>>28172785I am not. Was training an Aipom and then got rid of it after Whitney and replaced it with Quagsire. I suppose I didn't use the right word, but I wasted training on something that I abandoned. It wasn't hard because I found Quag at level 25 or so.
There was a slight grind right before Whitney but that's just for the Heracross that I just caught, and it was still not very long.
>>28172777I am playing them with a level appropriate team. Not that hypothetical situations in your case are good indicators of a game's difficulty.
I have 6 Pokemon. Though I caught Azumarill and Quagsire right before fighting Chuck, rather than getting everything early on