In the video, you point out how the ability Compound Eyes makes wild pokemon more likely to hold items, but that's just one of several abilities which in Emerald affect wild encounters when the pokemon is in the first party slot: Illuminate & Arena Trap increase the encounter rate; Quick Feet, Stench, White Smoke, Intimidate, & Keen Eye lower the encounter rate; Hustle, Pressure & Vital Spirit make wild pokemon more likely to be the highest level possible; Sticky Hold & Suction Cups increase the likelihood of a Fishing Bite; and the most interesting is Magnet Pull, which increases the likelihood of encountering steel types. Though, in Emerald this is only relevant for Skarmory and Mawile.
i havent watched the video yet - so idk if its in here, but the best way to train EVs in game is to use the Ditto cave in emerald and use pokemon that give 3 IVs in a stat. (lead pokemon for IVs, switch to EV pokemon, ditto becomes the pokemon and now has the same EV yield as say, kyogre.) i traied up my pokemon for the battle frontier relatively fast using this method after finishing breeding
If you hate your life, Lightning rod makes you get more phone calls in emerald. In emerald, a Synchronize ability in the first party slot will have increased odds for finding the same nature as the ability pokemon (even if the sychronize pokemon is fainted!) The pickup zigzagoons are nice in R/S but in emerald, what items they can pick up is scaled down to their level, which is probably low. ie fewer rare candies and nuggs. Not including the post e4 was meh because it skips over the Battlr Tower PC cloning glitch, the feature that convinced me to take on the Frontier in the first place! Cloning 5 rare candies/HP Ups/PP Maxs per minute and a half is a godsend
@@donlyphans7801 only 5? You can clone as many as once as box spaces. The glitch works as the partial half save you reset on saves your bag and party and not your PC so giving items to PC mons and then saving then taking them off and then using multibattle half save you have a copy in your bag and in your pc mons
If you are out of repels, you can use CUT to cut the grass around you. If you're looking to move quickly through the routes with tall grass, you can even cut this grass too!
Corsola, chinchou, relicanth, and clamperl on Route 124 and 126 have a 5% chance of holding a shard (red, yellow, green, and blue respectively) which you can steal with Covet or Thief and trade them for evolution stones from the treasure hunter just outside of Mossdeep City. It's at least some way to farm stones if you need them.
Frisk only says if it has an item, compound eyes could be more helpful and it's available in gen 3. But to get a green sharp you really need some time, it took me more than 1 hour...
I have such a weak spot for gen 3 games. It was like they unlocked the holy grail of what they were missing, that music, the mechanics, the pixel graphics, the zone all just made three of the most iconic games I have ever played.
The first three gens are really burned into my memory! Yellow was my first game and first pokemon game, so I'll never forget that! Pokemon gold was the first game where I caught and used a legendary Pokemon! And sapphire was the first game where I kinda knew what I was doing 🤭 and the first game where I found (and learned about) a shiny! It was a lombre, right below fallarbor town. I named him Samba in anticipation of him evolving to ludicolo, but he never evolved because silly me never thought of using evolution stones 😂.
Fun fact the girl that gives you berries in Sootopolis City (6:26) is meant to be Masuda's daughter who was born shortly before the release of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.
Gen 1 had a very cool Easter egg in Pokemon Yellow: an old man referencing the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing. Plus, there's exactly 4 Moon Stones, 1 each for obtaining Clefable, Wigglytuff, Nidoking, and Nidoqueen respectively.
Tip; if you're looking for a dragon scale it's much easier to get them off of Bagon than horsea. It's the same chance for each, but encountering multiple Bagon is so much easier than horsea. Spent hours looking for one on horsea before I found out bagon have them too. It took 12 minutes after I went to meteor falls.
@@glam4663 yeah, but not everyone cares to get a kingdra for T&L and Juan. Personally if I'm going to have a kindgra on my team I'd like to raise Horsea up myself from earlier in the game (traded from another game) So if you want to play with a kindgra for more than the end game you'll want to get the dragon scale in a different game and trade it over, and if you do that it's so much more efficient to just get waterfall and go covet some bagon. It takes less time to start a new game and get 8 badges and get to the waterfall room than it does to get a dragon scale from a horsea from the time you get to mossdeep for the super rod.
These games were awesome in general. GB/GBC/GBA don't have as good sound cards as the DS, but hearing Pikachu's cry in Yellow and the LoZ theme song in Oracle of Seasons/Ages, especially after getting Ricky as an ally, hits hard for a 20 something gamer like me. First real exposure to both for me was ΩR and watching OoT playthroughs, but the GameBoy Color did them right.
I have some tips for speeding up the daily berry route. As for how you want to plan your route, that's up to you and how many patches you want to visit, but the more you do, the more this method will save you time. Typically you go to an area with berry trees growing in soft soil, and after collecting your berries in the area, you go to each individual tile and press A to open multiple text boxes. 'It's soft, loamy soil. Want to plant a BERRY?' > Yes (Menu pops up) '[You] planted one [berry] in the soft, loamy soil.' > Interacts again 'One [berry] was planted here.' 'Want to water the [berry] with the WAILMER PAIL?' > Yes '[You] watered the [berry].' 'The plant seems to be delighted.' Per tile. This is PER TILE! To save time, you can instead open the Start Menu, and go to the berries pouch. Because the menus have memory, the cursor and active bag slot are the same the next time you open the menu. Also the menus are pretty responsive! In the berries pouch, you can select a berry and select 'USE'. Boom, done. As for the Wailmer Pail, you can register it to the Select Button. It saves so much time, and can easily be changed back to whatever you want later (eg, the Bicycle)
The most obscure thing I know about Hoenn is there are two unique seedots who are called 'Dots'. One is a trade in Rustboro, and the other is a contest opponent. I wonder if the translator forgot!
I've been trying to do Solo Runs of Emerald with every single stage Pokemon (up to Wallace anyway) so let me share a trick I've learned in that journey: 1. Catching a teleport mon can be very useful for the middle of the game. Badges 3ish to 5ish involve a good deal of backtracking, and having a Teleport mon can help with this. You can teleport right back to Mauville after encountering the villainous team at Meteor Falls, or teleport to Fallarbor once you beat Maxie if you want Return ASAP, or Teleport to Rustboro as soon as you beat Flannery, or right to Mauville after beating Norman. You set your teleport spot to whichever Pokemon Center you entered last, so if you want to heal, use the PC at the Day Care on Route 117 or the house in the North of Route 111, and plan your Pokemon Center visits carefully, cause its easy to mindlessly walk into them as soon as you see them!
This may be both a late and odd tip but still: Get the TM Sludge Bomb. Why is this a tip? It's a little weird to aquire: Once you have beaten Norman, head to Dewford. Go into the Community Center and talk to the people. Once you have beaten Norman a NPC will give you Sludge Bomb. And yes, that's unnecessarily hidden so most people don't know that they can aquire TM Sludge Bomb in this game at all.
You can breed Pokemon that know TM moves if you accidentally used it. Specifically there’s two ways: breeding with a compatible partner that already knows the move or simply breeding a male that knows the move with a compatible female that doesn’t. You can chain breed to allow a Pokemon to learn the move, so long as it falls within the same egg group link and isn’t Legendary/genderless.
Probably well known, but in emerald, you can Speed up Egg hatches by having a pokemon with the abilities flame body or magma armor in your party. There are multiple other overworld interactions with pokemon abilities, I just can't remember most of them. Most of them are probably unique to Emerald though. Also, Mach Bike is the best bike.
Compound eyes boosts held item chance, torkoal reduces wild encounters, sticky hold makes fishing easier, Our fav. HM slave fishes items from the ground, flamebody / magmaarmor hatches eggs at double the speed. Rivalry boosts the level of wild encounters slightly. Thats the ones out of my head
All out of battle effects for abilities were added in Emerald, except for abilities that are explicitly out of battle (i.e Pickup and Illuminate) Another useful ones to know are Static and Magnet Pull make Electric and Steel types more likely to appear, respectively. Synchronize gives you a 50% chance of encountering a wild Pokémon with the same nature as the Pokémon with that ability (note that it doesn't work on Legendaries in gen 3) Cute Charm makes it more likely to encounter a wild Pokémon of the opposite gender
there are 3 spots the newscaster trainer cycles everytime you beat them, its a double fight and gives a lot of exp and money, you can fight them infinitely if you know their spots, then after a ton of fights they might bug out and never teleport to another spot, when this happen, just change location/route and you can fight them again asap
After 255 wins they’ll forever be in the first spot you find them above Mauville 👍🏼. Sounds like a lot but once they sit there you can just bike up the road to the other route then back down for insanely fast exp
As a Pokemon veteran from its fledgling days I'm happy you taught me something new about the day care and the way moves are learned! You've earned my subscription!
I mostly just used Thief as a means of training those early-game Abra. Its Special in Gen 3, so it will do some really decent damage with Abra's Special Attack that early in the game
In Emerald Pickup was changed so Rare Candies are only obtained at level 21. But Zigzagoon in Route 119 are found at the twenties. Catch Six of them there!
This is a gross oversimplification of Emerald's pickup table overhaul. Level 21 is when Rare Candies first appear on the table, however, they're in the 4% bracket. By leveling up to 41 though, they enter the 10% bracket so you'll be finding them twice as often. 10% is the rate they'd appear in Ruby and Sapphire by default since the table isn't based on level in those games as well, so if you want to farm candies as efficiently as possible you can either farm in Ruby and Sapphire where the level doesn't affect pickup or you can level up to 41 and clone a team of pickup mons at the battle tower.
The secret bases are great for EV training or Leveling up. If you can swap data between two games you can have secret bases full of pokemon that increase the EV you want to train or you can have bases full of level 100 Blisseys. I forget how many secret bases can be swapped into Emerald.
Lel, basically had a racketeering scheme using Emerald: EV train with bases -> clone Rare Candies and EV trained Pkmn en masse at Battle Tower -> migrate to 4 (and then 5) -> DS trades with all the kids at school 🤌
Learned this while playing pokemon Emerald. Not really a hidden tip/trick but pokemon heal if you toss them in the PC boxes. You just have to kind of drag and drop them in and then take them back out. I found using this method of healing was really helpful between the time frame of beating your dad, 5th gym, and transitioning into the 6th gym. This is the time before you get fly and you have to battle trainers by the berry master's place and up towards the weather tower and then deal with team magma/aqua. The weather tower has a PC box so instead of traveling back to heal at any Pokemon center, you could just do this instead. May save you a few minutes here or there. I still use this method of heal even in other pokemon games where Pokemon centers are scarce but PC boxes are plenty. Hopefully this advice helps somebody!
In the weather center theres a child npc at a bed on the bottom floor towards the left that just heals you, theres several npc’s like that scattered around the map
@@parwes540talking to random NPCs is surprisingly powerful in these games, its just 80% of them have useless dialogue so I often don't bother. But the bed in the weather institute is so nice, unfortunately i discovered it after the PC healing trick that i used in several playthroughs. PC healing is still useful, just not necessarily in that particular location.
This is the first video I've seen from your channel, and I really enjoyed watching. I definitely had my memory jogged with a couple of bits and pieces, and learned about a lot of new trainers to steal items from!
Pokemon with suction cups ability will help you catch pokemon that are fished up more easily. Not sure if it increases the catching odds or the encounter odds though.
Amazing video there's one more tip: "Leaving starter Pokemon unevolved" Mudkip is not evolved learns hydro pump around the 40's. Maybe the same thing works for Torchic and treecko. Another one is heart scale farming can help learn level 1 moves. Sableye is a guaranteed way of beating Brawly in sapphire He can't touch sableye. Maybe you could've mentioned something about pokerus too.
@@raghavadoregowda2191 Trapinch is the same. I had a Flygon with Dig and DragonBreath. Takes a while though... I think most limited TMs can be learned naturally and then passed down if I remember right. I know Skitty learns Attract and Swellow learns Aerial Ace. Giga Drain is a TM as well, so it makes sense that they would hide it in Treecko's moveset like that.
In regards to Pickup, it's only in Emerald that the items are based on level, while in Ruby/Sapphire it's the same pool of items regardless of level This is important to note because in Emerald your Zigzagoon need to be level 11 or higher to be able to pick up a King's Rock and level 21 for Rare Candies Also worth noting that Lunatone is only available in Sapphire, so no Moonstone grinding if you are playing Ruby or Emerald
Awesome video!!! I learned a trick for Safari Zone, you don't need to walk in Safari Zone for catch Pokémon, you can use the move Sweet Scent, so you can find and catch pokémon without spending your steps :)
Haha that's what I did. I can never quite get the bike to work. I also remember rotating in place but I don't know if that actually not count for the steps.
@@AlwaysSleepy13 Exactly. It might take a little longer than just using Sweet Scent, but at least you don't have to keep a Pokemon around that knows it if it's not a part of your strategy.
You have mentioned the tips that I can come up with at the moment. There are always a few trainers in the Sootopolis gym who’s pokemon are holding a nugget. In RS there is a lady with a Seaking and in Emerald there are two trainers, one a lady with Seaking and a swimmer with two Luvdisc who are both holding a nugget. But yeah Thief is a huge help and zigzagoon with pickup as well!
This was a great watch, I would have sworn that the badge boosts were only a gen 1 thing. After 20 years of playing these games I'm still learning new stuff
Just in case anyone was curious, like I was after hearing the first entry on the list: Badge Boosts only are a thing till Gen IV. Gens I to II are 12.5% boosted and Gen III is 10%, Gen IV (and onward) has no boosts.
An !!Extremely!! Important distinction to make about pickup is that in Emerald, pickup works differently than it does in Ruby and Sapphire. In Emerald, the percent chance of finding specific items changes as a pickup Pokémon levels up, with the table of items you can find changing every ten levels. It is NOT like R/S, where there is a set list of items with set percentages that can be picked up. For example, a pickup Pokémon in Emerald can only pick up a King’s Rock starting at level 20, and it will not be able to pickup a Kings Rock after level 30 due to how the table changes. In R/S, picking up a Kings Rock is a 1% chance no matter what level the Pokémon is. Sorry for the long comment, I didn’t see this anywhere in the comments and I thought this was an important distinction to make. Hope this helps someone!
I'm playing omega ruby again but none of my Pokémon are able to take king's Rock they are all level 40 I have Gyarados lvl 49 Swampert lvl 45 Medicham lvl 44 Lairon lvl 41 Magneton lvl 40 Altaria lvl 40 And also have more Pokemons but no of them able to take this item 🤔
@@hoilala48 This is great. Ocassionally I'll grind in Emerald with a CompoundEyes/Thief user (mine is Yanma) and a team of L100 Linoone (also with Thief). I grind in the desert, where Sandshrew can hold Quick Claw, Trapinch can hold Soft Sand, and Cacnea can hold Poison Barb. They steal items decently often with CompoundEyes but the 5 Linoone are picking up items all the time too. You can heal at the woman in the house to the North. It's nice because you're paying more attention to the Wild Encounters you're stealing from, so when you get Leftovers or TM26 Earthquake it's a pleasant surprise you weren't expecting.
I always used the zigzagoon pickup for EV grinding. Fill your party with 5 of the little guys and your training pokemon in the front slot. Check every 3 or 4 battles and collect the rewards. By the time you are done you should have a nice pile of items.
@@Killbot70 I once attempted a Zigzagoon only run of Emerald. Couldn't get past Wattson and Magneton. Still, the fact that you have a Surf, Dig, AND Thunderbolt compatible Pokemon *that* early surprised me. One of the Slateport Tubers even has a Surf Zigzagoon in his lineup.
Make sure to expose them to this before the newer adventure games like Zelda. I was on my way to training up a future hall of famer but that Tears of the Kingdom is like crack. lol
i was 5 when i got pokemon blue. didn't fully understand everything i was reading but it was enough to progress through the game 😅i pretty much learned how to read from my pokemon and ocarina of time game guides. Prima game guides were the best
Something I've never seen mentioned anywhere. Apparently, by my account, Latias can appear from talking to trainers/one specific trainer (a nod to the movie where she could transform into humans). East of Mauville city i had one battle me after talking to that flower girl.
If you make sure to fight every trainer in every route including the sea ones after you get surf, you really don't have to do hardly any grinding in these games. How many pokémon are you trying to raise at one time? That might have something to do with it
If you're using a consistent team of 6 I totally agree, it's quite balanced in that way. I tend to use completely different teams depending on the next major fight, so this helps a lot, particularly when training for the Pokemon league
I have a full team with the ability pick up so every like 5 minutes of running around my entire party will be holding items like rare candys and I’ll take them and just keep walking around letting my Pokémon pick up items for me to use & sell 😂
Some good tips in here! I didn’t know the daycare always replaced the first move. I rarely used it because I was afraid it‘d delete all my good moves. My Umbreon was useless after I left it in the daycare in XD…
I've set up 8 Blissey bases and a Keckleon base for testing Hidden Power. I've been meaning to set up EV-Training bases too, but that's on hold for me until I redo them all. My Blissey bases were set up with no cheats/glitches/exploits but I have 17 bases in total and some of them were created on Save files that got just far enough in the game to make the secret base before being erased. Now that I have access to external tooling/cheating, I want to rearrange where my bases are placed, improve on the decorations within them, standardize the levels of my battling teams, and recreate FRLG teams and teams that were lost to time.
Agreed! Though I favor Covet on account of it having a base 40 PP which can be boosted to 64; it definitely goes a lot further in Meteor falls or diving among seaweed (shard hunting), since you don't have Frisk to identify which pokémon are holding something and which aren't.
That last tip is very clever! Been playing Pokemon Emerald more than a decade now and that technique could save up my time instead of turning back and forth with my handheld just to make my pokemon level up in the daycare hahaha. I can still remember myself falling asleep doing it, eventually, draining my gameboy unattended. No saved progress equals efforts wasted.
A very high level pokemon with "pick up" has a chance to obtain rare candy, and a couple of unpurchasable TMs (such as Earthquake). I made a habit of keeping my 2 max level Linoone's in party, when I run around in the world.
Good tips video, I definitely didn't know some of these. I also noticed your editing in this video was a lot more dynamic. Hopefully no spoilers on the Winona fight lol
The Pokeblock feeders in the Safari Zone lock your encounters to Pokemon that like that Pokeblock's flavor. Can't remember if it works on Pokemon encountered via Sweet Scent and if it interacts with Synchronize.
Of course there's the repel trick but here's an emulator only trick I call it "rapid fishing" What you need Any rod What you need to do 1. Cast out your rod like normal 2.wait for a bite 3.get the "A Pokémon is on the hook" text box 4. Save state 5. Press A to see your encounter 6. If you are unsatisfied with the encounter reload the save state 7. If you are satisfied with the encounter attempt to catch. How is this useful? Well say you are doing a nuzlocke and you have caught your slowpoke/slowbro, and caught Goldeen/seaking so you are in the safari zone and now you use the super rod to catch a Dratini. You can use the rapid fishing trick to get multiple chance at a Dratini/Dragonair with just one cast of the super rod Another one is shiny hunting
Really cool trick that I've never known about! Fishing is also just a pain in the ass on emulators because it's very difficult to speed the game up without missing the fish.
That AFK method also works for hatching eggs, though it only gets you to when the first one hatches. Having a Slugma (or other Flame Body or Magma Armor poke) anywhere in your party also speeds up eggs, but only from Emerald onward. Same exact thing works in Sinnoh too. Unova and Kalos not as much, but they have unobstructed circles you can go around endlessly by holding a single direction in the subway station and Lumiose. Additional Compoundeyes tip: The Compoundeyes poke only has to be in slot 1. The effect still works if it's fainted, so you can have Thief on something else and not need to switch. Though beginning in gen 4 there's an additional tactic: faint the Compoundeyes poke and then have something with Frisk and Thief in slot 2. This way you get items more often, and then as soon as you enter a battle it tells you if there's an item to steal.
Ahhh, nostalgia. I love everything about these games. The graphics, the vibrant atmosphere, the elegant simplicity of it all. S/G and HG/SS will always be my favorite games but these games are forever treasures. 💯
Mate, this video may be the best Pokémon tip video I have seen so far. I was not expecting to learn anything game changing, after all I am very experienced with the game, with all 4 stars on my trainer card with hundreds of hours of game + am a top contributor on a Pokémon Facebook group. Somehow I learned a lot! You have my gratitude, especially for the “grinding” move with the bike. All the best to you!
Found a Daycare exploit that dramatically decreased egg hatch times for me: *Note* : this only can be optimized on emulators with a toggle switch for fast forward. I use Lemuroid. Needed: Mach Bike. That's it. Just beneath the Rollout tutor is an unbroken line between Verdanturf and Route 118. It starts at the sign for the Battle Tent and goes all the way to a rock on the seaward edge of Route 118. Once the pokemon are in the Daycare, go back to Mauville and move directly below the Move Tutor (btw, don't use him, Marill learns Rollout naturally). Turn on Fast Forward and ride the Mach Bike directly left and right. DO NOT get off this line. Maxed my Tailow egg hatch speed this way. Can't wait to use Magma Armor to try for a Shiny.
I saw some of your recent TH-cam shorts covering these facts like the move deleter one in particular before I saw this video pop up in my recommended, so when you got to things like that I was like "Wait a minute did this guy just word for word take someone else's clip?" And then I checked my history and it was uploaded by you lol. Good video, genuinely quite informativeu
This was honestly an amazing video! Very well put together and I knew almost none of the information you shared in it 😮 especially considering 3rd gen is my favorite gen too, great work!
I actually knew about the badges' boost and got into all tutor moves on my first playthoroughs. However I had no idea that Zigzagoon could get me a King's Rock so early. Another obscure tip is to not only use Pokecubes onto rising, but also to capture on the Safari zone, as the cubes give you better chance of capture if the Pokemon has a good base stat on said characteristic.
I would like to add, that you can go to the left of Pacificlog and there's a 10% chance that the wild Horsea mentioned will hold dragon scales. (In case you didn't know, when playing a ROM of these games, you can trade with yourself to evolve pokemon.)
If you started with mudkip, catch a zubat near dewford, even without evolution it is a hard counter to your rival's starter, making the battle under the cycling road easier to get past.
The Berry Master's wife would give you one piece of a certain Pokeblock berry by saying a phrase to her. Forgot the phrases and some of the berries but this is the only way to get your starting Pamtre (I used it to get Milotic). The Durin and Watmel if iirc correctly need you to have Latios and Latias in your dex, respectively since you need their name in the phrase.
I didn't use TM Thief, but I used a Delcatty which learned Covet. Same thing. She steal your opponent pokemon's held item. I used to battle rich boy or lady. Stole some nuggets and cashed them out.
@@arifsetiawan9095 here's another deathblow to TM 46 Thief and to the Swagger move tutor: the Mightyena line has natural access to both moves. I dont know if it's a late evolution thing though, but knowing a free Dark-type STAB Covet is available is nice.
this video really made me want to replay emerald, I want to make an playthrough around beating each major fight with as little resistance as possible using every tool avilable. Early guts swellow and late Choarcoal + flamethrower tm + low hp torchic sounds like an good combo
Should note that Solrock (which you mentioned you can steal Sun Stones from) is exclusive to Ruby, and Lunatone (from which you can steal Moon Stones from) is exclusive to Sapphire. I never noticed that day-care move deletion trick before. Nice. And yes… I knew about pick up trick… it often helped me gain a few Ultra Balls WAY EARLIER in replays, thereby increasing my odds of catching an Abra on my first visit to Granite Cave without needing to lock it down (which I find an annoying thing that is comparable to wasting move slots on HMs useless in battle).
I love Thief. In Alpha Sapphire, I use it to steal; Heart Scales from Luvdisc, and Oran Berries from Gulpin. And in one occasion, Wide Lens from Sableye. Why waste my time getting 48 BP at the Battle Resort when I can just steal one from Sableye, I managed to steal 3 of em and gave them to my Dialga for its Roar of Time and my Palkia's Spacial Rend. So satisfying not having those moves miss half the time.
@@grumpygengar22 Yup! I thought it was cool getting the Wide Lens by other means, I immediately grabbed my Krookodile that knows Thief and went to the Ganite Cave to steal some Wide Lens lol
@@fridaypurples2441 In emerald those Gulpin can have Big Pearls you can pilfer. Still, good comment since I went through Omega Ruby without all this knowledge.
Zigzagoon party for Pickup was the best. Just Rare Candy so many Pokémon up after a bit. Just kept Mudkip as my primary Pokémon and just blitzed through everything. Plus Zigzagoon / Linoone learns most of the useful HM's. Think you're just missing out on Fly, Watefall, Dive and Flash? Had Sapphire, so would thief the Lunatone a lot. Trade with my brothers for Solrock's Sun Stones.
I used to do something similar. Back in the day, I beat Sapphire with just a Torchic and a team of Zigzagoon at least 3 times. By the time you get to the 8th Gym it's already in the low-to-mid 70s and you have around 25 Rare Candies, so it's very possible to have a Level 100 starter going into the 8th Gym.
the daycare method can be made even more efficient by running instead of using a bike. back in the day I used lego to build something that would keep up and B on my DS lite pressed (using a book as weight) and got countless pokemon to level 100 that way
The badge boost thing I knew, it's there is the instruction manual. Me and my dad once sat down trying to translate since I didn't spoke english. Also that happens in gen 2, that's litetally the only reward for beating Jasmine
I dont remember if warm body was in R,S,E. But if you are doing the bike on the slope way of leveling at daycare. Collect 5 eggs in your party and have warm body pokemon in the first slot. Speeds up the hatching.
Idk if its a lesser known but your mom gives you the amulte coin after beating wattson i believe? If you go visit her she will have a unique dialogue and give you the held item which doubles the money you get after a trainer battle. So go put the amulet coin on your first pkmn in line, and rematch the hell outta lady cindy and rich boy
There’s actually one more npc that gives a free berry everyday. At the north-most part of Route 111, there’s a girl by a couple of dirt patches that gives you the free berry. It makes 10 free berries a day.
On that last point: emulators also have a trick where if you alt tab, or click off the emulator, many of them will hold that input. Idk if this applies to GBA (It didn't when I tested VisualBoyAdvance), but I know it is true of DS emulators. This can be annoying if you are quickly tabbing out of the game to reply to a message only to realise you walked into a wall, but here it might be useful.
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What are some lesser known tips and tricks that you know about?
In the video, you point out how the ability Compound Eyes makes wild pokemon more likely to hold items, but that's just one of several abilities which in Emerald affect wild encounters when the pokemon is in the first party slot:
Illuminate & Arena Trap increase the encounter rate;
Quick Feet, Stench, White Smoke, Intimidate, & Keen Eye lower the encounter rate;
Hustle, Pressure & Vital Spirit make wild pokemon more likely to be the highest level possible;
Sticky Hold & Suction Cups increase the likelihood of a Fishing Bite;
and the most interesting is Magnet Pull, which increases the likelihood of encountering steel types. Though, in Emerald this is only relevant for Skarmory and Mawile.
i havent watched the video yet - so idk if its in here, but the best way to train EVs in game is to use the Ditto cave in emerald and use pokemon that give 3 IVs in a stat. (lead pokemon for IVs, switch to EV pokemon, ditto becomes the pokemon and now has the same EV yield as say, kyogre.)
i traied up my pokemon for the battle frontier relatively fast using this method after finishing breeding
If you hate your life, Lightning rod makes you get more phone calls in emerald.
In emerald, a Synchronize ability in the first party slot will have increased odds for finding the same nature as the ability pokemon (even if the sychronize pokemon is fainted!)
The pickup zigzagoons are nice in R/S but in emerald, what items they can pick up is scaled down to their level, which is probably low. ie fewer rare candies and nuggs.
Not including the post e4 was meh because it skips over the Battlr Tower PC cloning glitch, the feature that convinced me to take on the Frontier in the first place! Cloning 5 rare candies/HP Ups/PP Maxs per minute and a half is a godsend
@@donlyphans7801 only 5? You can clone as many as once as box spaces. The glitch works as the partial half save you reset on saves your bag and party and not your PC so giving items to PC mons and then saving then taking them off and then using multibattle half save you have a copy in your bag and in your pc mons
If you are out of repels, you can use CUT to cut the grass around you.
If you're looking to move quickly through the routes with tall grass, you can even cut this grass too!
Corsola, chinchou, relicanth, and clamperl on Route 124 and 126 have a 5% chance of holding a shard (red, yellow, green, and blue respectively) which you can steal with Covet or Thief and trade them for evolution stones from the treasure hunter just outside of Mossdeep City. It's at least some way to farm stones if you need them.
It's actually the only way to get a few of them IIRC. I remember having to farm a water stone for my Starmie
Thanks a million for this
Yo. That’s a 1/1 million kind of tip. Was frisk in gen 3?
@@bobjob2514 Unfortunately no, that was gen 4 and onward.
Frisk only says if it has an item, compound eyes could be more helpful and it's available in gen 3.
But to get a green sharp you really need some time, it took me more than 1 hour...
I have such a weak spot for gen 3 games. It was like they unlocked the holy grail of what they were missing, that music, the mechanics, the pixel graphics, the zone all just made three of the most iconic games I have ever played.
They started with the base on Ruby&Sapphire but the peak was Soulsilver&Heartgold ❤
@@Carcosahead no, firered and emerald are peak pokemon games.
@@JesseLegend149 💯
Gen 2 music was better but agreed on everything else.
The first three gens are really burned into my memory! Yellow was my first game and first pokemon game, so I'll never forget that! Pokemon gold was the first game where I caught and used a legendary Pokemon! And sapphire was the first game where I kinda knew what I was doing 🤭 and the first game where I found (and learned about) a shiny! It was a lombre, right below fallarbor town. I named him Samba in anticipation of him evolving to ludicolo, but he never evolved because silly me never thought of using evolution stones 😂.
Fun fact the girl that gives you berries in Sootopolis City (6:26) is meant to be Masuda's daughter who was born shortly before the release of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.
Such a cool Easter egg
Fascinating.
Gen 1 had a very cool Easter egg in Pokemon Yellow: an old man referencing the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing. Plus, there's exactly 4 Moon Stones, 1 each for obtaining Clefable, Wigglytuff, Nidoking, and Nidoqueen respectively.
I saw clampearl in underwater near sotopolis city in ruby version
Tip; if you're looking for a dragon scale it's much easier to get them off of Bagon than horsea. It's the same chance for each, but encountering multiple Bagon is so much easier than horsea. Spent hours looking for one on horsea before I found out bagon have them too. It took 12 minutes after I went to meteor falls.
Great tip!
But still for a kingdra you need an even rarer item called friends
Bagon can only be found in a waterfall accessible area. Horsea just need surf and the super rod.
@@glam4663 yeah, but not everyone cares to get a kingdra for T&L and Juan. Personally if I'm going to have a kindgra on my team I'd like to raise Horsea up myself from earlier in the game (traded from another game)
So if you want to play with a kindgra for more than the end game you'll want to get the dragon scale in a different game and trade it over, and if you do that it's so much more efficient to just get waterfall and go covet some bagon. It takes less time to start a new game and get 8 badges and get to the waterfall room than it does to get a dragon scale from a horsea from the time you get to mossdeep for the super rod.
Crazy factoid I didn't know about Tate and Liza until recently: Tate's a GUY. Yes, they're fraternal twins.
The fact that these games are so old and theres still so much stuff to talk about it 20 years later
Gen 3 best gen you earned a subscriber
These games were awesome in general. GB/GBC/GBA don't have as good sound cards as the DS, but hearing Pikachu's cry in Yellow and the LoZ theme song in Oracle of Seasons/Ages, especially after getting Ricky as an ally, hits hard for a 20 something gamer like me. First real exposure to both for me was ΩR and watching OoT playthroughs, but the GameBoy Color did them right.
I have some tips for speeding up the daily berry route.
As for how you want to plan your route, that's up to you and how many patches you want to visit, but the more you do, the more this method will save you time.
Typically you go to an area with berry trees growing in soft soil, and after collecting your berries in the area, you go to each individual tile and press A to open multiple text boxes.
'It's soft, loamy soil. Want to plant a BERRY?'
> Yes
(Menu pops up)
'[You] planted one [berry] in the soft, loamy soil.'
> Interacts again
'One [berry] was planted here.'
'Want to water the [berry] with the WAILMER PAIL?'
> Yes
'[You] watered the [berry].'
'The plant seems to be delighted.'
Per tile. This is PER TILE!
To save time, you can instead open the Start Menu, and go to the berries pouch. Because the menus have memory, the cursor and active bag slot are the same the next time you open the menu. Also the menus are pretty responsive!
In the berries pouch, you can select a berry and select 'USE'. Boom, done. As for the Wailmer Pail, you can register it to the Select Button. It saves so much time, and can easily be changed back to whatever you want later (eg, the Bicycle)
That's awesome!
I got super excited when I figured this out when I played! Makes a huge difference when you're trying to farm berries!
Holy Heck, I didn't know about this trick!
Woah
good one!
The most obscure thing I know about Hoenn is there are two unique seedots who are called 'Dots'. One is a trade in Rustboro, and the other is a contest opponent. I wonder if the translator forgot!
I've been trying to do Solo Runs of Emerald with every single stage Pokemon (up to Wallace anyway) so let me share a trick I've learned in that journey:
1. Catching a teleport mon can be very useful for the middle of the game. Badges 3ish to 5ish involve a good deal of backtracking, and having a Teleport mon can help with this. You can teleport right back to Mauville after encountering the villainous team at Meteor Falls, or teleport to Fallarbor once you beat Maxie if you want Return ASAP, or Teleport to Rustboro as soon as you beat Flannery, or right to Mauville after beating Norman. You set your teleport spot to whichever Pokemon Center you entered last, so if you want to heal, use the PC at the Day Care on Route 117 or the house in the North of Route 111, and plan your Pokemon Center visits carefully, cause its easy to mindlessly walk into them as soon as you see them!
Great tip!
Fucking genius mate!
Thx 💯
what is a teleport mon??
@@Andreatuzze
A pokemon that has the move teleport like Abra or Ralts in RSE
What is a solo run?? 1 pokemon? Sounds dope any tips
This may be both a late and odd tip but still: Get the TM Sludge Bomb.
Why is this a tip?
It's a little weird to aquire:
Once you have beaten Norman, head to Dewford. Go into the Community Center and talk to the people. Once you have beaten Norman a NPC will give you Sludge Bomb.
And yes, that's unnecessarily hidden so most people don't know that they can aquire TM Sludge Bomb in this game at all.
Yeah this is a very good tip. I probably missed it for 4 or 5 playthroughs before I accidentally stumbled upon it.
Yeah, irealize it late already
You can breed Pokemon that know TM moves if you accidentally used it.
Specifically there’s two ways: breeding with a compatible partner that already knows the move or simply breeding a male that knows the move with a compatible female that doesn’t. You can chain breed to allow a Pokemon to learn the move, so long as it falls within the same egg group link and isn’t Legendary/genderless.
Probably well known, but in emerald, you can Speed up Egg hatches by having a pokemon with the abilities flame body or magma armor in your party. There are multiple other overworld interactions with pokemon abilities, I just can't remember most of them. Most of them are probably unique to Emerald though. Also, Mach Bike is the best bike.
Compound eyes boosts held item chance, torkoal reduces wild encounters, sticky hold makes fishing easier, Our fav. HM slave fishes items from the ground, flamebody / magmaarmor hatches eggs at double the speed. Rivalry boosts the level of wild encounters slightly. Thats the ones out of my head
All out of battle effects for abilities were added in Emerald, except for abilities that are explicitly out of battle (i.e Pickup and Illuminate)
Another useful ones to know are Static and Magnet Pull make Electric and Steel types more likely to appear, respectively.
Synchronize gives you a 50% chance of encountering a wild Pokémon with the same nature as the Pokémon with that ability (note that it doesn't work on Legendaries in gen 3)
Cute Charm makes it more likely to encounter a wild Pokémon of the opposite gender
there are 3 spots the newscaster trainer cycles everytime you beat them, its a double fight and gives a lot of exp and money, you can fight them infinitely if you know their spots, then after a ton of fights they might bug out and never teleport to another spot, when this happen, just change location/route and you can fight them again asap
I definitely used them to level up all of my Pokémon. Just using earthquake quick wins.
After 255 wins they’ll forever be in the first spot you find them above Mauville 👍🏼. Sounds like a lot but once they sit there you can just bike up the road to the other route then back down for insanely fast exp
As a Pokemon veteran from its fledgling days I'm happy you taught me something new about the day care and the way moves are learned! You've earned my subscription!
I mostly just used Thief as a means of training those early-game Abra. Its Special in Gen 3, so it will do some really decent damage with Abra's Special Attack that early in the game
In Emerald Pickup was changed so Rare Candies are only obtained at level 21. But Zigzagoon in Route 119 are found at the twenties. Catch Six of them there!
But for R/S it can be any level so catch 6 Zigzagoon for an easy cheese
This is a gross oversimplification of Emerald's pickup table overhaul. Level 21 is when Rare Candies first appear on the table, however, they're in the 4% bracket. By leveling up to 41 though, they enter the 10% bracket so you'll be finding them twice as often. 10% is the rate they'd appear in Ruby and Sapphire by default since the table isn't based on level in those games as well, so if you want to farm candies as efficiently as possible you can either farm in Ruby and Sapphire where the level doesn't affect pickup or you can level up to 41 and clone a team of pickup mons at the battle tower.
Rare candy ok. But emerald makes getting the more rare pp up a minimum lvl 81. And it's still super rare.. I love pp up. So hard to get.
Then why is my level 4 zigzagoons getting candy on emerald?
Still to this day, I wish Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire had more Pokemon Emerald features.
Wdym?
not having battle frontier was a sin
The secret bases are great for EV training or Leveling up. If you can swap data between two games you can have secret bases full of pokemon that increase the EV you want to train or you can have bases full of level 100 Blisseys. I forget how many secret bases can be swapped into Emerald.
Lel, basically had a racketeering scheme using Emerald:
EV train with bases -> clone Rare Candies and EV trained Pkmn en masse at Battle Tower -> migrate to 4 (and then 5) -> DS trades with all the kids at school 🤌
Learned this while playing pokemon Emerald. Not really a hidden tip/trick but pokemon heal if you toss them in the PC boxes. You just have to kind of drag and drop them in and then take them back out. I found using this method of healing was really helpful between the time frame of beating your dad, 5th gym, and transitioning into the 6th gym. This is the time before you get fly and you have to battle trainers by the berry master's place and up towards the weather tower and then deal with team magma/aqua. The weather tower has a PC box so instead of traveling back to heal at any Pokemon center, you could just do this instead. May save you a few minutes here or there. I still use this method of heal even in other pokemon games where Pokemon centers are scarce but PC boxes are plenty. Hopefully this advice helps somebody!
In the weather center theres a child npc at a bed on the bottom floor towards the left that just heals you, theres several npc’s like that scattered around the map
You can heal on the bed at the weather building
@@parwes540talking to random NPCs is surprisingly powerful in these games, its just 80% of them have useless dialogue so I often don't bother.
But the bed in the weather institute is so nice, unfortunately i discovered it after the PC healing trick that i used in several playthroughs. PC healing is still useful, just not necessarily in that particular location.
This is the first video I've seen from your channel, and I really enjoyed watching.
I definitely had my memory jogged with a couple of bits and pieces, and learned about a lot of new trainers to steal items from!
Pokemon with suction cups ability will help you catch pokemon that are fished up more easily. Not sure if it increases the catching odds or the encounter odds though.
That's an interesting secondary effect
Amazing video there's one more tip: "Leaving starter Pokemon unevolved"
Mudkip is not evolved learns hydro pump around the 40's.
Maybe the same thing works for Torchic and treecko.
Another one is heart scale farming can help learn level 1 moves.
Sableye is a guaranteed way of beating Brawly in sapphire He can't touch sableye.
Maybe you could've mentioned something about pokerus too.
Idk about torchik but treeko learns giga drain at a high level whereas sceptile doesnt
@@raghavadoregowda2191 Trapinch is the same. I had a Flygon with Dig and DragonBreath. Takes a while though...
I think most limited TMs can be learned naturally and then passed down if I remember right. I know Skitty learns Attract and Swellow learns Aerial Ace. Giga Drain is a TM as well, so it makes sense that they would hide it in Treecko's moveset like that.
In regards to Pickup, it's only in Emerald that the items are based on level, while in Ruby/Sapphire it's the same pool of items regardless of level
This is important to note because in Emerald your Zigzagoon need to be level 11 or higher to be able to pick up a King's Rock and level 21 for Rare Candies
Also worth noting that Lunatone is only available in Sapphire, so no Moonstone grinding if you are playing Ruby or Emerald
True!
You can use it for Jigglypuff and Skitty if you aim to collect Pokedex
Awesome video!!! I learned a trick for Safari Zone, you don't need to walk in Safari Zone for catch Pokémon, you can use the move Sweet Scent, so you can find and catch pokémon without spending your steps :)
That's awesome! I always forget about Sweet Scent and usually write it off but it does have its uses.
Even better yet, using the acro bike to jump in one spot will also do the trick without constantly going into the menu
Haha that's what I did. I can never quite get the bike to work. I also remember rotating in place but I don't know if that actually not count for the steps.
@@nunyabiznes33 rotating didn't count as steps
@@AlwaysSleepy13 Exactly. It might take a little longer than just using Sweet Scent, but at least you don't have to keep a Pokemon around that knows it if it's not a part of your strategy.
In ruby there’s no leveling up for nuggets and rare candies nuggets are 4% chance 1% for rare candies
You have mentioned the tips that I can come up with at the moment. There are always a few trainers in the Sootopolis gym who’s pokemon are holding a nugget. In RS there is a lady with a Seaking and in Emerald there are two trainers, one a lady with Seaking and a swimmer with two Luvdisc who are both holding a nugget.
But yeah Thief is a huge help and zigzagoon with pickup as well!
@@ThibsyCube I got incredibly lucky: Grimer in Fiery Path, holding a Nugget. I didn't think it was even possible!
This was a great watch, I would have sworn that the badge boosts were only a gen 1 thing. After 20 years of playing these games I'm still learning new stuff
Just in case anyone was curious, like I was after hearing the first entry on the list: Badge Boosts only are a thing till Gen IV. Gens I to II are 12.5% boosted and Gen III is 10%, Gen IV (and onward) has no boosts.
I knew about nearly all of these tips, aside from Compound Eyes boosting the wild Pokémon's chance of holding an item. Cool video! 👍🏻
An !!Extremely!! Important distinction to make about pickup is that in Emerald, pickup works differently than it does in Ruby and Sapphire.
In Emerald, the percent chance of finding specific items changes as a pickup Pokémon levels up, with the table of items you can find changing every ten levels. It is NOT like R/S, where there is a set list of items with set percentages that can be picked up. For example, a pickup Pokémon in Emerald can only pick up a King’s Rock starting at level 20, and it will not be able to pickup a Kings Rock after level 30 due to how the table changes. In R/S, picking up a Kings Rock is a 1% chance no matter what level the Pokémon is.
Sorry for the long comment, I didn’t see this anywhere in the comments and I thought this was an important distinction to make. Hope this helps someone!
I'm playing omega ruby again but none of my Pokémon are able to take king's Rock they are all level 40
I have
Gyarados lvl 49
Swampert lvl 45
Medicham lvl 44
Lairon lvl 41
Magneton lvl 40
Altaria lvl 40
And also have more Pokemons but no of them able to take this item 🤔
According to Bulbapedia, a level 90+ pickup has a 1% chance of picking up the TM for Earthquake. Neat!
@@hoilala48 but my Swampert learned Earthquake in omega ruby 😀✌️
@@hoilala48 This is great. Ocassionally I'll grind in Emerald with a CompoundEyes/Thief user (mine is Yanma) and a team of L100 Linoone (also with Thief).
I grind in the desert, where Sandshrew can hold Quick Claw, Trapinch can hold Soft Sand, and Cacnea can hold Poison Barb.
They steal items decently often with CompoundEyes but the 5 Linoone are picking up items all the time too. You can heal at the woman in the house to the North.
It's nice because you're paying more attention to the Wild Encounters you're stealing from, so when you get Leftovers or TM26 Earthquake it's a pleasant surprise you weren't expecting.
Raising Pokemon in the daycare can be pretty expensive, but now knowing that we can take advantage of the 1% that should not be a problem.
I always used the zigzagoon pickup for EV grinding. Fill your party with 5 of the little guys and your training pokemon in the front slot. Check every 3 or 4 battles and collect the rewards. By the time you are done you should have a nice pile of items.
If zigzagon is lvl 91+ it gives really good items
@@Killbot70 I once attempted a Zigzagoon only run of Emerald. Couldn't get past Wattson and Magneton. Still, the fact that you have a Surf, Dig, AND Thunderbolt compatible Pokemon *that* early surprised me. One of the Slateport Tubers even has a Surf Zigzagoon in his lineup.
Great video on the most common knowledge that quite literally anyone who has played old Pokemon knows!
Waiting for my 4 year old daughter to be able to read well enough to enjoy this masterpiece.
Started playing GBA Pokemon when I was 7, I'm 27 now :)
I'm in the same boat with my 2 year old son! Can't wait for him to be old enough to try them out
Make sure to expose them to this before the newer adventure games like Zelda. I was on my way to training up a future hall of famer but that Tears of the Kingdom is like crack. lol
i was 5 when i got pokemon blue. didn't fully understand everything i was reading but it was enough to progress through the game 😅i pretty much learned how to read from my pokemon and ocarina of time game guides. Prima game guides were the best
Something I've never seen mentioned anywhere. Apparently, by my account, Latias can appear from talking to trainers/one specific trainer (a nod to the movie where she could transform into humans). East of Mauville city i had one battle me after talking to that flower girl.
Doing a Saphire Nuzlock atm, and this was unbelievably helpful. Thanks 🎉
Awesome! Good luck with your run!
I've played Pokemon Emerald dozens of times since I was a kid and never knew about the gym badges stat boost, that blew my mind already
Every tip you told about was about something i didn't even know existed in the game
The berry tips will be incredibly useful!
If you make sure to fight every trainer in every route including the sea ones after you get surf, you really don't have to do hardly any grinding in these games. How many pokémon are you trying to raise at one time? That might have something to do with it
If you're using a consistent team of 6 I totally agree, it's quite balanced in that way. I tend to use completely different teams depending on the next major fight, so this helps a lot, particularly when training for the Pokemon league
also outside of the move Thief. If you raise a skitty, it learns the move Covet, which works the exact same way
I have a full team with the ability pick up so every like 5 minutes of running around my entire party will be holding items like rare candys and I’ll take them and just keep walking around letting my Pokémon pick up items for me to use & sell 😂
Some good tips in here! I didn’t know the daycare always replaced the first move. I rarely used it because I was afraid it‘d delete all my good moves.
My Umbreon was useless after I left it in the daycare in XD…
Yeah it was a real game changer for me.
Wdym in XD there’s a move tutor in mt battle you Can relearn all the moves your Pokémon learned or forgot
If you have a friend or another copy of the game you can have a full team of level 100 blisseys to get max exp per battle possible with secret bases.
I've set up 8 Blissey bases and a Keckleon base for testing Hidden Power. I've been meaning to set up EV-Training bases too, but that's on hold for me until I redo them all.
My Blissey bases were set up with no cheats/glitches/exploits but I have 17 bases in total and some of them were created on Save files that got just far enough in the game to make the secret base before being erased.
Now that I have access to external tooling/cheating, I want to rearrange where my bases are placed, improve on the decorations within them, standardize the levels of my battling teams, and recreate FRLG teams and teams that were lost to time.
I found a nugget with my Zigzagoon before the 1st gym in my Nuzlocke, I didn't know this was possible 😄
This is a really good video, alot of these tip videos tend to include the same tips and information, but your tips are unique and really useful!
Agreed! Though I favor Covet on account of it having a base 40 PP which can be boosted to 64; it definitely goes a lot further in Meteor falls or diving among seaweed (shard hunting), since you don't have Frisk to identify which pokémon are holding something and which aren't.
Damn 64 PP is actually crazy haha. I never thought it would go that high!
Excellent video! Wild how many of these I haven’t been taking advantage of despite several thousand hours of gameplay
I felt the same way for a long time haha
That last tip is very clever! Been playing Pokemon Emerald more than a decade now and that technique could save up my time instead of turning back and forth with my handheld just to make my pokemon level up in the daycare hahaha. I can still remember myself falling asleep doing it, eventually, draining my gameboy unattended. No saved progress equals efforts wasted.
A very high level pokemon with "pick up" has a chance to obtain rare candy, and a couple of unpurchasable TMs (such as Earthquake). I made a habit of keeping my 2 max level Linoone's in party, when I run around in the world.
Good tips video, I definitely didn't know some of these. I also noticed your editing in this video was a lot more dynamic. Hopefully no spoilers on the Winona fight lol
Thief is so underrated in older Pokemon games. I remember spending hours in Platinum trying to steal a Lucky Egg from wild Chansey.
The Pokeblock feeders in the Safari Zone lock your encounters to Pokemon that like that Pokeblock's flavor. Can't remember if it works on Pokemon encountered via Sweet Scent and if it interacts with Synchronize.
That one is really interesting! I wonder how applicable that is in Nuzlockes.
Of course there's the repel trick but here's an emulator only trick I call it "rapid fishing"
What you need
Any rod
What you need to do
1. Cast out your rod like normal
2.wait for a bite
3.get the "A Pokémon is on the hook" text box
4. Save state
5. Press A to see your encounter
6. If you are unsatisfied with the encounter reload the save state
7. If you are satisfied with the encounter attempt to catch.
How is this useful?
Well say you are doing a nuzlocke and you have caught your slowpoke/slowbro, and caught Goldeen/seaking so you are in the safari zone and now you use the super rod to catch a Dratini. You can use the rapid fishing trick to get multiple chance at a Dratini/Dragonair with just one cast of the super rod
Another one is shiny hunting
Really cool trick that I've never known about! Fishing is also just a pain in the ass on emulators because it's very difficult to speed the game up without missing the fish.
@@themegagamer6086😂 you my hero bro I emulate Emerald. No more Shiny Name Glitch for me!
Glad I saw this AFTER my ruby nuzlocke
That HM daycare tip is hella useful.
That AFK method also works for hatching eggs, though it only gets you to when the first one hatches. Having a Slugma (or other Flame Body or Magma Armor poke) anywhere in your party also speeds up eggs, but only from Emerald onward. Same exact thing works in Sinnoh too. Unova and Kalos not as much, but they have unobstructed circles you can go around endlessly by holding a single direction in the subway station and Lumiose.
Additional Compoundeyes tip: The Compoundeyes poke only has to be in slot 1. The effect still works if it's fainted, so you can have Thief on something else and not need to switch. Though beginning in gen 4 there's an additional tactic: faint the Compoundeyes poke and then have something with Frisk and Thief in slot 2. This way you get items more often, and then as soon as you enter a battle it tells you if there's an item to steal.
Ahhh, nostalgia. I love everything about these games. The graphics, the vibrant atmosphere, the elegant simplicity of it all. S/G and HG/SS will always be my favorite games but these games are forever treasures. 💯
Mate, this video may be the best Pokémon tip video I have seen so far. I was not expecting to learn anything game changing, after all I am very experienced with the game, with all 4 stars on my trainer card with hundreds of hours of game + am a top contributor on a Pokémon Facebook group.
Somehow I learned a lot! You have my gratitude, especially for the “grinding” move with the bike. All the best to you!
Awesome! I'm glad you found it helpful!
Your editing has definitely improved and it really shows in this video.
Thank you!
Found a Daycare exploit that dramatically decreased egg hatch times for me:
*Note* : this only can be optimized on emulators with a toggle switch for fast forward. I use Lemuroid.
Needed: Mach Bike. That's it.
Just beneath the Rollout tutor is an unbroken line between Verdanturf and Route 118. It starts at the sign for the Battle Tent and goes all the way to a rock on the seaward edge of Route 118. Once the pokemon are in the Daycare, go back to Mauville and move directly below the Move Tutor (btw, don't use him, Marill learns Rollout naturally). Turn on Fast Forward and ride the Mach Bike directly left and right. DO NOT get off this line. Maxed my Tailow egg hatch speed this way. Can't wait to use Magma Armor to try for a Shiny.
I saw some of your recent TH-cam shorts covering these facts like the move deleter one in particular before I saw this video pop up in my recommended, so when you got to things like that I was like "Wait a minute did this guy just word for word take someone else's clip?" And then I checked my history and it was uploaded by you lol. Good video, genuinely quite informativeu
Thank you haha
This was honestly an amazing video! Very well put together and I knew almost none of the information you shared in it 😮 especially considering 3rd gen is my favorite gen too, great work!
Compound Eyes only work from Emerald onwards. Emerald is where many encounter related secondary effects of abilities introduced.
I can't believe TH-cam recommended this video to me literally the day after I finished my Emerald run
I'm going to play through the original Hoenn games with my brother and his daughter, so these will be pretty helpful.
Awesome!
It’s always cool to find out new things about the games I love
I actually knew about the badges' boost and got into all tutor moves on my first playthoroughs.
However I had no idea that Zigzagoon could get me a King's Rock so early.
Another obscure tip is to not only use Pokecubes onto rising, but also to capture on the Safari zone, as the cubes give you better chance of capture if the Pokemon has a good base stat on said characteristic.
I would like to add, that you can go to the left of Pacificlog and there's a 10% chance that the wild Horsea mentioned will hold dragon scales. (In case you didn't know, when playing a ROM of these games, you can trade with yourself to evolve pokemon.)
The last tip brings me back. I used that exact trick in Sapphire and a similar trick in FRLG using the arrow tiles in one of Team Rocket hideouts.
That's awesome! I'll have to remember that for FRLG when I get to those
Emerald also has the bug where you can CUT tall grass to avoid wild Pokemon battles
Thats not a bug. That was a thing even in gen 1.
If you started with mudkip, catch a zubat near dewford, even without evolution it is a hard counter to your rival's starter, making the battle under the cycling road easier to get past.
For thief it’s awesome using it in HG/SS on koga’s muk with the mold breaker ability and you can steal his black sludge
OMG thank you so much, i tought my ralts flash and instantly regreted it, thank you sm
I’ve been playing these games my entire life and somehow missed the Hidden Power vendor in Slateport. Truly a game-changer.
The Berry Master's wife would give you one piece of a certain Pokeblock berry by saying a phrase to her. Forgot the phrases and some of the berries but this is the only way to get your starting Pamtre (I used it to get Milotic). The Durin and Watmel if iirc correctly need you to have Latios and Latias in your dex, respectively since you need their name in the phrase.
Yeah the Pamtre berry is huge.
This video was better than did you know gaming
bro the last one is genius
I didn't use TM Thief, but I used a Delcatty which learned Covet.
Same thing. She steal your opponent pokemon's held item. I used to battle rich boy or lady. Stole some nuggets and cashed them out.
Yep, and Covet is just better too because it has a ton more PP when compared to Thief
@@arifsetiawan9095 here's another deathblow to TM 46 Thief and to the Swagger move tutor: the Mightyena line has natural access to both moves. I dont know if it's a late evolution thing though, but knowing a free Dark-type STAB Covet is available is nice.
this video really made me want to replay emerald, I want to make an playthrough around beating each major fight with as little resistance as possible using every tool avilable. Early guts swellow and late Choarcoal + flamethrower tm + low hp torchic sounds like an good combo
Should note that Solrock (which you mentioned you can steal Sun Stones from) is exclusive to Ruby, and Lunatone (from which you can steal Moon Stones from) is exclusive to Sapphire.
I never noticed that day-care move deletion trick before. Nice.
And yes… I knew about pick up trick… it often helped me gain a few Ultra Balls WAY EARLIER in replays, thereby increasing my odds of catching an Abra on my first visit to Granite Cave without needing to lock it down (which I find an annoying thing that is comparable to wasting move slots on HMs useless in battle).
All my favourite things to do! I never did the rubber band and pen trick however!
I love Thief. In Alpha Sapphire, I use it to steal; Heart Scales from Luvdisc, and Oran Berries from Gulpin. And in one occasion, Wide Lens from Sableye. Why waste my time getting 48 BP at the Battle Resort when I can just steal one from Sableye, I managed to steal 3 of em and gave them to my Dialga for its Roar of Time and my Palkia's Spacial Rend. So satisfying not having those moves miss half the time.
Very cool! Didn't realize you could get Wide Lens from Sableye. Learning something new every day!
@@grumpygengar22 Yup! I thought it was cool getting the Wide Lens by other means, I immediately grabbed my Krookodile that knows Thief and went to the Ganite Cave to steal some Wide Lens lol
@@fridaypurples2441 In emerald those Gulpin can have Big Pearls you can pilfer. Still, good comment since I went through Omega Ruby without all this knowledge.
Late to the party but great video. Im in the process of transferring pokemon from emerald to omega ruby so these tips help alot.
That bit about the daycare at the end was very interesting. Might try that sometime if i'm feeling evil
Zigzagoon party for Pickup was the best. Just Rare Candy so many Pokémon up after a bit. Just kept Mudkip as my primary Pokémon and just blitzed through everything. Plus Zigzagoon / Linoone learns most of the useful HM's. Think you're just missing out on Fly, Watefall, Dive and Flash?
Had Sapphire, so would thief the Lunatone a lot. Trade with my brothers for Solrock's Sun Stones.
I used to do something similar. Back in the day, I beat Sapphire with just a Torchic and a team of Zigzagoon at least 3 times. By the time you get to the 8th Gym it's already in the low-to-mid 70s and you have around 25 Rare Candies, so it's very possible to have a Level 100 starter going into the 8th Gym.
11:54 Seems to be fairly useful for breeding too.
Definitely!
using a rubber defeats the point of breeding.
the daycare method can be made even more efficient by running instead of using a bike. back in the day I used lego to build something that would keep up and B on my DS lite pressed (using a book as weight) and got countless pokemon to level 100 that way
That's awesome!
The badge boost thing I knew, it's there is the instruction manual.
Me and my dad once sat down trying to translate since I didn't spoke english.
Also that happens in gen 2, that's litetally the only reward for beating Jasmine
Bro this video would have been so useful 10 years ago
I dont remember if warm body was in R,S,E. But if you are doing the bike on the slope way of leveling at daycare. Collect 5 eggs in your party and have warm body pokemon in the first slot. Speeds up the hatching.
I'm a die hard 3rd genner and I definitely leaned something about my fav gen. That theif one is sick.
Idk if its a lesser known but your mom gives you the amulte coin after beating wattson i believe? If you go visit her she will have a unique dialogue and give you the held item which doubles the money you get after a trainer battle. So go put the amulet coin on your first pkmn in line, and rematch the hell outta lady cindy and rich boy
Ah, how did I miss it.
Thank you for reminding me about it.
Yeah i knew that
Woah. The Day Care , first slot move replacement just blew mind
Lol. And the runer band trick is hilarious. I will put this to great use
Lollll I remember doing the last one with the acro bike and leaving my Game Boy on overnight, leveled up my Pokemon sooo fast
If somehow you missed out on theif, both Linoone and Skitty can learn covet which accomplishes the same thing.
Yeah that is a nice fallback!
Even slakoth
Skarmory learns 3 different HMs that are very useful through the game
In this video:
Simple stuff I and many others have known for years, concerning games that haven't been relevant for as long...
Yep
There’s actually one more npc that gives a free berry everyday. At the north-most part of Route 111, there’s a girl by a couple of dirt patches that gives you the free berry. It makes 10 free berries a day.
I'll have to check that out
On that last point: emulators also have a trick where if you alt tab, or click off the emulator, many of them will hold that input.
Idk if this applies to GBA (It didn't when I tested VisualBoyAdvance), but I know it is true of DS emulators.
This can be annoying if you are quickly tabbing out of the game to reply to a message only to realise you walked into a wall, but here it might be useful.