Well, I don't know... ever since SB at least, Savage 1-4 has always felt like a breeze compared to 5 - 8. At the very least the spike in difficulty between O1S/E1S/P1S was very significant against O5S/E5S/P5S. Although I always found 6 and 7 to be pretty chill. We'll have to see if the second tier is more savage than this savage.