I think "broken" is a smooth word to describe how insanelly hard E4 really is. It is impossible to win with a descent composition, even if you reach the maximum level capacity and bring tons of revives and hyper potions. I mean, Lorelei and Bruno are balanced and resemble a fair challenge, but Agatha's Gengar is ridiculous: it fainted each one of my level 62 pokemons with a single shadow ball. It is more than broken: it is utterly unfair!
People will say that is lack of knowledge but look my team: Cloyster, Gengar, Alakazam, Electabuzz, Machoke, Starmie. Electabuzz and Starmie's thunderbolts wipe easily Lorelei's mons. Alakazam deals with Bruno's fighting mons and Cloyster with Steelix. Agatha is the real problem: my Gengar and Alakazam takes advantage in ghost types, but also are weak against Agatha's mons, so the fight is decided in who attacks first: her mons are faster so she wreck each of my mons with a single attack. I didn't have much difficulty dealing with Lance, electric types and ice beams give a huge advantage above his dragons. Than comes the rival and wreck you with OP pokemons with perfect IVs.
No, definetlly, this is not what I call something balanced. My plan right now is start farming money and substitute Machoke for a Salamence and maybe buy a better Starmie (mine have shitty IVs). But that's ridiculous: competitive players interest lies on tournaments. E4 isn't supposed to demand competitive knowledge at all.
