Hi everyone,
I wanted to share with you my last rerun of Emerald in Pokemmo... My official grass type Hoenn gym leader squad: The Green Team So before I go too much into details, i wanted to explain my reasoning because I thaught it was kinda of original and really fun for me. Traditionally, I am a really basic dude that will start a new region with my favorite starter. Then I chose in advance which pokemon will learn fly and surf. Then I fill up the team with overpowered pokemon ideally with a dual typing. So that's pretty much it. However, not so long ago I was thinking of the gym leaders in Hoenn and kinda of realise that there was no grass type user (including the E4). Also, I was surprise since Hoenn has in my opinion the best pool of pokemon for grass type as you can see:
With a little of imagination, I started the run with the team in mind and let me tell you it didn't disapoint. Without further ado, I will explain the role of each pokemon in my squad (that is if you have even find this post and that you find it interesting):
King Sceptile
Treecko / Sceptile was obviously my starter of choice for this run. It was extremely reliable during the entire run. The combination of giga drain and overgrow helped my to get out of spicy situation many times. I learned it rock slide to help me gain some exp with hordes in the early games. He was not very usefull for the E4 beacause of his poor coverage but was happy with his performance along the run.
Bulky Breloom
It was very nice to play with Breloom for once that he was not used as a catching slave. I decided to wait for lotad and seedot because I prefere to have few pokemon in the early game. The main reason is that I feel that too many pokemon in the begining means a lot of exp to gain with not good exp strats. I want to specify that I Transfered a toxic orb from my main account (but that's a secret). The main set was bulk up, mach punch, seed bomb and drain punch. Once you set it up 2 or 3 times, it was unstopable. Very fun to use. Also I want to say that he was very usefull against my rival, wattson and Norman.
Sun sweaper Shiftry
So next I captured Nuzleaf and Lombre in route 114. I need to say that Shiftry is my favorite grass type and I had never used it ingame whatsoever . It was extremely cool to play with sunny day and growth during the run. He was extremely good in the E4 With a good set up of 1 or 2 growth. With the acces of razor leaf (multi target move physical) I was able to farm a lot of exp and EV on Solrock that appears in hordes of 3 in Meteor Falls.
Rain abuser Ludicolo
Very similar to Shiftry but slightly better. With his amazing typing he was able to switch in for many fight against ice and fire move. The run would have suck without that beast. With acces to giga drain, ice beam and surf, I could have beat the entire game with him easily. He was my only wincon for drake with rain dance and ice beam.
Tank Cradily
Cradily high def and spdef stats very helped me with a lot of battles. Also he was my only resist gainst flying types and the stab rock type move destroyed Winona team. I learned it steath rock (bought it on the GTL) for the E4 and he lead every battle. I could tank every first hit, set up rocks, and it broke all the focus sach of the mons that would normally live my attacks.
HM slave Tropius
Not much to say. Tropius was my HM slave since he is not very good for battles. But, i must say that I was very glad when I found out that he could learn fly and sweet scent AND that he was a grass type from Hoenn.
So that is pretty much it. What do you guys thiunk of my Green team :)?
@codylramey Well I don't know if there is a list but arena trap is not ban, garchomp doesn't have sword dance, hydreigon doesnt have draco meteor.
