Critnix

Okay, so this is just my experience, keep that in mind. The balancing for the trainers and stuff is pretty fine for me, nothing hard at the start or the end, if you play it like me and others ofc. Even the E4 was pretty easy, but you should have a decent team and shouldt rush everything with like 2 mons. BUT there is one thing where I see a big problem for beginners, and who wouldve guessed, its whitney. Her Miltank is incredible strong, especially if you dont care about "wasting" time leveling your pokemons. I dont know why but her Miltank outspeeds everything, which is fine for the players who have all regions, because they can simply buy the stuff from the GTL, which beginners cannot because they wont have all the money for it. The problem I see there is that these new player, whjo maybe start their journey in Johto might get frustrated by that alot and be sooner or later like "yeah fuck this, way to hard for beginners, im out" and boom, one player lost. So maybe tweak her a bit down. Another thing is the gyarados "boss" fight. Its not a lie that this guy is an easy deal when you have atleast 1 grass or electro type pokemon in your team. It takes some hits and hes gone, also if you keep leveling your pokemons normally hes a bit to underleveled in my opinion, (keep in mind its only MY experience, others can be different). But yeah the only major problem I see is Whitney for total beginners, who just started pokemmo in Johto and have 0$ to buy anything on the GTL to make it alot easier to level etc. Edit: It is good, that Johto is harder than other regions. You really need to see what pokemon you're using in which fight and in what order. Thats alot of fun no question BUT I think for totall newbies who just go by the looks or popularity of specific pokemons some trainers/gyms can be frustrating.