>>47454812it's a timesink. Coming off Pokemon Clover and then playing Emerald for the first time I really miss the EXP share. Got a Ralts and wanted to level it for the second member of my team but I had to keep switching it in just to get enough EXP to get a move that can actually damage the opponent and then said move doesn't even work on half the Pokemon you encounter in the beginning so you've got to play some bullshit switching around games just to get EXP to raise up a second Pokemon...repeat 4 times. Hope you've got a decent team from the start...
or I could just use the level 20+ Combusken I got that got that high just from playing up to the first gym, no grinding involved. I'd just get a difficulty hack with QoL features but I want to go vanilla for my first time playing gen 3, whatever that entails. Makes the game too easy though, unfortunately...