>>41664853It's more about strategy than brute forcing a fight. I did a playthrough of Volt White 2 on Challenge Mode with a no healing items whatsoever clause and found this to be the case every time. For example, Clay's team swept me around 6 times or so before I resorted to finding a weather setter that could disrupt Hippowdon's permanent sandstorm which Excadrill capitalized on. Grass Knot was also extremely useful as was special attackers in general.
Dray has an issue though where he puts Life Orbs on a ton of NPC teams later on in the game. It loses its semblance of strategic fighting unfortunately. I guess Pokemon will just never be an SMT.