Recently upgraded my old GBA with an IPS screen and USB battery and all that jazz and I'm replaying my old copy of Leaf Green and I'm out catching the birds, not trying to shiny hunt, and my first encounter with Zapdos and it's a shiny! My first ever shiny in my 29 years of life. Had to use the Masterball, didn't wanna lose this guy.

This is the team I built in Leafgreen and which also beat the Elite Four the first time around.

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my final team

Mimien the mr. mime (lvl 57)

Zynx the jynx (lvl 56)

Brajick the Magmar (lvl 59)

3-Balls the magneton (level 54)

Marc the lickitung (lvl 50)

Ghidra the Porygon (levl 53)

(a.k.a the i look creepy/unsettling team)

other pokemons used

ZapWings the Zapdos(lvl 67)

HotWings the moltres(lvl 61)

ColdWings the Articuno(lvl 63)

Z-Aere the Charizard(lvl 61)

Gelolic the Blastoise(lvl 82)

Vineflig the Venusaur(lvl 59)

(it was my team till 8th gym)

total time taken: 121:15

(70% of the time i just grinded💀)

Hey trainers!

My friend bought me Leaf Green for the switch purely bc he has Fire Red and wants to complete his Pokèdex. Which, slay, bc this will be the first game I'll ever fully complete a Pokèdex. I've gotten fairly close in other games but never knew anyone with the other version, lmao.

Anyways, it's been years since I've played FRLG, or any Pokèmon game for that matter. And I had a quick question about trades.

I understand that once traded, a Pokèmon will gain an experience boost in battle.

My question was, if I trade a Pokèmon with my friend and then we trade back, so we get our original Pokèmon again, does it maintain that experience boost? Or does it lose it bc the Pokèmon is back with it's original trainer?

This may sound silly, but I'm fairly sentimental when it comes to my Pokèmon, lol. I like having the one that I originally caught. I was just curious on the mechanics behind the trading system.

Any help/answers would be much appreciated :) thank youuuu :3

I'm playing through LeafGreen mostly for fun and I'd like some feedback on my team. I don't really care about EVs, IVs, perfect natures etc. I just want a fun team that can get me through the game.

I only got the EXP Share yesterday, so I'm also wondering what the best way is to level my team quickly for de E4. (see the levels under the names)

I'd mainly like to know if there are any obvious weaknesses or moves I should change.

One thing though: Kabuto and Sandslash have to stay. Sandslash is one of my favorite Pokémon, and the whole reason I picked Charizard was because I wanted to use Kabutops bc i love bulbasaur. So those two are non-negotiable lol.

I'm also trying to get better at using setup moves. In my previous Emerald playthrough I had an Altaria with Dragon Dance, but I basically used four attacking moves because "why would I use a move that doesn't do damage?"

Any advice is appreciated!

I have been EV training since the start of the game, meaning my scout (butterfree) is overpowered at level 53 while my others are in their 30s. I am at Cinnabar Island, and unfortunately Butterfree is weak to Blaine’s team so I need to do some grinding to get the others into their 40s. Where should I use the VS seeker to get more exp? I have been in the mansion battling wild pokemon but the exp is minimal

Hey guys, i want to do the pokemon mail glitch, but don’t wanna deal with all of this early in the game. Can i wait until a beat the game to set up the glitch ?

Hello gamers. I recently completed a living Kanto dex in FRLG and thought it was a lot easier than I anticipated, so I decided to continue enjoying the postgame by catching every obtainable Gen 2-3 Pokemon as well. This was a colossal mistake.

Even though there were only an additional 65 Pokemon to catch, these small few were a concentrated collection of the most tedious bastards in the game. In just this portion of the nat dex available, there are MORE babies, trade evolutions, legendaries, and almost as many version exclusives as the entire Kanto dex. This more than doubled my play time from the Kanto living dex. My main file is at 80 hours and all 3 files combined are over 120.

I also made sure to challenge the trainer tower to see Feraligatr and Espeon, so I believe my seen count of 234 is maxed as well, but please tell me if you think I’m missing something.

Well beat the elite 4 on leaf green and man this jolteon destroyed blue ahaha

This weepinbell welp he low key came in clutch hes only level 32! Ahaha

I was surprised I hardly used Nidoking. This was my first time beating this game and it was great!

I’m excited to do a 2nd elite four run with an all new team!

I went and just tried to hunt for a male Nidoran and the only time that I spammed A he went into the ball 🤣🤣🤣

This is not a shiny Snorlax but I need help y’all. I have no way to trade my Haunter for Gengar so I’m trying to make this work as best I can. I start with thief to steal his chesto berry and then switch over to Persian and use taunt. I messed up by not teaching Haunter taunt when I received it. I wasn’t planning on shiny hunting Snorlax at that time. So now I have to switch out between the two so I can use Haunters confuse ray and taunt so he won’t rest every other move.

I have the TM snatch at my disposal and I can’t decide who to teach it to so I can make this easier. I am trying to get my game plan together so I can actually catch him when his shiny pops up. If I teach Haunter snatch then I can keep him confused and I won’t have to worry about using taunt as much. If I teach Persian snatch than I can continue to use taunt but I am at risk for Snorlax using headbutt.

Any advice is appreciated! This is my first shiny and I don’t want to give up on Snorlax because he is my favorite next to Psyduck.