I am taking my time playing as I already played Pearl, so far I have been doing most things where my pokemon a well below that of the gym leaders and most trainers and keeping mostly the same team and all same level. Such as I took on Fantina who's strongest is a lvl 26 Mismagius with a team of all lvl 20 or 21s, though that gym made me have the decision that Machop was not strong enough and to choose instead a Ralts. so my team is Grotle, staravia, Luxio, ponyta, Ralts and a Golbat I caught at lvl 10 as a Golbat to replace a Zubat that was holding back the team. The Poketch has been updated in the game so you can scroll up and down which is good, it feels like story has been more involved and a bunch of the new pics look quite good like a very cute one of Eevee.
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Through dream I travel, at lantern's call
To consume the flames of a kingdom's fall