Black and White recent happenings thread!

When I played the Japanese version it felt really difficult a lot of the time--at least compared to previous installments. By this I mean I couldn't just fly through it using my starter, for example. Does it maintain this standard of difficulty throughout the game or does it eventually go to hell in that you can rape everything with a single pokemon all of the time?

I actually got swept pretty bad on the 2nd gym and most of my pokemon in the forest area after had a hard time living through all the trainer battles.

I dont know about whats to come, but at the moment ive been abusing the pokemon centre a lot more than in past games.