>>50378051It's a shorter way of saying the game has balancing issues. It starts decently but the gym 5-7 nonlinearity for some reason destroys NPC and wild levels until they're revived when you reach Clair, only for it to die again in Kanto. If you just sweep with your starter the problem isn't noticeable but if you try to add a team member during gym 5-8 it will be far enough behind to be useless until Kanto if you're lucky or longer if you aren't.
