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Here’s the crazy part: Nemona’s team scales with your badges. This means the game can do scaling, but for some reason, they decided it wasn’t worth it for the gyms.

I WISHED we got gym scaling, I was so EXCITED to have a 8th gym leader being the bug type but UNFORTUNATELY

The level scaling in this game is just insane, like the first gym leader has almost level 50 pokemon dude

I didn't even realize Grusha was meant to be the last gym leader. For some reason I thought it was Tulip.

I did the 7th gym like 4th and I love how the game says "you shouldnt have a problem with the rest of the gyms now" :D

I think the speech Grusha gives implies they canonically are meant to be a tough gym leader you unintentionally face a little too early as a consequence for natural exploration either after completing the ghost gym cause your already at the mountain top, or after Ionos gym if you just kept going until finding another gym from there you'd find Grusha.

I realized immediately that taking on the Titans first gives you all the upgrades to your ride Pokemon, and accidently wandered into grushas gym as my second badge, but all my Pokemon were in the low 40s at that point after facing the Titans so it worked out somewhat

Take a shot everytime PapaSea says Skeleridge instead of Skeledirge.

I unironically got so lost after being Katy that I ended up somehow facing Tulip second

I gunned straight for Grusha because I assumed they had level scaling.

I think it’s actually kinda neat how the game is able to run cutscenes without being in a particular map. And it’s not like the gym interiors are always the same. And the team star bases, too, are just outside. It’s really cool.

I know why you lost the first gym fight. You forgot to hammer away!

I thought the gyms would automatically scale so I just did it randomly and ended up fighting him third and just assumed this game had insane scaling.

We found him guys, PaPaSea is the guy from the official artwork of the trainer with the Fuecoco challenging Grusha

I actually did this on my first playthrough, doing Grusha first. I honestly believe it was the right call for the best experience for me. The key difference between what you did and what I did is that I took my time getting there, exploring the world and catching Pokemon and leveling up my team so that I didn't need to do any grinding once I reached Grusha. The slow speed of unupgraded Koraidon hardly matters when I was spending a lot of time just walking and catching Pokemon anyways. I was still under-leveled, but it was a wonderful puzzle to figure out how I could beat him with the tools at my disposal and any newly-caught Pokemon prone to disobedience. The Fighting-type star camp and the Ghost-type leader were still challenging given that I was still under-leveled for them, but everything after that was just a victory lap. But honestly, most of those early to mid-game gym leaders and star camps only had 2-3 Pokemon anyways and were never going to be a serious problem. I had much more enjoyment taking on a handful of truly challenging and over-leveled opponents.

I first did Brassius and then Katy, but then I decided to go towards Tulip. I didn't realize that you could read the descriptions for the Gym Leaders, and you could make your way there without any upgrades to Miraidon. I figured by the level scaling of the wild Pokemon in the area that Tulip wasn't supposed to be third, but I decided to truck on through anyways. Meant that the rest of the game was a breeze until I got to Eri. The only reason Eri was difficult is because she had super effective moves against five of my Pokemon.

Had no idea this was the recommended last gym. On my blind play through I did this gym 6th

It’s at least on point with her character not to warn you the gym might be too hard. She only didn’t hit you with her champion team after the director had to remind her like twice you only just got a Pokémon. In Universe she’d be oblivious to someone doing something out of their league

I think I beat Grusha as my 4th or 5th gym and I was already pretty over levelled by then by spamming tera dens, I didn't even realize he was supposed to be the last gym lmao.