Going to steal something one of my friends pointed out about one of the ORAS trailer videos real quickly here:

Brawly's apparently going to only have two Pokémon,* a level 17 Machop and a level 18 Makuhita. This is in contrast to the Ruby and Sapphire, where he had the more traditional setup of a level 16 Meditite, level 16 Machop and a head-and-shoulders level 19 Makuhita.

The average level of his teams then and now isn't too different, but as I understand Pokémon the fact that he only has two instead of three, and nothing significantly higher leveled than the others, should make a big difference in how the battles runs.

Thoughts?

* Okay, I don't know exactly where I got those numbers from. The image clearly suggests otherwise.

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Well, for one thing the second gym leaders of Kanto, Unova (BW), and Kalos have 2 Pokemon, so it's not that big of a change. Also, the teams could change between now and November. I would actually prefer Brawly having 2 Pokemon, considering my first 6 Pokemon games took place in Unova or Kalos. But if this is his final team, I would find it odd that they're giving him a Machop over a Pokemon native to Hoenn in Meditite.

EDIT: Crap, level 16? (I read Makuhita's level as level 18, even on the image, so don't judge me.) This means more than likely Brawly's Machop in this game will be a lower level than Roxanne's Nosepass in Emerald! If all the gym leader's Pokemon are lower levels, I am going to be disappointed. THIS BETTER BE EASY MODE!

XY was already was too easy I'm pretty annoyed.

Maybe there will be different modes in the game and you can choose from the beginning? I must agree that level 16 is waaaay too low of a level for the 2nd gym.

That's what I'm hoping. Although I think it's unlikely that they'd show a reference to difficulty modes as a passing shot in a trailer like this \: