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No wild pokemon XP run, HGSS edition. The idea was to see if earlier games really were harder than gen 6 or not by never killing a wild pokemon and getting xp from it. Emerald and Leafgreen were fine.
This is at the E4 and I think I've exhausted every trainer in Johto. I might be in trouble. Not only does Johto have a retarded level curve (trainers just south of Blackthorne happily using level 27~ pokemon while Claire throws here level 37 Dragonairs at you), all the optional areas (Deep Mt. Mortar, Whirl Islands) have no trainers. I had to give up training a full team halfway and focus on pouring xp onto my main 4, too.
My main worry is Lance and his 3 hacked Dragonites. Kingdra's Blizzard won't be able to OHKO them with at this level but will die to their Outrage and Dragon Rush immedaitely. They outspeed her too, so I have to put my choice scarf on it. My options are:
1. Stick Exp share on Kingdra and try and get her to level 45 along with stocked-up rare candies, which is the minimum needed to guarantee OHKO on level 50 Dragonites with Blizzard
2. Do what GF probably intended and do a bit of grinding on wild mons in the optional areas, only what I run into while trying to explore or looking for wild Pokemon
3. Use X-items, which is a guaranteed win anyway so I don't really want to do it
Any thoughts?
