>replay through crystal >finishing up first area, getting

>>27824440
Gen 2 is the one with the ridiculous level curve, right?

>>27824473
The entire game sits around 20s-30s until you hit Clair who has a level 40 Kingdra. Then when you get to the league suddenly everyone's pokemon are level 50 and higher.

>>27824440
yes.

for god's sake if you value your sanity, limit yourself to one or two main pokemon, and have the rest as meatshields for popping revives.

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>>27824597
Sacking pokemon is unethical.
I think I'll be alright, I'm on good pace for Faulkner.

>>27824680
for Faulkner sure, but after you reach Ecruteak city, the pacing takes a steep, STEEP decline.

>>27824440
It's people like you GF is simplifying the games.

"I can't steamroll through to the elite four and I have to train my Pokemon to match"
- You

>>27824680
>teddiursa
>phanpy
that early in the game? how?

>>27824723
This. I'm pretty sure the only thing you can get that early that's that good is Geodude.

>>27824723
Teddi from dark cave and phanpy from the route with spearow and geodude. Both are 5% morning spawn and have a 50% chance of fleeing though.

I planned my team out before I started, but now I just want to catch everything. I want ekans and sandshrew too. Then I'm going to evolve a wooper into quagsire.

>>27824723
>>27824743

http://www.serebii.net/pokearth/johto/2nd/route46.shtml

http://www.serebii.net/pokearth/johto/2nd/darkcave.shtml

The game is easy up to the elite 4 and kanto (Claire is also a little difficult).

Nothing agaisnt a more difficult pokemon game, but the thing is normaly I expect is that by beating every trainer on every route I should be in least just 2/3 levels lower than the average level of the elite 4, and this doesn't happen in this game.

Grinding against wild pokemon is something really boring and tedious unless you have luck egg, which you can only get from chansey in Kanto,

Also, before someone tell me that I should not have a problem with grinding wild pokemons, let me remind you that grinding is just a tedious thing that sometimes has to be done on RPG and normally doesn't require any form of skill of the player (it only requires time), If you need to be 10 levels higher than the stupid A.I of a pokemon game to beat it, you are just showing how bad you are on the game.

Yes pokemon is a numbers game, but there many variants that allow strategies that will allow you to win (status effects, lowering/increasing stats,type advantages).