>>33314476If by "planning ahead" you mean knowing what the fights are coming up and abusing that, then sure, whatever.
Set alone doesn't make a huge difference in difficulty, and what I recounted was just one of the countless ways people creatively play the game. Stop being a turbo autist who thinks that the only way the games can be hard is if there's a massive level disparity and random fucking 10 year olds are running VGC strategies specially designed to fuck you in the asshole.