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Yes.
Training them unevenly always ends up as a pain in the behind.
Say I train just my starter to a high level and leave the rest low leveled.
Like one time I faced a type disadvantage with my starter.. A Pokemon in my team had the countering advantage, but was way too low leveled to enter battle.
It was really frustrating. >:
Or if your starter faints against a Gym Leader, and all you have left are the rest of your low-leveled team.
Obviously you're screwed at that point unless a miracle is on your side.
I train most of the team evenly, but then have one pokemon a couple of levels ahead. usually I have a fast pokemon ahead, in order to maybe get the sweep in:p
I like to do solo runs with each pokemon I plan to be on my team at least 70 percent of the time, that way they all get to be about level 70-100. When I was little, my starter was always horribly powerful, and that was the way it stayed (:
I try to, bit i really have no intentions to keep any of my current pokemon (except my dragonair i started with in the start) in my final team. Just need to beat the elite four to transfer some over. So im pretty much only focused on him.
I'm real anal about keeping all of my pokemon evenly levelled. If my highest-levelled pokemon is three or more levels higher than my lowest-levelled pokemon at any given time, I will deposit the strong pokemon into the PC to resist the temptation to use it until the rest of my guys catch up.
I used to train all 6 of the Pokemon in my party and try to keep them all at even levels. Now I just use the ones necassary to win against the Pokemon Im battling. But I usually make sure my starter is the strongest one. If not then a legendary would be the strongest one.
Early in the game, my starter tends to receive a lot more training than my other pokemon. Later in the game, I tend to have 3 or 4 evenly-trained pokemon.
When I had my Pokemon Ruby Game, I trained my Mudkip/Marshtomp/Swampert really hard, and the others, not! I currently train most of my pokemon evenly. Sometimes, a set of pokemon (team) would have a range of 20. If you rely on training one or two pokemon, you might get a level 100 quickly!
I don't usually, because I don't like to put effort into pokemon I'm not going to use later. I will train maybe 2-3 at a time while waiting to get far enough to pick up the next pokemon I want on my team.