Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Desperately Need Level Scaling

TheGamer Writes "One of the first things your battle-obsessed rival Nemona says to you is that she’s going to use what essentially amounts to her ‘noob team’ to face you. You’re a new trainer, after all, so it’s only fair. As it happened, my Fuecoco could have taken out her Sprigatito even if it was 12 levels higher, but that’s her fault for picking the starter weak to mine."

[got_dam]

I agree, but I hate that I agree. I usually don't like level scaling. I enjoy wandering into a place I shouldn't be and finding out by getting absolutely rolled. But as the article points out, pokemon has these elite gym leaders that put up about as much fight as the Youngster in the next town.

[Kados]

I like being able to grind early and toss everything easy. Just add a way to disable exp share, and increase the number of Pokemon that trainers and gym leaders have. It is odd seeing trainers after the 3rd gym that still only have 1 Pokemon. Make it scale 1:1 with gym areas. Trainers in the zone around the second gym have 2 Pokemon, 3rd area is 3, and so on. Have it stop at 5, except for Ace Trainers, who should all have 6. Gym leaders and the Elite Four should also all have 6. Maybe have trainers after the 5th gym also start occasionally (~1/5) having RGB Pokemon.

[--Onilink--]

I would honestly hate if they disabled xp share, the feature itself is incredibly convenient, it just needs the rest of the game design to scale to it.
For me, Pokemon really needs some kind of Casual vs Experienced mode given the contrasting levels of age and experience in their market. Even something like forcing you to use the same # of pokemon as your opponent in battle would make for a really interesting change to the battle dynamics

[Kados]

I just mean having an option to disable it like in some older Pokemon games. It used to be an inventory item that you could turn on or off.

[ABizzel1]

@Kados

It helps makes raising Pokemon significantly easier so that you don't have to be stuck with your starter team for the entire game. So while Exp share alongside the EX Candy makes leveling up WAY TOO EASY, the reason is to try out various Pokemon.

The thing is there should be a challenge mode like Black and White that simply lets Gym Leaders, Major Trainers (Rivals), and Elite 4 / Champion have special abilities, held items, and have teams with Levels that scale to be equal to the players highest level Pokemon.

[anast]

It's shame how long this franchise has been out and people can't seem to make a good game of it.

[-Foxtrot]

The issue is people aren't given a chance as it's always Game Freak or someone close to them

They need to branch out.

[gold_drake]

yea i agree.

i think gamefreak as dev team just isnt up for it. they made great 2d pkmn games, but as soon as they hit 3d, decades after everyone else, their games just suffered tremendously.

the sad part is that they still sell like hotcakes.

[gold_drake]

i think the issue is the same pkmn Arceus had. its open world-ish and thateans you're going to explore and fight. and ur most likely level up quite a bunch while doing so.