>>49622046I don’t think anyone ever said the old games were meticulously balanced, just that you don’t need to jump through hoops to experience it in a well balanced manner. You literally just need to play with a team of 6 that you put together throughout the game and you’ll see the level curve for these old games is perfect like that, you’ll usually be at or just above the level of most trainers, and just below or at the level of most gym leaders and such, scaling appropriately with the League exhibiting the largest level discrepancy to overcome. In the new games, playing this way results in being a bit above even gym leaders at basically all times, sometimes way above, they really just can’t balance around the EXP share as well as they could without it. And you can always use more Pokémon but most people don’t like needing to shuffle out their team members, it’s literally why people hated HMs. That’s why 6 was the golden fucking number.
