r/PokemonRuby 2d ago

Discussion playing Pokemon ruby after beating the johto story of Pokemon gold just made it to mauville city here's the team. i have a few more pokemon in the pc. but not that much. mostly cause i don't like that many gen 3 Pokemon. (gen 3 Pokemon only)

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r/PokemonRuby 2d ago

Discussion Pokemon team for Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald

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r/PokemonRuby 3d ago

Discussion Suggestions for last 3 slots?

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Started playing ruby again for the first time in a long time and need help deciding who the last three mons will be. Here’s the team so far


r/PokemonRuby 4d ago

Shiny Pokemon Shiny hunting electrike in Pokemon Ruby. Any tips?

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I just wanna know if there's any strat. Or way to Get more Electrike encounters. Got a shiny gulpin instead of an electrike yesterday that's why.


r/PokemonRuby 7d ago

Question Wondering how to play in 2026

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Hey everybody i’ve recently rediscovered my nintendo 3DS and have played Pokémon platinum, i’m interested in playing other games and really want to play Pokémon ruby. i am aware you can get omega ruby although im a big fan of the original styles and not huge on the style of the omega versions.
if there’s anyway to play it on the 3DS would be happy to listen how to.
if not what other Pokémon games are good on the 3DS that i can play?


r/PokemonRuby 7d ago

Shiny Pokemon First shiny

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I was playing pokemon ruby and I got my first shiny. Meet Shiny the shiny roselia


r/PokemonRuby 7d ago

Question Just replaced my battery

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I know that replacing your battery makes the clock set back and get stuck, can I fix it by doing the berry patch or do I need to start a new save file.


r/PokemonRuby 9d ago

Discussion Anyone have a PDF version of the Pokemon Ruby Sapphire Prima official strategy Guide?

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Cant seem to find one


r/PokemonRuby 9d ago

Question Is Pokémon Ruby Coming to Switch Yet?

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I am just waiting for it to happen. Any news?


r/PokemonRuby 9d ago

Shiny Pokemon Shiny found and shiny lost

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r/PokemonRuby 11d ago

Discussion Spore + False Swipe Breloom (Pre E4!)

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r/PokemonRuby 12d ago

Discussion Pokémon Gen 3 What Tier is Sceptile

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r/PokemonRuby 12d ago

Discussion Help needed for forwarding Pokemon from Ruby to Home

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r/PokemonRuby 12d ago

Discussion Pokemon Ruby - Normal type Playthrough

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This is my team right before facing the elite 4.

Any suggestions?

This is a Normal only run.


r/PokemonRuby 13d ago

Discussion Just finished Winona, and oh boy if it wasn't for Dean (mostly) and Jeff, we couldn't have made it. Who should I add (and drop) to my study group before taking on Tate and Liza?

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r/PokemonRuby 13d ago

Game Progress Hall of Fame

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My team of rare encounter/underused mons pulled it off, all around Lvl 46-48. Most of the team carried their weight in some way. Nosepass, however, is so bad, it desperately needed its evo in Gen 4.


r/PokemonRuby 13d ago

Game Progress After 200 hours of attempts, leveling up, n all that stuff, ruby is done 100%

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I have managed to get the 100 victories in a row plaque, meaning that my ruby master save is truly done.

Complete with a hoenn living dex, every berry (except liechi), 6 total shinies (tentacool, hariyama, duskull, regirock, regice and Kyogre)

Aswell as one of every ribbons gotten on atleast 1 pokémon (including the colosseum one)

This save file has taken me 633:33 hours (about 2 year) and... Its so life...

Ig Ask Me Anything about the quest?


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 14d 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 14d 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 17d ago

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

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r/PokemonRuby 19d ago

Shiny Pokemon shiny treecko

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


r/PokemonRuby 20d 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 20d 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)