Pokémon Emerald is Worse Than You Remember 

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I have ten but I've cut it down to five. 1- Rivals: Post game final battle with Brendan/May and give Wally the last starter. 2- Champion: Make it a player's choice on who ends up being the champion. 3- Feebas / Trendy Phrase House: Hated this mechanic, so please make Feebas easier to find and evolve and repurpose the Dewford TP House into a place you can trade items and Pokemon. Evo items, TMS, Kanto and Johto Pokemon and Lucky eggs. 4- Secret Bases Search: Have you staff's characters and characters from past games have secret bases you can find and battle in, with clues to the final base location. 5- Pokeballs: Pretty sure this is not plausible but how about having traded and gift Pokemon Pokeballs be something other than the generic red/white one.

It seems that, I'm going to miss Wallace as Champion in Pokémon Emerald Legacy. The votes were very disheartening. Out of the two Hoenn Champion people preferred, it's very disheartening to see Wallace get a pathetic 6% out of all the total votes. It really upset me that Steven got 94% out of all the total votes for preferred Hoenn League Champion. It's not fair many people voted for Steven because Wallace's team is super effective against Steven's Pokémon and most people voted for Steven only because of nostalgia. The preferred Hoenn League Champion poll you made was rigged right from the start. You shouldn't have made that poll.

As miniscule as it is to list this as a change. Change the Zigzagoon that chases Professor Birch in Emerald back to a Poochyena like it was in Ruby and Sapphire.

Do you know what would be a really cool idea I know you mentioned towards the end of the video that you wish that Emerald had a few more double battles in it well what about this idea since gen 3 was the birthplace of double battles why not give every single trainer/gym leader/evil team member/elite four members/champion a “Yes or No” prompt before you start the battle with them asking if you want to participate in a single battle or a double battle? I just think that would be so cool and gen 3 would be the perfect gen to do it with sense like I said before double battles were created there so theoretically every single trainer in that region in a real world scenario would be up for doing a double battle of course you don’t have to make every single team including random trainers double battle ready/specialist but just getting the option to pick different people to double battle that we couldn’t double battle before would be insanely cool like imagine going through the entire game choosing to pick the option to double battle everybody that would create a totally new and awesome experience for people to participate in it almost reminds me of how the old gamecube Colosseum and Gale of darkness (which both games were gen 3 by the way) was to where you had to go through the whole game doing double battles but in those ones you were forced to have double battles but in this Emerald game at least having the option to double battle or single battle anybody would be incredible like a imagine being able to have the option to double battle Stephen as the champion like that would be crazy.

Tbh I was just bored of water trainers by then. After the 7th gym its all team aqua, then a water gym, then 3rd member of E4 is majority water and then a water champion.

True, after all the Aqua, and like third of the world map being ocean and thus swimmer's, and a water gym, last thing we want is a water champion.

An entire near-endgame with water. Team aqua needing to be taken down. A final water gym leader AND Wallace, as well as Sydney having 1 water type. Glacia having 3 water types. Drake having 1 water type. Steves pokemon were also "rarer" to see, and much more exciting.

Yeah Wallace was meh and just another water type trainer. He didn't have nearly as much of an identity as Steven.

No, i don't like Wallace

This…actually makes a ton of sense and sounds amazing

that makes a ton of sense actually, i really like that

What about the new area in Meteor Falls you get to fight Steven in the main game? I'd still probably move his second fight there and then all rematches could be in his house.

@@aedrarising2760 Yeah man I like that! If they end up adding all the event content for the post game you could add Steven in to the story beats (if he wasn't there before) and battle him again too!

I actually typed out this idea before looking through the comments lmao. I think this would be a really good way to go about it

They really said Water Supremacy

Groudon:"You overgrown fish are still on your mission to spite me, aren't you!?" Overgrown Fish:"Heh. Maybe."

Well Groudon can create land under its feet, so it's fine.

The way i see it kyogre is sarrounded, what's under the ocean that's right more land

Maybe Groudon creates a volcanic island that grows a little bit during the cutscene.

Nerds come in many shapes and sizes

Yes. Surskit should have stayed Bug-Water type when he evolves. It was a unique type combination at the time.

Surskit is extremely hard to even find in Emerald. You have to trade it in from Ruby and Sapphire or use the enigmatic newsflash system to find it

The evolved form even has water puns in its Japanese name as well as the English name. It is made to be a Water type.

They did this with Nincada too. Yes at least there's Shedinja, but Ninjask is, again, Bug/Flying while Nincada was Bug/Ground! To this day our only fully evolved Bug/Ground type is Sand Cloak wormadam; and I get why a cicada wouldn't keep the ground type; but they made 2 unique type combos for the time and both Surskit and Nincada then gained a type seen multiple times before AND elsewhere in the game. Lunacy

I didn't know that masquerain wasn't a water type! That is a really dumb decision, especially because it would buff his water moves that he learns.

I did always like that the mentioned WInstrate son shows up in Victory Road, that was such a cool payoff

@@dvillines26 now I’m thinking the son should also show up for the final battle along with the rest of the family for a 1 v 5

Having the Winstrate family be repeatable after each badge would be nice. A little bit of extra cash. then to see the son be an actual beast in Victory road would be nice.

@@dvillines26 the problem is it's kinda underwhelming iirc, and there's nothing that comes of it once you beat him, no acknowledgement of it from the family they keep going on about how he'll destroy you, even long after you destroyed him

Their strongest trainer should also appear he appeared in the anime he showed a shiny swellow and Alakazam

Counterpoint, Platinum has much better team building options than Emerald. Which I count more since it's the definitive version of Gen 4 Sinnoh. RSE has some heat in its Pokedex but it makes you work for the great mons. Most Hoen teams I've seen are even weaker than the standard DP team.

​@Shari362 Counter-counterpoint, Sinnoh teams seem stronger than RSE because it's pretty clear-cut what works in DPPt and what sucks. You almost have to rely on Staraptor for Fly as the other Fly options come mid to late game or, in the case of Pearl and Platinum, loses to version exclusivity (Murkrow line). Floatzel is your go-to option without ol'reliable Gyarados. Fire type? LMAO. Or and good luck with Rock Climb targets. For some reason, there's not a lot of NATIVE Pokémon to Sinnoh to teach that move to. So your Starter usually gotta eat shit by getting a move which isn't very good.

@@D-Havoc Plat teams don't seem stronger, they are stronger lol. You can very easily run Crobat or Togekiss in place of Staraptor. All three are great. You can run Vaporeon instead of Floatzel of Gyrados, all three very strong options. For fire types you have Houdooom, Flareon, Magmar and Rapidsh outside of Infernape. And that's off the top of my head. You also have access to: Garchomp, Espeon, Jolteon, Lucario, Tentacruel, Weavile, Gliscor, Gardevoir, Gallade, and Rhydon. If you have friends you can get Scizor, Alakazam, Gengar, Machamp, Electrivire etc. If you have patience to deal with the trees you can get Snowlax and Heracross. The Platinum dex doesn't seem better than Emerald's, its just significantly better. If you see someone run a standard Staraptor-Luxray team in Plat thats on them. I've made some insane teams in my Plat runs. Plat easily has the best regional team building options up until BW2.

@@Shari362 To be fair, he definetly didn't really talk about the wobufet in the room. Silly little dude makes the rest of the game trivial if you know how the battle script works.

@@D-Havoc generation 4 teams as a whole are stronger because of bigger, better, and more diverse movepools, + the addition of the physical/special split truly unlocking the potential of many pokemon.

I thought your rival's impotence was a perfect analogy for the weak sauce they used to build this game.

This is a great idea. You'd never know what to expect, which adds a different type of challenge.

Don't N just use whatever Poke is found in the area you are battling him?

Especially since you have to dive to get to Sootopolis!

Gorebyss would’ve fit him so well! It’s a beautiful Pokémon but also a little creepy from its dex entries. Gorebyss also is nothing to snuff at. I used one in a Ruby nuzlocke and it was really strong

​@Radiogumdand and Gorebyss kinda fit with Wallace's Milotic in terms of looks Y'know, beautiful water type pokemon, and Juan and Wallace are all about beauty

Someone on victory road uses a lanturn... with earthquake...

Lanturn is more of a wattson Pokémon I Gave wattson a chinchou To FIX gym 8 make that A DOUBLE BATTLE with rival Wally as your partner vs Juan n Wallace Bold n it's in the spirit of gen 3

This idea has got to be the best! I hope it gets seen. I get the feeling he wants to move Glacia to the 8th gym (it does have a very icy feel) and demote Wallace to E4. Maybe Juan gets a cameo or something.

But, the problem with that @KayJordan17, is that the gym battle before Sootopolis is also a double battle with Tate and Liza, and it would be too drastic to make a double battle fight with an NPC character on your side to fight with against Juan and Wallace. The point that he's trying to do with the Legacy series is to keep most of what the original games have, while adding things that would make sense and would not be too drastic. A new and unique double-format gym battle would not make sense at all for the purposes that I've said earlier.

LET THIS MAN COOK!

ooh now this is an awesome idea!

That is pretty epic

So I herd u liek mudkipz

@@VTWS But duz he liek being fixed?

Suffering from success

​@@VTWSelder meme

Yo mudkip, how do ya feel about giga drain?

I was thinking this too

Needs a pin or reply from channel

its actually a 50% chance to find feebas on those tiles but yeah the 6 random tiles is dumb

As much as I enjoyed the bragging rights of finding feebas in under an hour as a kid, I do not have the patience 20 years later. I don't mind the evolution method. I loved contests and my crobat and kyogre sitting in pokemon home still have their beauty and smart ribbons (btw they are 50% tiles, not 1%)

THIS! I love feebas, it is one of my favorite mons and it is downright criminal for it to be THAT rare

My Nuzlockes have lost way too many friends to this pair ^^

Some of the trainers in Norman's Gym can be problematic, like the guy with Swords Dancing Zangoose.

I believe in emerald the Milotic got changed to a rain form castform

Cooltrainer Jennifer had a Milotic in the rain on Route 120 in Ruby and Sapphire. Needless to say, that was a very rough fight. Her sole Milotic is downgraded to Sableye in Emerald.

The only other normal trainers that gave me any challenge were because of running suboptimal teams. Winstrate Vicky on Route 111 was only tough because my team could not handle Hi Jump Kick Meditite at the end of three consecutive fights. Psychic Kayla at Mt. Pyre leads with a Wobbuffet that is only hard because Shadow Tag was introduced.

YES, maybe Wally has just beaten Norman when you show up to fight him!

Somewhat like seeing cynthia around for the first time and knowing nothing about her

I got this idea from Wallace being Ruby’s mentor in the PKmN Adventures Comics

Makes perfect sense to me. 👍

Doesn’t really work in Emerald, I’m afraid. Three of the four contest halls got converted into the way less interesting Battle Tents in Emerald leaving only the Lilycove Contest Hall. With only one Hall and it being so late in the game, it wouldn’t provide enough opportunities to meet with Wallace. It’d still be better than the nothing we currently have, but not nearly as good as it would have been in Ruby/Sapphire where there are four Halls to work with.

@@FireFog44 Very good point actually. Maybe meeting him somewhat early just at *random*, (just because I have no idea how or why you would run into him early), but he introduces the existence OF a contest which could leave new players wondering “What in the world is he talking about”, until they reach Lilycove. Maybe have an NPC or two bring up Wallace’s name just to show the player that he has SOME relevance

I know it's probably outside the scope of the project, but I also always wanted to see a sandstorm form for Castform

Castform could also offer great coverage, with Flamethrower and Thunderbolt.

They also could've given Castform a Sand stream Form

Castform should automatically set the weather move in his 4th moveslot.

@@renatoramos8834 Or 1st, since we already have a move dependent on the 1st moveslot (Conversion)

@@j.d.714 Right. But in the same vein, you have Swampert, Gyarados, Tentacruel, Pelliper, and even Azumarill. All available before the fire gym. Camrupt ironically, is also a good counter as well. Also bold of him to say it's easy to set up on Swablu when it comes with Perish Song to stop that nonsense in its tracks.

There should be an early battle before the 2nd Gym as well where Steven always gets the type matchup advantage on your starter!

Mr.Stone tells you that Steven is probably somewhere in a cave looking for cool rocks. You get a f*cking meteorite at the top of Mt.Chimney It's a key item Who loves cool rocks? Where can I apply this key item/find someone that would love to have a Meteorite in their collection? . . . . Problem solving and deductions are not a difficult task dude.

@@Dr.Ruffles The meteorite you get on Mt. Chimney has nothing to do with Steven. You give it to a guy in Fallarbor in exchange for a TM. Mr. Stone's comment can easily be interpreted as explaining why Steven isn't in the game anymore. Tons of NPCs make similar comments; it's silly to assume this one is special if you don't know that Steven is in Meteor Falls.

@@ashleyvanbeek7045 damn, so you're telling me that it was sheer luck I just connected both of those together?

@@Dr.Ruffles it was definitely dumb luck that you connected the meteor with Steven. Without that, the most logical cave to look for Steven in would be Granite Cave, as we've seen him there before. So yeah, i would say it was dumb luck that you found Steven based on these things.

Same for Feebas.

Eh, I think it makes sense. Pseudo legendaries in the earlier gens were supposed to be very rare. There's a reason why Dratini was only available through the Game Corner and the Safari Zone in the Kanto games and why Gible is in a very well hidden cave in Sinnoh.

@aedrarising2760 Dratini is available in the Game Corner as you said, Larvitar is in a much larger cave, and Gible is in the entire basement, and not even a rare encounter down there. In contrast, Bagon is only found in a secret area that's far too small to even imply you might find different pokemon there, in the back of an already secret area barred by Waterfall. To make Bagon comparable to the others, I think it's fair to put it throughout the basement area where you need Waterfall to get to it, and leave it at a lower encounter rate. Then, where Bagon is originally found, you can also add a small chance of finding Shelgon. (Dragonair and Pupitar could similarly be found). Also, Gabite is pretty common in Victory Road in Platinum, too. Which is fair game to compare since we're talking about Emerald here. And it would definitely make sense to find Shelgon in Victory Road as well. Also, let's not forget that Beldum is outright *given* to you. Beldum should've been found in Victory Road or Meteor Falls as well.

I agree, but I think is like, ok. Since I have the information I can get it easily. The worst is Feebas that you suffer to get EVEN WITH INFORMATION.

@@aurafox1 I use walk through walls to hit that location as soon as I can!

I like that

And it's not like Gamefreak is opposed to having different champions in the same game. In Black and White, you fight the E4 and then N is the champion (and there's a Ghetsis fight too), then in rematches with the E4 it's Alder as the champion.

@@DrMemeD302 Precisely. This makes both crowds happy, as both get to be champions.

This is a good solution to the Wallace and Steven issue

@@vajukal Thank you.

Honestly I find vibrava worse then trapinch its attack and defense as well as special stats are horrible its like a featherweight its very fast and can't knock out shit, train him is slow but at least his attack stat is respectable

Alakazam is just Gardevoir but for people who had friends or action replay

Honestly I find that Trapinch performs better than Vibrava. At least Trapinch has high attack. Vibrava excels at nothing.

Well, your opinion, but you're wrong. Iconic means memorable and beloved. And whether you like them or not, Flygon and Salamence ARE iconic. Flygon's my personal favorite and if ever I'm going to play Emerald or Gen 3 again, I'm catching a Trapinch as always and leveling it up asap to get Flygon. Not to mention Flygon's typing was unique at the time and it was very useful. It still is, but it has to compete with Garchomp for a spot, but as I despise Garchomp, I'm choosing Flyon over it.

@@animatedink2529 Ok maybe that works for Flygon but I really don't see it for Salamence. Again, the key point was for "in-game" teams and they certainly don't rate highly on tier lists for beating the game. You can love Flygon, but I'm still not sure it's truly iconic for use in-game

Rock Tomb has entered the chat- HP Rock would be cool too.

I honestly don't see this as an issue. I see this as one of those rewarding things. I wouldn't call Sableye a good Pokemon other than the fact that it has a good type matching. What this does mechanically is show type matchups and that if you look around the area, you'll be able to find something to help you out. That is where I think Watson falls flat though. I don't think making you backtrack proves anything. They could has easily added a cave nearby for you to be able to get a Geodude there for the ground typing against his electric typing

Don't forget that Dustox and Beautifly are also available and (especially the former) turn him into a complete joke thanks to supereffective moves and quad-resisting every attack his team has.

If we're talking story, Exploud is more than viable with access to a wide TM pool and decent stats. No buff needed Castform is a gimmick and can't change very much, but maybe making it so not all of its stats are 70 would be good Mawile can be found relatively early and doesn't evolve but that shouldn't be a reason for it to be below average. Best things it got for itself are its mediocre Attack and Defense stats which are 85 and the rest are 50/55. Making it so it has a bit more of a balanced range would be a good start, and give it actual STAB while you're at it, like Iron Tail or at the very least Metal Claw Aaaaaand I've got nothing for Tropius that thing has no reason to be this bad

​​@@CheeseBlaster I think you missed his point that the whole issue IS that they made castform a gimmick rather than a cool and rare pokemon with unique battle features that weren't fully realized. He only needs buffed a little bit though I'd say. I'm no expert in how that works though or how much to buff them. I'd say probably 10-15 stats more at least.

​@@50zezimaOne cool element of Castform is that it is the only ice type available for Winona unless you delay her gym a lot.

@@CheeseBlasterpretty sure mawile in emerald can only be found in victory road. It was version exclusive with sableye in ruby/saphire where they both would have been found in dewford. In emerald sableye got to stay in dewford cave but mawile got bumped to victory road, which with its stats made it totally unplayable that late in the game.

And Plusle and Minun

Not one of those was poorly thought out, so I hope they get noticed!

Gen 4 combined the Mach and Acro Bikes into one which was such a nice QoL feature and I'm surprised not many Emerald hacks have capitalized on 'porting' this over, or at least allowing you to get both bikes so you don't have to keep going to the shop over and over if you want to access the side paths that require a specific bike to access.

All great/thoughtful/balanced ideas pal 👌 Makes you realise how easy and great it would be to outsource even just some of pokemon's development to fans like you who care

I love this double battle idea! I think it'd pair really well with the idea someone else commented of having Steven retire and Wallace appear as the post-game champion, which would mean that Juan would appear solo for the gym leader rematch.

@@mikosan6 Thanks! Emerald is near and dear to my wretched black heart, so I couldn't not toss out some ideas.

Could a similar effect be achieved if Swampert's base special attack was reduced by 5, to make its BST match that of Sceptile and Blaziken?

@@froggystyle9068 Ruby was the first Pokemon game I seriously played (even though I'd been playing since Blue version), but to be fair, I've never picked a non-Water starter in any game. I have a brother who always picks the Fire starter, and another who always picks the Grass starter, so to complete the Dex, each of us has to stick with our starting type every time. Not that I mind.

@@froggystyle9068 How does it deal with Drake? Salamence and Flygon seem like they'd wreck it.

Kid's gotta learn somehow

Good thing downloading this hack requires one to already be deep enough in Pokemon to want a fix hack lol Aron's a very good choice

lol

All of the starters do at least neutral damage to Aron, so I don’t think it would be a problem

Corraction: It’s A-aron.

Would be a good way to challenge Swampert as well

Wally as a double battle partner against Aqua/Magma IS the play, absolutely. I agree he shouldn't actually be fought until the end, but having him as a doubles partner allows you to see his growth as a trainer without coming up against him.

Love this idea!

No, Steven should still be Champ.

Okay potentially crazy idea for the Wally fight: All he’s got is a single Kirlia. The battle starts with 2 opposing Mightyena. He’ll start by firing off a confusion on one of them, not realizing it’s immune. He’ll then get really needy and just spam Calm Mind, trying to get a grip after being able to do nothing. Yes, he’ll be useless in this double battle, but the enemies don’t have to be strong. Having essentially a 2v1 could make for an interesting fight against low-level grunts, while advancing Wally’s story.

I like this idea but as someone making their own emerald rom hack I can attest that making team up double battles is next to impossible without using decomps, whereas Smith and team are using binary hacking from what I can tell. The sprites exist for you to do double battles with Wally, your rival and Steven (obviously) but the game's code treats the Steven team up battle as a special event that can't easily be replicated. I hope they can pull it off because it's something I wanted to implement but don't get your hopes up as it's not as easy as you'd think it should be.

This is an aspect of Gen 3 movesets that I appreciate, but they definitely went overboard. It's the sort of thing where it might make sense waiting 5 levels for a better move, but the cases where it's nearly 20 levels is absurd. Like if Shroomish got Giga Drain at say, level 26, and then Spore at 30, I could see people being more willing to hold out. Though it'd also be nice if Breloom did eventually learn Spore regardless, even if it was at level 60 or something, just so you're not completely screwed out of getting it.

Spore Breloom is kind of busted though, so I comprehend why they'd want to hide that from all but the most dedicated players.

Golem learns Earthquake, Explosion, and Double Edge too late in Gen 3. I am playing Pokémon Sapphire and I plan on trading him to Pokémon Leaf Green so that he can learn Explosion and Double Edge earlier. They should have kept the same idea from Gen 2 for Golem's Gen 3 learnset.

@@dvillines26 I can understand the desire, but in practice it just means that most players would never figure out how to teach Breloom spore without a guide. And those that read a guide still probably wouldn't use it during a playthrough. At that point even putting a Move Tutor for Spore hidden on an island somewhere feels preferable if it's meant to be a secret. Like how you can only get Softboiled in Kanto by backtracking to Celadon with Surf.

@@dvillines26 If by dedicated players you mean bringing a Shroomish to the Elite Four and evolving it in time for the Champion. Then sure.

Who?

​@@stanbrule9357 I said that "who?" Then I check bulbapedia, she is the female admin of team magma(that never show up in emerald)

Courtney is so underrated!!

I'd love to see Courtney return as well

Somehow I never noticed that. That is so weird. Yet you fight Tabitha like three times or something.

That just gives more of a reason for them to be an early gym leader instead of a later gym/elite 4 member

The strangest thing is that Ice types aren't that bad. Articuno is cracked in Gen 1, Regice (if you could be bothered to slog through all that) is really powerful once you get a decent moveset on it, etc. For example, Ice is super effective against Grass, Flying, Ground, and Dragon, which is an excellent offensive spread, as it can hit both common and early game types like grass and flying while destroying later game and more competitive threats like Dragon and Ground. Its weaknesses aren't as bad as most make them out to be, either: Rock, Steel, Fire, Fighting. Fire and steel types you usually see coming, and Rock and Fighting are also somewhat predictable. The only major flaw in Ice types, type balance-wise, is that the only resistance it has is against Ice itself, so it takes neutral damage against anything that isn't Ice or super-effective. Even Normal type has more defenses, and that is saying something. The real problems are that 1, Ice types, stat distribution-wise, are almost always slow, special defensive/special attackers, where their weaknesses are (before the physical/special split) mostly attack-based (fighting, rock, steel). Also, two of those types are THE most common secondary types to ground, and practically all ground types learn moves from them (plus fighting) regardless of being that type, so they can't safely take advantage of that super-effective typing either. Ice also suffers from water types being incredibly common, and said water types are the best walls against Ice types in the game, not to mention they also ALL learn Ice Beam, thus negating the purpose of an Ice type entirely. Just look at fire types, for example: while not quite as rare, and definitely earlier to access in the game, fire shares a lot of similarities in terms of coverage and weakness (super effective against grass/bug/ice/steel, two early game common types and two late game competitive types [ice being more theoretical here], and weak to water/ground/rock), but the key difference is here: the pokemon that are fire type, have decent stats particularly in either offensive speed or bulk (Camerupt and Magcargo being a notable exception, being 4x weak to water in an ocean sim game) and are ACTUALLY available for a large portion of the game. Which brings us to the 2nd issue: Ice type pokemon are both rare and late game. They could be taken out of the game and it wouldn't matter (which should not be a thing). The type is practically only existing for Ice Beam and Blizzard to counter Dragon types, and since there are practically no Ice types, they felt obliged to give access to those moves to the myriad of water pokemon. What is the point of obtaining a pokemon type you have not seen before in all of the game (except maybe a castform?) that the best member of its roster is ANOTHER water type pokemon. Most first-time players of pokemon don't even realize there is an Ice type in the game until THE ELITE FOUR. For example, in every generation, almost everyone forgets that Shellder and Dewgong actually evolve into part Ice types (mostly because these also tend to be a late game addition, and sub-par to boot). So basically, there are no Ice types that aren't water, and the best "Ice types" aren't Ice at all, since Ice is super weak defensively and strong offensively. And lastly, 3rd: Their movepools always seem to be utter trash. Typically, their move selection is weak, the possible strategies with them are also weak, they don't have other common secondary types in their movesets other than normal, and as stated beforehand, their two strongest moves are easily and readily available for practically every water type in the game. Game Freak basically just gave them the shaft since they needed a counter to Dragon types, but couldn't think of how to implement the type outside of cold caves. It's not like seasons exist, do they? The best ways I see to fix Ice types would be to offer more utility for them. Let them resist Grass, Water, and Dragon at the very least (because that makes logical sense, and is actually more confusing as to why it didn't in the first place), find more places earlier on to find them (too bad adding a season mechanic would be excessive, but caves and maybe at night will have to do), and either make Ice type pokemon faster, or more bulky (especially in terms of defense, after all, isn't ice supposed to be kind of hard?). Also, hail should be a much scarier weather condition, or else it has no point even existing. I would go so far as to say that hail should be painful enough to consider counters to it (like perhaps an additional 30% damage for Ice, and weakening everything that isn't Ice, Rock, Steel by a similar amount [why rock and steel? Because, why would they get weakened? They are hard and more inorganic, so hail and the chill wouldn't affect them very much], so a sandstorm strat would also be a good option against them, and thus weather would be a good balancing tool. Sandstorm could then raise accuracy of the affiliated types while lowering everything else, for example, as well. Sun could hurt/weaken Ghost and Ice, and rain could also boost Ice a smaller amount, etc.). I've always loved Ice types, but it is hard to love using them when the representatives of the type are always either unavailable until the late game, somewhat weak and underwhelming, and their roles are outclassed by the most common type (we're looking at you, Water) in practically every game.

@@adamwalker3560someone give me a TLDR

@@ciskeone Ice types could be good if placed earlier in the game with better movesets. Also give them some resistances

In Gen 5's case, it helps that you don't get an Ice Beam TM until post game, only Blizzard, so if you want a reliable Ice move, you kinda _need_ an Ice type that naturally learns it or accept that you're going to miss 30% of the time (or you could use a move reminder on Stoutland to teach it Ice Fang, I guess). Not to mention that - at least in my opinion - most of Unova's Water types feel a bit... underwhelming? Jellicent is great, Samurott and Carracosta are solid, Seismitoad, Simipour and Swanna (huh, all S) are... ok, while Basculin and Alomomola are "undesireable". Then again, the Ice types aren't much better. I used Vanniluxe on my first playthrough and it was... alright, though it takes a while to become usable (I doubt it'd be of much help for Clay). Then you have Beartic, who has to rely on Icicle Crash, which is prone to missing, or Cryogonal, which seems alright too but has paper-thin physical defense.

ABSOLUTELY

"immaculate vibes in Gen 3" LMAOOOOO. Oh wait, you are serious.....LET ME LAUGH EVEN HARDER!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@gordonhuskin Great counter argument

Glaica fits perfectly into gym 8, with it being an ice puzzle and all. Wouldn't surprise me if an ice gym leader was the original gym 8. Might need to add sneasel or delibird to the game or something so she has a slightly more fun team. Or just give glacia some random ass pokemon like a relicanth, gorebyss and huntail (not used in any major battle).

I actually really like this. I do think a grass leader needs to be somewhere tho

Give some of the grunts (or at least the Admins) Solrock or Lunatone depending on the team. The moon is what causes tidal waves, so it fits Team Aqua just fine (and I don't need to explain why Solrock fits Magma).

​@@LogicalleapingI think gym 7 actually is better Move the ice puzzle to mossdeep Give glacia a sealeo castform glalie n walrein

@@nautgamingnautgaming9949 OH castform is a fantastic idea. If Hail is buffed to actually have utility having a hail gym would be cool. I think thematically Mossdeep having the moon and sun pokemon is better than it being an ice gym though.

Would be amazing I love how this generation introduced doubles and having a champion double battle would free up some mons for my boy Juan!! Also water steel work great together!

Us and May/Wally vs the double Champions. OMG

this just makes too much sense. bringing in the new champ PLUS the old one with the new game mechanic introduced in this gen? Yes please.

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Nothing indirect about it. We nerfin swampert

Just not more with stun spore please. There are routes in the game with Oddish and Electrike where you get para'd EVERY DAMN ENCOUNTER 😂.

??? Dont be a bot. Pokemon games do not need to "balance the roster types." All that does is make the game easier by giving you more choices.

​@@JayceCH. What is this even supposed to mean lmao

@@JayceCH. I apologise but I don't understand your point here. If you don't make an effort to balance the roster, you'll end up in a gen 2 situation where Meganium is /barely/ chosen as Feraligator and Typhlosion are objectively better picks in almost every regard.

You the saddest part about this? Treeko does get Giga Drain via level up, but only if you don't evolve it. Kinda like Spore on Shroomish...

Sceptile is just bad compared to the other two

@@buffgarfield3231 That's basically it. Leaf Blade is just too weak late game

Gen 3 Grass Type was designed better than Gen 2 Grass Type. The Bullet Seed TM is available before the first gym. Teaching Treecko Bullet Seed means he does not have to rely on the weak Absorb to defeat Roxanne. The TMs for Giga Drain and Solarbeam are available earlier in Gen 3 than in Gen 2.

That is in no way a negative about the game lol. And you conveniently leave out TMs, and saying Lotad or Shroomish are "not great" when they are some of the strongest.

@@JayceCH. Yes. IDK why people are ignoring the Bullet Seed TM. Unlike GSC, Grass Type Pokémon are not stuck with their level up learnsets in RSE. Bullet Seed is enough for Grovyle until he learns Leaf Blade at Level 29. Also, there is no need to delay Treecko's evolution. Sceptile can learn Giga Drain later in the game when the player gets the TM in Route 123.

Breloom isn’t a great grass type because it’s a physical attacker and all grass moves are special prior to gen 4. Tropius has a similar issue. If you look at Lotad’s moveset it’s terrible. Absorb is the best you got until it’s in the 40s. Your TM options are the two turn solar beam, the inconsistent bullet seed, or base 60 giga drain after the 4th gym. Besides, Pokémon shouldn’t have to rely on TMs to be any good.

@@jbserver1334 Ignoring Spore or Grass STAB, the best moveset for Breloom in Gen 3 might be: Leech Seed, Stun Spore, Sky Uppercut, and Mach Punch or Bulk Up. Breloom is more of a Fighting Type than a Grass Type in Gen 3. Relying on TMs is not a problem. Relying on Egg moves is a different story. Lotad would have been good if he started with Water Gun instead of Astonish. Lombre not having Water STAB until Surf is bad.

And none of them are a challenge...

Melony is the only one I'd be able to call a challenge (I can't fight because I'm very distracted by her enormous-

Which really works against it because having it early could help to alleviate ice’s problems; early game means less Pokémon available with a type advantage against ice, and your Pokemon won’t be fully evolved giving the gym leader a chance for a higher BST edge

@@connormackay7098 I'd say Candice and Melony can be pretty tough if you can't play around their strategy can just try to brute force

​@@kirbyofthestarsfan Lapras?

Honestly, I heavily disagree, although I’m probably in the minority and you’re in the majority. I’ve always felt that, Gamefreak deciding to remove the reliance of HMs from gen 5 onwards was a STEP DOWN, as it made the game feel even easier than a typical pokemon game already is. To me, having to figure out which of your pokemon should learn this subpar HM move was part of the challenge. You either have to sacrifice some move slots which by default make your pokemon weaker and hence makes the battles harder… or, have an HM only pokemon which makes you have a 5 pkmn team instead of 6.. hence making battles harder! Also, I really miss the HM strength puzzles which, to me as a kid at least, were neat little challenging/satisfying twist to the game. Like, going through victory road in FR/LG or finding articuno by having to push the rocks through holes to be able to traverse through the floor below… I COULD NOT figure that out as a 9 year old and it was so satisfying to finally do it. Also, needing Dive in RSE to even get to Sootopolis or the Aqua hideout. I can go on and on. On one hand, it’s “tedious”. On another, it’s a neat twist that the latest pokemon generations lack completely

at least gen 3 has Zigzagoon/Linoone that could learn most of the HMs and had the pickup ability to generate random items. Perfect HM mule IMO

To me you DO use your hm slave. No it's not a beast in battle but that pokemon alone is helping you travel all over the world. I'll always love my linoone in gen 3 and my bibarel in gen 4 to get places

@@Pwjdjskw i do get you regarding the overall lack of challenge in pkmn games and that is objectively bad game design, but so were hms. hms making the game feel more challenging seems more like an accident than anything else, really. i mean, if you really wanna make pkmn games harder, you could just... make it harder. rom hackers figured that out ages ago with boss fights in general having six pkmn, decent movesets and enhanced ai. seems lazy to just limit base power available to the player instead of, like, maybe making bosses switch pkmn once in a while good game design means creating difficulty through challenges that are engaging and fun. puzzles are nice and engaging, yes. as for the need for hms... nah, just a massive pain in the ass. you don't really need hms to have puzzles or really any overworld interactions in general. in fact, i can't think of any other games with this approach as most just do it through items. hms made things just a bit harder (not even enough to make pkmn games feel like a real challenge anyway) by being massively annoying to deal with. it's the opposite of what you want in good game design and exactly why most good videogames abandoned things like grinding for levels - it's boring, time consuming, lazy, a pain in the ass and not engaging or fun whatsoever. challenges should be hard *and* fun, not hard by virtue of obnoxiousness

I think the best point in favor of HMs is that it can help make it feel like your team choice matters, where you do need to account for traversal when picking which pokemon to use. That helps lean into aspects of exploration. It's hardly executed perfectly in Hoenn though. Rock Smash being so weak and Dive/Waterfall both being mostly worse versions of Surf just makes it feel worse. Strength at least has a puzzle aspect, but Rock Smash really should be handled more like Cut where it's an optional obstacle to block off items. Just look at Seafloor Cavern and Victory Road and ask yourself what would change if some of those Rocksmash rocks were removed. In most cases the answer is 'not very much'. If Rock Smash was mainly used to block off items/shortcuts, then that would condense the necessary HMs to Strength/Surf/Dive to get through Seafloor Cavern, and Strength/Surf/Waterfall to get through Victory Road. Given that Rock Smash, Cut, and Watefall were changed for Crystal Legacy though, I wouldn't be surprised to see similar changes to those, as well as potentially to Dive/Strength/Flash to make them more appealing to have on movesets as well. If the ability to readily forget HM moves is also retained, then it may be even less of an issue. If nothing else, the Move Deleter being placed in Mauville would be an improvement to avoid being stuck with Cut/Flash/Rock Smash until Lilycove.

I agree it needs physical Leaf Blade (so do Breloom and Shiftry), especially since it already gets Swords Dance.

FR CANT WAIT

Aww yeah! And he’s giving out free schmells now lol

​@@KashikizuImagine defining something as an "issue" because your vision doesnt allign with the vision from the creator. Pure entitlement. The only issue i can see are people breaking copyright law because of said entitlement. You can be sure that i forward this to the company doing takedowns for Nintendo. After all these so called "fixes" are a financial gain for that Smith guy while insulting the franchise

@@denis2381 I see. Oh well

@@denis2381 beasting

Aside from putting some of the Contest Halls back where they were, it really feels like there should be more rewards for it. Like getting some of the rarer berries or some of the TMs which you otherwise only get one of. As it stands, I think the only actual reward is Luxury Balls for repeatedly winning Master Rank contests, which is neat, but not that exciting. If they wanted to be simple, getting some coins for the Game Corner would be a pretty nice reward to help get the powerful TMs there.

I would love putting contests early and giving out a feebas

I'm glad you mentioned battle facilities. I skip the three Battle Tents because the single item rewards make too little difference to a playthrough. Locking Trainer Hill to after the Elite Four is extremely underwhelming when it has to compete with the 7 facilities of the Battle Frontier for your attention.

Juan/Wallace Double battle is an exceptional idea... I saw another comment that suggested we battle Juan/Wallace together with Wally - And we both get the gym badge together... So now we can expect Wally in the Victory road....

Glacia n Tate/liza swap places Phoebe n Winona swap Sidney n brawly swap places PUT BOTH calm mind n bulk up at victory road to prevent abuse cases

Grass/Electric sounds like it'd go crazy, I kinda want this over a Dragon sub-typing now (especially as, like you'd mentioned, it's an amazing answer to Hoenn's torrent of water pokemon). Freaking brilliant idea - and even the reasoning behind Grass/Ghost honestly shows how Sceptile deserves a second typing in general

I second this idea

Let's make Grass/Dragon the new Fire/Fighting, and give it to Meganium and Serperior too! :D /hj

Considering the amount of watertypes in the Game, being Dragon Grass isnt even that good i mean you could eat an icebeam at any Corner 😅

Check out Inclement Emerald, absolutely insane rom hack

I think Smith already gave Sceptile the Grass/Dragon typing in a previous video. So he might bring it back for Emerald legacy.

Yes, it could be similar to Platinum Dex-Expansion. Gastly/Misdreavus in Mt. Pyre, Seel/Jynx in Shoal Cave, Clefairy in Meteor Falls, Growlithe in Route 112, etc.

@@ghozt3167 I would like to see more gen 2 representation because gen 1 has been used a lot between the first two games. So poloswine, murkrow, misdrevius, forretress, and sneasel would be more of what I’d focus on. That way we can have a different experience.

​@@jasperclark1122 In this case, a good solution could be unlock the Safari extra zone before Elite Four. Even though you can find trash Pokémon like Ariados, Ledian, Gligar, etc; also you can get good mons like Ampharos, Houndoom or Ursaring. Otherwise, re-distribute the species in Safari Zone locating Johtomon in regular sections and change the extra with Kanto species. However, some gen 1 Pokémon should be necessary in that expansion bc cross-gen evos, since in that case only would have trashmon like Unown, Dunsparce, Qwilfish, Delibird, Yanma (exception Tyranitar or Miltank).

@@ghozt3167 I’m not saying all of them need to be gen 2. I just want to see different Pokemon that we could use so, teams don’t look the same from gen 1 and 2. Just some underrated Pokemon could be used to fill the gaps in types.

Yeah, like, add 1-2 more lines to Fighting, Fire, Electric, Dark, and Ghost, for steel make 2/3 of Fortress, Scizor, and Steelix available, and Ice needs 3-4 more options

What's wrong with Skitty having a low encounter rate? It's intended to be rare.

I forgot Grimer is in the game. :/ > many good Pokemon such as (...) *Masquerain* 😐 (X) Doubt

@@aedrarising2760 2% rare Also just found out two more issues (8) Only 1 Moon Stone in the game because there is no Lunatone to use Thief on so you can only evolve Skitty or Jigglypuff and not both. (9) The 5% chance of Shards on certain Pokémon to get the other stones. Relicanth is especially rare so good luck getting Leaf Stones.

@@robertlupa8273 Masquerain has Intimidate and Stun Spore for level up.

@@nedrostram2360 ...which it doesn't get until level 40, while Beautifly (who is actually _faster,_ though also frailer) learns it at 17 and Breloom/Shroomish gets it at 7. Before then, it doesn't really do anything besides Intimidating. If it were to be changed to get it at similarly low levels however, I could see it being useful, so it's likely that Smith will buff it this way.

Day/night is dumb

@@radaf4429 great input!

It has already been said that this duo of weather abilities will remain exclusive to their legendaries.

@@amiciyopre I think they mean overworld weather, like the sandstorm in the desert and the rain on route 120.

@@amiciyopre I was just listing a couple examples of ability switch ups I’d personally like to see, makes sense to keep it exclusive.

he is in Victory Road tho

@@dvillines26 I know, but I wanted a more satisfying battle from him than what I got. It felt anti-climatic.

@@ElsaRochelle His entire purpose was to be a red herring.

@@aedrarising2760 It just would have been nice if one of them was actually strong. Like maybe the oldest child left because he discovered he actually wanted to get stronger.

Big agree on swapping Brawly for Phoebe. His gym puzzle in gen 3 never really made sense. It was fixed in ORAS but yea...

Early game normal types and poochyena will eat phoebe's team alive

@@6CornDawg9 Doesn't matter, the first two gyms are pretty easy. Ghosts can still do a setup gimmick like Brawly's Bulk Up strat, but they have more interesting options to create a new Gym 2 challenge. Brawly being an E4 member is the best suggestion I've heard, that team is super interesting.

Then E4 gets closer to Kanto's E4 with both a Fighting and a Dragon user.

@@isaelsky21 Kanto E4 has Agatha a ghost type trainer. So it’s just a swapping one for another. Not that I see it as an issue as the original Kanto E4 and Hoenn E4 share three of the same monotypes (ghost, ice, dragon).

> swap special and physical for Dark and Ghost types _Banette cries in the corner_

While Gengar and Misdrevous are specially leaning so it makes sense in Yellow and Crystal legacy all the Ghost types introduced in Gen 3 are physically leaning so I’m not sure about that

Do the XD thing and just MAKE THE PHYS/SPEC SPLIT ALREADY.

@@jouheikisaragi6075 XD only had it for the Shadow moves and even then it followed type logic of moves it was based on, if apllicable. For example, Shadow Blast is physical since Aeroblast is physical, being a Flying move, but the latter was changed to a special move in gen 4 (and was presemebly created as such). tl;dr XD's phys/spec split was half-baked and too faithful to the pre-split in rare cases

@@robertlupa8273 true, but it still set the foundation and I feel too many mons by Gen 3 would either become extremely samey if their stats got shifted to suit their STAB or have strange type/stat spread dissonance that wouldn't be changed much regardless of the old split. If doing a proper split is still too new gen for this hack, I'd say don't mess around with stats so much and instead treat STAB as more of a side gig than a main method of damage, favoring to give mons movesets with their stats in mind(example: Absol doesn't get shit from Dark STAB but it could reasonably get a lot of stronger physical attacks to make that big attack stat feel worth dealing with the rest of its stats being so meh)

Seeing as Dark has been physical in the other Legacy hack I imagine that will happen here too. Seeing as houndoom is the only Dark type with more spatk than attack it seem fair. But spatk Absol does sound sick.

nah, Dark being physical makes more sense for myriad reasons and requires far fewer stat changes. just have mixed attackers, and some Pokemon that simply don't need to use their other STAB. Crawdaunt never even needed STAB to be good, nobody really considers it but it's a beast with Earthquake and Brick Break. Return, Aerial Ace, Rock Tomb, and Sludge Bomb as a specific fuck you to Ludicolo. buff Knock Off to 60 base power and now it works as physical STAB, and Crawdaunt becomes a top tier pick. Sharpedo already wants to be a mixed attacker, so having it get both a physical and special STAB is great

At this point it makes more sense to advocate for the split. It should have happened in gen 3 anyway.

@@NeightrixPrime eh personally I love gen 3 without the split. the fun of using pokemon in different ways is great. annoying but makes situations that wouldn't happen in newer games.

I don't think adding Hidden Abilities is possible without using one of those highly advanced ROM bases (whatever's used in those recent-ish super advanced Gen 3 hacks) and I doubt Smith is good enough at coding to do it. Remember, hidden abilities weren't added until Gen 5.

@@robertlupa8273 I know, I was just thinking if a Pokemon has a bad ability it can be replaced with it's hidden ability or have some way for there to be 3 possible abilities instead of 2

ORAS was never "too faithful" lmfao. Thats only shill arguments for not having Battle Frontier. Look at every other thing, and you'll see they are through and through many changes.

@@JayceCH. I like ORAS more than the originals and Emerald, but by "too faithful" to the originals I mean things like using the usually worse Ruby and Sapphire gym leader teams and the evil teams still using pretty much the same small pool of Pokemon as before

Having hidden abilities and a substitute for HMs wouldn’t make it feel like Gen 3 anymore

Shedinja just isn't interesting to fight though. It limits teambuilding by requiring an answer to it, but it doesn't really have any impact on the fight other than that because it dies instantly.

@@connormackay7098 If you show up without "any" means of taking out a shedinja, you deserve the loss tbh

Another option could be to add a grass patch below the rock smash rocks on route 111 to give the player access to Numel before the gym.