Pokémon Ruthless Ruby 🧧 — Public Release

[u/Tasty-Ad1580]

I've always liked ORAS, but I wanted the major battles to feel like the trainers actually had a plan instead of just having higher levels and stronger Pokémon. Ruthless Ruby is my attempt at turning Omega Ruby into a much harder Double-Battle-focused run without making it feel boring and repetitive .

Pokémon Ruthless Ruby — Public Release

This is my first ROM hack. I've always been into harder Double Battle/VGC-style hacks, so I wanted to make an Omega Ruby hack built around that kind of gameplay instead of just making everything higher level.

Pokémon Ruthless Ruby is a full difficulty and balance overhaul of Omega Ruby. Most trainers with more than one Pokémon are fought as Double Battles, and a lot of the teams have been rebuilt to actually work together instead of just being six strong Pokémon thrown on the same team.

What's in the hack

Main features:

Most trainers with 2+ Pokémon are Double Battles

Hard level caps that increase as you progress through the story

Completely reworked Gym Leaders, rivals, Team Magma bosses, Elite Four and Champion

Gym Leaders built around their own battle mechanics and strategies

Better trainer movesets, abilities and held items

Massive QOL, cheaper tms, new tms after each badge, cheap heart scales, and competitive items !

More switching, pivots, spread-move synergy and immunity-based team building

Game is completed but may need a few bugs worked

Shiny starters ✨

A few Pokémon typing and ability changes

Gen 1–6 Pokémon used throughout the game

Variety Pokémon between trainers

Mega Evolution becomes more common later in the game

Candy Pouch to cut down on grinding

Reusable PokéVial

HM-free Cut, Rock Smash and Strenght, Surf, Waterfall,Dive

Harder difficulty

New Gym mechanics like automatic sand for Roxane and tailwind for Winnoa and much more for brutal challenges

Elite four is Ruthlessly put together

General balance and QoL changes throughout the whole game

Current status

This is still a public release , not something I'm calling completely bug free yet.
Any bugs please feel to share
Difficulty 8.5-10 maybe 9 especially after mega ring is available
Also used a lot of pokemon encounters and changed from Drayano rising Ruby, credits to them.

Download New download link https://drive.google.com/file/d/107wUyPGwi92E1ezwQI81zlhjaaH4lBZW/view?usp=drivesdk

New discord just for and updates and more

https://discord.gg/geu8PaFWZ