I also want to talk about Pokemon levels one more time, just to make sure you thought it through. As in...  Levels in the games were made for the player's own progression, to guide their progression and give them a quantifiable way of knowing how strong something is or when it gets stronger and so on. Not to mention because you follow one route generally in the games, they can make the wild Pokemon get stronger and stronger as you progress down that planned path.

In this RP's case, we have a lot of options for paths we can take around the region, so there also comes the issue of... We may run into Pokemon way too powerful for us, we'll never be able to have a well-leveled team because if we all set them low so that encountering Pokemon too strong doesn't happen, when we get new members to the party they'll be underleveled.

In the anime, levels don't exist, and I don't think I need to say more than that.