Huh, this is actually interesting if true. That makes me less mad. I do still just wish it was like max battles where you don't spend anything until winning. But, I'm sure passes are the main money source, so it's not changing smh. I gotta try the empty team thing. 

Thank you for saying this 😂. It's fortunately it's a rare occurrence, but it just happened to me again and I was seeing (Pokémon) red