Lol rip, I've played through X about three or four times & one of the times I just restarted after getting the last badge because I was insanely over-levelled (I think I had exp. share on most of the time) and it was just ridiculous, I had like lvl 80 pokemon so the league was not gonna be any fun. :T
/gasp never played Paper Mario! Well if you do look into it I mostly recommend the first two games, Paper Mario 64, and Thousand Year Door (that one's on Gamecube so it's sadly not available on Virtual Console). It's like an RPG but with Mario, and you get cool partners that help you in battle. You get to fully explore inter-connected worlds, quite unlike standard Mario games which is awesome. The Wii instalment, Super Paper Mario, is in fact more of a side-scroller though, and most of the RPG elements are gone. It's still pretty good imo, but the first two r the best. I got nothin good to say about the 3DS game though haha