#pokemon emerald playthrough

[omgtatercat]

Putzing Around [Extra] Pokemon Emerald

[chongoblog]

My First Pokemon Playthrough

So I've noticed in my time of talking about Pokemon, I've told a lot of various anecdotes that are all a part of my very first time playing Pokemon. I was feeling nostalgic, so I figured I would share what I remember about this playthrough for everyone to enjoy. There may be a tangent or two in there and people who have followed me a while may have heard these before, but hey.

For context, I believe I was about 8 years old at the time, and after collecting some Pokemon cards, watching a kid play Crystal at summer camp, watching some of the anime, and generally being a pretty big fan (I even have Pokemon Yahtzee burned into my memory for some reason...), I finally got myself a Game Boy Advance with Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World, some Frogger game (after looking it up, it was Temple of the Frog), Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, and, of course, Pokemon Sapphire.

I remember that my starter was Torchic. I don't remember why I chose that one, although I remember really liking the color red at the time (which I still do), so that was probably why.

I don't remember too much about my team or the general progress I made in most of the game, but I do remember Slateport City. For those who do not recall, in Slateport City in order to advance you need to get into the museum, which is blocked off by Team Aqua Grunts until you talk to someone in the shipyard. There are also Team Aqua grunts blocking the route ahead

Now, my 8 year old brain for some reason concluded that the only way to get past the Team Aqua Grunts was to intimidate them with a high enough level Pokemon or something like that. So one night, while I was supposed to be asleep on a family beach vacation, I beat down more poor level 13 Pokemon than I could count. I learned later what I was actually SUPPOSED to do, which led to me finally fighting the Team Aqua Grunts.....with a level 42 Blaziken.

And since the Name Rater was in Slateport City and my starter had evolved, I figured it was only appropriate to give him the new moniker "MAGMA MAN"

The rest of the playthrough went about as normally as tearing through the game with mostly Blaziken normally would go. There were a couple exceptions though. First off, at the Weather Institute, after I saved the day from Team Aqua, they were kind enough to gift me a Castform, but my party was full, so I couldn't get it. My 8 year old self did not read this. (Remember this, it will come back later). But I managed to make my way through the game, catching Kyogre with my Master Ball and giving it the nickname "LEGENDARY"

Then we come to the Elite Four where I hit a brick wall. I don't remember my team at the time exactly, but I do remember it was MAGMA MAN which had reached about level 80 or so, LEGENDARY which was about level 48, a level 36 Pelipper, two level ~35 Tentacruels, and some other sixth Pokemon I don't recall. And for some reason, I just couldn't beat the Elite Four with this team for some weird reason. The best I could ever get to was Drake. I felt I was utterly defeated.

That's when we bring a new character into the story. A member of my friend group at the time who we'll call "John" to protect the innocent. Now John had a very "uncle who works at nintendo" type energy to him. The group used to play Gauntlet: Dark Legacy together all the time, and when I got the GBA port of it, he convinced me to trade my recently obtained copy of the Pokemon Trading Card Game Boy game for a Gameboy-Gamecube cables, only for me to learn too late that it didn't work like that, and from there, there were no backsies (but then I got ahold of a copy of Pac-Man VS and Four Swords Adventure then I learned to emulate, so who's laughing now).

Anyway, John saw that I was struggling and he decided that he wanted to help me out. You see, he had come across an incredibly powerful and rare Pokemon that couldn't be found in the wild. He had gotten it exclusive, and I had never seen it before. It was called a "Castform". Now John had Ruby version, so he decided that as much as it ached him to part with it, he figured it would be a reasonable trade to trade this powerful Castform for the slightly less powerful LEGENDARY. I agreed.

And then he moved to Ohio.

To this day, Castform is my least favorite Pokemon because of this betrayal. I was so distraught at 8 years old that I completely restarted my game of Pokemon Sapphire. I don't remember much about that second playthrough, but there's a reason why.

This rival battle on Route 110 is somewhat infamous for being quite the sudden difficulty spike. And since I knew how to get past Team Aqua now, I didn't have an over-leveled starter to stomp my rival with ease. After losing to her about five or so times, I got frustrated and figured that whatever team I had wasn't cutting it. So I restarted again.

In my third playthrough, I made it all the way to the rival battle on Route 110. Then she stomped me repeatedly. So I restarted again.

This cycle would go on for, like, 15 resets. I didn't count, but it felt like there was hundreds. As I would keep on resetting and playing through the early-game of Pokemon Sapphire (which I had practically memorized at this point), I would start to take things a lot less seriously, sometimes picking the girl character, making my name random gibberish, etc.

Eventually, on one of these playthroughs where I started with Treecko, I actually managed to beat the Route 110 Rival Battle! And on my first try too! And thus began the epic journey of a girl named DE.

Now, I'd figured at this point that maybe only leveling up one Pokemon wasn't the best approach, so I was trying to balance my teams a bit better (I guess my rival taught me something). I was making my way through the game, and one day I'm checking out my best friend's Pokemon in Ruby, and who do I see in his box, but a Kyogre. I take a look at his name, and I can't believe it. It was LEGENDARY. John had traded it to my friend before he moved.

My friend didn't know that it was originally mine, so he offered to trade it back, which I accepted. LEGENDARY was a disobedient little bastard since I didn't have enough badges, but he got the job done. I don't remember the team I ended up using to finally beat the Elite Four, but it included my Sceptile starter, a Sableye that somehow knew only Fighting-type moves, and two Kyogres, LEGENDARY and LEGENDARY2.

And that's my first playthrough of Pokemon Sapphire. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it.

[revalentine2]

The Part Where I Fight My Dad - Team Objective plays Pokemon Emerald

Hello, loyal viewers! Last time we caught a new super special friend! However...

As lovely as this Baltoy is, I'd rather bring my current team along to handle our next objective. The next battle is no place for new blood...

Petalburg city. My dad is the leader here, now. I've been away from family for such a long time, but then I moved back in with mom, only to immediately leave to pursue my ideals...the ideals of promoting OBJECT POKEMON, that is!

...Anyway. I'm just not sure how to feel about this..

...Dad is waiting at the back of the gym. Time to head in. Let's steel ourselves...

PETALBURG GYM, I'VE COME TO...Wait, dad, what are you doing out front. What? My badges? Wait-

Oh

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Fiddlesticks.

Uhhhhhh.

we're goin' back to Dewford

Brawny or whatever your name is, let's make this quick. Family emergency.

OK Thnx bye

back to Petalburg-

Ugh. Stinky, hairy creatures. I never understood everyone's obsession with these guys, especially not my dad's. I never was much into them in the first place, but after I discovered my love of Object Pokemon, he and I became more distant. It had to be because he didn't agree with my tastes.

It must have.

Let's do this, old man! I'll teach you a lesson! About OBJECT POKEMON!

Stop being so happy!

Bulwark, you've been my lead into every gym battle (that mattered) before, and that's not going to change now!

Teeter Dance, yikes. Hit through, Bulwark! Come on!

We hit ourselves once, but now we finally get off the Mud-slap! Lower its accuracy!

It's missed a couple moves by now! Big damage, Metal Claw into Iron Tail! Take it out!

Spinda's done! Nice job, B-oh come on dad, Really? You're switching into your ace immediately?

...Hm. Maybe this isn't a bad thing after all...

Bulwark! Just like before! You know what to do...and Slaking has half the turns to fight back from this!

Dad had just been spamming counter, but now that Slaking's low it's going for Faint Attack...doesn't do much, but that messes with our plans a little. Still, we persevere!

Slow it down with some Rock Tombs, Bulwark!

Now, Goo Goo! Come in and give it some Screeches!

Goo Goo took some hits, but now it's time for my own ace to hit the field! StepStone, come in and defense curl! That now boosts the power...

...of ROLLOUT! Faint Attack did a lot, but with minimum defense even this first should be enough to KO from here...

And it is! StepStone, Rollout into his next sloth thing, too!

Rolling! Rolling! Rolling! You can't stop the rolling!

His final pokemon! Take this last Slash hit, StepStone...

Yes! 5 HP! Now, land the Rollout!

YES! We DID it! My team conquers yours, Dad, with less pokemon used from my side! What do you have to say to that, huh!?

...What? You're just...proud of me? Happy and a little sad-Dad, what are you saying?

You...wanted to understand my interests and you...didn't know how? And I never reached out, so...it just went quiet, between us?

...Maybe I do need therapy.

I don't know what to think of anything right now. Except-my team. I'm proud of them all so, so much. They've really come into their own in battle. They're all beautiful and wonderful Object pokemon. I love them. I know that much.

I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing. Maybe I just need to consider how I do it.

And Dad...I'm sure there's an object pokemon out there for you, too. Do they have Porygon here?

Team: StepStone the Graveler (F) Bulwark the Aron (M) Skybomb the Koffing (F) Goo Goo the Grimer (F) Patricia the Nosepass (F) Sungaze the Solrock

[gayyearningcrybaby]

Welcome to the team, Violence!

[trans-basculin]

so i was trying to find a drumble for like an hour.

i know i have the shiny charm but this is so fucking funny to me.

anyway this is the team now

[shima-draws]

I’m thinking of doing a mono type run for Emerald but I’m not sure which type I should do 🤔 Any suggestions?

[soni-dragon]

trainer lineup for all my main trainers! i reuse the name Snap a lot :P

[keresacheron]

Pokemon Moon Emerald First Team

A fun and casual fun with decent gym leader and elite four fights. I played the version with a highly raised shiny rate and got a lot of shinies. This game has a massive pokedex but is mainly focused around Alola pokemon and has a similar 'difficulty' level to mainline pokemon games. The sole exception are the gym leaders, victory road and pokemon league which have much larger teams with higher levels and good movepools giving you good boss fights that are sadly out phase with the mainline level curve. Norman was a massive spike while Winonas team was around the same level as him.

Still, this is a fun hack. Team below:

Argent, a bashfull shiny Tsareena with chlorophyll. She was caught in Petalburg woods as Bounsweet and was weak. After getting crushed to Roxanne I trained her up until she evolved, taught her the bullet seed tm and she swept the now under-leveled Roxanne and did the same to Brawly. She became my in story starter and despite never learning a better physical grass move her miracle seed powered bullet seed combined with return for coverage made her a dependable great early game mon who was still fine in the late game, taking down Wallaces Milotic single handidly.

Ivanka, a naive Gumshooes with runaway. She was my first official pokemon, caught as a yungoose with pick up. She was not useful against Roxanne and Brawly due to type match ups. She then became a solid team mate, hitting extremely hard while being not too slow and not too frail. She pulled her weight the entire game and sadly only learned extreme speed at the very end.

Jemina, a naive Alolan Golem with Rock Head. She was caught as an Alolan Geodude in Granite Cave and sadly was incompatible with the Wild Charge Tm in all stages and didn't a rock recoil move. She was a good mon, tanking physical hits like a champ and having a great offensive movepool.

Firecream, docile salazzle with flash fire. She was caught in Firey Pass, and due to knowing dragon rage was horribly overpowered for that stage of the game. She was the teams fastest mon and it's only special attacker, giving her a vital niche as a revenge killer with a great fire stab and massive tm movepool. She was vital to defeating the fairy champion Wallace by nasty plot sweeping most of his team.

Meet Doctor Chomp,a Quiet Shiny Bruxish with Water Viel caught on the old rod on route 114. He was great in the midgame with a good typing against flannery and getting surf as a good water move. He fill off abit in the second half of the game until he learned psychic fang for coverage the early 40s and got a good physical water move. As a fast attacker with a priority move he was a great revenge killer.

Earth's End, an adamant Kommo-o with Soundproof. Caught in his first form on route 123 where he was initially very weak and even after evolving still feel behind in the late game before evolving a second time in victory road. With great stats and the ability to setup sweep with dragon dance he carried the team through the elite four despite being terrible against the champion.

[arandomapocalypsedweller]

So I’ve been trying to come up with a team for a playthrough of Pokemon Emerald for an editing project I’ve had on the backburner - Both to work on my editing skills and my skills for writing multiple characters. Just one problem though - I don’t want to use all the standard pokemon people tend to use. Y’know, Gardevoir, Swellow, Salamence, those sorts of mons. I want to use ones that are overlooked or underrated. But thanks to my personal tastes when building a team, I have gone through multiple team layouts and found none I was satisfied with.

Pokemon I’m interested in using straight up aren’t in emerald, the timing to get certain pokemon is inconvenient, I don't want to use two mons from the same route, I don’t want type overlap, just generally annoying things like that, and that’s not even getting into how I have to develop personalities for each mon.

Just want this playthrough to be more interesting, really.

I’ve considered mons like Claydol, Crawdaunt, Cacturne, Seviper, Lanturn, Xatu, Girafarig, a bunch that I never see anyone recommend or use. Hopefully I can figure this out soon.

[bearhoundbutch]

gaze upon my fat butch wife

[pokemonxhyperfixation]

So I’m making a team for Aya. I know I want her to have one of the two fast ninja bug Pokémon, so I’ll let y’all choose which one I do.

(If team comp maters to yall her other three pokemon at the moment are Decidueye, Watchog and Shiftree.)

[omgtatercat]

The Elite Four [31] Pokemon Emerald

[littlebitofrue]

Just made a post on Twitter about this but I'll say it again on here. Spoilers for Mouthwashing incoming...

So I have a theory as to why Mega Rayquaza was chosen to be Jimmy's favorite. We all know Jimmy is a huge douchebag asshole piece of garbage (of course not to say everyone who has an OP pokemon as their favorite is as such. It's just given the context of the game that is one of the reasons.)

But how about diving into Rayquaza itself? Rayquaza was first introduced in the third generation of Pokémon in the games Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. Now, in Ruby and Sapphire, Rayquaza didn't do much they were just vibing. But in Emerald, they were given a bigger role.

We all know that Ray was the only one who could stop Groudon and Kyogre because of its Air Locke ability, which neutralizes the effects of weather, rendering Kyogre and Groudon powerless so they retreated back into hiding.

But for some reason, despite the whole of the Hoenn region experiencing the biggest 180 in climate change and impending disaster, Ray still had yet to arise from its slumber. Why?

It was never made clear in Emerald as to why we had to go to Sky Pillar ourselves. We were just told by the champion of the region to go there. No fanfare. But I think it's because of how we have proven ourselves worthy after beating both teams time and time again. Rayquaza could sense our drive to save the world. Pure and unadulterated feeling of justice and hardship radiating within us that awoken the green dragon. Moved by our passion and love for Pokémon and our home, it, too, was driven to stop the weather beasts once again.

Now onto our second story where Rayquaza plays a huge role: PMD Red and Blue Rescue team (DX too).

When the 1st part of the main story is beginning its climax, Xatu warns the Pokémon of Pokémon Square that a falling star, the true cause of their world's climate change, is heading towards them. This star could only be stopped by Rayquaza, who is name dropped for the first time in this game. Hyping them up to be a super secret and all powerful being that can only be confronted by a select few.

This one sentence alone shows how rare of an encounter this is. Rayquaza, protector of the skies, immediately attacks any and all who interact with them should they be deemed unnatural to their domain.

However, this was a special occasion. And certain Pokémon were deemed worthy by their peers to be the ones to be sent up to the skies. They have proven themselves time and time again that they're capable.

Only they could fix it.

Of course, those Pokémon were us, the player and our partner.

[Screenshots taken from Chuggaaconroy's playthrough of Rescue Team DX]

The player is made aware at the start that this is a suicide mission. But they made a vow to see it to the end, even at the cost of their life. Even though they were destined to leave the Pokémon world behind from the start. They still persisted.

And they did it. They defeated Rayquaza after proving they were worthy of its presence. Worthy of their help. Worthy.

Of course this brings me to the Delta episode in ORAS.

I have unfortunately used my limit of media to provide for this post so I will condense this part.

From the beginning of the game we are followed by a character named Zinnia who is the remaining descendant of her draconian family. They for centuries relied on Rayquaza for help and even have been able to harness its power. Zinnia however could not.

After a certain point we're at Sky Pillar together. She summons Rayquaza but could not awaken its full power. It isn't until it consumes the meteorite in our possession and decides to join our team that it awakened its full potential.

After being proven worthy we head to space to destroy the meteor.

"Okay, Rue. But what the hell does this have to do with Jimmy having Mega Rayquaza as his favorite?"

Simple.

Jimmy is someone who we can assume has NPD. He also has a huge ego.

Throughout the game Jimmy constantly remarks on how because he's in charge he's the one who needs to fix things. He's always trying to portray himself as a selfless hero to his coworkers when in reality, he's trying to cover up the fact that he tried to kill them all in a murder-suicide plot due to how he SA'd Anya. Who, by the way, is expecting his child who was to be due by the end of the voyage. He did not want to face the consequences. It didn't help having due to be fired after the voyage that resentment grew within him towards Curly.

So, behind Curly's back, he crashes the ship into an asteroid in hopes of killing everyone including himself on board.

It fails.

So he puts the blame on Curly, who couldn't even defend himself. Makes himself the Captain and tries to paint himself as the good guy with lies and manipulation. Making false promises to take responsibility and fix things.

Try to be the hero.

Perhaps Jimmy resonates with Rayquaza in a sense that he wants to be it? Like how he "became" Curly, in a sense. He took charge. Even faced a meteor.

Or he simply wanted to feel like he was worthy of it given his bloated ego? He felt like he could make it mega evolve as in pokemon lore, a pokemon can't mega evolve unless its trainer possessed the power to do so. Jimmy felt like he was powerful in his delusional high. He truly thought he could harness the power of a god. But in reality, he could never hope to even get a glimpse of the mythical creature. All he can do is dream.

Anyway that's my theory brought to you by my overthinking ass.

Do you guys think there's something with Anya having an ice type as her favorite? Not thinking about Glaceon just in general? Y'know...being that ice is quad effective against a dragon and flying type like Rayquaza?

But like I said I overthink. Don't take me seriously. (Seriously please I'm fragile)

[revalentine2]

Mountain Climbing and Meteorites! - Team Objective plays Pokemon Emerald

I love drawing my team, I hope you've enjoyed my little doodles as well, loyal viewers!

I skipped this house earlier when racing to the fiery path, but now I guess I can give it a look. Their family is really tough, they say?

Pfft. They were easy. Didn't even use any object pokemon! Kept going on about their son, though. I'm sure he's just as washed up as the rest of them.

Ooooo!! A proper interview? Well, I couldn't deny a chance to promote my cause...

Ah, magnemite! It looks like they're already sympathetic!

Why can't I have a magnemite :(

So this is the 'Team Magma' Archie was talking about...He needs a meteorite to do...something-

-you know, I've heard meteorite pokemon exist. Is that what they're talking about? Where is it!?

Secret Base!? Oh, Team Objective can finally create a hideout, just like all the other evil teams! I'll just have to find the perfect cave to create mine within...

My interview's already on! Sounds like they're talking me up.

Yes! Yes!! Our strategy is unbeatable! Object Pokemon are Unstoppable!

...Perhaps it wasn't wise to broadcast our skills on live television, though. We wouldn't want our opposition to get wise to our antics...

...

I have no comment. This area is just beautiful.

Meteor Falls? This must be where the meteorite pokemon Team Magma was looking for is! I must find it immediately!

A SOLROCK! Oh, it's simply gorgeous. Those chunky rays, those eerie eyes, as if it's squinting out into blinding sunlight...I'll call you 'Sungaze.'

Modest...surprisingly, I don't hate that. Our team has a lot of physical attackers already. Sungaze leaning more into the special side of things might be a good idea.

That being said, I've heard Solrock has a special-oriented counterpart, but haven't seen sight nor sound of it at all. Perhaps Team Magma already took them all!?

Or Team Magma just wanted a normal meteorite. Oops.

Team Aqua appeared, and now Team Magma's taken off to do...something...at that volcano we were at earlier. Could this be related to the Titans? I should tail them and not get distracted. This may be important.

Ooh, Secret Base decorations!

Let's make a base here, shall we? This area is beautiful, even if lacking in Object Pokemon...we can consider it, anyway.

With Sungaze's addition, I think Intern's time has finally come. Despite everything, I've gained some amount of fondness for this non-object pokemon...and you know, I've heard stories about a Grovyle that really liked collecting gears. Perhaps they're Klink enthusiasts? Maybe I should let him accompany me to Unova.

What was I doing-oh right, Volcano.

Thankfully, the team's been powered up! Back at Slateport, I saw fit to outfit members of the team with both Secret and Hidden Power. I'm hoping to save up for stronger TMs, but for now, we have no time.

Let's get that Titan pokemon before team Magma even THINKS of touching it!

Team: StepStone the Graveler (F) Bulwark the Aron (M) Skybomb the Koffing (F) Goo Goo the Grimer (F) Patricia the Nosepass (F) Sungaze the Solrock

[pokemonheritageposts]

Thoughts on wurmple??

Might as well answer this while also doing the TCG ranking for the Wurmple family because I've had four seperate requests for them (and only one of them was anon, so it's not like it was even one guy spamming anon)

Anyway Wurmple is a really cute design and I honestly think it's my favourite of any of the early route bugs. Also one of the first shinies I ever caught! Managed to hold on to Purmple the Wurmple all the way from my old Emerald version, I still have it.

Not as big a fan of its evolutions, I feel like they missed the mark hard on the coccoon forms, some of the most underdesigned mons they ever made. I like Beautifly and especially Dustox, but I've never used either in a playthrough, since RSE give you so many good options off the bat and they're kinda. Incredibly weak.

Not expecting megas or anything but I hope GameFreak some extra love at some point.

Anyway cards! I'm gonna do 15 since I'm covering 5 entire Pokemon here.

15. Wurmple (illus. Mina Nakai, Sun & Moon - Lost Thunder 24/214)

14. Beautifly M (illus. 2009 Pikachu Project, 2009 Movie Promo 3/22)

13. Silcoon (illus. Hajime Kusajima, EX Ruby and Sapphire 43/109)

12. Beautifly (illus. Yuu Nishida, Sword & Shield - Lost Origin 8/196)

11. Dustox (illus. match, X & Y Roaring Skies 8/108)

10. Cascoon (illus. Sachiko Adachi, EX Legend Maker 30/92)

9. Dustox EX (illus. Mitsuhiro Arita, EX Legend Maker 86/92)

8. Wurmple (illus. Kagemaru Himeno, EX Deoxys 82/107)

7. Beautifly (illus. Kagemaru Himeno, EX Deoxys 2/107)

6. Dustox (illus. Yukiko Baba, Platinum 25/127)

5. Wurmple (illus. Hajime Kusajima, EX Ruby & Sapphire 78/109)

4. Wurmple (illus. Katie Gross, Creator Contest #2)

3. Beautifly (illus. Hajime Kusajima, EX Ruby & Sapphire 2/109)

2. Dustox (illus. Midori Harada, EX Ruby & Sapphire 6/109)

1. Wurmple (illus. Yuka Morii, Platinum 103/127)

[trans-basculin]

and now onto Slateport City, where I splurge on TMs and beat up the Water Boys. My girl Minecraft was in front but the first person in the grunt gauntlet brought her down to like two hp so the other battles would give me a minor heart attack every time they started, because there's no opportunity to switch or heal between them.

before taking them on, I did some grinding and got my boi Rueben to evolve! I forgot to take a screenshot of his evolution so just look at this image of him after that (if you want, this is quite a long post and if you don't want to be spoiled on the Fakemon evolutions, leave now)

Such a good creature design, I wish this guy was official. He is perfect in every single way, his color pallet is great, and I want to pat him on his little head. Speaking of perfect in every single way:

so is Azura, who ALSO evolved, which made me realize that I've never seen a shiny Fletchinder. She kinda looks like a normal Fletchinder but with a layer of orange on like 5% opacity over it, but honestly its got a sort of charm to it. But yeah I dealt with Team Aqua, and now I'm on the next route. My team looks like this rn: