>Specific trainers are coded to use competitive moves and

>>30046039
Yea, i noticed that. Not only was there a lot of nostalgic references and characters, but the difficulty was nostalgic. Can't just steamroll through all the content with one mon like last gen.

>>30046039
Not gonna lie was pretty surprised to see that a few times. That's fucking doubles battle with the 2 ocorirco spamming their ability was insane

>You have been challenged by Youngster Joey
>Youngster Joey send out Metapod!

gamefreak y u do dis...?
That wasn't how this was supposed to go...

>>30046168
You mean orocorio right? Yeah I remember that battle

>>30046039
Yeah I had to take a long break before going back and finishing the league at the end. Was waaaay too hard

>>30046210
Blame TPC's translating team. Not sure about the Sun/Moon one, but the "Joeys" in every game outside of Johto don't share his name (Goro) in the Japanese version

>>30046122
It's not just movesets. I've noticed some important trainers have pokemon that are unusually tanky and hit surprisingly hard, so there's defintively some EV training going on with them.