>>12053453Who says you have to grind? Maybe you opt instead to use good strategy, or pokemon with high stats.
This also goes back to my earlier point of grinding itself being subjective. People act like grinding is some inherent design of all RPGs, but it's not. Plenty of RPGs allow you to do low level runs, or allow you to beat the game without leveling up at all. You could beat pokemon gold/silver with the right combination of moves/items/pokemon/etc. at a much lower level than someone else, so how can you say that you are FORCED to grind. And what point is it grinding? What if someone just fights every wild pokemon and every trainer they come across but actively avoid grass. If someone hates battling the entire game will feel like grinding, if someone loves the game, they'll not feel like their grinding. Even if you were to say it is OBJECTIVELY grinding, when is it TOO MUCH grinding, because the game doesn't prevent you from entering the next town unless your pokemon are all a certain level, so you can't say you are forced to grind, or that there is too much.
I don't disagree with most of you, I hate grinding, I hated gen 2's level curve, but there are way too many holes in your arguments if you are trying to argue how some opinions are objective while some are subjective
