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How hard has the game been for you so far?
After how disappointed people were by XY's (lack of) difficulty, there have been several people hoping that these games would be harder, like many saw the original Ruby and Sapphire.
At this point i'm only two badges in, and I have had the Exp. Share off the whole time, but i'm still having my levels rather high. On the route after Slateport (Route 110), i've been finding myself having to go back to the Pokémon Center a lot, which has been tough to deal with. But I beat Brawly without taking a single point of damage, granted I had a Flying-type and a Ralts but still. How about you? How has the game been to you so far? Better than XY (as in harder)? Worse than XY? How is it? Discuss. |
I havent got hold of oras yet, still waiting for release over here, but i dont think the originals were particularly hard, ive been playing it on an emulator on my phine and got to the 7th gym with my highest pokemon being lvl35 vibrava
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I'm at the second gym in Dewford and it's been pretty easy so far. I turned the exp. share off (I only used it when I recieved my lvl 5 beldum to catch up). I haven't had anything faint. However, the game is defenitely longer I think than X/Y.
Edit: route 106 caught me. I was a little under leveled with a good amount of trainer battles. I lost 2 pokes (or fainted) and 2 wounded. |
NOt hard becaus have not played ha J/K. Dont care much just if its long like VERSION X/Y Its good! :D
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I haven't gotten my copy of ORAS yet (it just left Tokyo, holy...)
Based on the walkthroughs I've seen so far... The early part of the game seems quite easy, but the end isn't (catching the primals especially!). I'm looking forward to finding out myself. In fact, I think the game would be a LOT harder if you didn't have the shiny beldum on your team. |
Meh I'm using the Exp. Share because I actually have a full team quite early on. That said, it's been pretty easy, when I want a challenge I usually do like a Nuzlocke or something.
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I'd say it's so-so at the moment. I haven't been steamrolling everything like I did in X, and I've even had a few Pokemon get knocked out (not more than one per battle, though). I've kept the EXP Share mostly off (have it turned on now to help catch up two newer, lower leveled Pokemon) and haven't used the Shiny Beldum, so that may be a contributing factor, too.
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It hasnt been hard but its not as easy as x and y. But I have had the exp share on cause laziness.
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I know I haven't played the games yet (obviously) but from what I've heard it's a bit harder to level up compared to X & Y, likely because not many Pokemon found in Hoenn during the story give out good chunks of EXP. I heard some players ended up a bit overleveled at some points but at others found themselves very close to the trainers and wild Pokemon, even with the Exp. Share on.
But then again, knowing how many veteran players lurk around this forum, I imagine a lot won't even try to use the Exp. Share for the sake of wanting a challenge. |
Well, for me, it's more difficult than X and Y. Mostly because I've had the EXP. Share turned off the whole time, and I had 5 out of the 6 desired team members on my team before I challenged Brawly, so trying to distribute the experience points evenly throughout my team without using the EXP. Share can be a little hard sometimes. Even harder now that I finally have my final desired team member. But you know what? I like this challenge, it's more fun for me than my really easy playthrough of Pokemon Y.
Even without the EXP. Share, I can still defeat the Gym Leaders, and I will become champion of Hoenn! (By the way, not that it really has to do with anyone, but I just beat Flannery! :) ) |
I have to say that the early part of the game is quite simple, but thats how it was back in the originals, so no harm done. It's also getting progressivly harder. In X & Y I would go through gyms without having to switch Pokemon. In AS (I still haven't started OR) I'm loosing atleast 2-3 Pokemon during each match with a Gym Leader, I can only imagine what the Elite 4 will be like since it's a linear thing
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It's harder. Still pretty easy but definetly harder that XY. I was surprised when some low level trainer used a full restore :O
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As I mentioned, i'm not using the shiny Beldum, as I feel that's kinda dirty. And I beat Flannery a little while ago, and some of the trainers in the desert have been proving to be annoying, but mostly because i'm attempting to switch train a Trapinch that I caught (why is every single trainer using a stupid Sandslash?!). So at the moment i'd say it's harder than my first play of X was, definitely, although in that I used the Exp. Share for most of the game while here I haven't touched it once.
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So far, I am doing fairly well. I have a team that consists mostly of birds, so I have to actually double back to Dewford for a Makuhita to take care of Watson.
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Seriously, it can't be too hard with both Exp. Share and DexNav giving away egg moves, high levels, HAs and high IVs like candy.
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The Game has been a breeze so far(Maby bacause I overpowered my pokemon a LOT and the 3rd gym) :)
I used to have trouble at Normans(dads) gym in the originals but it was a breeze. :) The only trouble I had was at Winona's gym. her altaria used cotten Guard twice and then would not stop using Roost! When she had full hp she'd attack(the Roost to full hp then attack, then reach to full ah you get it) But i got her :D |
Rival battle on route 110 actually pushed me to my limits.
Combusken was punishing my team of normal, bug, grass guys. I've been nuzlocking, my only loss so far was my Electrike to an arena trapping Trapinch. |
Just beat the E4 the first time. The only time I blacked out was in the underwater cave vs Archie. And thats cuz poisoning by wild Golbats... i was 1hp away from being perfect the whole game. No exp share. I DID take advantage of the shiny beldum however. But for the most part Swampert (esp mega) took care of business. With new mechanics and moves, the game was significantly easier than the original. A tad bit more difficult than xy, but not by much :/
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It was pretty much a breeze for me.
Just trying to collect all my possible Mega Stones now; Then off to the version exclusive Legendaries. |
its easy but harder than x and y im almost done with the game i spent most of my time playing it while waiting for my copy of smash bros to come in the mail.
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Yea, once you get the gym badge from Petalburg, it starts getting incredibly difficult (That Gym was difficult on its own). The game has done better than what X & Y did, even though you have your Exp Share on, it's still extremely easy to find Pokemon in your level range or higher, unlike X & Y where the only place really with one's in your level would be at Victory Road or Pokemon Forest.
Lets not even talk about the final fight with Archie, his friggen Mega Sharpedo did me in almost. Surprised my Mightyena beat it. |
I don't have the game, but, considering what the DexNav does, it would be wise to add a rule to challenges forbidding its use like with the Exp. Share.
To people doing Nuzlockes: let's avoid posting in this thread, shall we? Since Nuzlocking doesn't reflect the game's real difficulty. I'm expecting the E4 second wave to be difficult because of the new Megas. |
I'm not one of those who takes issue with a game being "easy," but it's kind of hilarious how OP I've been this whole time, though it is pretty much all my own doing, as I keep Exp. Share on, plus I Amie'd my team as soon as I could and I spend an inordinate amount of time dawdling in each route a lot longer than I have any business doing in the first pass through (Find all the things!). Two of my teammates were brought over as Lv. 1 hatchlings from Y but with all the Exp. it's a bit hard to keep them below the obedience threshold. But I just beat Flannery with all my 'mons over 40 so yeah... I certainly don't need all of them all the time. I feel like a force of nature, haha. I guess I'll find out about this steep difficulty increase soon enough since Petalburg's next.
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Right now I am just ev training before I go to meteor falls. So, turning off exp share and switching off shift in battle will make it a bit more challenging?
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I found the game exceptionally easy, but that's partly down to knowing where most things are any what to do and all that. I pretty much solo'd the whole game with Mudkip/Swampert and fought as few trainers as possible as I was just trying to beat the game as quickly as possible. Because of that I died once to May and her pesky Mega Draining Grovyle, and I also weirdly died 4 times to the same trainer in Brawley's gym who literally (and I mean literally) crit with every single attack.
One thing that makes these games much easier than the originals is not only the Exp Share (which I had turned off for most of the game anyway to save time so that the HM slaves didn't have to evolve), but also the new TM Mechanics. I could basically teach anyone anything without worry that it might come back to bite me on the proverbial later on. I was also able to teach Marshtomp protect for one fight in the game, and that was with Norman and his Slakings, and after that was done, I immediately taught Surf over it and it was done. One moment in the game that really made me laugh was accidentally sweeping Winona's team with Castform. I initially sent him out to set up the Rain for Mega Swampert, but I thought I'd give Swellow one Weather Ball to soften it up. OHKO. Next was Altaria. Hail + Weather Ball, OHKO. Then Skarmory gets OHKO'd to a crit. Only Pelliper managed to survive a hit and he went down next turn anyway. Castform OP. |
One thing I dislike is how much of a pain in the neck it is to soft reset for Latios and Groudon. (ΩR)
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I didn't think this game was hard. I've beaten it, and done the Elite Four rematch.
I played through the game with the Exp Share, and I went through it with three Pokemon - Gardevoir, Swampert, and Armaldo. The only time I "blacked-out" was that fight with May below Mauville. My Ralts hadn't evolved, and my Marshtomp wasn't high enough level to tank its Grass-type attacks, so I essentially couldn't do anything against it. But, then, I trained Ralts up like two levels, it evolved, and then I easily beat her. Norman's Slaking was kind of tough, but Marshtomp was able to tank his attacks, so I could heal on his off turns. Plus, in the middle of the fight, he learned Protect, so it turned out to not be that bad. Steven's Mega Metagross was also pretty strong (it could take out both Gardevoir and Armaldo in one hit), and it could almost take out Mega Swampert, but I could just barely take his attacks, so I could beat him. Apart from that, the game was extremely easy. Every single one of Brawley's, Wattson's, Winona's, Tate and Liza's, Sydney's, and Drake's Pokemon went down in one hit. Roxanne, Flannery, Wallace, and Phoebe each had one Pokemon that required a second hit. |
It's easier than XY so far. My team is like 7 levels over the last gym leader. Sneak Pokemon with bumped up levels and that one ace trainer with the Milotic were the only challenging enemies lol.
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FINALLY received my copies of the game... I'll post my thoughts after the first round of E4 - which will probably take awhile because I want to take my time.
Anyway, I believe the games are "easier than the originals" for many people because perhaps, the originals weren't that difficult to begin with. Maybe the age factor was a major contributor? I remember first playing the game and struggled quite a lot throughout the journey, but that was also a time when I used a master ball on a seedot. Still, with the Gen VI mechanics introduced, it might very well be easier than the original games. |
I feel like EXP share might have been fixed a bit somehow? idk I wasn't feeling super overleveled for most of the game, even though I was dicking around catching Pokémon and rematching and everything. I mean, it might have felt a little harder because I haven't had much for type advantages really? but until like, Flannery, I was pretty much about where I would have been when I play Emerald. but also I think the leaders have been lower-levelled... but then when I crossed over to the Fortree side I started struggling a little (as in not two-shotting things even with type advantage).
So I dunno, it's def harder than XY, especially if you don't take the time to seek out all training possibilities and don't grind much. But it's not as hard as the originals I don't think. /ramble over |
I've found this game way too easy so far. I've currently just finished beating Wallace and my team of 6 Pokemon are in late 50's. Levels 57-59 to be exact and I've only battled all the trainers without leaving any behind. The only challenge I have found so far was trying to catch Groudon with a Pokeball (playing OR). His catch rate is 5 if I'm not mistaken.
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In my opinion, it isn't hard, but it isn't easy either.
Idk, maybe its just me, but I don't find myself breezing through the game like I did in XY. And yes, I have the EXP share on but I am not over leveled at all. Idk, I say its in-between easy and difficult. But thats for me. |
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Still easy. I don't mind.
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Since I've beat the main game (currently working on Delta Episode). I have to say that the game was mildly difficult. I didn't steamroll over gyms or criminal bosses, they actually challenged me, even May somewhat gave me a challenge in the early-middle parts of the game. Most difficult fight I had in the game was when I was fighting Archie for the final time before catching Kyogre, his Sharpedo Mega-Evolved and 1HKOed all of my Pokemon and my Mightyena beat it ever so slightly. In my opinion, it's visibly harder than X & Y (and this is with the EXP Share on), however it's not as difficult as the original.
I would highly recommend just like in the original R/S/E to level your team into the 70s+ area, because the Elite 4 has Pokemon that can easily steamroll you, especially Drake's team as it has Dragon Types and his Dragon Rush attack can OHKO you if you're in the 40-60s level area. The only reason that I beat the Elite 4+Steven was because I had a Level 85 Groudon from my Original Ruby, if I had not had him, I would have been in big trouble. However, that is not to say that he steamrolled them, I did almost loose him a few times. |
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So far it seems to be fairly comparable to the original. That said, I was just "blacked out" for the first time in several years. Perhaps since the 4th generation? I'm only an hour in, but my Poochyena and then Torchic were rolledout by a Maril... Just didnt have any moves that could do significant damage to it bacause of the Fairy typing...
Then I was searching in the grass and ended up sneaking up an a level 17 Tailow with very high attack. That's a high level for such a early route, route 116. It's wing attack almost took down my level 13 Poochyena in training. I'm enjoying the game so far |
Personally, I didn't really make an effort to fight too many trainers, but I ended up fighting enough to keep me in line with the bosses, usually within a level or two.
Obviously, if you fought every trainer, you'd get overleveled (especially if you were using Exp Share like me), but I didn't do that. Actually, much like the original RSE, I pretty much did no optional fights between Fortree and Victory Road. But there was still enough experience to get my team to level 50 for Sidney. By Steven, they'd grown to 54 or so. |
Finished the game and my team was right around the same levels as the Elite Four by the time everything was said and done. EXP Share was off most of the time and I did most of the battles for the first half of the game but I did avoid some of them on the longer Routes. The game ended up being slightly harder than X and Y; it was nice to actually be able to have somewhat of a challenge with the Elite Four.
Delta Episode, or at least the last two battles of it, were laughably easy, though. |
My Pokemon are in mid-high 40s after beating Wallace. Turned off EXP Share as soon as I got it.
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Meh, I've already added the rules to this playthrough. Exp. Share off, Battle Mode Set, and no Poke-Amie whatsoever 'til the first Hall of Fame entry. Also, no using the Beldum. That's cheating in a lot of ways. :v Still in Rustboro so far, my current party just reached lv 10 (training 3 more other than my starter), so it's still pretty decent progress. Now, I hope that without me using the Poke-Amie this time, there's a challenge. I'll enjoy blacking out a lot lol |
I've only gotten just past Slateport city and so far it's been easier than I remember. But that could also be because I was 10 then and 21 now. I usually had a lot of trouble with the rival battle on the way to mauville and with Wattson so we'll see how that goes before I can start deciding for sure.
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Definitely harder than X and Y imo. I've just beat Flannery and moved into the desert. I must say,Watson and Flannery proved quite a challenge. I beat them both first go, however having a team of Grovyle, Swellow and Kirlia meant I had very long battles with both of them, as I just had to whittle down there HP. Just caught a Trapinch which should help me take care of my inability to deal with fire, electric and steel types.
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I'm using exp.share cause I need a good team but It's pretty easy.
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Well, It's really easy but hardest than X Y. I hate this recent type of Exp. Share
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Too easy. Way over-leveled. And I don't want to skip trainers/turn off EXP. Share because I added a Feebas/now Milotic to my party who's under half the level of the rest of my team and I've been spoiled.
There is also the part of knowing this game inside and out. I'm curious to keep up with my sister's progress as she started in gen IV (that's weird to type lol). |
I'm closing in on the Pokemon League.
I brought a Milotic with me, I actually brought a whole team, but I haven't had to use much other than Milotic. I guess you could say the difficulty leaves something to be desired. It's a little harder than X/Y, but not by much. |
I'll agree in saying it was slightly harder than X & Y. I play without the game breaking item known as the EXP share and at times I found myself under leveled and going through a bit of a struggle which wasn't the case in X and Y. Also, Diantha is a joke compared to Steven. He's the first champion I've even come close to losing against since Cynthia in Platinum.
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Its slightly harder than X & Y but the AI trainers are stilll really really weak compared to Gen 1 & 2. And Team Aqua/Magma are just way too easy with their pokemon rosters and occasionally dumb choices made in battles. I still feel Colosseum was harder in comparison.
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That aside, i've reached the league, and still haven't touched the Exp. Share or used a single item in battle. I haven't battled them yet but my team is Level 48 across the board. |
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I'm taking my own time for the games. Now at Petalburg Woods. Pretty darn easy so far... Though I trained all of my pokemon to Lv8 before fighting May. It has become a habit and I've been doing it for all games. |
Despite the fact that I blatantly refuse to use the EXP share system, I am actually doing rather well in the game, and have yet to run into any significant problems.
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The game hasn't been hard for me yet. My only issue is that I always over-level my team so as of right now my Gardevoir (traded over my Ralts from X) and the shiny Metagross will not obey me since I only have 3 badges and they are currently at level 49 & 48. (FYI, I have Exp. Share on so they continue to level up.)
It's not making the game difficult just annoying since I can't use them to battle. Can't blame anyone but myself for that! Overall, the game has been fairly easy. |
The game was hard in terms of navigation, because there times I forgot where to go or who to talk to before I advance to the next city. But in terms of gym leaders and trainers, they are extremely easy to beat, much easier than in RSE. I remember I had to face Roxanne several times until I actually beat her, but it turned out that I was able to defeat her the first time. Same with Brawly and Wattson. I'm not in Lavaridge yet, but will see how Flannery does.
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The game was pretty easy for me, only because I played Sapphire and Ruby so much when I was younger and I know the Hoenn region on the back of my head. This game was an awesome remake though and they did great on it.
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In my original run through of X I used my Speed Boost Torchic pretty much from the get go alongside Fennekin and Squirtle, two megas to choose from alongside Xerneus when it came to the final game felt really OP and just plainly over the top. I'm not sure whether I will be using the Beldum or not, I might just stick it into X and raise it up rather than use it in AS. I will definitely use it in Omega Ruby though since that will be my mess around game, I like to make up teams and use them. Apologies for going off topic, I will definitely post at the weekend when I finally have my games!! |
I'd say it's harder, but that it's much more down to how I'm playing.
In X&Y, I eventually went through with a team of 12. Here, I've only gotten the third badge today, and already have a team of about 15 Pokemon, with more I plan to add as well. That's spreading the exp around pretty well, but going with a standard team of 6 I would definitely be overlevelled (and RSE wasn't so hard imo either). SOme of my friends certainly were overlevelled, haha. Gym battles have been easy though, but that's just me playing the type advantage card. Marshtomp always breezes past Wattson, and a Beautifly with Gust was surprisingly very effective against Brawly... That reverse type battle guy though was not at all kind to me when I went up with a lower levelled team against his three level 20s with varied movepools. :V |
Just reached Mauville. I must say the games were harder than I expected. It's definitely more difficult than XY, and I would say quite comparable to the originals.
I had EXP share on and fought all trainers, but the level difference isn't huge at all. The maximum level gap was only about 3, which is just normal for me. The level gap decreased quite a lot after the second gym. Quite sad to see how easy the Granite Cave is, and the lack of Mr. Briney's boat animation throughout. Brawly is a LOT easier than in the originals. I took him down with no fuss, but I lost twice in the originals. May in Route 110 was a pain in the butt. |
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At the moment my team is around or a bit above the levels of opponents, but when I switch back to other Pokemon they've thus far dipped back below opponent levels. E.g. hit 19/20s with some Pokemon while training up my Aron/Sableye via EXP Share in the routes around Mauville against the trainers there, then went back to my level 17/18 Marshtomp for the Gym. |
So I beat the game today, and just finished the Delta Episode. Of the Elite Four, they weren't that tough, but Phoebe was rather annoying. I almost beat the Champion, Steven, without losing anyone or even using any healing items, despite my entire team being Level 52 upon reaching him, but I didn't because my Flygon missed with Draco Meteor against his Armaldo, and X-Scissor was a 2HKO. I burned his Mega Metagross with my Mega Swampert's Scald, and he missed with Giga Impact, so I guess that was an equal payoff.
With the final battle against Zinnia in the Delta episode, I did use Mega Rayquaza against her Goodra, and Magnezone slammed her Tyrantrum with Flash Cannon, but the rest of her team were all narrowly short of OHKOs but I still beat her without too much issue. |
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I not only turned EXP Share off, but disabled switching (set mode?). Furthermore, I didn't allow myself to use items at all. The game itself wasn't very difficult (experience with RSE I think played a bigger role than any significant changes over the years), but the E4 put me to the test without being able to revive. I barely squeaked out of there, under-leveled but happy.
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ORAS has been way too easy... I've ended up turning Exp Share off because my Pokémon are all levels 55-57 and I only just finished Mt. Pyre, where Team Aqua was at like... mid-30s LOL... I've had to box a couple of my Pokémon because they were just leveling up too fast, so now half of my team is my actual team and the other half are random catches I'm trying to evolve for Dex data.
They could have easily bumped up everyone's levels, made the Exp Share work like it did prior to Gen VI, and left out all the hand-holding with Brendan/May and Wally traveling with you, easily... But maybe it's just because I've been so addicted to DexNav that my grinding has tripled LOL. |
All I'm getting from these posts is to not abuse the EXP Share or else you'll end up ridiculously over powered. Fairly simple to turn it off and turn it back on only when you want to do some grinding and turn if off before it gets out of hand.
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It was more of a challenge and an adventure in RSE, that section. You even had more freedom; if you didn't want to take on the Gym first you could try to make your way through the cave in the Dark. Meanwhile, beating the Gym first was a reward - you could use Flash to make it more bearable, but either way you still had to go through a cave to get to your goal. Meanwhile in ORAS, a short 20-second walk tops is all you need to get to Steven. Forcing the order not only removes the choice, but imo makes it more boring. We all hate Flash caves, but sometimes the annoying bits are what makes it more fun in the end. Quote:
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I get ORAS tomorrow at a midnight release, but ive been playing emerald to refresh the region. On emerald my fairly misfit team is currently on victory road and are as follows:
Altairia lvl 38 Electrode lvl 40 Lairon lvl 36 Vibrava lvl 41 Gardevoir lvl 41 Swampert lvl 40 On OR i will be using treeko but i might form this team on AS and see how that goes, and then i can get a more accurate idea of relative difficulty. I will be playing both versions without exp share |
I think the level curve is great. Better than X/Y IMO. (The AI still sucks, but whatever) I think it's mostly because not many Hoenn Pokemon yield a ton of EXP.
I've had the EXP Share off the whole time. The beginning of the game was fairly easy, as it's always been. It spiked up quite a bit for me as I was going through the Slateport/Mauville gauntlet since my team was still being developed. Since I have my battle set to "Set" mode, I often found myself switching out more, making more of my Pokemon gain the full EXP (due to the new mechanic, which is a great feature to take advantage of sometimes. I just want my Pokemon to earn their experience) After that, the game felt fairly normal. I obtained my 4th and 5th badge, and explored everywhere I can, denying my rivals convenient travel offers, and rather just take a look at all the nice, nostalgic scenery. I'm currently in Fortree, and my team of six is level 34-36. Half my team was found with the DexNav, which is such a cool feature to use. (Rock Head Aron + Head Smash might sound OP, but hey, I'm having fun using it! And at least it's at my opponent's level) |
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Thats because they lowered the level of the first few gym leaders teams. As I'm sure you have realized by now it gets harder I found Drake a bit challenging tbh but other than that, they still weren't that hard. But then again R/S/E weren't that hard either. |
The difficulty is higher than Pokemon XY, yes. But not that hard. I found Gen IV to be quite harder, tbh.
Only hard thing is to get my Pokemon's level up to par with the rest of my team, because the EXP Share just boosted their levels way high, lol.. For example, my Swablu is level 27 while my Swampert and Metang is like 36-37 T^T |
The actual story/trainers have been REALLY easy. The only thing I've found hard is the training. There's not many good training spots. Not HGSS hard, but it's still hard.
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It's actually been quite easy for me so far. This is the first time, so far, that I havn't lost a battle yet, and I just started on Victory Road last night.
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Agreeing with most of everyone here; yes, I find the game to be easier than X&Y and found even R/S/E and Gen IV games to be harder than ORAS itself.
Due to Exp Share, my Pokemon are somehow overleveled at this point (iirc my Blaziken was around level 45 when we beat Winona three days ago). Well, I have yet to complete the game (still around Magma's HQ at this point) so let's see how I will manage to take care the rest of the game soon (till at least Delta Episode) |
Exp share makes you way too over leveled. I turned it off even then I leved up nicely kept my team the same levels as the gym leaders easy time. That way I had fun enjoying the battles. Yeah it might seem easier, but It's still by far one of the best Pokemon games on the 3ds.
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I have to say Ruby is a lot harder than XY even with XP share. Pokemon in the wild are low level. And the trainer are a bit stronger. My pokemon, with XP share are just at the level of the gym I am at. I would have a ton of trouble if I hadn't use XP Share this time. I haven't been sent back to the pokemon center yet, but the gym leaders have done a number on my team. Flannery knocking out half my team with her Torkoal.
I don't see how EXP Share over levels pokemon. Mine never are over leveled. My pokemon are currently 33 to 36 and heading to 6th gym. My Latios is at Lv 30 or 31. And I have defeated every trainer that you can battle. |
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And not to mention now you can get to rematch trainers in the AreaNav Trainer feature, which I use for some level grinding and money too. xD |
Area nav is like just so cool, I love how you can fly to any routes or cities. It makes things easier when getting around.
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I find it far too easy i dont have to grind or anything the original were much harder i wish the would add a setting to make it more difficult or atleast if they ever make an emerald remake make that much much much harder.
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I've just completed the game. My levels were pretty identical to the champion's. It was okay I guess... Nowhere as easy as XY, but certainly not excessively difficult. Metagross did miss a giga impact so I guess I was REALLY lucky.
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The game hasn't been that hard, but honestly this playthrough I wasn't really looking for a challenge. I knew that if I expected the games to challenge me, I would be disappointed because regardless of how hard Gamefreak made it (because they didn't include a Hard Mode), it would still be pretty easy. I did try to challenge myself by turning off the EXP share at certain points, which resulted in some of my Pokemon such as Swablu and Feebas being severely underleveled, but the game was still relatively easy. I'm not really disappointed, since I did really enjoy the game.
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These games are definitely easier than I had hoped for. I don't know if it's because they made it easier than the originals or because I was just a kid when I originally played Sapphire, but I've easily swept every gym leader yet... ...except for Tate and Liza. Since X/Y, I've sorta followed the anime by bringing the same number of pokemon as the gym leader. So obviously, when I went up against them, not only was I surprisingly under leveled (they buffed them up by three levels!), but I only had two pokemon with me. They demolished me within a minute. I'm currently grinding (something I didn't imagine myself doing before the Pokemon League) to level 47, so wish me luck on my second go. |
I am really enjoying Omega Ruby :) having it only come out on Friday in Europe, i have only played a little (realllly don't want to whizz through it too quick) not using Exp. Share on purpose (the purpose being to keep the game at a decent difficulty)
I must say, i am over 6 hours into the game, and i have just got to Rustboro city... (no badges yet or anything!) So i reckon this has to be a new record for me) believe me, i have spent more than half of that play time using the DexNav... |
Reasonably easy. :^D
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But I'm still enjoying it. :P At least it isn't as easy as X/Y. xD |
Not using Exp. Share, and I'm satisfied with the difficulty thus far, though I am using some relatively weak monsters in my team anyway. I've had a few faints, maybe even a lot by some accounts, and can't help but restrict myself to using items while progressing through a new route instead of running all the way back to the last Centre every time something happens. Any Pokemon game is technically very easy due to the Centres, but I'm playing like I feel it ought to be played and it's not trivial. In fact, with the Nav's search system I've been spending a lot of time on routes looking for monsters with cool moves or trying to take on the higher-levelled ones, and just generally getting engrossed somewhat in the whole 'Pokemon adventure' thing, and it has most often worn my team down.
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Turn off Exp Share
Change battle style to "Set" There. Now the game is actually much more interesting and reasonably challenging. "Switch" style that everyone uses breaks the game as much as EXP Share does, but since everyone uses it all the time they don't notice it. I've never looked back after accustoming to "Set". |
I've been OHKOing or 2HKOing most things throughout the game, which is about what I expected. I never come into Pokemon games anticipating a challenge and have grown to accept the fact that it just.. isn't difficult for my playstyle. Maybe if I trained more Pokemon outside the usual party of 4-6 it would be a bit harder but alas, I do not.
Only time I even suffered remotely was against the Champion when he took out two (or three?) of my five Pokemon but even that wasn't anything to really panic about, heh. And my Exp. Share has been off the time entire time as well. It doesn't bother me personally. |
I haven't played X or Y, but ORAS haven't posed any real difficulties. I remember the original story line still, so I know pretty much where to go
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Exp. Share always off, battle style Set. My trainer can't read the future! lol Still pretty easy though -- haven't whited out once yet. s: |
I've decided to play the game using various restrictions, see below which:
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So, I'm now at the 8th gym, my team consists of: Absol Mightyena Nuzleaf Crawdaunt Sharpedo Skarmory (HM Slave) I've just caught Groudon, it took me three hours (not even kidding) because it one shotted almost my entire team with Lava Plume, and I was only allowed to use Poké Balls (what I had on me at the time). It was hard, but my Crawdaunt and Sharpedo managed to outlive his Lava Plume and were able to damage him enough to trigger a Rest. During that time I was able to lower his HP enough to catch him (eventually). It took me at least a dozen resets, but I finally have him. So, back to the question: Is it hard? I'd say, yes, not having held items, combat potions and the sorts, it makes the game harder. Not to mention during the levels just before evolution (25 / 40) my Pokémon are relatively weak. My Nuzleaf, who's lvl 39, faints almost instantly as soon as an opposing Pokémon so much as glares in his general direction. Right now I do have a full team, but before the 6th gym, I ran with just two Mightyenas and two Nuzleafs due to lack of Dark Types. It was a lot harder back then, because now I have more moves for various situations. Is it hard? Yes, using my restrictions it gets pretty challenging at times. I've never wiped this often since Pokémon Yellow (back when I didn't even understand English). |
So far it's been rather challenging, but that's only because every time I've faced a gym leader, I haven't had one Pokemon with a super-effective move against the gym's type. However, I, quite hilariously, beat Wattson on my first try with Grovyle and Aron, which, as you may infer, didn't have very good moves for dealing with Magnemites. xD;
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Moderately difficult, not too threatening but then again not too easy. I've kept the Exp. Share off and prevented over levelling as much as possible, I've found myself to be pretty much level with all of the Gym Leaders so far. I've found Flannery and Norman somewhat of a challenge, but the games are generally tougher than X/Y are IMO.
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Satisfyingly challenging, for sure. They've definitely turned up the difficulty since X/Y (and I think they changed the exp. yield formula to what it was before Gen 5, but I could be wrong).
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Even though i've still only played Omega Ruby once so far, I do await to see how it will go when I inevitably start to do challenges on it, most of which will more than likely be without the Exp. Share and on Set mode (except Wedlockes) like I have with XY. Those have thrown me some doozies of trainers, but here I felt like some of them weren't as powerful as some i've fought in XY.
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The only hard part of the game for me so far - asides catching Latios, which is making me dread the post-game Legendaries - has been getting my Latias up to speed with the rest of my team. She was ten levels behind everyone else when I got her, and it's taking forever to get her caught up, especially since half my team get boosted EXP. I should really turn the EXP share off, but that won't make the game hard, just time-consuming.
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I always set the challenge to "set" in every game, so I'm kinda used to it. I think ORAS is harder than XY, as many people have said in this thread, but I don't think it's a particularly hard game in the series or anything. Honestly, I like this difficulty. I don't really see th eneed for Pokemon to be much harder than this. |
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I wasn't expecting this game to be challenging really, and I'm not disappointed by it. If anything, I'm actually quite glad I level up so quickly - it means I can take my time and enjoy the game, and don't have to spend hours grinding, which I don't really have the time for at the moment. |
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Well I never turned on the exp share until the delta episode and I was playing with set mode since the beginning. My pokemon's levels were always around the same as the the gym leaders till the 3rd gym after that my pokémon levels were a few levels higher than the gym leaders. I was dissapointed in the levels of wally's pokémon. I mean his highest level pokémon was lvl 48 while the first elite 4 lowest was lvl 50 and you fight them right after it. In the originals my highest lvl pokémon was like lvl 50 when I reached the elite 4 and now my lowest was lvl 52.
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They're definitely harder than XY, but only a little.
I've never been too bothered by this, however. I never understood why people dislike the difficulty of Pokémon, as the series has always been easy. Then again I take issue with people complaining about easy games in general. Games are made for everyone, not yourself. |
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