This game surely has a strange pace, but you'll get used to it with time, and with a team with diverse moves you should be able beat every opponent just by taking advantage of the types

Yea im keeping it on but it's making me have to rotate my pokemon less. Which im kinda not liking.

I disliked it at first I thought that it was cheap, but after a second thought it's actually a good addition. Some people just dislike to grind and train low level Pokemon. If anyone feels like it makes it too easy they could just turn it off. So it's all good.

I personally use it. But then again, I'm not one to enjoy grinding my arse off with all 6 champs just for the sake of grinding.

My first suggestion would be that you make sure to do the Super Training if you are having problems. Took me a couple hours to get all the way through with my starter pokemon, but it was well worth it.

Also, are you doing all the "side" stuff (Talking to all the people, going on all the side paths, etc?). With the times you guys are posting, you must be. I'm 7.5 hours in, just beat the 2nd boss, and already have my top 2 pokemon at level 29 and 30, with the rest of my team around 21-25. The only thing I'm not trying too hard to do is go back and use moves to break rocks and stuff like that (Which I will likely do at a later point).

I'm actually hoping the skill level does go up quite a bit to be quite honest. I've done no grinding (just going to all the areas, which by default gets me higher levels), and I just beat the 2nd gym leader last night using only my 3rd best pokemon, which was a level 25. My best was fainted prior to the battle and I didn't even care, and my 2nd best was waiting in his ranks to be put in if my lvl 25 failed me.

Oh yeah im doing all the side stuff :)  Im not really having that big of a problem lol  I was just kind of surprised at how high the levels of my opponents were so i was thinking about turning exp share on instead of grinding for hours because i really dislike that.

As for the new EV training im debating on what I should lvl up on each pokemon.  Any tips from some of the more competitive players in here?  Should i train my strong stats to be stronger or my weak stats?    With absol i was working on his speed but I was thinking also do his attack to make him an even better sweeper.

Which reminds me, does anybody know what stone Absol uses to mega?  And where is it?

Well I've only done it with one of my pokemon, but I personally did a well balanced approach. I will probably be redoing it (apparently you can get redo bags), but likely not until level 100 as I did things that will lead to certain attributes not being totally maxed.

I think it's okay, I have it turned ON for now. If the game starts getting too easy I will turn it OFF. Simple!

I seriously don't see how using it is considered "easy mode" because the game isn't any "easier" without it. It's only faster, which is better because this way you don't have to spend 3 hours training two pokemon to the level you need it to be to get it to fight on its own.

edit: Though I would say O-Powers may be "easy mode"

Exp share makes you literally train wreck the entire game. I love the game to freaking bits, but I do have to say that this has to be the easiest pokemon game by far. I know that's not saying much since I could beat every pokemon game with just my starter, but this one is even easier since my other party pokemon end up getting leveled up even though I never even need to bring them out. That said I like exp share. It encourages me to go catch/breed and use other pokies besides just my starter. That's why even though I've only just beat gym 6, my team consists of all starters fully evolved, garchomp, blaziken and charizard. All of them around level 60. There's pretty much nothing the game can do to me at this point lol.

I love the fact that GTS and connectivity with other players is so well built into the game. It just feels natural to keep your 3DS connected to the interwebz, which makes you feel as though you are having a journey with millions of people at the same time. I haven't even finished the game yet, but I bred my Amaura (fossil pokemon) a ton of times and traded on GTS to get all the Kalos and Kanto starters. Loving everything so far, and once I finish the game, I can finally start building a competitive team to fight with people online properly. That's where the challenge of pokemon is anyway. Fighting other people competitively.