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>Have played a number of "hard mode" hacks over the years, most of which either weren't hard at all or were only mildly difficult.
>Start up Star Sapphire.
>Nearly die immediately after getting my Treecko to a wild Pokemon just outside the first town.
>"This is either going to be really good or really bad."
>Make my way through Petalburg Woods with little to no problems.
>Fight some random ass trainer en route to the next town.
>Get unceremoniously murdered by their random ass Teddiursa. Whole party wipe.
>Beat her the second time though.
>Go to the first Gym, beat her goons with no trouble.
>Fight Roxanne.
>Go Tympole!
>Roxanne sends out Shuckle, Stealth Rocks and laughs at my Bubblebeam, then switches to Lileep.
>Lileep proceeds to utterly wall my entire fucking team. By itself.
>I'm actually only 2-3 levels below her Pokemon.
>Lileep's Ingrain + Leftovers + occasional Mega Drain is literally healing more damage than I can put out with any of my Pokemon.
>Realistically I was kinda unprepared, believing I could rely entirely on Grovyle and Tympole and having a pretty shit team otherwise (Emolga, Zorua, Ralts and Togepi).
>Second attempt went exactly the same.
>Still not sure if this is really good or really bad.
