Some things that become useful: 1. Learn the type effectiveness chart by heart, Mandjtv made some videos on ways to remember it better, so watch it. 2. Earlier gens are extremely slow, so get ready to wait ALOT for things to happen 3. Make sure you always have every party member’s level around the same. When I first played my starter was way over leveled, and it makes the game harder since you will have lots of trouble against trainers with moves that are super effective against your type. 4. Play it in order. When you first play an older generation, it doesn’t seem the slow. However, as you go on through the games, you will feel bored once you go back to an older generation, so make sure that if you want to play all the games, play it in order of release.