>>26657073Well I remember trying to do no grinding at least. My memory there was probably horrifically accurate. That probably changed later on since my memory is hazy. I was still underleveled since the notorious lack of Pokémon on trainers means a lower exp yield as well. I had a team filled with some low tier stuff like Golduck, Eviolite Fennekin, and even a Timid Farfetch'd. I was also doing no healing items so maybe that's why I might have ditched the grind rule.
As for Emerald I only had a team of "5". Blaziken/Breloom/Solrock/Sableye/Peliper was my team. I say "5" because I had an HM slave Spheal that evolved in the middle of the E4 and healing item stalled Wallace's Milotic and gething in the occasional Rock Smash so Blaziken could finish it.
I also did a regular Emerald run recently because why not and most of the difficulty felt like some of the bad movepools. I always felt like Gen 4 was when movepools were finally good.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Gen 6 isn't an easier gen, it is. Though I do find the same to be true for RSE save some instances like the Emerald twins, I just don't find it to be some super drastic drop all at once.
But then again I feel Gen 4 was the only Gen to get the base difficulty just right.
