Most people want to play the game once they get in, not wait a week for trainers to reset. Saying the game isn't grindy because you can wait a week for trainers to respawn is a terrible argument.

You can't refight trainers until 1 week passes. Your complaints seem to stem from evolving pokemon which is not how you play this game, sorry if that's what you're doing but that's the reason for your problem and it's just because you're trying to play counter to this games design If you evolve pokemon early you're playing the game wrong period, that has nothing to do with finishing the story you should never evolve your pokemon before 90, and the assumption is if you caught a mankey to fight brock you would have used it on one of the many trainers between route 22 and Pewter, but even then a level 10 mankey can beat the trainers in the gym before brock which give you enough xp to get above 15 before facing him Assuming it's half and half that means you need to kill 40 pokemon. To get your Mankey from 14 to 15 you need to kill 47 Weedle/Caterpie or 35 Metapod/Kakuna. Before you beat the first gym the best stuff you can grind off is the ~level 5s in Viridian Forest. I went to Pewter City and talked to new players fighting Brock and most of them needed to get their Manky or Nidoran to about 15 before they could beat him. If you start with pikachu it's useless for brock so you need to catch and level up a Mankey to fight him. Overall it goes much faster once you already finish the story.Ģ) You don't have to go past the first gym to prove this wrong. You also have access to high level areas so you aren't stuck fighting stuff 10-20 levels below you. You can avoid the XP penalty for evolving pokemon because you don't need to evolve to beat gyms. 1)Once you are max level you have no reason to evolve pokemon early.

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