>>35874012I turned off exp share, set battle mode to "set" refused to use healing items in battle, refused to use refresh, and I ended up enjoying the games a lot more. They were actually hard, I was underleveled the whole game, and I actually had to use strategy. If you think the games are easy, you are missing out by not doing these
>b-b-but I don't want to gimp myself!Well then at least follow the same rules as the NPCs. They don't get a free switch in to a pokemon advantageous to the pokemon you send out. Only in extremely rare cases do they use items, basically boss trainers will have 1-2 full restores and 1 full heal. The NPCs' pokemon don't love them so much they get a hit that gives them free crits or live fatal attacks. If you just limit yourself to that at least you might be in a tough situation every once in a while.