>>58019152
>Let's hope that's not the case, but depending on how awfully designed the fights are I might as well cheat in some way, shape or form.
>Noted, I plan on playing vanilla until I'm genuinely hard pressed to cheat (might be fun to suffer trying to beat a fight only to realize it's so awfully designed to the point of softlocking myself)
Yeah fair warning, do not fucking attempt any kind of self imposed challenges if you value your sanity
I'm speaking from very painful experience
>only to realize it's so awfully designed to the point of softlocking myself
Should also mention that I felt that way a lot when some fights were so cancer that trying to find a legitimate solution wouldn't be worth the satisfaction gained, and some were especially bad that even cheating past them wouldn't provide sufficient "fuck you" catharsis
Oh yeah speaking of blatant cheating, did I mention that for some particularly rigged fights, even injecting uber legendaries with hackmon movesets like it's going out of style isn't gonna be sufficient?

But yeah even in my one and only v13.5 playthrough, I generally attempted to play the game legitimately as much as possible (barring debugging mystery eggs for dual volcaronas and giving the fire volcarona icy wind because trying to find hidden power ice needed for the ground "gym" in the debug menu among like 19+ moves all labeled the same was gonna be too time consuming in an already very long game, and backtracking to the 2 npcs that can change hidden power types was blocked)

anyways here's the general team I was using for act 2 when pretending that I was still doing a legitimate challenge, barring miscellaneous fire or flying types I had in the box for specific fights/fields
dragonite/salamence not included since I didn't know if those were obtainable yet and the walkthrough wasn't up during my playthrough
>larvesta
Yeah it's fucking retarded that only 1 in 8 saves can even get it without cheats

Anyways good luck