A quick little bump, this one's the Whitney update. Finally we got some cool encounters, I landed the Nidoran (now Nidorino) and we actually got a Scyther from the Bug Catching Contest! Kamen's a Swarm Scyther, not Technician unfortunately, but we take those.
Whitney was somewhat difficult as you might expect, and while setting up Paralysis Vinny went down. Luckily that was our only casualty and Vinny's usefulness for the run, for fear of sounding callous, kind of ends with the Whitney fight.
>>55174502Bellsprout's kind of nice for setting up Paralysis on Whitney's Miltank and is really nice to have for the Chuck fight. Overall pretty lackluster, sure, but a bulky-ish status setter is just good. I like the Jumpluff line overall more.
TL;DR: Yes, use it at least for Whitney and Chuck. After that you can dump it for something better.