Tips and Tricks you Missed | Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald 

What are some lesser known tips and tricks that you know about?

Corsola, chinchou, relicanth, and clamperl on Route 124 and 126 have a 5% chance of holding a shard (red, yellow, green, and blue respectively) which you can steal with Covet or Thief and trade them for evolution stones from the treasure hunter just outside of Mossdeep City. It's at least some way to farm stones if you need them.

I have such a weak spot for gen 3 games. It was like they unlocked the holy grail of what they were missing, that music, the mechanics, the pixel graphics, the zone all just made three of the most iconic games I have ever played.

Fun fact the girl that gives you berries in Sootopolis City (6:26) is meant to be Masuda's daughter who was born shortly before the release of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.

Tip; if you're looking for a dragon scale it's much easier to get them off of Bagon than horsea. It's the same chance for each, but encountering multiple Bagon is so much easier than horsea. Spent hours looking for one on horsea before I found out bagon have them too. It took 12 minutes after I went to meteor falls.

The most obscure thing I know about Hoenn is there are two unique seedots who are called 'Dots'. One is a trade in Rustboro, and the other is a contest opponent. I wonder if the translator forgot!

In Emerald Pickup was changed so Rare Candies are only obtained at level 21. But Zigzagoon in Route 119 are found at the twenties. Catch Six of them there!

I've been trying to do Solo Runs of Emerald with every single stage Pokemon (up to Wallace anyway) so let me share a trick I've learned in that journey: 1. Catching a teleport mon can be very useful for the middle of the game. Badges 3ish to 5ish involve a good deal of backtracking, and having a Teleport mon can help with this. You can teleport right back to Mauville after encountering the villainous team at Meteor Falls, or teleport to Fallarbor once you beat Maxie if you want Return ASAP, or Teleport to Rustboro as soon as you beat Flannery, or right to Mauville after beating Norman. You set your teleport spot to whichever Pokemon Center you entered last, so if you want to heal, use the PC at the Day Care on Route 117 or the house in the North of Route 111, and plan your Pokemon Center visits carefully, cause its easy to mindlessly walk into them as soon as you see them!

The fact that these games are so old and theres still so much stuff to talk about it 20 years later Gen 3 best gen you earned a subscriber

You can breed Pokemon that know TM moves if you accidentally used it. Specifically there’s two ways: breeding with a compatible partner that already knows the move or simply breeding a male that knows the move with a compatible female that doesn’t. You can chain breed to allow a Pokemon to learn the move, so long as it falls within the same egg group link and isn’t Legendary/genderless.

I have some tips for speeding up the daily berry route. As for how you want to plan your route, that's up to you and how many patches you want to visit, but the more you do, the more this method will save you time. Typically you go to an area with berry trees growing in soft soil, and after collecting your berries in the area, you go to each individual tile and press A to open multiple text boxes. 'It's soft, loamy soil. Want to plant a BERRY?' > Yes (Menu pops up) '[You] planted one [berry] in the soft, loamy soil.' > Interacts again 'One [berry] was planted here.' 'Want to water the [berry] with the WAILMER PAIL?' > Yes '[You] watered the [berry].' 'The plant seems to be delighted.' Per tile. This is PER TILE! To save time, you can instead open the Start Menu, and go to the berries pouch. Because the menus have memory, the cursor and active bag slot are the same the next time you open the menu. Also the menus are pretty responsive! In the berries pouch, you can select a berry and select 'USE'. Boom, done. As for the Wailmer Pail, you can register it to the Select Button. It saves so much time, and can easily be changed back to whatever you want later (eg, the Bicycle)

Learned this while playing pokemon Emerald. Not really a hidden tip/trick but pokemon heal if you toss them in the PC boxes. You just have to kind of drag and drop them in and then take them back out. I found using this method of healing was really helpful between the time frame of beating your dad, 5th gym, and transitioning into the 6th gym. This is the time before you get fly and you have to battle trainers by the berry master's place and up towards the weather tower and then deal with team magma/aqua. The weather tower has a PC box so instead of traveling back to heal at any Pokemon center, you could just do this instead. May save you a few minutes here or there. I still use this method of heal even in other pokemon games where Pokemon centers are scarce but PC boxes are plenty. Hopefully this advice helps somebody!

This may be both a late and odd tip but still: Get the TM Sludge Bomb. Why is this a tip? It's a little weird to aquire: Once you have beaten Norman, head to Dewford. Go into the Community Center and talk to the people. Once you have beaten Norman a NPC will give you Sludge Bomb. And yes, that's unnecessarily hidden so most people don't know that they can aquire TM Sludge Bomb in this game at all.

there are 3 spots the newscaster trainer cycles everytime you beat them, its a double fight and gives a lot of exp and money, you can fight them infinitely if you know their spots, then after a ton of fights they might bug out and never teleport to another spot, when this happen, just change location/route and you can fight them again asap

Awesome video!!! I learned a trick for Safari Zone, you don't need to walk in Safari Zone for catch Pokémon, you can use the move Sweet Scent, so you can find and catch pokémon without spending your steps :)

As a Pokemon veteran from its fledgling days I'm happy you taught me something new about the day care and the way moves are learned! You've earned my subscription!

In regards to Pickup, it's only in Emerald that the items are based on level, while in Ruby/Sapphire it's the same pool of items regardless of level This is important to note because in Emerald your Zigzagoon need to be level 11 or higher to be able to pick up a King's Rock and level 21 for Rare Candies Also worth noting that Lunatone is only available in Sapphire, so no Moonstone grinding if you are playing Ruby or Emerald

This is the first video I've seen from your channel, and I really enjoyed watching. I definitely had my memory jogged with a couple of bits and pieces, and learned about a lot of new trainers to steal items from!

Amazing video there's one more tip: "Leaving starter Pokemon unevolved" Mudkip is not evolved learns hydro pump around the 40's. Maybe the same thing works for Torchic and treecko. Another one is heart scale farming can help learn level 1 moves. Sableye is a guaranteed way of beating Brawly in sapphire He can't touch sableye. Maybe you could've mentioned something about pokerus too.

The secret bases are great for EV training or Leveling up. If you can swap data between two games you can have secret bases full of pokemon that increase the EV you want to train or you can have bases full of level 100 Blisseys. I forget how many secret bases can be swapped into Emerald.

3:50 Keep in mind that outside of battle effects only work in Pokémon Emerald and beyond, so Compound Eyes won't increase your odds of wild Pokémon holding items in Ruby and Sapphire.

I mostly just used Thief as a means of training those early-game Abra. Its Special in Gen 3, so it will do some really decent damage with Abra's Special Attack that early in the game

Still to this day, I wish Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire had more Pokemon Emerald features.

This was honestly an amazing video! Very well put together and I knew almost none of the information you shared in it 😮 especially considering 3rd gen is my favorite gen too, great work!

You have mentioned the tips that I can come up with at the moment. There are always a few trainers in the Sootopolis gym who’s pokemon are holding a nugget. In RS there is a lady with a Seaking and in Emerald there are two trainers, one a lady with Seaking and a swimmer with two Luvdisc who are both holding a nugget. But yeah Thief is a huge help and zigzagoon with pickup as well!

This is a really good video, alot of these tip videos tend to include the same tips and information, but your tips are unique and really useful!

Pokemon with suction cups ability will help you catch pokemon that are fished up more easily. Not sure if it increases the catching odds or the encounter odds though.

Big fan of gen 3, yet I still learn new things about these games. I never knew about the Daycare HM removing. Always assumed it would keep the HM and delete the next move in the list. Thanks!

In ruby there’s no leveling up for nuggets and rare candies nuggets are 4% chance 1% for rare candies

I knew about nearly all of these tips, aside from Compound Eyes boosting the wild Pokémon's chance of holding an item. Cool video! 👍🏻

Agreed! Though I favor Covet on account of it having a base 40 PP which can be boosted to 64; it definitely goes a lot further in Meteor falls or diving among seaweed (shard hunting), since you don't have Frisk to identify which pokémon are holding something and which aren't.

An !!Extremely!! Important distinction to make about pickup is that in Emerald, pickup works differently than it does in Ruby and Sapphire. In Emerald, the percent chance of finding specific items changes as a pickup Pokémon levels up, with the table of items you can find changing every ten levels. It is NOT like R/S, where there is a set list of items with set percentages that can be picked up. For example, a pickup Pokémon in Emerald can only pick up a King’s Rock starting at level 20, and it will not be able to pickup a Kings Rock after level 30 due to how the table changes. In R/S, picking up a Kings Rock is a 1% chance no matter what level the Pokémon is. Sorry for the long comment, I didn’t see this anywhere in the comments and I thought this was an important distinction to make. Hope this helps someone!

Excellent video! Wild how many of these I haven’t been taking advantage of despite several thousand hours of gameplay

This was a great watch, I would have sworn that the badge boosts were only a gen 1 thing. After 20 years of playing these games I'm still learning new stuff

Your editing has definitely improved and it really shows in this video.

Mate, this video may be the best Pokémon tip video I have seen so far. I was not expecting to learn anything game changing, after all I am very experienced with the game, with all 4 stars on my trainer card with hundreds of hours of game + am a top contributor on a Pokémon Facebook group. Somehow I learned a lot! You have my gratitude, especially for the “grinding” move with the bike. All the best to you!

Fascinating stuff!! Great vid

The berry tips will be incredibly useful!

Doing a Saphire Nuzlock atm, and this was unbelievably helpful. Thanks 🎉

I always used the zigzagoon pickup for EV grinding. Fill your party with 5 of the little guys and your training pokemon in the front slot. Check every 3 or 4 battles and collect the rewards. By the time you are done you should have a nice pile of items.

It’s always cool to find out new things about the games I love

The Berry Master's wife would give you one piece of a certain Pokeblock berry by saying a phrase to her. Forgot the phrases and some of the berries but this is the only way to get your starting Pamtre (I used it to get Milotic). The Durin and Watmel if iirc correctly need you to have Latios and Latias in your dex, respectively since you need their name in the phrase.

Good tips video, I definitely didn't know some of these. I also noticed your editing in this video was a lot more dynamic. Hopefully no spoilers on the Winona fight lol

Waiting for my 4 year old daughter to be able to read well enough to enjoy this masterpiece. Started playing GBA Pokemon when I was 7, I'm 27 now :)

Idk if its a lesser known but your mom gives you the amulte coin after beating wattson i believe? If you go visit her she will have a unique dialogue and give you the held item which doubles the money you get after a trainer battle. So go put the amulet coin on your first pkmn in line, and rematch the hell outta lady cindy and rich boy

also outside of the move Thief. If you raise a skitty, it learns the move Covet, which works the exact same way

Late to the party but great video. Im in the process of transferring pokemon from emerald to omega ruby so these tips help alot.

The last tip brings me back. I used that exact trick in Sapphire and a similar trick in FRLG using the arrow tiles in one of Team Rocket hideouts.

I saw some of your recent RU-vid shorts covering these facts like the move deleter one in particular before I saw this video pop up in my recommended, so when you got to things like that I was like "Wait a minute did this guy just word for word take someone else's clip?" And then I checked my history and it was uploaded by you lol. Good video, genuinely quite informativeu

I found a nugget with my Zigzagoon before the 1st gym in my Nuzlocke, I didn't know this was possible 😄

Raising Pokemon in the daycare can be pretty expensive, but now knowing that we can take advantage of the 1% that should not be a problem.

All my favourite things to do! I never did the rubber band and pen trick however!

If you make sure to fight every trainer in every route including the sea ones after you get surf, you really don't have to do hardly any grinding in these games. How many pokémon are you trying to raise at one time? That might have something to do with it

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Some good tips in here! I didn’t know the daycare always replaced the first move. I rarely used it because I was afraid it‘d delete all my good moves. My Umbreon was useless after I left it in the daycare in XD…

this video really made me want to replay emerald, I want to make an playthrough around beating each major fight with as little resistance as possible using every tool avilable. Early guts swellow and late Choarcoal + flamethrower tm + low hp torchic sounds like an good combo

A very high level pokemon with "pick up" has a chance to obtain rare candy, and a couple of unpurchasable TMs (such as Earthquake). I made a habit of keeping my 2 max level Linoone's in party, when I run around in the world.

I learnt alot from this video good job

This video was a god send. Thank you

Glad I saw this AFTER my ruby nuzlocke

I'm going to play through the original Hoenn games with my brother and his daughter, so these will be pretty helpful.

That AFK method also works for hatching eggs, though it only gets you to when the first one hatches. Having a Slugma (or other Flame Body or Magma Armor poke) anywhere in your party also speeds up eggs, but only from Emerald onward. Same exact thing works in Sinnoh too. Unova and Kalos not as much, but they have unobstructed circles you can go around endlessly by holding a single direction in the subway station and Lumiose. Additional Compoundeyes tip: The Compoundeyes poke only has to be in slot 1. The effect still works if it's fainted, so you can have Thief on something else and not need to switch. Though beginning in gen 4 there's an additional tactic: faint the Compoundeyes poke and then have something with Frisk and Thief in slot 2. This way you get items more often, and then as soon as you enter a battle it tells you if there's an item to steal.

I've played Pokemon Emerald dozens of times since I was a kid and never knew about the gym badges stat boost, that blew my mind already

That last tip is very clever! Been playing Pokemon Emerald more than a decade now and that technique could save up my time instead of turning back and forth with my handheld just to make my pokemon level up in the daycare hahaha. I can still remember myself falling asleep doing it, eventually, draining my gameboy unattended. No saved progress equals efforts wasted.

I actually knew about the badges' boost and got into all tutor moves on my first playthoroughs. However I had no idea that Zigzagoon could get me a King's Rock so early. Another obscure tip is to not only use Pokecubes onto rising, but also to capture on the Safari zone, as the cubes give you better chance of capture if the Pokemon has a good base stat on said characteristic.

You forgot to talk about the secret base on the moon

I have a full team with the ability pick up so every like 5 minutes of running around my entire party will be holding items like rare candys and I’ll take them and just keep walking around letting my Pokémon pick up items for me to use & sell 😂

We're making it out alive of Hoenn with this one 🗣️🔥

Amazing video like usual

Awesome tips, thank's

Ahhh, nostalgia. I love everything about these games. The graphics, the vibrant atmosphere, the elegant simplicity of it all. S/G and HG/SS will always be my favorite games but these games are forever treasures. 💯

Lollll I remember doing the last one with the acro bike and leaving my Game Boy on overnight, leveled up my Pokemon sooo fast

I can't believe RU-vid recommended this video to me literally the day after I finished my Emerald run

If you have a friend or another copy of the game you can have a full team of level 100 blisseys to get max exp per battle possible with secret bases.

That HM daycare tip is hella useful.

For thief it’s awesome using it in HG/SS on koga’s muk with the mold breaker ability and you can steal his black sludge

Broo you remind me of Jwittz from when i was younger, thank you ❤️

The Pokeblock feeders in the Safari Zone lock your encounters to Pokemon that like that Pokeblock's flavor. Can't remember if it works on Pokemon encountered via Sweet Scent and if it interacts with Synchronize.

Yoooo badger here giving pokemon facts, I love it

Thief is so underrated in older Pokemon games. I remember spending hours in Platinum trying to steal a Lucky Egg from wild Chansey.

The badge boost thing I knew, it's there is the instruction manual. Me and my dad once sat down trying to translate since I didn't spoke english. Also that happens in gen 2, that's litetally the only reward for beating Jasmine

I love Thief. In Alpha Sapphire, I use it to steal; Heart Scales from Luvdisc, and Oran Berries from Gulpin. And in one occasion, Wide Lens from Sableye. Why waste my time getting 48 BP at the Battle Resort when I can just steal one from Sableye, I managed to steal 3 of em and gave them to my Dialga for its Roar of Time and my Palkia's Spacial Rend. So satisfying not having those moves miss half the time.

Awesome video!

Great tips!

I would like to add, that you can go to the left of Pacificlog and there's a 10% chance that the wild Horsea mentioned will hold dragon scales. (In case you didn't know, when playing a ROM of these games, you can trade with yourself to evolve pokemon.)

Great tips

11:54 Seems to be fairly useful for breeding too.

I didn't use TM Thief, but I used a Delcatty which learned Covet. Same thing. She steal your opponent pokemon's held item. I used to battle rich boy or lady. Stole some nuggets and cashed them out.

That bit about the daycare at the end was very interesting. Might try that sometime if i'm feeling evil

Great video!

Bro this video would have been so useful 10 years ago

Zigzagoon party for Pickup was the best. Just Rare Candy so many Pokémon up after a bit. Just kept Mudkip as my primary Pokémon and just blitzed through everything. Plus Zigzagoon / Linoone learns most of the useful HM's. Think you're just missing out on Fly, Watefall, Dive and Flash? Had Sapphire, so would thief the Lunatone a lot. Trade with my brothers for Solrock's Sun Stones.

There’s actually one more npc that gives a free berry everyday. At the north-most part of Route 111, there’s a girl by a couple of dirt patches that gives you the free berry. It makes 10 free berries a day.

Of course there's the repel trick but here's an emulator only trick I call it "rapid fishing" What you need Any rod What you need to do 1. Cast out your rod like normal 2.wait for a bite 3.get the "A Pokémon is on the hook" text box 4. Save state 5. Press A to see your encounter 6. If you are unsatisfied with the encounter reload the save state 7. If you are satisfied with the encounter attempt to catch. How is this useful? Well say you are doing a nuzlocke and you have caught your slowpoke/slowbro, and caught Goldeen/seaking so you are in the safari zone and now you use the super rod to catch a Dratini. You can use the rapid fishing trick to get multiple chance at a Dratini/Dragonair with just one cast of the super rod Another one is shiny hunting

Thanks for the tips! I'll have something new to do when I play Emerald today.

Nice video bro 😎

There was a house in Gen 1 that had an npc that would tell you what each badge gave as a bonus. I always thought it was just in that game but maybe it's in every game? Or maybe at least up til gen 4 or 5

These are awesome tips is there specific pokemon you can you thief on to get water/leaf stones?

Man i remember doing the daycare hack and waking up in the morning to find lvl 100 pokemons 😂😂 good ol days 😂😂

Something I've never seen mentioned anywhere. Apparently, by my account, Latias can appear from talking to trainers/one specific trainer (a nod to the movie where she could transform into humans). East of Mauville city i had one battle me after talking to that flower girl.