>>48073202Yes. It’s an RPG, not a game meant to be rushed through as quickly as possible so you can get to muh competitive or muh Masuda eggs or whatever. The NPC trainers aren’t just meme-spouting retards with flavor text you can just ignore. You’re supposed to interact with everyone and explore the world to complete your Pokédex. Anyone seriously complaining about rare encounters in Pokémon is not playing the game in good faith as it was designed for kids to play. It’s the same type of person who claims the Gen 1 games are bad or “broken” because of glitches that weren’t discovered until decades later. The only game-breaking glitch that was known by word of mouth during RBY’s heyday was the old man glitch to summon Missingno. Things like the Trainer Fly glitch, Dokokashira door glitch, and ACE weren’t discovered until years later by dedicated autists.