Today I was running Oni % on Casual and I was dropping every stone, triggered awaken 4 times on Sweep in like 5 minutes... I was really strong. But I did the mistake of starting to kill some mobs to level up faster... that's when I noticed that the enemies, especially the bosses, are getting way stronger than me. Then I decided to check on Freddeh's run and realized that your level indeed increases the power level of the bosses. Either that or something else that I missed.

I took by example the boss She-Who Embraces.

Freddeh is running on Normal - Level 8 https://gyazo.com/ef5a3b32db9424daca7ea7c293a4b675 162 damage (check the impact on the health bar)

Me running on Casual - Level 10 https://gyazo.com/b5ddd098441de5ec4d40612225bb938b 363 damage.

363 damage did less than 40% of what Freddeh's 162 damage did, in a HARDER difficulty.

I will run again later, trying to avoid to level up, to see if the difference will be big. So if you guys have any information about this please let me know. Thank you very much!