IIRC, traded Pokemon will disobey sooner than Pokemon you catch, but even Pokemon you catch will eventually disobey if majorly over-leveled.
Yeah I never used a Gyarados, it takes too much to train it and it's never worth it. I mean for crying out loud it's a flying type pokemon but it can't learn flying attacks not even Aerial Ace.
A good Flying Pokemon with a good Flying attack is hard to come by. But Dragon Dance, Intimidate, and Earthquake immunity are always dangerous, even coming from a 4x Electric-weak 'man. With physical Waterfall added to his move set, Gyarados can create a world of pain.
Honestly I like the Battle Frontier because I stay far far away from the Battle Factory myself and focus on the Battle Castle, Battle Tower, and ocassionally the Battle Arcade.
I generally hate all in-game tournaments because they always ban legendaries. It's the same every gen; you have to buy the console game if you want unrestricted high-level opponents. Which rather blows this generation since BR doesn't allow you to swap games and doesn't support Platinum forms/items.
It was probably harder back in the RBY days, where Metal claw was Non-existant.
Not really, because in R/B/Y, Brock had no actual Rock-type attacks, so your full and sole concern was dealing decent damage. Further, before the G/S Special split, pretty much all Rock/Ground Pokemon had craptacular Special stats, meaning that even Ember could do a fair chunk of damage.
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