so a lot happened since the last time I updated my run
but to always make long story short
>Eterna forest was a great spot grind since it had all those double battles>Zuzu completely destroyed the gym and evolved into golbat>had a really deadly fight against jupiter in the team galactic building against her skuntank, but lucky no one died>after that the game pretty much open up to me and got a chance to explore a lot of places>got myself alot of pokemon thanks to that>some of my main team members evolved like Sara II and Zuzu>currently planning in doing a full circle back to Veilstone city to face maylene>>50696085since I'm doing one right now I can tell you it hasn't been that bad so far but I can see it becoming a double edged sword
on one hand if you won the last game with at least 1 common mon, it's going to be easier to find more rare pokemon
but on the other you might find places that have no new mon to capture and thus become kinda like a dead zone for your run
but overall it's hardly a problem specially for games like BW since it's full of new pokemon to catch