Sorry, I just have to point a few things out...
You only have to consider gender if breeding.
In past experience nuzlocking, natures don't really matter for the main storyline.
Abilities only really matter for competitive battling (past experiences)
Evolutions... People have done solo-runs with Skitty! This one person did one that was really amazing!
Just saying.
Actually I think it's more so matter of opinion, I don't see why you had to smack down on them. As of typing this, I am not a breeder/competitive battler/wonderlocker/anything. I'm just a regular player who plays the game for fun.
Personally, I have never cared for the gender of my Pokemon, but I know some people who just like the genders for Pokemon, because they like making a designed team with specific nicknames/genders. Also, as I love Bidoof, I wanted to catch a male Bidoof when I did my first play through.
I don't really care for natures, as I'm not a competitive battler, so I can't really add onto that. But I do try get at least a decent nature through my normal gameplay. On my Y version I caught an Abra which had a nature that -Sp. Attack. Obv the Abra line is a bunch of special attackers so I kept catching them until I found one that had neutral, or +Sp. Attack. Like I said, I'm not a competitive battler, and this was just from my normal play through.
Same thing for abilities. On the same play through as Abra, I caught an Electrike - which had static as it's ability. I normally don't check/care for abilities, but once I realized it had static, I wanted to catch one with Lightning Rod because I prefer that to static. Only reason I kept it was because I'd already trained it about ~20 levels and Electrike is a 12k exp. Pokemon and I couldn't be bothered training one again. Also when I started my game I chose Froakie, and I kept wondertrading until I got a Froakie w/ Protean because i wanted to experience that ability.
And pretty much same for evolutions. Some people prefer not to evolve their Pokemon because they like to keep them in the cuter stages, or they think their pre-evolutions look better than their final/next evolutions.
Not mad or anything, but I don't think you have the right to insinuate that someone can't have a hard time playing Pokemon because they're not a competitive battler.
Also not to mention they didn't even say that they were a competitive battler, all they said was there's a lot you need to know to train your Pokemon the"right way". For all we know they might be a competitive battler, which makes all their points justified. And even if they weren't, they have the same right to express such difficulties.
Yes ok I admit it, it was because of VD's help in the IRC that I became a better player. Thank you very much ^^I think you'll find it was actually me who helped you get better XO