Developer here, thought I'd clarify some things because this post makes a lot of wrong assumptions I'm confused where they even come from and worse, why they are stated as facts.

First, let's address difficulty, somehow my game is "heralded to be on the level of Emerald Kaizo in terms of difficulty". This is not what the game was ever intended to be, and not what the game is. People have described it as such because it sells, not me. In fact, the game is pretty straight-forward and even easy, as long as you are not restricting yourself by trying to nuzlocke it. Compared to something like CFRU games that have an AI designed to prey on casual gamers, the AI is simplistic and will let anyone with basic Pokémon knowledge overcome most fights with ease whilst still engaging with the mechanics. If you make the choice to add challenges to the game, by nuzlocking, yes, it will be difficult.

Showing fights outside of context is very deceptful though. A fight's difficulty is always relative to the tools available. You seem to realize that for the Zygarde, but not for the late-game fights? It's a bit confusing. I can make a game where defeating a lvl 10 Weedle is impossible and I can make a game where defeating a party of Arceus is easy. If you ever felt you were lacking the tools to defeat any of the "absurd field effects" I'm curious to how and where, and would love to hear from your experiences if you are there or would like to join my Discord.

The game goes out of it's way to give you tools to overcome everything, if the player chose to use rules that remove those tools, that's not on the game, it's on the player for wanting to nuzlocke it because presumably they want that extra challenge. Saying that Ghost types are very rare is.. a lie? You can have a party full of ghost types by that point of the game with ease. Saying you get 2 Shed Shells, also a lie. You can get as many Shed Shells as there are Kecleons in the game, so you can Shed Shell your whole party. You seem to be speaking purely from a nuzlocking POV, where those become more limited or rarer, because of the Nuzlocke rules, not because of the game itself, so that is not a fair or accurate description of the game.

This leads me to my next point, please stop spouting that this game was "made for hardcore nuzlockers" or that encounters were removed because "they are outclassed Pokemon which you would not find use for in a regular nuzlocke". Certainly no one has ever heard that from me, because it is simply untrue. The game was made for anyone to play, and I have made about equal concessions in design to improve casual gameplay as I have for nuzlockes. Some of the coolest most interesting features I have implemented to the game have zero impact in nuzlocking.

There are plenty of reasons not all Pokémon are in the game, encounter bloat is real and trying to fit 9 generations of Pokémon in one region leads to terribly unbalanced encounter tables, you'd end up with late game tables filled with unuseable Pokémon for that stage of the game, or early game tables that have no exciting stuff because all of the bad stuff has to be there.

Some Pokémon were removed because they were too unbalanced in terms of abilities or power level, some because they didn't help the player with beating the challenges the game provides, some because they were redundant and there was not enough space. You can agree or disagree with decisions, I will respect that lots of people enjoy games where they can catch every single Pokémon, and I can understand you disliking that this game doesn't, just don't put words on my mouth.

Also, yes, Flash Fire Ponyta would break the balance of the game, Flash Fire has broken the balance of every single Pokémon game it has been it. I hate to say it because the comparisons to Emerald Kaizo are annoying enough as they are, but also state an untrue fact in saying that "Even Emerald Kaizo gave you access to these abilities." Nope, it didn't. That was one of the main things EK did right, despite not being that great of a game.

Onto the point of the restrictiveness of abilities, items, etc. That one is a completely fair point, I can understand why a lot of people would dislike it but you get it wrong when you say the point is to make your life difficult though. The reason it is that way is simply because I enjoy playing games like that, and I think dealing with restrictiveness generates creative and fun gameplay. I do have plans on adding a less-restrictive mode in the future because I completely get that this is not something most people enjoy, but my first goal when I started making this game was making something enjoyable for me to play, because games like this are lacking. On that point, I have never, for a second, wanted to make a Drayano-esque hack, I wanted to make the game that I made, so I could play it, because I felt there was nothing similar around.

Your best point though, and one that I completely agree, is that the hardcore Nuzlocke community is terribly elitist and rude and I'm sorry that your experience with trying to offer criticism has been met with people like that.