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Beat Platinum the other night, ended up using x items because the level gap was too much of a hurdle.
Now I am concurrently playing RBY, I'm up to Cerulean, only lost one poke in Blue because of the Raticate in Mt Moon.
Only 5 (nonrepeat) encounters before Brock in RB was interesting and I got a few rarer pokemon, Jigglypuff, Pickachu, Geodude, Paras.
Also Brock is a cheating bastard with unlimited Full Heals but that just made Onix easier than having to status drop until Bind wore off.