Downvoting won ' t make this go away , nor the fact that the movement is idiotic . <| sep |> This isn ' t necessarily true . They merely changed the way XP share scales XP yield to your Pokemon . So if you ' re fighting a level 50 Pokemon with a level 70 starter and your party is all below level 50 , your party will get decent XP but the level 70 Pokemon will have scaled lower XP . But this doesn ' t create a situation where you can ' t have overleveled Pokemon . My Decidueye AND my Alolan Raichu were both consistently 15 levels above the main plot opponents level and I didn ' t even spend THAT much time exploring and doing extra things . It just ended up me switching my team frequently near mid game and I simply used these two Pokemon more than others . Didn ' t change the overleveled phenomenon . I will admit though if I went against a strong dark type Pokemon , it would be difficult overcoming it but I never wiped and only had like 2 Pokemon die on me was doing Nuzlocke until post game where I was training some lowbies at Poni Island and got stuck in a difficult trainer fight .