>>21358921I don't know anyone that plays now, but during the GBA era:
No legendaries.
No generated pokemon ( you could breed from them if you weren't IV tweaking )
Then we only played in level brackets.
No one I knew ever leveled past the end of the game.
At the time I think we played 40-50 mostly.
That's right, I'm a casual. I play pokemon as an RPG, not a competition. I don't like breeding good IVs because it takes away from my roll playing experience; that suck is important to the character of my boys.