You mentioned that your Emerald isn't working even though you replaced the battery and I think I have the solution for you! Essentially, when you replaced the battery in your cart, it set the internal clock of the game back to 2000, and with the way the game is coded, berries wont start growing until you pass the date you started the file because it thinks negative time has passed since it started tracking for berries. If you have a DS with a GBA slot, you can buy a DS flash cart, upload a clock fixing program to it (there's a few of these online if you google), and you can use that to manually set the clock in your copy of Emerald to real time and allow berries to grow again
First of all, as always you did a very good job on this video, it was as entertaining as per usual which is actually insane considering how much content you put out lately, so huge probs to you! Second, i realized you inspired a whole lot of people making similar content around Pokemon (me aswell altough on twitch instead of youtube), which is so amazing to see! I wanna say thanks for bringing a whole new niche genre to Pokemon and legit reigniting my love for the game that has impacted my childhood and teenage years more than any other game ever!
glad to see you making content! Need to let me know when you streaming. Thank you for the comment, it means a lot hearing stuff like that. May sound weird but I always wanted to inspire others by making videos just like how people inspired me years ago. Never really thought it would happen!
There is something so special about having the best team made from some of your favorite pokemon in emerald or fr/lg... yeah you can accomplish this in modern games but nothing beats true hard work like this.
That’s a solid looking team pal! I’m really looking forward to seeing your improvements as a trainer that come from practicing with the best of the best. I did the same thing. I started my emerald frontier grind with a meta team in the battle tower. By using these common powerhouses I was able to learn the pokemon in the frontier and how they like to move - this knowledge allowed me to use my more niche favorites to win gold at the battle dome alongside my best pal Shedinja! After nearly a whole year, 11 different pokemon all trained and grinded up I managed to get my final gold symbol last friday! I’m now working on my 100 win streak in the tower and will only be using my shiny favorites, it’s gonna be tough but I know I can do it! Thanks for sharing your story nighthawk, it’s made me feel like I’m going through mine right alongside of you :) 2 notes: Giga Drain is special so that’s a good call on Gengar. You can fix your emerald berry issue by connecting it to colosseum or XD. Those games have a patch that auto downloads to the emerald and fixes it
13:20 You need to update the RTC. The day you changed the battery, the clock went back to january 2000 and it needs to catch up to the day the battery died for the events and berries to work
Another banger! btw if you ever EV train in speed and attack in emerald I suggest route 103. It has 100% probability of yielding useful EVs and you dont have to deal with pressure from shuppets. Also it is extremely faster with a fainted staryu, mach bike and white flute. And they are all lower level so you can almost immediately start using the macho brace :) Also if you like you can like gain 6 evs in like HP or something, Then get some in speed and then grind route 103 without counting the EVs until they give you the effort ribbon :) Edit: Just finished watching, Congratss!!!
Thank you for making so many amazing videos about the Battle Frontier. I really want to Ribbon Master the Shadow Pokémon (and others) in the near future so these videos are helping me being prepared for the grind. 😅 Keep making awesome videos!
Good job on the team! Just want to add a couple of thoughts: * Explosion on Metagross is useful because it gets rid of Curse users like Snorlax before they get too dangerous with the Curse boost. Meteor Mash will deal a lot of damage but it is 85% accurate and it can miss at a point where Snorlax can shrug off MM with a 2nd or 3rd Curse boost. * I would recommend replacing Rock Slide with Shadow Ball. It is Metagross best move to use against Dusclops and also against the Lati@s twins which based on the team, can beat Milotic if they carry Calm Mind or you are forced to DB with Gengar. Whatever Rock Slide hits for x2 damage has the same power as Meteor Mash with STAB factored in.
Awesome video, currently training those same Pokemon right now. Gotta say your videos have inspired me to take on the battle frontier and actually care about how I train my Pokemon, thanks for resparking my love for this game!
it's a staggering difference what changing a couple pokemon around makes, though as a fellow steelix enjoyer I appreciate your commitment to wanting to make it work long term. I'm sure you can strike the right balance between picking 'mons you like and not handicapping yourself too much in the process
I think it's a great team-very well-balanced. Metagross is really good and fits perfectly with Gengar since it covers it with its ability, and against a Swampert, switching it out and using Giga Drain guarantees victory. Milotic is also very strong; it used to be one of my toughest counters when I was trying to earn the gold medals. I hope you have good luck! P.S. I would use Explosion instead of Hyper Beam since it's a move that will help you weaken many Pokémon: Swampert, Latios, Milotic, Snorlax, etc.
Congrats my dude! Your victory has really inspired me to kick my Gen 3 100% playthrough into overdrive. Currenty watching your videos while trying to get my ideal Registeel on Sapphire (I'm trying to get the trainer card star for 50 wins at the battle tower but limiting myself to only using Pokémon available in the Hoenn Pokédex like when Ruby & Sapphire first released).
Big congrats on the gold. It's been really cool watching you develop your team & strategy from the start. No shame in using meta pokemon, the frontier is just exceptionally unforgiving especially the Tower in later rounds. I had a similar approach in the beginning of my journey and ended up saving my favorites like Sceptile, Blaziken and Flygon for certain levels in the Battle Pyramid where they could shine. In the end they all got some love and contributed to the gold! Wishing you good luck on your next run and looking forward to the next video!
Dude congratulations on gold! I’ve been grinding the dome as well and gotten to round 10 and lost to mistakes. Gengar, milo, and metagross is such a strong core. Cool to see you do it with a more “traditional” team
Hey kevin congratulations on your first gold medal! I have been following your channel for about 6 months and its awesome to see you finally using meta pokemon. I myself just recently claimed gold at the battle dome and battle tower! Even with meta pokemon the frontier is such a grind. I used a team of slaking, metagross, and gengar for a long time, but i was susceptible to fast fire types, so i swapped out gengar for starmie(my gengar also had destiny bond which is one of the best moves in the frontier). I like how your using gengar, milotic, and metagross though. Covers all your weaknesses. Fast fire types cant touch milotic especially bc of its high hp and spdef. I cant wait to see you conquer the battle tower with this meta team! Im working on the gold symbol for the battle factory currently.
Ur inspiration of these old games bring me back to playing it again (also saving up to buy the games again n start fresh). Also, i couldn’t help notice u had a Red Eyes Black Dragon Deck, plus that’s my lil brother fave card n his fave character is Joey in it.
I’ve been using Gengar, too! I run: Tbolt, Ice Punch, Psychic, and Destiny Bond with scope lens. I land crits often and when I expect to lose or get low on health, destiny bond. Also, you said Giga drain is physical. In gen 3, grass moves are all special.
Love it :) GoodLuck Nighthawk! Awesome Gengar 🙏 love seeing that anti water/ground role !! Destiny Bond was an awesome choice!! I've got it on my mega Bannette 😁
You put in the effort and I definitely think itll be worth it. There could be serious counters but i cant think of any that arent pseudo legendaries or actual legendaries. Definitely gonna achieve your gold medal goal this year 🤟🏻. Just a side note i finally got a shiny ho oh in hg yesterday, 50days 60+ hours and roughly 8,274 resets. So W's all around
7:54 giga train is not a physical move so it would go well on gengar to hit swampert. It's still 60 base power without stab so yeah swampert and maybe milotic (and rock/ground types) would be the only ones really worth using it on
19:06 currently doing this in heartgold!!! I've bred around 80-100 beldums as we speak, 1 has near perfect potential, like 29/30 iv in attack but I'm going for 31!
Changing the Emerald battery is only half the battle. Now you've gotta wait the entire time the clock was dead for it to start working again. Or start a new save.
I think this team is pretty solid, I got them using the following pokemon, which I think are the best to be able to wipe out whatever comes (normally I always used a wall from the list, I saw them as the wildcard to be able to save a lost battle, wearing down, tanking and hitting) Special attackers: - Latios/Latias - Zapdos - Raikou - Gengar - Clefable - Starmie - Kingdra - Moltres Physical attackers: - Ursaring - Shedinja - Snorlax - Tyranitar - Gyarados - Metagross - Tauros - Aerodactyl Walls, that can withstand everything, and can even sweep or hit hard or medium hard: - Swampert - Milotic - Suicune - Umbreon - Porygon 2 - Blissey - Clefable - Registeel
I still have my original cart from 5th grade, 2004 or 5? I only ever got 1 emblem and it's from the sexy seviper lady cus i fought her 1 time and then I saw her in the battle frontier arc and i wanted to beat her like ash and i had no idea what ev and ivs wete until black and white
I meant to add it to description of video. This is where I found it. Link to spreadsheet: www.reddit.com/r/PokemonEmerald/comments/16xbd0g/battle_frontier_information_resource_compendium/
You mentioned that your Emerald isn't working even though you replaced the battery and I think I have the solution for you! Essentially, when you replaced the battery in your cart, it set the internal clock of the game back to 2000, and with the way the game is coded, berries wont start growing until you pass the date you started the file because it thinks negative time has passed since it started tracking for berries. If you have a DS with a GBA slot, you can buy a DS flash cart, upload a clock fixing program to it (there's a few of these online if you google), and you can use that to manually set the clock in your copy of Emerald to real time and allow berries to grow again
ooo i see... thanks for the advice! Would be nice to be able to grow berries again.
@ might be easier to just connect to colosseum since you mentioned having a playthough
I actually had the same issue replacing the battery in my sapphire ty!
This guy knows his shit
You sir/mam are my hero
First of all, as always you did a very good job on this video, it was as entertaining as per usual which is actually insane considering how much content you put out lately, so huge probs to you!
Second, i realized you inspired a whole lot of people making similar content around Pokemon (me aswell altough on twitch instead of youtube), which is so amazing to see! I wanna say thanks for bringing a whole new niche genre to Pokemon and legit reigniting my love for the game that has impacted my childhood and teenage years more than any other game ever!
glad to see you making content! Need to let me know when you streaming. Thank you for the comment, it means a lot hearing stuff like that. May sound weird but I always wanted to inspire others by making videos just like how people inspired me years ago. Never really thought it would happen!
I'm starting my battle frontier journey today. Thanks for the inspiration with these videos!
There is something so special about having the best team made from some of your favorite pokemon in emerald or fr/lg... yeah you can accomplish this in modern games but nothing beats true hard work like this.
That’s a solid looking team pal! I’m really looking forward to seeing your improvements as a trainer that come from practicing with the best of the best.
I did the same thing. I started my emerald frontier grind with a meta team in the battle tower. By using these common powerhouses I was able to learn the pokemon in the frontier and how they like to move - this knowledge allowed me to use my more niche favorites to win gold at the battle dome alongside my best pal Shedinja!
After nearly a whole year, 11 different pokemon all trained and grinded up I managed to get my final gold symbol last friday! I’m now working on my 100 win streak in the tower and will only be using my shiny favorites, it’s gonna be tough but I know I can do it!
Thanks for sharing your story nighthawk, it’s made me feel like I’m going through mine right alongside of you :)
2 notes: Giga Drain is special so that’s a good call on Gengar.
You can fix your emerald berry issue by connecting it to colosseum or XD. Those games have a patch that auto downloads to the emerald and fixes it
GENGAR 💪💪👍 my favourite of all time ☺️ love the Ghastly line. Great video, really liking your presentation style 👍
gengar was insannnee!
13:20 You need to update the RTC. The day you changed the battery, the clock went back to january 2000 and it needs to catch up to the day the battery died for the events and berries to work
What is RTC? I know about the battery situation, and I always thought I had to make a new save file.
@@BeansSoup23RTC = Real Time Clock
@CallMeDebris how would someone update the real-time clock? Would i need a third party hardware?
Came here to say this, i used an r4 card in my ds and it was really easy
@BeansSoup23 Use an R4 card and download RTC fix homebrew. It's a fairly painless process
7:57
Grass type attacks were special back in gen 3
wait thats good then... why did i think it was physical?? LOL thank you
Another banger!
btw if you ever EV train in speed and attack in emerald I suggest route 103. It has 100% probability of yielding useful EVs and you dont have to deal with pressure from shuppets. Also it is extremely faster with a fainted staryu, mach bike and white flute. And they are all lower level so you can almost immediately start using the macho brace :)
Also if you like you can like gain 6 evs in like HP or something, Then get some in speed and then grind route 103 without counting the EVs until they give you the effort ribbon :)
Edit: Just finished watching, Congratss!!!
Really great to see that you listened to the advice you got here and completely nailed it. Congrats on the amazing team.
Thank you for making so many amazing videos about the Battle Frontier. I really want to Ribbon Master the Shadow Pokémon (and others) in the near future so these videos are helping me being prepared for the grind. 😅
Keep making awesome videos!
Good job on the team! Just want to add a couple of thoughts:
* Explosion on Metagross is useful because it gets rid of Curse users like Snorlax before they get too dangerous with the Curse boost. Meteor Mash will deal a lot of damage but it is 85% accurate and it can miss at a point where Snorlax can shrug off MM with a 2nd or 3rd Curse boost.
* I would recommend replacing Rock Slide with Shadow Ball. It is Metagross best move to use against Dusclops and also against the Lati@s twins which based on the team, can beat Milotic if they carry Calm Mind or you are forced to DB with Gengar. Whatever Rock Slide hits for x2 damage has the same power as Meteor Mash with STAB factored in.
Awesome video, currently training those same Pokemon right now. Gotta say your videos have inspired me to take on the battle frontier and actually care about how I train my Pokemon, thanks for resparking my love for this game!
it's a staggering difference what changing a couple pokemon around makes, though as a fellow steelix enjoyer I appreciate your commitment to wanting to make it work long term. I'm sure you can strike the right balance between picking 'mons you like and not handicapping yourself too much in the process
I think it's a great team-very well-balanced. Metagross is really good and fits perfectly with Gengar since it covers it with its ability, and against a Swampert, switching it out and using Giga Drain guarantees victory. Milotic is also very strong; it used to be one of my toughest counters when I was trying to earn the gold medals. I hope you have good luck!
P.S. I would use Explosion instead of Hyper Beam since it's a move that will help you weaken many Pokémon: Swampert, Latios, Milotic, Snorlax, etc.
my favorite videos right now ! dont change :) ty
Congrats my dude! Your victory has really inspired me to kick my Gen 3 100% playthrough into overdrive.
Currenty watching your videos while trying to get my ideal Registeel on Sapphire (I'm trying to get the trainer card star for 50 wins at the battle tower but limiting myself to only using Pokémon available in the Hoenn Pokédex like when Ruby & Sapphire first released).
Big congrats on the gold. It's been really cool watching you develop your team & strategy from the start. No shame in using meta pokemon, the frontier is just exceptionally unforgiving especially the Tower in later rounds. I had a similar approach in the beginning of my journey and ended up saving my favorites like Sceptile, Blaziken and Flygon for certain levels in the Battle Pyramid where they could shine. In the end they all got some love and contributed to the gold! Wishing you good luck on your next run and looking forward to the next video!
Dude congratulations on gold! I’ve been grinding the dome as well and gotten to round 10 and lost to mistakes. Gengar, milo, and metagross is such a strong core. Cool to see you do it with a more “traditional” team
43:50 LET'S FKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YAAEHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Hey kevin congratulations on your first gold medal! I have been following your channel for about 6 months and its awesome to see you finally using meta pokemon. I myself just recently claimed gold at the battle dome and battle tower! Even with meta pokemon the frontier is such a grind. I used a team of slaking, metagross, and gengar for a long time, but i was susceptible to fast fire types, so i swapped out gengar for starmie(my gengar also had destiny bond which is one of the best moves in the frontier). I like how your using gengar, milotic, and metagross though. Covers all your weaknesses. Fast fire types cant touch milotic especially bc of its high hp and spdef. I cant wait to see you conquer the battle tower with this meta team! Im working on the gold symbol for the battle factory currently.
I hope you know how much your videos motivate us finally getting the gold !!!🎉🎉
Ur inspiration of these old games bring me back to playing it again (also saving up to buy the games again n start fresh).
Also, i couldn’t help notice u had a Red Eyes Black Dragon Deck, plus that’s my lil brother fave card n his fave character is Joey in it.
I’ve been using Gengar, too!
I run: Tbolt, Ice Punch, Psychic, and Destiny Bond with scope lens.
I land crits often and when I expect to lose or get low on health, destiny bond.
Also, you said Giga drain is physical. In gen 3, grass moves are all special.
LETS GO!! I bred two different gengars the arena and tower: destiny bond SPA and bulky perish song. Grats on the progress!🎉
Gengar with giga drain and fire punch good choice! 👍🤌
33:42 my hands are sweating too, watching this
1:31 is Tucker… Fantina? 😂
gota be twins
Older pokemon on original hardware? Subbed and liked. Watched your other video about firered and was waiting on another vid from you, great job🔥
Love it :) GoodLuck Nighthawk!
Awesome Gengar 🙏 love seeing that anti water/ground role !! Destiny Bond was an awesome choice!! I've got it on my mega Bannette 😁
destiny bond was insannne!
You put in the effort and I definitely think itll be worth it. There could be serious counters but i cant think of any that arent pseudo legendaries or actual legendaries. Definitely gonna achieve your gold medal goal this year 🤟🏻. Just a side note i finally got a shiny ho oh in hg yesterday, 50days 60+ hours and roughly 8,274 resets. So W's all around
sweet congrats on gettting Hooh!
7:54 giga train is not a physical move so it would go well on gengar to hit swampert. It's still 60 base power without stab so yeah swampert and maybe milotic (and rock/ground types) would be the only ones really worth using it on
19:06 currently doing this in heartgold!!! I've bred around 80-100 beldums as we speak, 1 has near perfect potential, like 29/30 iv in attack but I'm going for 31!
Metagross is just outright amazing in the Frontier. Carried me to loads of wins.
congrats!
I run explosion and choice band on my Metagross, I like to live dangerously 😅
Changing the Emerald battery is only half the battle. Now you've gotta wait the entire time the clock was dead for it to start working again. Or start a new save.
Nice 😎
Nothing like some good ol fashion pokemon training 😎
such a peaceful and relaxing channel
I think this team is pretty solid, I got them using the following pokemon, which I think are the best to be able to wipe out whatever comes (normally I always used a wall from the list, I saw them as the wildcard to be able to save a lost battle, wearing down, tanking and hitting)
Special attackers:
- Latios/Latias
- Zapdos
- Raikou
- Gengar
- Clefable
- Starmie
- Kingdra
- Moltres
Physical attackers:
- Ursaring
- Shedinja
- Snorlax
- Tyranitar
- Gyarados
- Metagross
- Tauros
- Aerodactyl
Walls, that can withstand everything, and can even sweep or hit hard or medium hard:
- Swampert
- Milotic
- Suicune
- Umbreon
- Porygon 2
- Blissey
- Clefable
- Registeel
Thanks chatgpt
@icyc909 What?? These are the ones that have worked for me over all these years...
I still have my original cart from 5th grade, 2004 or 5? I only ever got 1 emblem and it's from the sexy seviper lady cus i fought her 1 time and then I saw her in the battle frontier arc and i wanted to beat her like ash and i had no idea what ev and ivs wete until black and white
Do you by chance have a link to the sheet with a bunch of Pokemon sets you have in this video? :)
I meant to add it to description of video. This is where I found it.
Link to spreadsheet: www.reddit.com/r/PokemonEmerald/comments/16xbd0g/battle_frontier_information_resource_compendium/
@@nostalgicnighthawk Awesome dude, thank you! Crazy part about it is I was just in this thread, it's so dang useful
You should buy an Epilouge Gb Operator. It will make training faster.
You sneaky boy!
😏😏
What do you use to play your GBA games man ? I’ve been meaning to ask you.
Analogue Pocket!
I have a question my friend show me all his gba Pokemon game and it has little number say 15 E4 he told me he got it from eBay is it fake or real
Fix your clock for the minus EVs berries
If i were closer, I'd help you out on your tm shortage
have you ever found a shiny while ev training?
not ev training but I have doing level grinding. Found 4 in the Sevault Canyon. Still trying to find larvitar!
I've used Metagross to sweep most of the Silver symbols... The other two I'm not much of a fan of, especially Gengar..
for me personally i cheat tms and rare candies it just takes the not fun parts out of the game but still breeding and ev training ofc
Hello! I am trying to leave a comment but it doesn’t stayed posted. It gets deleted!
i see this one? Wonder why they were
@@nostalgicnighthawk I wrote what I wanted to comment in your Substack on the Shiny Arbok video.
Grass is special not physical
Giga drain is NOT physical lmao, it never was
i now know im dumb, not sure why i thought other wise!
lol do you have adhd? we have a lot of the same quirks
comes in waves, 1 think will happen and all hell breaks loose on my plans
Dude idk who you are but i just started watching you not to long ago and hearing you as a podcast at work 😂 bro your awesome you got insta?