3rd Gen - General FAQ/Help Thread

[Ceecee-typhlosion]

I have replaced the internal batteries in my Ruby and Sapphire for shiny huniting purposes. I heard that in order for to find shinies I would need to restart my save file for the internal clock to generate shiny numbers again, is this true?

[m.stephens]

Can anyone give me a list of all the gen two Pokemon catchable in ruby sapphire and emerald without a gameshark trying not to cheat this time around

[BCVM22]

http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-rs/

Check whichever individual critter you're curious about.

[Nutter t.KK]

Can anyone give me a list of all the gen two Pokemon catchable in ruby sapphire and emerald without a gameshark trying not to cheat this time around

Chances are you can find some of the2nd Gen Pokémon from this Hoenn Dex: http://www.serebii.net/pokemon_advance/numbers.shtml

Most of the "Emerald" only 2nd gen Pokémon are here: http://serebii.net/emerald/safarizone.shtml / http://www.serebii.net/pokearth/hoenn/safarizone.shtml There's two in the Battle Fronter.

Most of the ones that you can't find evolve to/from a Gen 1 Pokémon, such as Magby and Steelix.

[Thowra]

I'm trying to get all in-game ribbons for my Altaria, and the only one missing is the level 50 battle tower. Altaria is at level 100, is there no way for the game to accept her in the level 50 battle tower and decrease her level like 5th generation battle subway/PWTs?

[Commando]

I've been thinking about getting Emerald cause I dont have a DS, but i could wait another year for a DS. Are there any changes to the EV system between Emerald and BW2? Is EV training/breeding fast enough in Emerald?

[Nutter t.KK]

There are very few "minor" changes between Emerald EV system and BW2s EV system. You can do everything in Emerald that you can do in BW2. The Major Changes is that you can get Different EV held items, and the wing items add 1 EV to a stat. There is also a store in the Join Avenue that can help EV train Pokémon, and hatch Pokémon, but getting them partly relies of Random chance.

You can Breed really fast in BW2 as you've got the Join Avenue to boost stuff, but some Pokémon can only learn some moves in Emerald that they can't learn in later games.

[massi4h]

So this has been bugging me for a while. According to Bulbapedia:



But I can't seem to get this to work. If a pokemon is asleep, then sketch learns the move it used before it fell asleep. Or else you could easily sketch Selfdestruct and Explosion this way.

I can't think of a way to learn it in any other generations either.

Anyone got any ideas?