Hey y'all,
Some tips/tricks I've found while learning the game:
For anyone complaining about encounters - I've seen catch sweet scent pokemon as a tip-> An early one is Mawile in dewford cave, it also learns false swipe and as a steel type can tank a lot of pokemon that you might have to spam pokeballs on. -> Your welcome.
For training with encounter rate at higher levels -> Surfing the sea around Mt. Pyre works really well for lots of pokemon - instant encounter rate, level 50-55 golbat and golduck.
As mentioned before there's a post on pg 3ish of thread with a wild encounter rate -> really helpful when formulating a nuzlocke squad / looking for specific one + telling you if it's a postgame pokemon.
For lots of leveling areas -> it's helpful to find a strong pokemon with roar/teleport/ invest heavily in repels to deal with the wobbuffet spam, especially if thinking about nuzlocke. Repel spam also necessary if you're trying to nuzlocke and need to get to [x] floor of [x] area and can't afford to encounter something on floor 1. Notably place would be the desert.
Afaik you'll get 8 heart scales around the game before you try "farming" them off luvdiscs, helpful to check with move tutor guy in Fallarbor which pokemon have secret OP moves they can learn (notable example being the starters getting 150 power moves).