>>48772882moving the goalpost. The statement was on levels. But yes, Fire/Poison/Bug to all trivialise Gardenia more or less, not more or less than a Staravia. And Maylene's Machoke outsped and had Rock throw which countered my team pretty bad next gym.
but yeah if you hunt out a great nature/eggmove/ability pokemon out you will of course be overlevelld, probably gain a few levels in the process of catching/releasing. Not sure what that probes, that sounds like a different style of grinding to melol.