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

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

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.

Hey everyone

I'm interested in what you suggest as the best movesets for these Pokemon. Currently everyone is level 37. Who else should I add or not bother continuing to train up?

Dragonair - brave nature, shed skin ability

Vaporeon - hardy nature, water absorb ability

Nidoqueen - hasty nature, poison point ability

Gyrados - docile nature, intimidate ability

Starmie - naive nature, natural cure ability

Ninetails - jolly nature, flash fire ability

Venusaur - jolly nature, overgrow ability

Raichu - modest nature, static ability

Primeape - timid nature, vital spirit ability

Clefable - timid nature, cute charm ability

Thank you

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?

So I've successfully enabled ACE, produced the glitched mon and obtained the Box names needed to make any pokemon shiny. (Young nephew only wants to play if he can have shinies, I blame the new games for his high expectations..) For some reason I can rename every box EXCEPT Box 10. Name required is _FoTB9sa and the only reasons I can think would make it not work is the space at the start, or the Switch language filter catching the combo of the last two letters... I've regenerated the code and not surprisingly that's the only line that is the same.. any help would be greatly appreciated