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Kanto (finished) Gym 1 after defating brock. I forgot to screenshoot before the gym, but nidoran was level 10 and squirtle level 12 before the battle. Gym 2 before and after Gym 3 before and after Gym 4 after the fight. I forgot to screenshoot before, but i only used venomoth, which was level 34 before the battle. Gym 5 before and after Gym 6 before and after Gym 7 before and after Gym 8 before and after After elite 4 Summary: I really enjoyed the first half of the playthrough, being able to use evolved pokemon without being underleveled. Normally you'd wait to evolve your pokemon until right before the elite four, but now i was confidently able to evolve nidoran to nidoking before the second gym. The addition of exp share is also very nice, as it allows you to train weaker pokemon like magikarp more easily. I think exp share would also eliminate a lot of cheesy exp-boosting tactics like using a team of perish song mismagius to train pokemon. The game felt like a normal playthrough up until around the 4th gym. My pokemon was already starting to be underleveled. I had to heal after almost every trainer battle, and i realized that i wasnt gonna be able to beat the game with the team i had. I trained a venomoth and gyarados, since they had setup moves quiver dance and dragon dance. Thats how i beat most trainers and gyms up until gym 8. Gym 8 had a mewtwo which is steel / psychich type, and is probably around level 100. Even after paralyzing and using flash 4 times, and setting up 3 dragon dances with gyarados, i only did 11% each turn with aqua tail, and all mewtwo needed was to hit psycic once to kill me. I figured out a strategy with magnemite, geodude and psyduck to beat it. Magnemite with sturdy used flash turn one. Then turn 2 mewtwo had to miss in order for psyduck to land soak. I retried this until mewtwo missed and then got off a soak. Then after mewtwo kills psyduck on turn three i switch to geodude with sturdy. Geodude uses toxic and mewtwo uses psycic which brings it to 1 hp. Then i heal geodude back to 100% with super potion, and repeat until mewtwo dies of poison. For the elite 4 i was severly underleveled. My highest level pokemon was gyarados at level 54, and normally you want a full team of level 80's to beat the elite 4. I leveled gyarados in victory road, maxed out its attack ev's and leveled it to level 70. I needed around 15000 xp per level, and the pokemon in victory road gave around 1000 xp per fight, so i estimate i had to kill around 200 pokemon, + another 100 for ev-training. Then i had 10 rare candies that i collected and got it to level 80. all in all i spent around 3 hours grinding to level up gyarados, which was extremely boring. To beat the elite four, i used magnemite with sturdy to set up either reflect or light screen. Then i used around 2-4 dragon dances and swept through every elite 4 member. To conclude, i really like the idea of a xp-rework, but i think you need to make it easier to level up, especially later in the game. The xp-share is a great addition, and i hope it makes it to the live servers.

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