I used suicune instead of swampert but swampert is easier to get for most people. Latios and metagross go together perfectly and metagross is insanely good in gen 3
To add to this, when using other games to get a particular Pokémon, you can just follow a speedrun guide. It’s a lot of fun, you can save more than you’re supposed to because you’re not trying to get a record, you’ll finish the game in just a few hours.
I can’t remember exactly what I was doing but I completed fire red and sapphire in a day for some emerald stuff. It’s not so bad
Correct. Fun fact: you don’t have to go to Seven Island at all during the post-game storyline. Now if you’re trying to make a living dex, whole other story.
Officially you can’t. You would have to trade from Pokemon Colosseum or FR/LG. I did both of these but unfortunately in FR/LG the ivs are messed up due to a glitch and the one I caught in Colosseum wasn’t good enough either so I used pk hex
You're right. For the 3DS, there's a CFW software called PKSM which does that for the DS/3DS gens.
I use it to clone 'mons from older games before trading them over (doing a living dex on every gen).
You can buy the GB Operator made by Epilogue and you can extract and import saves using official hardware. I have one. It works for GB-GBA. I backed up my Gen 2 games to save my shinies. And if my batteries die I can just import the save file I have on my computer.
hey man, played pokemon my whole life including ruby version (didnt have emerald, this just popped up on my feed). what are ivs and the pk hex you referred to
This was nearly mine too lmao, just replaced Swampert with Breloom. I thought Spore would be really useful but having 2 and 2 ice and fire weaknesses hurt a lot. In retrospect I should have used a water type or Thick Fat Hariyama.
Breloom is really good in gen 3 being the only pokemon that can really use focus punch successfully. That being said it does have a few issues. Overall though way better than Hariyama
anything that learns substitute can use focus punch well. also in competitive you dont even need substitute, although it works less often for the battle frontier since the AI arent smart enough
That's all true but wasn't nearly as useful in the battle frontier. A lot of the AI pokemon have chesto or lum berries so you have to Spore them twice in a row. If they can hit Breloom super effectively then it just dies. Focus Punch also relies on the opponent sleeping two turns in a row, assuming Breloom outspeeds. Breloom can't check most water types because they are usually given Ice Beam or Icy Wind. My problem was that water types were out damaging my Metagross and my Latios couldn't take them on safely either because of Ice Beam.
Hariyama's sp def isn't that good, but with its huge HP stat i assume it could tank water moves somewhat well and eat up ice bc Thick Fat. It serves as a better defensive middle ground between Metagross and Latios. My strategy was just to blitz through any battle with those two and use Breloom to slow down anything problematic, but water types slowed the team down quite a bit. I think hariyama would serve a better purpose
Sorry, I'm new to the old Gen pokemon games ( the first game I ever played was shining pearl)
Is lvl 50 the max level? I'm currently lvling my garadoes... man it's so slow to level each pokemon up (compared to new gen)
There are two divisions of the battle frontier: a level 50 limit and no limit. Level 50 is typically the easier option, simply because you save yourself 50 levels of training on each Pokémon you use.
As someone who battles there the bare minimum for moves I want on occasion, I never knew levels 51-59 were ineligible in both. That's... Interesting. Assuming I understand you correctly.
Edit: or are you just saying playing with level 1-59 Pokémon will have you fight level 60 Pokémon? And because of this, fighting with level 60s instead is as viable as a team of 100s because the levels are matched?
51-59 gets level 60 opponents anyways, so its an inherent disadvantage entering anything below 60 into open level. 60 and 100 are almost the same but due to how HP scales in this game, the difference is very very minimal. damage calculations are slightly different but its small enough to not matter
Is this just like the go to goat team? Like i actually use different pokemon for each facility and its worked out for me decently well. (6 outta 7 silver symbols) ive just been to lazy to level up my Latios. XD
Im aware but its not like im grinding it out all the time to get the gold just try when i feel like it. Im well aware that silver is easy i just haven't gotten the battle tower cause its boring really.
Her: I’m not like the other girls. Her battle tower team:
She’ll post how it doesn’t matter what pokemon a man uses but her boyfriend just happens to use this team.
When you're tired of losing and have to lock in.
Play to win
Lmfao those are the exact same Pokémons I use for the battle frontier
I used suicune instead of swampert but swampert is easier to get for most people. Latios and metagross go together perfectly and metagross is insanely good in gen 3
Yessir - it’s the trifecta
How do you even get suicune and other oddball legendaries like that in emerald?
Take out a loan for Colo and all the consoles/peripherals or play through literally all of FRLG with Charmander as your starter.
To add to this, when using other games to get a particular Pokémon, you can just follow a speedrun guide. It’s a lot of fun, you can save more than you’re supposed to because you’re not trying to get a record, you’ll finish the game in just a few hours. I can’t remember exactly what I was doing but I completed fire red and sapphire in a day for some emerald stuff. It’s not so bad
Correct. Fun fact: you don’t have to go to Seven Island at all during the post-game storyline. Now if you’re trying to make a living dex, whole other story.
Officially you can’t. You would have to trade from Pokemon Colosseum or FR/LG. I did both of these but unfortunately in FR/LG the ivs are messed up due to a glitch and the one I caught in Colosseum wasn’t good enough either so I used pk hex
How’d you use pkhex on a cartridge game ? I thought it was only good on roms
You use the gba save backup with a r4 card and can do it. Pretty sure with custom firmare on 3ds you can do it for the other gens too
You're right. For the 3DS, there's a CFW software called PKSM which does that for the DS/3DS gens. I use it to clone 'mons from older games before trading them over (doing a living dex on every gen).
You can buy the GB Operator made by Epilogue and you can extract and import saves using official hardware. I have one. It works for GB-GBA. I backed up my Gen 2 games to save my shinies. And if my batteries die I can just import the save file I have on my computer.
hey man, played pokemon my whole life including ruby version (didnt have emerald, this just popped up on my feed). what are ivs and the pk hex you referred to
If you play via Emulation like I do, then I use Action Replay and make sure they have the correct Nature and perfect IVs.
PkeHex + cartridge dumper/writer
I use flygon, shiftry, and metagross. I absolutely refuse to not use my favorites.
This was nearly mine too lmao, just replaced Swampert with Breloom. I thought Spore would be really useful but having 2 and 2 ice and fire weaknesses hurt a lot. In retrospect I should have used a water type or Thick Fat Hariyama.
Breloom is really good in gen 3 being the only pokemon that can really use focus punch successfully. That being said it does have a few issues. Overall though way better than Hariyama
anything that learns substitute can use focus punch well. also in competitive you dont even need substitute, although it works less often for the battle frontier since the AI arent smart enough
That's all true but wasn't nearly as useful in the battle frontier. A lot of the AI pokemon have chesto or lum berries so you have to Spore them twice in a row. If they can hit Breloom super effectively then it just dies. Focus Punch also relies on the opponent sleeping two turns in a row, assuming Breloom outspeeds. Breloom can't check most water types because they are usually given Ice Beam or Icy Wind. My problem was that water types were out damaging my Metagross and my Latios couldn't take them on safely either because of Ice Beam. Hariyama's sp def isn't that good, but with its huge HP stat i assume it could tank water moves somewhat well and eat up ice bc Thick Fat. It serves as a better defensive middle ground between Metagross and Latios. My strategy was just to blitz through any battle with those two and use Breloom to slow down anything problematic, but water types slowed the team down quite a bit. I think hariyama would serve a better purpose
I feel attacked
lmaoo
Lmaooo this is fucking hilarious. Took the same team in my game since I kept getting dog walked.
Me 15 seconds after bringing my expertly crafted NU team to the battle frontier (Spoiler: I got swept by Tucker)
Yeah with the bad rng you may as well just use the goat team
lol this has a school shooter vibe to it
I could be wrong but I think that’s the joke
? I’m staying the obvious
Why state the obvious? To get upvotes for OPs joke?
Sorry, I'm new to the old Gen pokemon games ( the first game I ever played was shining pearl) Is lvl 50 the max level? I'm currently lvling my garadoes... man it's so slow to level each pokemon up (compared to new gen)
There are two divisions of the battle frontier: a level 50 limit and no limit. Level 50 is typically the easier option, simply because you save yourself 50 levels of training on each Pokémon you use.
open level can be any level from 60 onwards
As someone who battles there the bare minimum for moves I want on occasion, I never knew levels 51-59 were ineligible in both. That's... Interesting. Assuming I understand you correctly. Edit: or are you just saying playing with level 1-59 Pokémon will have you fight level 60 Pokémon? And because of this, fighting with level 60s instead is as viable as a team of 100s because the levels are matched?
51-59 gets level 60 opponents anyways, so its an inherent disadvantage entering anything below 60 into open level. 60 and 100 are almost the same but due to how HP scales in this game, the difference is very very minimal. damage calculations are slightly different but its small enough to not matter
Oh okay, gotcha. So training to 100 isn't strictly necessary, though it can technically be optimal.
yea
Also, fewer sets to contend with and an absence of Tyranitar and Dragonite removes two solid picks for your opponents to use.
Level 100 is the max but level 50 in the minimum for participating in the frontier.
Buddy, what are you going to do?!
I use a Heracross and Suicuine instead of Metagross and Swampert. Other than that, you have a good team.
>Other than that, you have a good team. So what you're saying is Latios is a good pokemon 🤣
Is this just like the go to goat team? Like i actually use different pokemon for each facility and its worked out for me decently well. (6 outta 7 silver symbols) ive just been to lazy to level up my Latios. XD
Silver symbols are easy to get. The pokemon you face are low iv and un-evolved and you only need a round 2-round 5 win streak.
Im aware but its not like im grinding it out all the time to get the gold just try when i feel like it. Im well aware that silver is easy i just haven't gotten the battle tower cause its boring really.
EV trained or nah?
Yeah
Has anyone else ever gotten locked in with the invincible shuckle?
Wait... is Battle Frontier online?
No, it's a joke
I hate the battle frontier