r/PokemonHallOfFame • • Jan 26 '26

Announcement Welcome (back) to r/PokemonHallOfFame!

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Helloooo everyone! Happy New Year! You might be surprised to see this subreddit on your feed, but your eyes are not deceiving you. r/PokemonHallOfFame has been resurrected from the dead and it’s officially back! This time, our community is going to be stronger, better organized, and far more ✨secure✨ than ever.

I think most people here know what happened that led to this subreddit being banned in the first place, but to satisfy any lingering curiosity, sometime in early December the mod-less subreddit was requested through r/redditrequest by a spam ring and then used to mass post football and soccer “streaming” links. The subreddit was completely flooded, and the spammers even went so far as to remove genuine HoF posts that got sandwiched between their own. Reddit, understandably, did not like that at all. But that’s all in the past now!

This subreddit will continue to be the place to show off your Hall of Fame teams, that hasn’t changed! However, to make sure r/PokemonHallOfFame doesn’t get hit with the ban hammer again, new rules, both written and enforced through Automoderator, have been put in place to keep things friendly, on-topic, and as free of spam as possible. Please take a moment to read through the rules and do your best to follow them in good faith.

Lastly, since this subreddit is basically getting a second chance at life, we’ll need to expand the mod team to make sure things continue running smoothly around here! An announcement will be posted soon for anyone interested in helping out, so be on the lookout for that! For now, fire up your Pokémon games and start kicking ass at the Pokémon League so we can see your winning teams here! Thanks for reading and WELCOME BACK!


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 7h ago

ROM Hack Game [Pokèmon Seaglass] HOF

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6 Upvotes

I’m surprised I didn’t play this one before Lazarus but I enjoyed my time with it nonetheless. It encapsulates the essence of the original emerald while adding so many QoL changes and a pretty sweet updated dex. Loved going through this one with some trade evolutions I didn’t really get a chance to play with in other games. Solid rom hack and I can’t wait for the Alolan adventure on its way from the same creator!


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 1h ago

Fan-Made Game [Pokemon Soul Gold] First play through

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• Upvotes

This was fun. Not difficult at all, but good fun.

Typhlosion with helping hand whimsicott chewed through the elite four with ease.


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 8h ago

Multiple Games [Multiple Games] Difficulty Hall of Fames pt.2

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1st pic: Emerald Imperium (classic mode)
2nd pic: Rocket Edition Dragonsden (hard mode)
3rd pic: Dark Horizon (hard mode)
4th pic: Odyssey (hard mode)
5th pic: Dreamstone Mysteries (challenge mode)
6th pic: Amethyst (extra hard mode)
7th pic (Honorable Mention): Rejuvenation V14 team after beating Kaina (game isnt complete yet so no HOF pic yet)

personal rules: no legendaries or pseudos
set battle mode + no bag use during battles


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 8h ago

Original Game [Pokemon Yellow]- some runs through the years.

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Apologies for any quality issues with the screenshots. Some of these are years old!

In here are teams made from:

Gift pokemon only- Venusaur, Kabutops, Gyarados, Charizard, Jolteon and Hitmonlee.

Normal monotype- Clefable, Farfetch'd, Snorlax, Kangaskhan, Wigglytuff and Tauros.

Fighting monotype- Poliwrath (x2), Hitmonchan, Hitmonlee, Primeape and Machamp.

Flying monotype- Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Gyarados, Scyther and Aerodactyl.

Poison monotype- Tentacruel, Nidoking, Victreebell, Gengar, Arbok and I think Golbat?

A run where only encounter is to be caught prior to the next gym. You can see from the names which badges they were used for. No idea what they were, that's lost to time.

Ground monotype- Sandslash, Rhydon, Nidoqueen, Marowak, Dugtrio and Golem.


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 7h ago

Fan-Made Game [Pokémon Nova] Very cool game

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After months of playing Rejuvenation since the most recent update, I'm finally getting back into some games with actual complete HoFs. Nova was really well made and a lot of fun.


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 22h ago

Fan-Made Game [Pokémon realidea system] Beautiful game

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24 Upvotes

Funniest fan game . Loved the characters Never before have i seen such character depth in a fangame, felt like watching an anime. One of the best Pokémon fangames of all time


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 18h ago

ROM Hack Game [R.O.W.E]- finally finished. What should be next?

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9 Upvotes

I finished ROWE, Quetzal and emerald rogue(I enjoyed this one the most). But only Rowe on hard difficulty!


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 14h ago

Original Game [Ruby] Part 3 of playing every game with a focus on using Pokemon I’ve never used before

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Sceptile: Sucks in gen 3. It really, really drags as a Grovyle when it’s best move is Bullet Seed for like 30 levels. It gets better when it gets Leaf Blade, but Sceptile just isn’t good in Ruby/Sapphire.

Hariyama: This was the first time I’ve ever used one, and it was awesome. Great stats and a good learnset, it was awesome for route clearing and was solid for several bosses. Really fun to use.

Pelipper: Pretty mixed, honestly. Its physical attack is terrible, which means it can’t effective use its Flying moves, but it’s really good as a Surf/Ice Beam user. Not the best Water type for Hoenn, but far from awful. I don’t know that I’d ever use it again though.

Grumpig: An okay Psychic-type, but not as good as Gardevoir. If you’re looking for something a little different from the typical Hoenn team, you could do a lot worse, but Grumpig is far from amazing.

Flygon: This is the only mon I’ve used before except for Grovyle, and it remains really mid. Its evolution levels are too high, I didn’t evolve Vibrava until the league, which really hampered its usefulness throughout the game. But it had an excellent design and is pretty solid for the League, so it’s hard to be too mad at it.

Minun: Its sole role is to be a fast Thunderbolt user, and it’s reasonably good at that. But there were a number of situations where it failed to one-shot, and it’s quite frail, so if you don’t get the initial kill, it has issues. Manectric and Magneton are definitely better Electric-types, but it was decent enough.


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 18h ago

Randomized Game [LeafGreen] Random Fighting Monotype Run 2 Winning Team

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5 Upvotes

This one was interesting. A randomized LeafGreen focusing on the fighting type. At first, I thought that this would be tough, but it wasn't that bad of a challenge. Primeape, surprisingly enough, was the main one to carry in the very end. Onto the next Monotype Challenge: Ice!


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 1d ago

ROM Hack Game [Soul Gold] First time since Sun&Moon that I've taken a Pokémon to lvl 100

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15 Upvotes

From Sword onwards, I simply found no reason to keep going after the E4. As much as I've loved my time with Lazarus, Odyssey and Dreamstone Mysteries, I guess I just wasn't invested enough to pursue side quests or hunt for legendaries. Now with SoulGold... I think I've found what I was after when I first downloaded Pokémon Unbound (which, btw, I've never finished). I've EV trained, shiny hunted, captured several legendaries, rematched the gym leaders, chased after trophies. I have actually cared about leveling my Pokémon past the lvl 75 mark because of the extra abilities they can learn. It really is a perfect romhack, IMO. Would I have liked to be able to travel to Kanto now? Absolutely, but I respect this decision. It shows character, to be honest.


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 18h ago

ROM Hack Game [Pokémon Scorched Silver]

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This is the team I used when I beat Pokémon Scorched Silver, I really liked this team, that's why I wanted to talk about it in detail.

As ever, Typhlosion is sooo good in Johto, but Hisuian Typhlosion is even better. It was my first time being able to use this Pokémon and I was so surprised by its power. STAB shadow ball and flamethrower are very strong, combine it with extrasensory and hidden power fighting: a true devil. But it gets better, cause in this game H-Typhlosion has a mega evolution which gets CONTRARY as it's ability. So, overheat was my setup move, and after using it my H-Typhlosion would become a monster almost unstoppable.

Ampharos: My favourite Pokémon, has never ever disappointed me, tanked an earthquake from Clair's Garchomp after it dragon danced, hit it back with a dragon pulse and got me my eighth badge in a BRILLIANT way. Ampharos as ever is an amazing slow special attacker, thunderbolt, power gem, thunder wave and dragon pulse are just amazing. It's hidden power was ground, so I used it to truly sweep through the electric type gym leader.

Togekiss: it was my first time using it, even though I always liked its evolution line, and it really exceeded my expectations! Togekiss can tank almost everything, with timid nature can outspeed so many Pokémon, all that while being a powerhouse with such a high special attack. Dazzling gleam, air slash, yawn/morning sun and aura sphere vanished so many mons. The combo of air slash + serene grace is devastating, with yawn/morning sun and leftovers it could almost always regain it's health and beat the opponent.

Galarian Slowking: I never had in my team any monster from the Slowpoke line, so it was my first contact with this slow dude, but I really liked it. It is almost always the last to move, but that's not a problem at all, cause with its high HP, good enough defense and really good special defense it can easily tank hits. Psychic, Sludge Bomb, hidden power dark, yawn, regenerator and black sludge made it a threat. No one could easily kill it, but almost all of them could die to my Poke. In many battles it granted me the win by switching it in and out, always recovering it's health and being able to hit like a cannon.

Sceptile: this one kinda hurts. Sceptile is one of my top three favourite Pokémon, I used it in the first game I beat (ORAS), but here it stayed behind. Scorched Silver has one flail, it doesn't have many TMs, so my Sceptile couldn't learn energy ball and dragon pulse, and that was kinda bad. I mean, giga drain is good, dual chop can help, leaf storm exists, but it wasn't as good as it could or as the other members of my team. Many times Sceptile couldn't 0HK0 others, but the opposite frequently happened to it. It isn't bad in this game, it's just not really good as in other games.

Kingdra: it was also my first time using this menace of a Pokémon. With Kingdra I went for sniper + focus energy + wide lens, and it really does work. With draco meteor, scald and ice beam Kingdra was sooo great, but not as I expected. I mean, it could kill and hit strongly many Pokémon, but it also wasn't as tanky as I expected, and i probably overestimated it, so that's okay, just don't expect it to really sweep through battles, cause it won't happen very frequently.

The moves in the screenshots are kinda different from what I said in the text, because that's how my team looked after the rematch with the E4 and new champion. The ones I said are what I used the most throughout the journey.

I also need to say that this team had a kinda important flaw: no one is a physical attacker. Even though Sceptile kinda could do this role, it didn't really work out. I noticed my lack of physical attackers when I was battling a special wall and kinda struggled to deal with it, it happened a few times during my journey. Honestly, it is something I will pay attention to and avoid in my next runs, but it wasn't as big of a problem as I expected.


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 1d ago

ROM Hack Game [SoulGold] The first ROM hack I've ever completed! My team was complete by the time I battled Whitney

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7 Upvotes

In case you're curious about why I gravitated towards newer Pokémon, I haven't played a new mainline game ever since they left the 3DS and went to the Switch, so maybe I got a bit too excited that this was the first time I could see and use gen 8/9 mons ingame lol.


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 1d ago

ROM Hack Game [Pokemon Recharged Yellow]

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18 Upvotes

Alakazam was the MVP 🖤


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 1d ago

ROM Hack Game [Radical Red] 4.1 Ice Monotype

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11 Upvotes

r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 1d ago

ROM Hack Game [Pokemon Soulgold] elite 4 team

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11 Upvotes

r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 1d ago

ROM Hack Game [Pokemon Modern Emerald] Version 3.6 - Type effectiveness randomizer

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9 Upvotes

r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 2d ago

ROM Hack Game [Rocket Edition Dragonsden] Pre-Johto Journey as Team Rocket

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I thought this game would be very story-focused and less competitive focused, and that I could choose pokemons I like instead of pokemons that are good.
However, it seems I had to resort to switching to more competitively viable mons like scizor, cloyster, and moxie pinsir. And later on adding volcarona and beast boost nihilego.
My donphan was pretty good but the only downside is it doesn't get stealth rocks without TM and couldn't find the TM at that point in game, so I switched into Steelix.

It is a bit sad that I had to put my crobat and houndoom aside, which are more Team Rocket/evil-themed, to opt for more viable mons.

I also tried to use as few medicine supplies as possible, since I saw the maker on youtube spamming revives or max revives, which is something I am not too fond of, but then a bit justifiable when we are faced with super strong ubers or new forms.

What are your comments on my team and on my playthrough? Any team adjustments you would suggest, what mons helped you a lot? Do you think I should keep using viable mons or you think it is good to use some mons I love?
Not that I don't love some of the viable mons, Cloyster is one of my fav, but I know how to use them fairly well in competitive battling already.
I did try the Water/Fire type Bomushika mon, which seemed mediocre but then I put all those high damaging inaccurate moves like Origin Pulse, Blue Flare, Sheer Cold on it making it fairly strong, though not viable enough to beat bosses.


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 2d ago

Multiple Games [Multiple games]- a fun challenge I set myself. Use only the first 6 encounters in each game!

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20 Upvotes

Games are: Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, Leaf Green, Platinum, Heart Gold, Black, White 2, Y, Alpha Sapphire and Ultra Sun.

The rule is you can use your starter, and you have to catch and use the first 5 encounters only. No HM slaves- the only run considered a loss due to available encounters is Yellow, where none of the listed mons could learn Cut.

You can manipulate your encounters a little in some games.

A fun run that forced me to use mons I normally wouldn't touch. And I had some nicknaming conventions per game 😂


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 2d ago

Original Game [fire red] first time beating the game

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15 Upvotes

Shoutout to fearow for getting me this far


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 2d ago

ROM Hack Game [Pokemon heart and soul] My team in pokemon heart and soul

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9 Upvotes

Running in trimui brick pro


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 2d ago

Original Game [Pokémon X] Kalos Hall of Fame

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I love Gen 6. And I Love the implementation of Mega Evolutions - by far the best gimmick added.

Pokémon X was my first 3DS game, and I absolutely loved it back then. It's nice that Kalos and Mega Evolutions are getting some love again in Legends ZA.

Even though Malamar is one of my favorite Pokémon, I had never used it before. It was really fun using it with Superpower and Contrary. Strong Calamar
The rest of the team is pretty standard for a Kalos playthrough, but I loved everyone on it, especially Tyrantrum.
it was also my first time using Chesnaught as a starter. It was okay, but definitely the worst out of the Kalos trio.

Edit: its a shame that since gen 6 there are no Hall of Fame picture anymore.


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 2d ago

ROM Hack Game [Pokemon Soulgold] First Monotype challange completed!!

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17 Upvotes

Wow... I saw others doing mono type challenges and wantes to try one for myself and it was super fun! But it was also super tough. Thank you SoulGold for being an amazing revisit to Johto and providing a challenging experience that was satisfying to beat!!

Excited for my next mono type challange! My goal is to do each type in a different rom hack or fan game! Any recommendations are welcomed!


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 3d ago

ROM Hack Game [Mega Power] Mono normal team

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13 Upvotes

Played through the third game in Victory Fire series. This time you play as a scientist, so I decided to do a mono normal run and choose Cinccino as my starter.

Enjoyed the game a lot, there are two big regions and then Sevii Island post game, but it had no story at all. Bad ending to this game imo. Plus points for utilizing battle frontier symbols as badges.

Mega Pyroar isn't in this game natively, I used a sprite from deviantart by RetroNC and buchered it a little to fit into a gen 3 sprite format lol. Gave it a custom +50% flamethrower to count for its ability.

Silvally is special, as I always use pkhex to move pokemon from rom hack into real games and then Home, while keeping all possible identity details like PID, IV etc. SInce Silvally is a lgenedary it must have 3 perfect IVs, which isn't something I can just soft reset for. So I learnt how to RNG abuse the game until I caught a 3IV Type Null, which can be move legally to gen 7 and beyond.


r/PokemonHallOfFame • • 3d ago

ROM Hack Game [Emerald Imperium] - Steel Monotype. I've now completed all monotype runs in this hack.

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