>>47381010>Have all available mons to team build>Meaningful boss fights >Gym leaders are actually prepared to counter THEIR counters that you can catch near the city>Mess of a game designIf you hate fun I guess? Well the progression IS different. I once read how Onix being stupidly weak (his stats) was good game design back in Kanto since the first boss of an RPG is meant to be easily beatable later on, but personally I hate him having less attack than Joltik and Oddish.
>>47381074I don't remember the levels for the real games. But you're still looking at a few evolved Pokémon, you don't gain more XP or anything. Actually grinding them to the Gym's level is too slow so it rewards team building more. I'll probably tackle the 4th gym at around levels 30-32 and have the evolved starters at the 5th one.
You'll surely be required to change members for some parts however. But I have tons of favorites so it's not an issue to me, my Mudkip and Ivysaur are comfortably sitting in the PC for now. Also you only get 3 free starters and the rest are at special events, not that OP.
And now I'm changing teams after beating that bug gym. They all get a turn to shine.
