I wasn't a fan of any of the new changes, probably because it meant all the time I had spent was wasted.
I knew how to IV and EV train. If you took a newly hatched pokemon, leveled him up to 100 with rare candies and plugged him into a IV/DV calculator, like this:
http://www.psypokes.com/dex/iv.php . You could know his exact IV stats. You could do this without the rare candies, but there higher level you plugged into the calculator the more accurate it was. Then rinse and repeat until you got what you wanted, along with the right nature, or soft reset your gameboy. I still have pages and pages of stuff written down. It would take me at least 40-50 hrs to get a pokemon with around 30 in each base stat. When EV training I'd have my GF at the time write down the number to have perfect EV's. Still have a few perfect Salamences

. I've also still never seen a shiny pokemon
