I'm doing this just to see the overall thought on how this game was on the difficulty scale. Now pay attention to this:


5 - Overly difficult, I prefer not to have to fight the same gym leader repeatedly

0 - Just right!

-5 - Kirby's Epic Yarn difficult, enemies just died from me staring into their tumor-ridden souls.


(I personally love Kirby's Epic Yarn, so I'm not bashing it, but it wasn't super hard, except for a couple of treasures.)

Now I personally voted 0, because I had difficulty in some parts, and simplicity in others.

I had trouble fighting Gym Leaders up until like, Badge 5, then proceeded to kill everything until the E4, where I had a bit of difficulty.

Personally I would have preferred the difficulty kick up opposite of that, have it a bit easy from badges like, 1-3/1-4, then proceed to have difficulty from then on.

I'm not sure where I'd vote. After Lenora, the gym leaders got laughably easy. Then once I got to the northeast area of the region after beating the Elites and Ghetsis, all the trainers there skyrocketed some 15-20 levels above my team. Things got ugly after that. lol

I guess I'd put +1. That level spike did hamper my progress harder than any one trainer did. x_x

+3 for effort required in level-grinding and such. Otherwise most of it was steadily difficult and easy.

Crap I voted before reading the thread

So yeah I said -5 but I'd actually say -1

The fact that I completed the main storyline 4 times within 2 weeks of release says something about the difficulty for me. -5.

It wasn't too hard. Especially when you double-trade your National-Dex crew and rape Unova with your best set-up. -2.

-3 I had no challenge at all beating all of the major trainers including the champion.

The only one in the entire game that I lost to was Ghetis.

I'd have to rate it a 3. Within a few days I got stuck rather early in the game.

-4. I only ever got stuck in victory road.
Honestly, I was pretty dissappointed. HG/SS were more challenging and fun and they were just redone versions of something I've already played.

While they were more challenging than any other main series Pokémon game, they still weren't challenging enough. Yes, I did get KO'd a few times, but not enough and I'd easily push my way through second time. -1

So far we're leaning decently towards unimpressedness!

Let's see where future votes take us.

-5 put down 5 on the poll by mistake.

I chose 3. Lenora, Elesa and Iris wren't at all easy. I was defeated by the fourth gym leader and was nearly defeated by the other two. N was also very hard to beat and Ghetsis was destructive. I lost against him. The Elite Four was also too hard (the first time). I haven't challenged it again and faced Alder yet. Even the trainers of the eastern part of Unova and those in the stadiums proved to be challenging. Of course, I can't forget Cynthia who demolished me twice.
The game was definitely challenging, but not completely difficult. It had many easy parts.

+2 for me. A couple gym leaders were difficult to defeat, and the Elite 4 were a good challenge for my team. However, the sudden increase in the levels of trained Pokémon was a very unexpected turn, so I faced a lot of difficulty beating the trainers (in the beginning at least). I've heard that the battles with Cynthia/Morimoto and the Elite 4 redux are quite hard too, so I definitely think it's enough of a challenge for me.

-2,dat watchog

3.
I lost to Chili, Burgh and Ghetsis, and had some decent trouble on Elesa. Does catching every Unova pokemon count? If not, then I shall say 1. (I put 3 on the poll thingy)

I would have to say +1 because I had to keep attempting to beat the E4 over 7 times.

For me I would have to give the game in all general a -3 for me.

After I lost to the first gym leader once it was pretty much my only time I lost to a gym leader. It was close at times but having never to lose was getting a bit to easy.

Victory Road wasn't as challenging and long as it use to be where you just want to get out as soon as possible not saying it was easy to get through just bare-able to not get annoyed or frustrated over it.

The Elite Four were decent when first battling them but I had no troubles with them that was to much for me. They are pretty challenging afterwards when they boost up to Lv. 70 and up even for my Lv. 100 at times.

N's battle wasn't all that hard but the main reason it's at -3 is because how challenging Ghetsis was for me. He had pokemon that frustrated me and made me go down and do the whole battle over again plenty. I got lucky with a lot of critical hits out of nowhere for my team.

As for afterwards when you beat the game, the legendaries are just way to easy to catch also my main problem with them is that they don't have the look that makes them legendary. The previous generations had legendaries had that feel that you know their legendaries and their different from the normal pokemon, this generations blend in to much with the normal ones and you feel like you could catch another.

In all though the game was much fun and I enjoyed it and look forward to the next game they put out.

I'd have to give it a +1. Lenora was just plain difficult and Elesa's Emolgas were annoying. As hard as Ghetsis was, I was still able to beat him in one try. But Lenora beat me so many times that I was broke by the time I defeated her.

i started of with the pokemon i had from my last game.{how did i do it give them to a friend who beat the game get 6 pokemon and trade}

2. The huge level jump was hard, ghetsis has an AR to get a level 54 hydreigon, and

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Originally Posted by Swampertross Lenora beat me so many times that I was broke by the time I defeated her.

I'd say it was a -1. It wasn't too much more difficult than the previous main series games for me.