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Meh, we all know that Gen I was badly coded and the battling in those games was broken. To be fair, it was a goddamn miracle that they were even able to get the damn game out after the troubled development it had and long ass time it took to localize in the US (With a rewrite of all the monster names +hodgepodge versions of Red/Green encounter data with Blue visuals).
I typically give a pass on Gen I due to how early it was. That, and Gen II fixed a lot of what was mentioned.