3rd Gen Help Thread

[Houka]

No Dragonnite is a fine pokemon I tend to go more physical with mine but you can teach it some specials if ya want. Surf, Thunder, Ice Beam, outrage are good choices for it.

Gyrodos is another physical type Pokemon, so Surf is good on it but you'll get more use out of it use other attacks. He pretty strong so he be fine as well. No reason to swap Pokemon if you have a lot of exp on them already. As before ya got good solid time going depend where ya want take them is up to you and may influences there compatibility but then Leaf Green isn't that hard so you should be just fine.

 

[Dragon Pulse]

How to defeat Elite Four with this following Pokémon team?

I know I seem like an amateur for asking, but could someone help me defeat the Elite Four in Ruby with my Pokémon team, which are: Swampert, Mightyena, Torkoal, Flygon, Crobat and Mawile.

I don't want to switch any of my Pokémon or catch any new ones. I want to stick to this team. I simply can't defeat the E4 and I don't have much potions or revives left. I also don't have much money left either.

Any ideas, movesets, etc?

 

[Kalosian]

You didn't give us their levels, but I would guess they are at rather low levels compared to those of the E4. Thus, you could try leveling up a bit before trying again. If you are at levels 55-58 when challenging the E4, it shouldn't be that hard. Though somewhat lower levels might work too. If you rebattle trainers using the Pokenav, you will also get more money to rebuy items which you might find helpful such as Potions and Revives. As for their movesets, you should try to teach your Pokemon the best possible moves (unless you plan on saving some TMs for later use). Some suggestions are: Surf, Earthquake and Ice Beam for Swampert, Crunch for Mightyena, Dragon Claw, Flamethrower and Earthquake for Flygon, Flamethrower for Torkoal, Fly for Crobat and maybe Sludge Bomb and Brick Break for Mawile. Though you should only use what you have, if you don't have the TMs needed, you should try other moves.. That's about all the advice I can give you.

 

[LizardonX]

Get to grinding.

mighteyana and mawile are awful. Send them out and let them die to give you a turn to heal a more useful pokemon.

 

[Dragon Pulse]

You didn't give us their levels, but I would guess they are at rather low levels compared to those of the E4.

They're around Level 40-50 each.

 

[Houka]

Everything what Kalosian is all good, seem liek your good levels though I suggest 50's.

Syndy is easy just use speical attacker for Mightyana and most of the other should fall top a good physical attack like Crobat (having some advantage some of them).

Phobia is more annoying then anything, your Mightyana has the best advantage just keep in mind it's Special is fairly bad so. Beware of Curse, Confuse Ray, and Wilo Wisp.

Glacia has more tanky Pokemon, this one is harder as you have no one to take advantage of Walirien/Seoloe's water weakness so hit hard and hope for the best and try to avoid using Flygon as it can be one shotted by their Ice attacks (Same goes for Crobat).

Drake is easy just spam Ice Beam or Dram Claw just keep in mind that Swompert is slower so you may have to endure some hard hits first before taking Drake down.

Champ You need to take out Skarmary as soon as ya can as it will cause some problem if ya don't. Swompert should have a advantage against all but Curdily, Use your Mawile Break Break against it, also good to use it after Claydol is down as it will most likely put up Reflect and Light Screen. Finally will be Metagross simple Swompert + Earthquake should get you a nice victory but once again Metagross will hit hard.

That should cover most of them, Use your pokes well and abit of luck and you should be abkle to win, Get some supplies; Hyper Postions, Revives, Burn Heals, Ice Heals, Paralyze Heals, and some either (if ya can). Good luck!

 

[tysaya123]

Hey guys, so recently me and a few of my friends decided that next week during a ten hour car ride we will all start playing fire red. At the end of the car ride we will battle with the pokemon we trained in the game. I was hoping that some people here would have some tips about what team i should try and make in this amount of time?
Also, should I try and actually finish the game to get mewtwo? or just try and train?
Thanks

 

[Vroomer]

In Ruby/Salphire, are there any Shiny locked Pokemon? Would love to get a Shiny Groudon and trade it up to my Omega Ruby.

 

[Alexander18]

In Ruby/Salphire, are there any Shiny locked Pokemon? Would love to get a Shiny Groudon and trade it up to my Omega Ruby.

No, shiny locked pokemon only started in Black and White. Games before gen 5 have no shiny locked pokemon.

 

[TheSwagonborn]

A question regarding evolving & learning moves based on level

Hai, how is everyone?

Say I have a level 42 Sunkern, I pick up Giga Dragin and use a Sunstone to evolve him. Will my, now Sunflora, get to learn Solar Beam as soon as I evolve him? It's the move Sunflora learns at level 42. I worry that Solar Beam is only available through actually leveling a level 41 Sunflora to 42 and that by evolving Sunkern at level 42 I won't get to have said move.

I hope the question is understandable :3
Thx for helping and have a nice day!

 

[Aquarelle]

Hai, how is everyone?

Say I have a level 42 Sunkern, I pick up Giga Dragin and use a Sunstone to evolve him. Will my, now Sunflora, get to learn Solar Beam as soon as I evolve him? It's the move Sunflora learns at level 42. I worry that Solar Beam is only available through actually leveling a level 41 Sunflora to 42 and that by evolving Sunkern at level 42 I won't get to have said move.

I hope the question is understandable :3
Thx for helping and have a nice day!

I can confirm that you WILL learn the move if you evolve your Sunkern at that level. I just tested this with an Eevee - I used a Fire Stone on it at level 36, and Flareon learned Fire Spin right after evolving. So, if you use a Sun Stone on a level 42 Sunkern, the resulting Sunflora will immediately try to learn Solar Beam.

I checked this on Emerald, but it should be the same for the other Gen 3 games. But if it's not and you don't learn Solar Beam, you can still teach it by TM or go to the move relearner.

 

[Theo-92]

So looking to buy either Fire Red, Leaf Green or both. Seen a few which I'm considering buying and would appreciate somone giving them a look over/comparison which their cartridges. All are PAL and have a returns policy in place.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291767576360?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT - Red and Green

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252427101374?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT - Red

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/322172550596?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT - Green 1

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252435086223?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT - Green 2


Also if you think their is a better alternative let me know. Thanks in advance. ☺

 

[PA02]

Fire red - need help in team selection

Hello, i would like to prepare a team for E4. I have Charizard, Kadabra and Vileplume, can't decide about the other 3, im thinking about Lapras, Snorlax/Jolteon and Nidoking. Will it do fine against E4 or should i change something?

 

[T-Moar]

[Emerald] Does anybody know the triggers for Match Call rematches with Gym Leaders?

I'm playing on my old [like...really old. Like, there are probably posters here that are younger than it] Emerald save and I can't get the gym leader rematches to trigger. The internet consensus seems to be "just walk around for a while and it will fix itself" but I've literally bred an entire team for natures and EV trained it and still nothing. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Aquarelle]

I'm playing on my old [like...really old. Like, there are probably posters here that are younger than it] Emerald save and I can't get the gym leader rematches to trigger. The internet consensus seems to be "just walk around for a while and it will fix itself" but I've literally bred an entire team for natures and EV trained it and still nothing. What am I doing wrong?

I've never heard of there being any other "trigger" than "enter the Hall of Fame and then wait for rematches to happen". So as long as you've defeated the Elite Four, all you can do is play the game and wait for the Gym Leaders to want to rematch you. In my 11 years of playing Emerald, I've had times where I've gotten plenty of rematches and times where I had to wait forever for them.

Now, on my game I have noticed that I get rematches very often when I spend time in a city with a Gym (e.g. getting a rematch with Wattson after hatching lots of eggs in Mauville), but Bulbapedia claims this trick doesn't work for Gym Leaders, so I may just be lucky.

Anyway, I don't think there's much you can do except continue to wait.

 

[Houka]

Well normally you trigger other trainer by being in or near to route they are in, or at least a lot faster then just wondering, so I figure the gym leader probably fall under a similar function. I can't say as I've never done this in Emerald.

 

[ChowderJF]

Need help with my team on Pokemon Fire Red!

So I just arrived at Lavender Town, (3 badges) and this is my current team:

Charmeleon Lv 32
Raichu Lv 29
Pidgeotto Lv 28
Nidoking Lv 28
Gyarados Lv 23

How could I improve my team? Who should I replace? Also, I'm a little unsure about keeping Gyarados as I have other options later in Lapras and Vaporeon. Not sure. I also have a lot of money at this point so I'm debating getting a Lv 18 Dratini from the game corner and raising it. Is that worth it? Growlithe is another available pokemon that I really like but I already have Charmeleon so I don't know if getting another Fire type would be the right decision. All tips are appreciated!

 

[Houka]

Gyrodos isn't a good water, it can do the job but Lapres or Vap will end up being better. I think replacing Pidgy with Dratini is a good choice assuming you plan on getting it past 50's other wise I'll stick to Pidgy the rest looks solid. May I suggest a Grass type if ya don't have any other plans.

 

[ChowderJF]

Thanks, do you have any good grass type recommendations? I'm not a huge fan of them but since the alternative would be Arcanine (when Growlithe evolves) who's not particularly needed as I already have Charmeleon, I'd be willing to give one a try

 

[Aquarelle]

Thanks, do you have any good grass type recommendations? I'm not a huge fan of them but since the alternative would be Arcanine (when Growlithe evolves) who's not particularly needed as I already have Charmeleon, I'd be willing to give one a try

If you want a Grass type, Vileplume or Exeggutor would be your best choices IMO. I've used both of them on FireRed teams in the past (different playthroughs), and they served me pretty well (though I prefer Exeggutor overall due to the Psychic STAB and higher base Sp. Attack).
The downside is that their level-up movepools are smaller than those of their pre-evolutions, so you might have to keep them not fully evolved for a while if there's a certain move you really want.

There's also Venusaur and Victreebel, but you'd only be able to use them if you can trade as the Bellsprout line is LeafGreen exclusive and it looks like you started with Charmander.
(I'm assuming you're looking for a Pokemon to use during the main story, so I'm not going to mention any of the Grass types not in the FRLG Kanto dex)

You can always check the main site's Pokedex if you want info about the moves, stats, etc. of the Kanto Grass types.