11-19-2016, 10:35 PM
In a realistic Pokemon world, you would be able to face the eight (or more) gym leaders in any order you liked, and levels would not be so strict. You could have stronger Pokemon and weaker Pokemon, you could have well-trained or new Pokemon, skilled and unskilled trainers, and those would all make a huge difference in the outcome of a fight, but you wouldn't have a nice even predictable 5 level jump between gym leaders.
