeMMO seems to be pretty harder compared to the original ones. The NPC's Pokemon knows strong attacks and always try a super effective move against the player, which not usually happens in the original games. By the way, I played PokeMMO some years ago in Kanto and had no difficulty at all at the League but now was different and still couldn't beat Gary, which is amazing because it's quite challenging. Anyway, it is only my impression or this game is really harder than usual?