Ironthunder
The Uncultured One
I still do this, to an extent. I never saw the point of wasting a turn setting up, when most of the time my pokemon couldn't take a hit of any kind. They can these days, but I still prefer to charge on ahead with my pokemon unaltered. It catches several opponents off-guard, as they don't expect this to happen.I completely ignored the use of status moves.
I also just ran with my starter and whatever I caught off the last few routes. Until White 2. In retrospect, I'm surprised that I made it through those games.
Oh yeah, and my Infernapes on Platinum and Pearl both used Ember, Flame Wheel, Mach Punch and Rock Smash. The one from Pearl was level 88 and the Platinum one was level 100. It's cringeworthy. Yet I still have them both on my Y version. One of them has the exact same moveset.