Thank you!
Shapes/Shape fights will be affected by difficulty in the future yes ^^
To avoid getting pinned by a random encounter, the easiest way to get rid of the encounter is to use a Heart dummy! If your highest level character's level is above the enemy's by 10+, you're also able to smash the encounter to instantly destroy it (doesn't work on Shape fights currently, I might lower this to 5+ in the future). Alternatively, you could also try to estimate when the next encounter will occur, walk backwards, then run away in the right direction after the encounter ^^
It looks like I'm still deindexed yeah... I'll be contacting Itch.io soon to see if something can be done about it.