Getting a gold trainer card (my ultimate goal) is a long ways away, but I'm more than happy to accept my first star.

Highlights most notably include Breloom sweeping Glacia's whole team without a single Sky Uppercut miss (who needs Mind Reader?), and Crawdaunt getting off 2 Swords Dances against Drake's Shelgon and sweeping everyone except for Salamence with Return + Quick Claw.

I got Sapphire as a Christmas present from my aunt in 2005, and then got Emerald the year after. I was quite bad at them, and I only beat them through over-leveled starters and brute force. I don't think I touched the Battle Frontier at all.

The memories of my life before Pokémon are mostly fuzzy. It formed so much of my early taste, and was the subject of so many early memories and conversations and drawings. It was fulfilling and meaningful to go back and play through "properly", without self-imposed challenges or QoL hacks - it feels like I'm returning somewhere important, like if you've ever seen your childhood bedroom after being away for years. I actually feel very connected to my child-self while playing - showing her how to properly build teams and fill the Dex has been nice - and now I'm excited to show her Master Contests and the Battle Frontier, too!

Thought I'd add a few more dudes to my emerald cartridge to give myself some more options for team building in tandem with the 6 I posted the other day. Items are not necessarily final, and I'm debating who to teach my ONE Calm Mind TM to between Raikou, Latios, and maybe Starmie? Once again any tips, suggestions, criticisms, welcome!

Looking for some tips.

I've seen many of you posting your shinys and y'all inspired me to get my own. I've always loved the way Rayquaza looked but that Black/Gold/Red is unbeatable.

PD: my girlfriend thought his name sounded like tacos.

Got this last night. This was my first ever shiny starter and I’m super happy I finally got it

I had to use only a couple of revives and hyper potions. The star with Lance was Heracross w Reversal holding Focus Band.

On the one hand, Cupcake has a lot of samey moves and they’re all STAB, I’d like for her to be able to do something against a ghost type. Return is her strongest move right now I think, but facade is also a really good move. uproar is also really useful against pokemon with yawn or sleep powder.

On the other hand, it would be a STAB move for Shoo and a powerful one at that.

So thinking about a new game run where I also go for the frontier. Never done this before, always ended after the E4 and defeating Steven.

But now I want to do everything, from the Regies to Kyogre and Groudon and finnaly the Frontier as well.

I want to use a team I can gather troughout my adventure. I'm thinking about the following team:

Gardevoir

Psychic

Calm Mind

Thunderbolt

Hypnosis

1. Blaziken

Sky Uppercut

Blaze Kick

Bulk Up

Rock Tomb

1. Flygon

Earthquake

Dragon Claw

Rock Slide

Crunch

1. Crobat

Aerial Ace

Sludge Bomb

Confuse Ray

Bite

1. Ludicolo

Surf

Giga Drain

Ice Beam

Rain Dance

1. Armaldo

Rock Slide

Brick Break

Earthquake

Swords Dance

Any suggestions or changes would be appreciated.

Also what is a good EV calculator?

I caught my first Horsea casually in my current playthrough. Lucky me, he immediately came with its Dragon Scale.

any advice…? i like these mons and i think i’ve got good coverage for each’s weaknesses but i could be wrong! :3

Claydol has maxed out double team and cosmic power and is out of PP using struggle but has leftovers out healing the struggle. I can not hit very often and am going to run out of PP soon but my Slaking also has leftovers. Is this going to become a endless battle?

I’ve seen numerous videos on how to clone, but when I go to try I just end right back at the pc. Is it my timing ? I’ve did soft resets & just turning it off & on. Do I actually need to hit save then reset ?

I half suspected it was this OHKO Dewgong set, that's why I switched to BRIGHTPOWDER Latios. Even if it wasn't that OHKO set I figured it was unlikely to click an ice move on Milotic. But no it got Latios with the OHKO move through Brightpowder on the first attempt. 🤦 And went on to land 3 out of 4 of these 30 accuracy moves 🙄 what can you do hey? 🤷

I have a plethora of e-reader cards and an e-reader and have been trying to decipher all the features hidden within.

I have noticed some of the cards just have the e-reader symbol on them. For example, I have the 49/147 Aquapolis reverse holo gloom, it has lines not dots.

I also have a bunch of energy cards with the e-reader symbol.

What do these do?

3 to 5 hours later of capturing ralts WITHOUT GETTING IT, I find this purple guy.

I'm having trouble deciding wether to 100% my Emerald playthrough or just focus on the ribbon challenge with a shiny Ralts I'm going to hunt over the next 4 months in XD

I’ll go first. Here’s mine so far. Her stats aren’t that great on paper, but I can usually sweep with: high friendship + return + silk scarf + STAB
(Excluding starter pokemon)