>>40341721I have this thing I do where I try to keep about as many Pokemon as my rival. I catch my second mon around second or third gym and have my 6th by victory road. Its a bit of artificial difficulty I empose on myself because if I overlevel one Pokemon I steamroll the game. If I underlevel a lot of Pokemon then the E4 is unenjoyable to play against. It might sound autistic at first glance but I find it to be a nice balance.
Second is I try to keep type balance so I try not to overlap types if Im not doing a themed run. Caught a Slowpoke? Cant have any other waters or psychics on my team. I try not to do this with moves either.
Third is I try to force balltism and good natures on all my mons. Even to the point where I drop my starter after its final evolution because the ball wont match most of the time but at least Ive gotten its dex data. This includes soft resetting for decent natured legendaries. Fortunately Im not on the spectrum enough to give a shit about IVs.
I have no qualms about save editing for that but hacking natures just feels wrong. But I usually wait till postganme to hack. Also this.
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