>>53621243I've been rotating my team in Gen 1 (have like 14 in total I've been using across the game) and having fun with it but around Seafoam or so I really started to notice how my team was underleveled or at least lower than you'd expect them to be even ocmpared to the wild Pokemon in the dungeons. Didn't seem like much of a problem before since the gym fights etc. were still easy, but I'm at the Elite Four and really feeling it now.
All my Pokemon are at least like 15-20 levels below everyone and since I'd been saving all my money for a fucking Porygon I have no healing items whatsoever. So even accounting for batch boosts/AI trainers having shitty teams it's way too easy for me to get screwed over by RNG.
My loss rate so far is like
>Lorelei: 5 times>Bruno: once>Agatha: onceHaven't even gotten to Lance yet.
It's not even like this is necessarily hard or annoying since my team's gaining levels each time so there's a net benefit, but I feel like a fucking dumbass because I know as a kid I probably could've done it on my first try with the first 6 Pokemon I caught in the game.