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Playing RBY is an anguishing experience: you might trip into a bad matchup, your moveset might be walled by something on your opponent's team. Sleep moves, Hyper Beam or Blizzard missing, early or late wakeups, speed ties, 255 misses, full paralysis, freezes, critical hits.
Can you see that poor man in a boat, with the raging Shining Gyarados in front of him? That could be you or me.