haha, well i'm enjoy it a lot, playing again the Johto history is revive my earlier years when i was in college so for me is amazing. And yeah, Lance's awesome if you don't have a leveled-to-the-extreme pokemon so i understand you haha, but keep going i remember that a day i defeat it with this team at level 48-50:
Cyndaquil, Kadabra, Umbreon, Scyther and Pidgeot
Practically a suicide team but in the final i defeat him n_n