What is your thought on the difficult of all the pokemon versions thus far?

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    Hi love to know more of your views on the pokemon versions release thus far. Do you feel it is too easy? normal? Or difficult?

    I personally feel that they should release a difficulty selection for the subsequent versions. Think it would be more fun to make it more challenging.
     
    Easy to normal difficulty levels for all the previous generation games. I think Pokémon was hardest in gen 1 and 4 (largely cause of Cynthia) but even then it's normal difficulty at highest, and nothing I'd consider hard. If we're counting SwSh as well, then it ranks as the easiest main series game so far to me, since it is so much easier to level up.

    I really want to try challenge mode in BW2 sometime to see where I would rank that!
     
    It's generally varying degrees of easy, outside of a specific handful of battles. Being adequately leveled and having a decent team composition for the battle at hand is usually enough to get through the game. Usually if you want a challenge, you have to do a challenge run, get into competitive, and/or try the Battle Tower/Battle Frontier. That's fine by me though, I don't play Pokemon for difficulty, and I had my fill of competitive battling years ago.

    I wouldn't say no to difficulty options though. Doesn't hurt me to have the option there, and other people get something out of it.
     
    agreed with Nah above. pokemon games in general have always been different shades of easy with some exceptions, but i personally play pokemon to destress and unwind, and not necessarily for a challenge. if i want a challenge, i'd handicap myself, which is what most challenge runs are about anyway at the core of it for the sake of increased difficulty. i'm not a big challenge run person though, so i don't do that sorta stuff (for now, still considering doing a monotype run at some point but that's the most i'll do).
     
    honestly pokemon overall is an easy series. the major battles largely depend on your team and how you strategize and the games do a good job of giving you the resources you need to defeat those trainers that might be a problem for you, whether it's a trade for a pokemon with and advantage against the local gym or like...dead ass having diglett's cave right by the electric gym, for example. when you're limiting yourself though, that's where the difficulty comes in. pokemon is a great series because no two playthroughs are going to be the same and everyone's experience, while largely the same, still has its differences because of the teams we use along the way.
     
    It's mostly garbage. Has its good moments, like in certain Platinum or BW2 battles, or some of the Gen 7 Totem battles that were well designed, but other than that it's disappointing. It barely makes you think or strategize at all.

    Basically, you need to add at least a few rules on your own to prevent the in-game difficulty from becoming a total joke. I don't know, perhaps some players do enjoy destroying everything with zero effort but I honestly got so bored years ago that it made me lost interest in the franchise for a while. It was self-imposed rules, changing my battle style to set, and rediscovering the franchise thanks to rom hacks and fan games that did make me use my head, that revived my interest in Pokémon games.

    I think the difficulty is by far the worst and most poorly handled aspect in the franchise, you have the in-game that's a joke unless you nerf yourself with extra rules, and then you have things like Battle towers where you'll get completely destroyed unless you're willing to waste a lot of time on perfect IV breeding, EV training, and all that stuff to build a competitive team. There's just no fair middle ground, other than finding your own way to customize your experience for you.
     
    I've had entirely different experiences depending on my team composition. It's a huge deciding factor that can make certain battles much more difficult.

    I had a harder time against Candice than I did with Cynthia because of my team structure.
     
    Red/Blue/Yellow/Gold/Silver I found really hard, this was mostly because of not training more than 1 pokemon at a time. I know for.... I think one of the Gen 1 Games, my cousin hacked my game and used the cheat in Cinnabar to get the ability to get infinite rare candies.

    Crystal/FRLG/RSE I found were normal, not too hard and not too difficult.

    DPHGSS - I didn't struggle with at all. I think the most I struggled was against Purugly in Diamon I think. I didn't find the E4 or Gyms hard to beat. I didn't play Platinum fully, but I've played some of it, and I have found it easy. Just annoying to train pokemon. Honestly, I never understood people saying the E4 of Sinnoh was hard. I though Hoenn E4 was harder than Sinnoh.

    BWBW2 games again were about right, but maybe slightly easier than 4th Gen games because I knew more about it. I struggled most against Clay, but now I don't struggle at all.

    XYORAS - Didn't struggle at all and thought it was about the right difficult even with EXP Share. But I didn't fail at beating anything. This was also when I learned the difference between Special and Physical Def and Att, until then, I didn't pay attention at all.

    SM - Easy

    USUM - I really struggled with Necrozma fight because he countered all my pokemon I had. No matter what I went into, he would use an attack that 1 shot a pokemon, until I used a Lv 38 or so Zorua who tricked Necrozma with his Illusion ability and the two shot Necrozama with the Zorua using Foul Play because Necrozma kept using an attack that didn't affect Zorua because it illusion made it think it was something else.

    SwSh - Extremely Easy and boring if I am honest. It is the first game I thought that it was just too easy. Especially now when you can easily get Lv 70 Legendary Pokemon and Lv 20 Pokemon before you even get to the first gym.
     
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