>>14155983Fuck that, I had around 17 level 100 mons.
Cruising around with Blastoise, Ninetales, Sandslash, Mewtwo, and two rookies/HM slaves trying to make sure I'd fought every trainer (especially easy to miss one or two around Cinnabar Island).
Either way, that isn't what was going on. Red would send out a mon, it would die, he'd send out another, it would die...
He was clearly trying to not rely on C-wizzle for everything. You're just rationalizing their obsessively Charizard-centric design choice.