I concur with this. I got to the Fire trial with a team of Torracat, Rockruff, and Pikachu, and got friggin' wrecked by the Totem Salazzle. I wasn't even underleveled. I think my levels ranged from 21-23, so I was more or less on par. But holy crap, pitting you against all of these fully-evolved Pokemon when your team is nowhere near that, with no way to heal in between? Seems more like something a hard romhack would do, than an official game would do. Though I will admit, part of my downfall may have been that Torracat didn't have anything better than Lick to hit em with. His other moves were Work Up, Fire Fang, and Ember. I had neglected to replace Lick with anything stronger via TM, because I didn't know it would be so important to do so.Giratina93 wrote: Speaking of that, just cleared the game (I got a physical copy early from a friend of mine who runs a Smash 4 youtube channel), and it's HAAAAAAAAAAAARD if you try to be underleveled. I was, and a lot of healing items were wasted.
And then I leveled up Rockruff to 25 and he evolved, and he one-shot everything lolz.