Severely unpopular opinion with everyone and their mother in the Pokemon fandom but the BDSP Elite 4 did not need to be competitively built (including a BANNED on Smogon Driftblim set) to be hard. The fact that there are people that genuinely thought it was too easy still baffled the frick out of me. I got so angry going through it I quit permanently and threw my game away because I got so infuriated I got a headache and sickness. That has never happened with a Pokemon game ever with me.
I'm a casual player, the game does not prepare you for a competitive AI, it plays normally UNTIL the E4. They were ''''faithful'''' in all the wrong ways with this game and the E4 takes the kicker. It does not warn you about this at all in the game, everything plays normal up to that point where it screws you up sideways and backwards. You have to drop your ingame team just for the E4 because Ingame Vs Competitive is always an unfair fight because they got EVs in the right place, perfect IVs, hidden abilities, held items you cannot get that compliment their HAs so it hurts more, literally everything you see in competitive wifi, the rare times I did see it beat with an ingame team is by pure luck or they just so happen to have mons that can beat stuff down. But I couldn't even get through it with mine, which every other E4 I could.
All that complaining about wanting them to make the E4 harder clearly didn't want smarter AU, or better movesets, they wanted this sort of difficulty, but I and others have stated that it's painful. Hope the people ragging about wanting a harder and harder E4 are happy because you can't get any harder than this.
I have nothing against the E4 being hard, but this is the wrong way to do it and they listened to the wrong people complaining. If I wanted to go against teams that I see in Smogon I would play Smogon, the literal place for stuff like this, keep the hardcore competitive shiz out of my casual Pokemon games!
If I get people saying it's still too easy to this post it'll only prove my point because listen, you canNOT get harder than a competitively built build for Smogon Elite Four.