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Anyone who says there is no value to typing fast had clearly never written an essay the night before it was due. Or played any multiplayer game without voice chat.

I beat my challenge run of Pokemon X, where I only have 6 random pokemon of other people's choosing + not allowed to use the stores at any point. I ended up beating the champ with a Charizard, a Marowak, A Butterfree, a Pigeot, an Electross, and a Carrascosta. It bothers me deeply how disgustingly easy the game is, it's a children's game, but come on.

So I'm redoing it, this time with the added rule that I'm not allowed to accept Starters or any other pokemon I've beaten the game with previously, including in my vanilla run. I still anticipate that it's gonna be pretty easy, since I'm pretty sure you can't ladle on enough challenges to give the game anything resembling an actual difficulty curve.

...but I enjoy the randomness of not knowing what you're gonna be working with, and I enjoy finally stepping out of my comfort zone with certain Mons, since it'd always be the case where most get neglected, placed into the PC, never to be seen again. This forces me to actually use them! Plus there's quite alot that's been added to the Universe since I stopped playing in the good ol' days of RBY, so there's alot to learn. And the game just has a kind of innocent charm to it, that's appealing.

So in my new run, I'm starting with a Poliwag, a Dwebble, and after trading the Squirtle that Prof gives you, I get a Heracross. So It's a Water type, a Bug/rock type, and a bug/fighting type. It already feels like it's gonna be more fun.