Quote Originally Posted by chaos_redefined View Post
(From the gym obstacles thread)

Most of the first gyms were kinda lacking... Especially when you realize that their line-up is, in the grand scheme of things, pretty pathetic. They could have had some sort of puzzle to make it so that trainers who start their journey at the opposite side of the world have some sort of reason to think of these gyms as more than a quick badge. (Assuming that in the pokemon world, there are trainers who start over in, say Saffron City or Canalave City, and that it is pure co-incidence that we start in the town we do.)
This post made me think a bit. In the grand scheme of the pokemon universe, do you suppose gym leaders must use different pokemon for different trainers? I mean, assume a trainer grows up and starts off in Fuchsia City. Maybe they start with a higher level pokemon so that they can face Pokemon close to home. Are the three starters standardized, or do folks in other towns start with Gastlys and Tangelas? It would explain why there are so many trainers around cities with only pokemon that seem to be native to that area. It would also explain why there are mad lame trainers all around the cities who have local pokemon with lousy movesets. They are new trainers and this is also why they are broke. Hmm.