That ' s probably not true . The Red Cross packages you ' re referring to always had a Hershey ' s chocolate bar , a pack of Lucky Strike nonfilters , coffee , tea , writing paper and a few other items . My dad was a POW in Stalag 17 B , and he said the German guards took every other package for themselves . They found warehouses full of the packages after the war . <| sep |> My experience has been somewhat similar , though for different reasons . I ' ve kept EXP Share off , and only turned it on for a bit of grinding when needed . I did max out Affection on all of my main story Pokemon , so they ' d get the EXP boost from battles . I also decided to skip wild battles with Repels unless I was catching Pokemon for quests or because I wanted to keep them for the moments I needed to switch out a Pokemon . All of this has lead me to be a mixture or overleveled and underleveled when facing other trainers , though I have stayed at a similar level for the majority of the game . Until I got to the second half of the third island and all of the fourth . I ' ve been underleveled so often that I ' ve found myself having to grind a bit every two or three story encounters . I ' m actually loving it ! This is the first time I ' ve felt myself in a pace that makes me need to think about what I ' m doing with my Pokemon .