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UshiromiyaEva posted...

There's no reason that both the overworld and the gyms both have to scale. Just scale the gyms. Just do the thing like in Origins where Brock checked how many badges Red had, and then opened up his fault with 80 pokeballs in it and picked out a few that were the right level.

But you're asking GameFreak to scale the gyms, while still leaving the Pokemon the same around them, all so that a player could theoretically seek out a specific gym that they have such emotional investment in that they're willing to brave a region of level 40+ wild Pokemon in order to challenge that gym first at level 15. I think the problem is you're looking at it from the perspective of the endgame, where you're strong and a badass, and if you can challenge the gyms in any order, then the ones you challenge last should be the hardest on the scale. The issue is that you have to worry about are the gyms you fight early then. So let's take Grusha. You have to climb up a mountain packed with level 30-40 Pokemon in order to reach him...so what's the incentive of scaling him down to have like, a level 15 Cubchoo, level 15 Cetoddle, and a level 15 ice-Tera Swablu? So you'd HAVE to scale wild Pokemon as well, otherwise there's no incentive to brave the tougher areas.