"Playing platinum in set mode and no healing in battle is the best experience I ever had in pokemon"

I know others do nuzlocke and things like that which are much harder, but I just want to share my experience with beating the game in my own rules.I finished my first playthrough of platinum today, and my pokemon were level 55-58. My team was roserade (shiny), bronzong, luxray, altaria, scyther and gastrodon. While other battles like the E4, Cyrus and Candice were challenging for me, I loved the Champion battle because of a few reasons I will list below, making it really memorable (In fact, I lost to the champion twice before beating it as my levels were too low, but I learned a lot of strategies throughout):1) I had to train my roserade and level it up until it was level 55, so that it can 2 shot spiritomb with petal dance. This is because full restore is really annoying, and my other pokemon lack the firepower to beat it, and so I had to rely on raw force. Beating it with HP of 40/150 left was very satisfying.2) I knew garchomp was a huge threat with the sitrus berry and the fact that it can leave gastrodon with red health with an earthquake is crazy (whereas ice beam only does around 5/7 damage to garchomp), and I thought I had to kill it with gastrodon or sacrifice 2 pokemon. So I actually had to plan to have her togekiss come in for roserade , then switch to bronzong to set up light clay dual screen then swap to luxray to kill togekiss and lure garchomp out (since set mode), lure earthquake. Then I swapped back to bronzong, luring flamethrower and gaining a turn, then swapping to gastrodon to take the flamethrower easily. Still my gastrodon had 3/4 health gone. The fact that I had to use 3 pokemons to cooperate and kill garchomp felt awesome.3) With 4 pokemon down (including garchomp, then her roserade destroyed by scyther) on her side and only 1 pokemon down on my side (gastrodon), it feels like I am winning, but there's a catch because all except altaria and scyther were on mid to low health. I made this mistake that bronzong didn't use light screen again when roserade was up. Roserade got outsped by milotic and died, but luckily luxray finished milotic in red health after surviving a surf. Then lucario finished off 3 of my team member... luxray, bronzong, scyther (with stone edge) but then I got 2 intimidates on it and placed it in yellow health with scyther's brick break. Thankfully there was no crits and altaria finished it off with flamethrower after tanking a stone edge.The only issues with fights with E4 and champion is the full restore, and one time Lucian's bronzong was absolutely painful after 3 calm mind's and a full restore, and in that run I actually lost to him. If E4 hadn't used it, I would have won fights easier.In general I just wanted to say that I think platinum is a great game because of its length as its the only game where I played for 40+ hours to beat. Also the battles are amazing if you play it in set mode because you always need some form of strategy against the stronger trainers like the gym leaders, E4 and champion. And though I don't tend to feel bonds with my team because I change team members often, I still feel really proud of the team I constructed, with bronzong's dual screen being MVP in many battles. via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/2Xi0Ixt