The LLMs no longer brute force a starter, and they have to play competently, including the use of setup. Here's a screenshot of the completion of the GPT-6 Astra run in 21 hours with comically underleveled Pokemon (and it actually savescummed RNG!): https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudePlaysPokemon/comments/1w79vim...

Another run with Ironlocke rulesets for Crystal (hard mode, level caps, permadeath) has even more diverse teams: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudePlaysPokemon/comments/1wf6zx0...