>>55867603Jan hacked in rare candies in the romhack Emerald Kaizo to cut out grinding. At first, he was manually grinding early game for 77 attempts until he said fuck it and started using them at the beginning of the game. EK is designed to have very difficult battles and be extremely inconvenient for grinding, as the wild encounter rate is significantly reduced and trainer rematches are basically level 100s.
Before attempt 77, there was already a QoL berry patch that gave you 255 berries for each plant as you can infinitely grow them, and $1 candies in Mauville because you can grind the casino for money to pay the daycare. It cuts out needing to spam left + right on 1000x speed for completely safe grinding.
Newer nuzlocke hacks like Run & Bun and Crystal Kaizo+ give you a candy bag that lets you level up as much as you want until the level cap and, like EK, have no EVs. The modern nuzlocke community doesn't give a shit if you spam candies as long as you follow the ruleset you proposed, but /vp/ throws a hissy fit about it in every nuzlocke thread.
TL;DR Grinding is cringe, cheating is based.
