#serebii tends to have good info and it neatly lays out information sheets by generation but it is such a frustrating website layout

[goldensunset]

actual hardest part about playing the older games is looking up the right set of information on databases. there are so many inter-generation changes about the littlest stuff, like a move’s power, the exact effect of an item, the method to evolve a particular pokémon, the moves a certain pokémon can learn, the crit rate, etc