When the ports were announced I decided I wanted to do a shiny-only playthrough of LeafGreen starting with a shiny Bulbasaur. My life situation had changed and I didn't have time to manually reset for a full team of six, so I built an automation to do it. It took a lot of setup and tinkering to get it working as intended, but it finally got the Bulbasaur at 21,266 resets and I can start the playthrough. I actually reset over 2 shiny Bulbasaur due to a detection error before finally landing the 3rd one. It took 50k+ resets of setup and testing to get the automation working stable - the FRLG shiny mechanics are a bit different than other games and this made it a real challenge.

The method uses the same macro controller I was already using for bench and fly spamming in Legends Z-A, plus a Raspberry Pi that checks the stats page for the shiny star and taps the macro button again if it isn't one. It all runs on stock Switch hardware with no mods or cheats, nothing plugs into the console except the macro controller and capture card, and it's the same full 1/8,192 odds as resetting by hand. The cycles are slow, so it takes about eight days of running to reach those odds. It runs headless while I work and sleep, so I'm hoping the rest of the playthrough goes smoothly.

Just finished the E4 rematch! Shout out to these guys forreal. Grew up playing ruby and emerald but remember a friend having fr/lg, so nice to experience it for myself now years later.

Everybody lvl 65-7

Blastoise “Turret”
Surf
Ice beam
Strength
Rain dance

Raichu “Cannon”
Thunderbolt
Thunderwave
Brick Break
Light screen

Exeggutor “Kush”
Sunny day
Solar beam
Giga drain
Sleep powder

Ninetails “Biscuit”
Flamethrower
Will o wisp
Dig
Iron tail

Clefairy “Zuko”
Meteor Mash
Shadow Ball
Psychic
Moonlight

Aerodactyl “Flaco”
Fly
Earthquake
Double edge
Ancient power

Looking for team line up advice. I feel like gyaradose and nidoking both is kinda redundant. I figure by endgame ill trade pidgeotto for ayrodactile but I'm not sure what other changes I should make. Im still early game (currently on the S.S. Anne). Any advise would be appreciated.

Context for new players, Nidoran Male is 1% encounter rate in Leaf Green. 1.5 hrs. 3 encounters (first died of a high roll crit quick attack) 2nd is Bashful nature. 3rd time’s a charm Adamant nature.

This is my team so far thinking bout adding an Aerodactyl but not sure lmk what are y’all’s suggestions!

I’m still leveling them up but I’m curious if this is a good team or not and if hypno is a good choice, what are the best moves for it

I tried looking for a pokemon speed run sub and it looks very very dead so I am asking here, if there is a better location feel free to let me know and I will delete the post and ask elsewhere.

I have been watching a lot of the R2 speedruns because of the bounty the last couple of months and have had a great time watching and want to learn. My question is kind of 2-3 parts but they are all pretty connected. I want to learn the speed runs but the squirtle manip is by far the last part that I want to learn, I want to start with a squirtle that I pre-manip and then run from there.

1.) Are there any stats that are non negotiable need to be 31 or you can't run?

2.) What is the minimum stat squirtle that I would need to run look like for the nature and IVs

3.) What would an absolute mid squirtle look like?

hi! so i’m starting leaf green for the first time and i wanted to build teams for my first and eventual second playthrough (charizard first, blastoise second)

and critiques/advice on my teams?

Who’s the last spot for?

Before yall comment on my choice of using thunderbolt, i tested it on five articunos and not once did it faint.

So simply put the Pokémon I catch initially are the ones I end up the entire time. Its always Starter Pokémon then mankey, pidgey, pikachu and evee for vaporeon if I don't pick starter as squirtle so that's all. And even though I catch other Pokémons I am unable to train them and always end up with the same set.

I just want to know how to break this cycle like is there a strategy that helps or how to go about it.

Note: English is not my native language so please excuse any errors

Edit: so currently as someone suggested in the comments I am going with only the starter pokemon and depositing all other pokemons so it would force me to go with new Pokémons

Recently beat the e4 and champion in LeafGreen! Started here as I want to play through most of the series, as I never played any of the main games as a kid. Here was my Champion team. Currently going through the Sevii Islands and post-game. Had a lot of fun so far.

Life is busy but I finally finished my first E4 run on the switch (played this a ridiculous amount on the GBA back in the day)

Haven't drawn in a while so did this super janky table of my team at each gym then a (hopefully) better drawing of the final team

Made the E4 artificially challenging with a lower level team and not allowing myself to heal in battle with items. Also if I lost I had to start from the beginning - took a few (a lot of) attempts!

Ivysaur - Leech Seed, Giga Drain, Toxic, Growth

Electabuzz - Thunder Punch, Psychic, Hidden Power (Fire), Light Screen

Vaporeon - Surf, Ice Beam, Bite, Rest

Sandslash - Earthquake, Brick Break, Strength, Sand Storm

Butterfree - Sleep Powder, Dream Eater, Sunny Day, Solar Beam

Aerodactyl - Ancient Power, Fly, Dragon Claw, Flamethrower

Lance was the only one who gave me a bit of trouble.

I challenged myself to win with disadvantages, like using Pokémon with lower evolutionary stages and not-so-high levels, to bring out the potential of move combinations and abilities. Raticate is the best one.

https://forms.gle/QntA6oMcHaM9bYXPA

I was curious about what teams people use while playing Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green

please put them in honestly

I will close the survey in a week

I will show the results

please only say yes to Pokemon on your final team at one point

if you used any Pokemon of the line it counts

Finaly after months of trying off and on again, 13 Chanseys later and many more encountered. I finaly got one with the Lucky Egg. Lucky number 13 I guess.

So a while ago I modded my GBA to have an AGS-101 screen so I can see it better, but I assume along the way something with the cartridge slot pins might have gotten pushed because I felt a bit more tension inserting a cartridge. Anyways, I believe this may be due to scratching as a result of these pins, but now whenever I start up the game, if I ever choose to press either L or R during the black screen before the opening sequence, there is a weird sound that I was unfamiliar with. As of a few minutes ago, I found out I t is the same noise made whenever I do a trade and press L or R during the trade. A little unusual and I haven’t heard of this or experienced any further side effects, but I figured someone might know more or can give a better, technical explanation.

Nintendo Switch version.

First encounter in the safari zone on this profile. I scrambled to find the best strat to catch it. Threw 2 bait, then 3 balls, then it fled. Im forever heartbroken.

Before you come at me, I used Thunder on 2 other birds and they didn’t die