When did you stop using items in battle?

When did you stop using items in battle?

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When I realized it wasn't allowed in battles against other people. So probably when I was 7 or 8, in Blue or Crystal.

You can battle people in this game?

>First stage: ESL didn't know about them just killed everything with my fire starter
>second stage: use them and cheese bosses with revives and potions
>third stage: don't use them because it's never necessary
>final stage: only use x items to do speedrunner tier shit

I haven't.
I don't X and avoid healing bench mons against other trainers (healing the active one is fair game), but I'll still whip 'em out freely on a legendary.

When I decided to play USUM.
Then I took that concept and applied it to my Shitmon playthrough of the entire mainline series.

Held items are still ok

I only buy Moomoo milks and Lava cookies.
Cheaper and more efficient than Full Restores/Full Heals + Hyper Potions.
I only use X items to raise friendship.
As for pokedolls, it gathers more dust in my bag than in my decorations.

You can use items???

As a kid, but I used some at the e4 and against the champion

When I realized that X-items are superior to healing items

i only use items if i'm bumrushing the plot to start a shiny hunt on a new file or something, otherwise i never use them

Yes, dumbass. I had battles with my friends when I as 5 playing Blue.

i only every used revives because i got sad when my pokemon died and thought it was mean to keep them dead for longer than i needed to, i still do this in my normal games. but i never used potions or anything in battle, it felt like cheating from the start and made pokemon centers feel pointless to me.

Imagine if there was an hack that allowed people to use items in online battles.

never I item abuse all day
Lance used Full Restore so why not

it took 20 fucking years to realize how useful X-items actually are

When I was as an actual toddler
>What if I need them later!?!?!?
After a certain point it became a matter of principle, since you can easily beat all games without them.

Never did in the first place

when I learned what type advantages were.

they really do help in a tight spot

they were always useful zoom zoom