bored of cyclin through this place battlin the same trainers!! got everyone to at least level 45 which i was worried still wouldn't be enough to take on the Epic Four. but i figured it would be more worth my time to use the funny four themselves for training, so i said screw it and spent like $200k on healing items that i'd probably need anyway, just so i wouldn't lose a ton upon whiting out
this is the initial League Team, do u think they can do it??? find out soon... also yes i keep changing nicknames, in fact i've stopped naming pokémon upon catching them because being put on the spot i always end up calling them some concoction of syllables that does not resemble a name any kind of creature would have
first battle had me feelin good feelin spry. hardly lost anything! but immediately everyone is higher level than me which was worrying. thankfully it turns out they're limited to only a few healing items whereas i have an absurd amount
next two pfft weren't even anything pfft elite snore. Phoebe? phoe be dead. Glacia? gla see ya. yeah my guy may have 1 HP but that's more than 0 HP, simple mathematics that's the first key to pokémon battles. that and buying 40 revives. Drake of the Four Dragons did have me a little worried toward the end though. for some reason beforehand i thought oh a dragon guy i'll just bring in my own dragon to take them out, easy. didn't think that one through to be honest
looking at this screen a lot. kinda makes me feel like healing items should be limited if this is meant to be a sanctioned battle. realizing how possible it is to rely on tiring out the opponent by constantly shoving revives down my team's throats, although i did spend almost all my money to be able to do that so maybe it's not always viable. have a lot of money that's the second key to pokémon battles and i guess everything else in life as well. don't get depressed now just keep playing the colorful animal game
found out that in the manga this dude and Winona the flying gym leader were an item so obviously he had to die. all of my guys played their part really well :) stupid animals can't do anything unless i tell them to but they at least did what i told them, for the most part
Pokémon Emerald! i am not even close to done unfortunately, i want to pokémon got to catch all of them!!! one time as a kid i beat the champion a second time and immediately reset because i was scared it would give my pokémon a second Champion Ribbon which for some reason bothered me. now i'm going to incorporate beating it into these guys' daily routines for the sake of exp-sharing babies. put on this helmet little guy i promise your childhood won't be rapidly taken from you
ah man. this is where i decide whether i get Latias or Latios. i always assumed if i wanted to complete my gen 3 dex i'd need to play Ruby or Sapphire as well eventually, but apparently the only pokémon that isn't obtainable in Emerald or Colosseum/XD, is the other choice. so i'd have to replay the whole game/play a worse version of it just for one pokémon. this is a long-term goal of mine so i'd probably be okay with doing this again like, a year from now. pretty sure there are small cross-game benefits to having Ruby/Sapphire as well. maybe not but i'll choose to believe there are, to justify my decisions
i realize there's an event item that would enable me to get the other Lati on this save, but i don't know i'm apprehensive about cheating in stuff like that. a lot of people probably wouldn't consider it "cheating in" since those items either aren't available anymore or cost exorbitant amounts of money. and i guess you could also make the argument that i'm already playing an "illegitimate" copy of the game, so the door to simply downloading gated data has already been opened. again, this is a long-term goal so i have a lot of time to realize how stupid and stubborn i'm being
