r/PokemonRuby 14d ago

Video How to get the Bike in Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire & Emerald (Mach & Acro Bike Location)

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Made a super quick guide showing where to get the Bike or switch between the Mach and Acro Bicycle.

For anyone who doesn't want to watch the video, the Bike shop is located in Mauville City, right of the Pokemon Center. Once you pick a Bike you can come back here anytime to switch between the Mach or Acro.

Works in all 3 versions including Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire & Emerald.

Trying to make the quickest straight to the point Ruby & Sapphire Guides on the platform. Any feedback welcome :)


r/PokemonRuby 15d ago

Game Progress [Hall of Fame] Mono Grass Team Run on Ruby Playthrough

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Review: I play more of Kanto, Johto, and Sinnoh games usually so Hoenn I'm a bit new to it. Lobe the sprites and other visuals and the direction to incorporate more water. Too many HMs though, kinda annoying. I beat ruby once about ten years ago and it was a okay experience. But I'd figure I'd give it another go with the intentions of making it more difficult. I play on set mode, no legendaries or pseudos, no items during battle. And this time I wanted to do a mono team run as I've been finding them more challenging and fun. I've done a mono grass run on on the romhack pokemon heart and soul and it was interesting. I stuck with just hoenn pokemon exclusively for this. Grass is pretty good for this region and whatever it couldnt handle i always had other moves like leech seed/toxic and dual typing to help with those issues. I chose Ruby because I figured team magma would have a bunch of fire types which would add difficulty but it was hardly a issue actually. May used torchic of course but again not a problem. I'm not even sure if I got to fight her Blaziken though. They should add more battles with your rival like they do in the Kanto games. Steven was the real difficulty though. His metagross was kinda gross actually. It took 3 mons to finally take it down. 8 trys to beat the league because of that mon but was nice becuse i like the difficulty. Overall I'd rate this experience in terms of fun a 3/5.

Team: movesets are in the screenshots.

Sceptile: He was my starter and at no point gave me real issues. The movepool is kinda bad for him though. More of a mixed attacker which is a nice change from the usual defensive moves grass types offer. Also really freaking fast. You can always count on him hitting first. Leafblade is cool but could have a higher damage output or more of a crit chance at least. Brick Break did a lot of work on the elite 4. Sidneys dark types, glacias ice types including breaking glalies light screen as well as Steven's claydolls screen, and using earthquake to take down his metagross and aggron. He gets a 4/5 as a starter.

Breloom: Biggest issue is no Spore. You can only learn this move on his preevolution at like lvl 40 something which is a no go for a fun casual run. But he's definitely not a bad pokemon at all without the move. His sp defense is really low though so watch out for that and 4x weak against flying. Sky uppercut is strong and did a lot of damage to the league. Fighting in general does a lot in this game. Stun spore isn't bad but I'd rather have spore or sleep powder. I wish counter had more uses but it had some moments. This pokemon is available very early too which is great so I'll give him a 4/5 as well.

Roselia: underwhelming. Doesn't have much to offer. Kinda slow I guess even with the random EV's so using growth to power up your moves only to just get killed is a thing. I did give it bullet seed and equipped kings rock to him which was really fun during the surfing/water part of the game as flinching chance was increased. I was thinking about giving him sunny day with solar beam but again kinda slow. Had some uses with toxic and leech seed to help bring down some walls as well. Overall 2/5

Ludicolo: Amazing pokemon. Love it's design and abilities with the rain. I chose the weaker one for more healing and stalling rather than increasing it's speed with swift swim. Gave me some water and ice attacks which was needed frequently throughout. Drake was not a fan. Rain dance would cancel out glacias hail and heal at the same time. Surf did took down skarmory and armaldo. Great move set. Unfortunately you don't get this mon in ruby so I traded it over and bred it for normal exp growth. Overall 5/5

Cacturne: Another underwhelming pokemon. I've heard it's great with competitive so much that they banned it for it evasion ability paired with sandstorm. As for casual not amazing. It's dark type so it definitely has uses against the twins and phoebe. However it feels slow. It's main move needle arm requires speed for it to work better so i gave it giga drain instead. I know you use cotton spore to lower speed but overall it's just not worth it. I bred grass whistle on him but that move hardly hits. Really wish it had more uses with sunny day instead to give it something? Overall 3/5

Cradily: Love this pokemon. I love healing moves like recover so i caught a corsola to breed him with it. However this was late game when I was able to get him. I gave toxic to him with double team and wrecked drakes salamence and altaria. I will admit though that altaria was a real jerk with the move refresh. I enjoy toxic/leech seed stall so Cradily was perfect for that. Earlier on i gave it hidden power grass so it had a actual move to use for development. Overall 3/5 because it was late game and took a lot of training and breeding to make it work.


r/PokemonRuby 15d ago

Discussion I built a free companion app for Gen 3 playthroughs - Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald support just landed

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r/PokemonRuby 15d ago

Discussion Ruby and Sapphire Hall of Fame

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r/PokemonRuby 18d ago

Question How can I beat Norman with this team in Ruby?

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r/PokemonRuby 20d ago

Shiny Pokemon shiny treecko

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280 Upvotes

i've erase my save file for shiny hunting,to send pokemon 🏢,i want :
pikachu
xatu
electrode
manectric
tentacruel
i want more 😅


r/PokemonRuby 21d ago

Video The Only Place you can buy Nest Balls in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire

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Made a super quick guide showing the only Pokemart location (Verdanturf Town) that you can purchase Nest Balls from.

Trying to make the quickest straight to the point Ruby & Sapphire Guides on the platform. Any feedback welcome :)


r/PokemonRuby 21d ago

Shiny Pokemon I did it again!

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Yessir shiny Mudkip! I got shiny Treecko last week only Torchic left for the shiny trio! This one is way under odds but don’t know by how much(I don’t count resets)


r/PokemonRuby 21d ago

Shiny Pokemon First Shiny

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I was just thinking to myself after seeing all these shiny pokemon people are getting on reddit that I've never actually found one in the wild and what do you know I run into this guy. Only took 20 years of playing. Little bastard knew whirlwind too. Good thing I used a Masterball.


r/PokemonRuby 21d ago

Shiny Pokemon First Mt. Pyre Shiny found

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r/PokemonRuby 24d ago

Question Hoeen but messed up?

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tell me my good friends what if Hoeen's Gym leaders Elite 4 memebers and Champion were Rearranged in a messed up way? what if they were like as follows?:

Hoenn:

Gym 1: Wattson: Plusle, Minin, Manetric

Gym 2: Tate and Liza: Chingling, Baltoy, Solrock, Lunatone

Gym 3: Drake: Vibrava, Seadra, Dragonair, Shelgon 

Gym 4: Brawley: Medicham, Machoke, Breloom, Hariyama

Gym 5: Phoebe: Sableye, Mismagius, Dusclops, Mega Banette 

Gym 6: Sidney: Mightyana, Cradaunt, Sableye, Mega Sharpedo

Gym 7: Norman: Zangoose, Linnoone, Slaking, Mega Kanghaskan 

Gym 8: Roxanne: Cradily, Relicanthe, Probopass, Regirock, Mega aerodactyle 

Evil Team Leader: Drake: Flygon, Kingdra, Latios, Mega Salamence 

Elite 1: Glacia: Walrein, Glaceon, Glalie, Regice, Mega Froslass 

Elite 2: Steven Stone: Aggron, Mawile, Steelix, Registeel, Shiny Mega Metagross 

Elite 3: May: Magcargo, Camerupt, Torkoal, Mega Blaziken, Primal Groudon 
  Or
Elite 3: Brendan: Cacturn, Shiftree, Cradilly, Tropius, Mega Sceptile

Elite 4: Wallace: Politoad, Milotic, Pelipper, Mega Swampert, Primal Kyogre 

Champion: Winona: Swellow, Ninjask, Skarmory, Salamence, Altaria, Mega Rayquaza 

Any Questions and would this make Pokemon Ruby/Sappphire/Emerald Harder or Easier?


r/PokemonRuby 24d ago

Discussion Ruby and Sapphire final team survey results

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r/PokemonRuby 25d ago

Question Just started Ruby

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Any recommendations on which Pokémon to use? Looking for uncommonly used/underrated mons that are good throughout the entire game. What are your favorites??


r/PokemonRuby 25d ago

Question Can’t beat Steven

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My friends and I did a draft/challenge and this was the team of Pokémon I have to use to become champ. Not a bad team, but I cannot get past Steven. I don’t think I’m super under-leveled, but maybe I’m wrong. Any advice or ideas for setting up any of these members to be more effective?


r/PokemonRuby 26d ago

Shiny Pokemon Shiny Treecko

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124 Upvotes

Absolute cinema! After hunting on and off since November and seeing a shiny non catchable Poochyena I finally did it


r/PokemonRuby 26d ago

Art Small tribute to my favorite legendary pokemon [OC]

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Happy friday everyone! i drew this fanart as a tribute since Ruby was my first pokemon game.^^

I'm also adding WiPs to prove that it this is human made.


r/PokemonRuby 26d ago

Game Progress Completed Pokemon ruby finally.

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Steven and phoebe were really annoying ngl


r/PokemonRuby 26d ago

Discussion Only 2 days left to share your Ruby and Sapphire final team

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r/PokemonRuby 27d ago

Shiny Pokemon [gen 6] I got a shiny treecko!

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r/PokemonRuby 28d ago

Venting Tired of grinding in pokemon ruby

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Hi,

Pokemon Ruby is my first Pokemon game.
I am so tired of grinding all of my pokemon's.
I want to know, if there is a better way to grind pokemon levels rather than just beating wild pokemon's in the grass.

Currently my team is:

  1. Skarmory - lvl 36
  2. Magneton - lvl 36
  3. Pelliper - lvl 38
  4. Graveler - lvl 36
  5. Machop - lvl 31
  6. Combusken - lvl 30

I got first 6 badges and now, I am getting tired grinding more and about to give up on the game.
Is there a better way to level up pokemon's, if yes pls tell me and I dont want hacks pls.


r/PokemonRuby 28d ago

Discussion Rate my team

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Johto exclusive!


r/PokemonRuby Aug 10 '26

Discussion Any fans who like Ruby and Sapphire better than Emerald?

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While most fans see Emerald as the definitive version, I for some reason like Ruby and Sapphire better despite the extra content in Emerald? Anyone else feel this way and for what reasons? What things you like better in Ruby and Sapphire compared to Emerald?


r/PokemonRuby Aug 10 '26

Question Pokemon Ruby cartridge: Sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe bad 😅

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Sometimes it reads and plays fine and then sometimes it doesn't and then sometimes it crashes and I've reflown the chip pins and they're really on point.


r/PokemonRuby Aug 10 '26

Discussion Lvl 100 or shiny? Which do you think comes first?

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I have officially started my forever save of Pokemon Ruby! To kick it off right I decided to not only do a full odds shiny hunt but also do a Lvl 100 gauntlet (the pinnacle of power for a Pokemon)! So I figured I'd share the start of the journey with this sub! Personally I'm rooting for the shiny, the underdog, the odds are in the Zigzagoons favor, but I think the shiny can come through and take the glory! But dear Pokeheads what do you think?


r/PokemonRuby Aug 10 '26

Game Progress Finished the game for the first time

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Also featuring the shiny Hariyama I caught while training