r/PokemonLeafGreen

Hi all, I’m not sure about my selection of Pokémon here coming up the elite 4 too. I have a Mr.Mime and Jolteon in my PC at around the same level. Should I mix things up?

What are your thoughts on my hall of fame team?

Happy 4/20 y'all! Be safe, have fun, and keep on hunting those shinies!

Hey all I’m playing on a R36S emulator and for some reason this keeps popping up when I try to go see the captain on the SS. Anne?

Is there a way to fix this? Because I can’t get past this stage?

First time playing with all of these pokemon except Charizard (I used to refuse to evolve my Pikachu as a kid lol). Definitely not the optimal moveset for each (should’ve used the psychic TM on Starmie!), but still beat the Elite Four on my first try. First time playing LeafGreen after only playing Red and Yellow 10+ years ago. Super solid team, probably will try to catch some legendaries now before re-matching elite four

This is my first time playing leaf green since I was a kid. I played sapphire and emerald but never leaf green or fire red! I expected the elite four to be a little bit harder than recent Pokemon games but the difficulty was night and day.

Lorelei was relatively simple for Jolteon to handle but the Jynx was annoying with her lovely kiss and attract moves to slow me down.

Bruno was no match for my Exeggutor who used both of his Onix as a healing breather for giga drain. Sleep power and Dream eater devoured any hopes and dreams his Machamp , Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan had of taking down the overgrown eggplant.

Agatha was where things got tricky.

Initially I was planning on using Sandslash to take down the Gengars. However, my heart sank when I found out they had levitate so my dreams of my favourite gen 1 Pokemon mopping the floor with a difficult opponent from my childhood were dashed. So I switched into Jolteon to bite them into unconsciousness. Unfortunately, Agatha played me into a confuse ray which kept Jolteon hurting itself. Finally, after 3 frustrating turns her first Gengar went down. Golbat went down easily with Sandslash’s rockslide. Arbok was a nuisance with its intimidate lowering the attack on Sandslash. Sandslash did a great amount of damage with dig despite that but then she full restored it and critically hit with iron tail to knock out Sandslash as it reemerged from dig. Exeggutor avenged Sandslash with a sleep powder and dream eater. The Haunter and ace gengar went down without any notable difficulty thanks to dream eater and bite.

Lance was a wall to climb from my childhood I vividly remember who took me multiple tries to beat it because I wasted the ice beam tm on a Pokemon that learned it naturally in Pokemon yellow. So this time I made sure Blastoise would utilize it to its full potential and my own Dragonite would easily clear the Dragonairs. Jolteon handled the Gyarados and Aerodactyl without much issue. Overall, I feel I over prepared for this fight and absolutely demolished my childhood trauma with Lance.

Then at long last came the rival as champion. His Pidgeot, Rhydon and Gyarados went down simply with Jolteon and Exeggutor one shotting them.

The last three were a different story…

Alakazam came out and took on my dragonite blow for blow and the rival kept on using full restores to keep it going. Eventually, Dragonite fell as I refused to sink to my rival’s level of healing mid battle. Jolteon came out and tried to bite him out of existence but again more full restores kept Alakazam in the game (this was 4 full restores at this point). Eventually Jolteon also went down to the psychic barrage. So I decided to fight the way he did by using Exeggutor to giga drain stall him and resist the psychic. But apparently my rival didn’t like that and rage switched into Arcanine. Promptly, I switched to Blastoise to take it down but not before a couple extreme speed critical hits got Blastoise low on health. Venusaur decided to finally rear its ugly head after I rain dance surfed Arcanine into oblivion.

This was when the funniest sequence of events happened. I switched Blastoise out because it was weak and I switched in Magmar. However, the rain dance was still going so my flamethrower didn’t even do half damage to Venusaur. But instead of attacking me, Venusaur used sunny day to clear my rain dance and boosted my fire damage. This lead to Magmar who was 13 levels lower than his ace take down Venusaur. And the effects of sunny day helped finish off Alakazam who came out weak from fighting my other Pokemon.

TLDR; Lorelei and Bruno were easy, Agatha was deceivingly cunning, Lance was overwhelmed by obsessive preparation and the Rival’s Alakazam was a beast that got betrayed by his own Venusaur trying to clear some rain drops.

Now I’m onto the post game with the sevii islands which I have no idea what it includes since Pokemon yellow never had that. I will probably post a rematch elite four team and will definitely swap out a few. I’m sorry Sandslash, I love you but I need more coverage and resilience against match ups they should be able to win :(

It makes up for the months of soft reseting to never get shiny squirtle and dratini though haha

Randomly walking through the Berry Forest! Any tips on movesets ?

I finally got every Pokemon available (without trading.) Now that the Pokedex is as complete as it is going to get, I think I'm done.

It's been a lot of fun playing, especially with using Pokes I never gave a chance before. The nostalgia hit pretty hard despite it being a very long time since I last played my first entry Yellow.

Good luck to those still on their journeys and thank you to those who supported mine. May your shiny RNG be kind. :)

I can't believe this happened to me, I've never seen any shinies in these games. I caught them in the pokemon mansion and pokemon tower respectively. Does anybody know a good set for muk btw?

I wanted to share my Lucky Egg hunt experience as it went anything but according to odds, however ended up being very rewarding.

I decided I wanted to track my encounters and used an online counter to track: Total encountered Pokemon, Chansey's encountered, how many of those Chansey's fled on the first turn, and how many Chansey's I caught.

I used a combination of Techno Trainer's guide and Professor Rex's catch strategy.

Going for the Lucky Egg using these two guides, your estimated hunt is about 9 hours of gameplay, a little over 1,800 total Pokemon encountered, and 20 Chansey caught.

The hunt started miserably, which as you can see, is why my total encounters is over double the estimated total encounters. My total time for the hunt ended up around 25 hours of gameplay and spanned about 3 weeks of real time.

About 1,000 encounters in I came across my 1st shiny, Venomoth. Not wanting to mess this up, I used a bait per Professor Rex's guide and the Venomoth fled instantly. Great!

Feeling defeated, I pressed on and went on a nice streak of catching 2-3 Chansey per safari zone however never saw a Lucky Egg. My longest total encounters without seeing a Chansey was somewhere a little over 150 encounters. This can feel extra terrible when the next Chansey you finally see, flees on the first bait.

About 2,400 total encounters in I encountered my 2nd shiny, Exeggcute. After losing the shiny Venomoth and already so demoralized from being over odds in the hunt itself, I wasn't going to risk this shiny without at least getting a ball off. Thankfully, my first ball thrown I caught the Exeggcute, my first shiny in my play through, and now a boost to continue on the hunt.

Passing 3,000 encounters I started to go a bit insane when every Chansey that was caught did not have the Lucky Egg. I started doing all sorts of superstitious things including naming the Chansey 'Egg' in hopes the Pokemon gods would listen + I had just finished S1 of 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms', iykyk.

I then encountered my THIRD shiny, once again Venomoth, the one who had got away. This was redemption. I followed Professor Rex's guide on this one, and after two baits and a ball, had caught the shiny Venomoth who had ran from me two weeks ago. That's 3 full odds shinies all on different seeds (I would restart the game after running out of safari balls).

My last push was a Saturday morning where I truly was so close to stopping this hunt and finishing the game. I'm not sure why I kept going, maybe the sunk cost fallacy was in the back of my mind, but finally, finally, two baits and a ball later, I saw that little item icon next to my 26th caught Chansey named 'Egg.'

Final Statistics:

Total Pokemon Encountered: 3,862

Chansey Encountered: 166

Fled on First Turn: 80

Chansey Caught: 26

Some stats:

-Fled on first turn was at 48% just about spot on

-26 Chansey caught is about 15% of the time for 166 Chansey encountered which is where I got killed as that should be closer to 20%.

-My longest catch attempt went 23 balls and I did not catch that Chansey

I definitely consider this hunt more of a collector's item hunt than for the increased EXP the Lucky Egg provides. It had its ups and downs but now I have two safari zone shinies, the Lucky Egg, and a great story.

I’ve finished the game and just started learning about breeding so that I can start again with a few new pokemon instead of using the starters.

These are my two favourite mons with egg moves so far - abra in particular looks crazy broken and will probably make the game too easy.

Anyone else have some egg move combos they would recommend?

Anyone else had such weird luck with the legendary birds? Zapdos and Articuno took me for a ride taking 30+ ultra balls and a few resets each. I get to Moltres, hit down to red, and one ultra ball catches it…

This is my team I’ve been raising for the Elite 4 and the rival but cannot make past the rival or sometimes Agatha. Are my pokemon strong enough? I’m using a lot of revives and max potions/full restores during battle and after that I don’t have enough to make it am the way through with all 6. So, with that said I’m low on money now, too. Just wands know what I can do to beat it finally

Man it was fun playing leaf green again after such a longtime! I tried to use pokemon I never used as a kid so I didn’t know how strong Jynx was 😂

Wanted to do a run where I used only Pokemon used by Team Rocket Grunts. Last fight came down to just Arbok and Weezing vs Blastoise with Weezing Thunderbolting him down to fainting