Still doing this run. I did super secret super training to get a Dawn Stone for Kirlia as my answer to Grant. Now I'm just hoping that Korinna doesn't have anything to fuck me up with.
>>45523343I would say that's fine if that's how you want to play. From a challenge perspective, most of the stuff you get from rustling grass is just evolutions of normal things you can find, so it's basically choosing to get that mon instead of something else that's potentially better, and most of the encounters you can guarantee aren't particularly broken.
From a spirit perspective, I value personal enjoyment highly in Nuzlockes, so if you're not actually breaking the rules, then choosing to get something you actually want over, say, a Tranquill, is fine by me.
It's sort of the same as fiending Honey Trees in Platinum. You're choosing to guarantee that you get specific Pokemon, but at the expense of other sometimes-exclusive encounters on the same route.