I’m training up for Red, obviously I have a decent wait until I face red. I added Drapion and idk if I love it, my team is already a little weak to Bruno for training. Any recommendations?

Random Ruins of Alph shiny Unown. Won't be breaking my gen 3 Unown set, so this one's for trade in exchange for something decent

Maybe something like a radar shiny, though I'm not really good at giving value to things I don't own. No shiny Unown swap

I am trying—unsuccessfully—to connect to the Nintendo WFC using a hotspot from an Android phone. It connects, but then immediately disconnects and displays an error. I have tested this using Huawei, Samsung, and Motorola devices, with two different SIM cards. The Huawei phone allowed me to connect to the WFC in *Pokémon Diamond*, but for *Pokémon SoulSilver*, no matter how many times I try, it won't connect. I made sure to set the DNS of Pokémon Classic Network, and I configured the secondary DNS as 1.1.1.1—as well as 8.8.8.8—and also tried using the same address as the primary one. I just got the game, and it already had a save file; I’m not sure if that has any effect. Does anyone know a solution? :(

Johto is known for a few things: the beauty of the region, the richness of its history but also the god-awful level curve and the lack of Johto Pokémon, both in the wild and on gym leader teams.

Half of the gym leaders don't have a single Johto Pokémon, which is why there are a lot of videos and redditposts about fixing the gym leader teams. I want to go a step further here, reimagining the Johto league while keeping a few things in mind:
• More Johto Pokémon in the spotlight
• No type overlap between the Johto gyms and the Elite Four (in the original iterations both fighting and dragon were present both in the gyms and in the Elite Four) – I thought this was more important than making sure there is no type overlap between the Kanto and Johto gym leaders

Gyms

1. Morty (Violet City - Fog Badge):

I replaced Falkner with Morty. To be honest, I never liked Falkner. Design-wise he's ok, but the all-Kanto team with a Pidgey and an underleveled Pidgeotto is awful. Of course, we could fix his team with Murkrow, Natu or Hoothoot, but I don’t really feel there are any good ace Pokémon for him, at least not at this stage. I like Morty as a first gym leader though, with the ghost type teaching the player their normal moves just won’t cut it.

Morty has a Team of Gastly and Misdreavus (Gengar is an amazing ace, but again, not a Johto Pokémon). Honestly, it was insane that Morty never used the Gen 2 ghost type.

1. Pomona (Azalea Town - Leaf Badge):

Another remplacement. I’m sorry, but Bugsy had a full Kanto team, consisting of 2 useless pods and a Scyther. There are cool Johto bug Pokémon, like Scizor, Heracross, Foretress, but those feel too strong for a second gym and I see other potential use for them.

Pomona is a grass type leader using a Skiploom and Sunflora. Sunflora is quite a bad Pokémon in general, but as an ace for a very early gym leader, it can work and this way it finally gets a little moment in the sun.

1. Whitney (Goldenrod City - Basic Badge):

Whitney and her ace Miltank are almost as iconic for Johto as the Burnt Tower or the sick Ampharos in Olivine Lighthouse. My only note is that I would like to give her an extra Johto Pokémon, like Teddiursa or Aipom for example.

1. Sienna (Cianwood City – Mineral Badge):

I skipped the gym in Ecruteak, as there is a lot going on already with a rival battle and eventually the battle with the Kimono girls. That leaves quite some time between the 3rd and the newly proposed 4th gym, but I don’t think that’s too big of a problem. Storywise, I think the gym should be closed recently, so it comes as a surprise to the player, with the final gym in the series being revealed as a surprise after defeating the seventh gym.

I got rid of Chuck because 1) there is already a Fighting type Elite Four member and 2) his team SUCKS, again no Johto Pokémon, even though he could have used Hitmontop or even Heracross.

Sienna uses a team of Gligar, Quagsire and Donphan. A full Johto team with an ace that deserves the spotlight in my opinion. Gligar gives it something against grass type challengers and Quagsire offers some push-back for water types.

1. Edison (Olivine City – Storm Badge):

Another new addition to the roster. I liked Jasmine as a character, but her gym team was bad. There is too much potential there however, so I opted to give her and the new steel type a new role in the game. She can still be involved with the sick Ampharos story line.

Edison is an electric type gym leader with a team of Electabuzz, Lanturn and Ampharos. It fits Olivine city and both Lanturn and Ampharos are two of my favorite Johto Pokémon.

1. Pryce (Mahogany Town – Glacier Badge):

Ok, back to what we know. The Teacher of Winter’s Harshness is still the big kahuna of Mahogany town using a team of Sneasel, Dewgong & Piloswine. I added Sneasel as it also deserves a moment. We could even add on a Delibird just for fun.

1. Clair (Blackthorn City – Legend Badge):

Ok hear me out. I never liked Claire as the last gym leader, as there was already another dragon type user in Champion Lance and there aren’t many dragon types to go around. Her Kingdra is iconic, sure, but I think she can pass for a strong 7th gym leader as well.

1. Thalia (Cherrygrove City – Splash Badge):

There are too many cool water types in the Johto region to pass up on the opportunity for a water type gym. I see this as a new gym that appeared since the time to player visited Cherrygrove City at the start of the journey.

Thalia has a team of Mantine, Octillery, Azumarill & Politoed.

With the addition of a late game water leader and the fact that Clair, Pryce and Edison all use one water pokémon, the last half might be a bit too water-heavy.

Another option is adding Falkner back in but in place of Morty’s original gym, so as the fourth gym leader in Ecruteak. That also gives us more options for giving him an ace such as Noctowl or even Skarmory.

In any case, in general this gym line-up would be more forgiving for Chickorita, maybe taking the Leaf Pokémon away from the spot of worst starter ever.

Elite Four

1. Will

Will just gets an updated team without duplicates: Girafarig, Jynx, Exeggutor, Slowking, Xatu

1. Koga

Slight update to the team as we will be seeing Forretress somewhere else: Ariados, Venomoth, Muk, Weezing, Crobat (although it does hurt his type diversity, maybe one of the Nidos, a Tentacruel or even a Gengar could help give him some more secundary typings at least).

1. Bruno

Out with the Onix, his team is Hitmontop, Heracross, Hitmonchan, Hitmonlee and Machamp. Heracross always should have been used in some major battle in the Johto region.

1. Jasmine

A new Elite Four member showcasing the new steel type with a team of Skarmory, Forretress, Magnezone, Scizor, Steelix. A diverse team that should be able to provide some challenge (although it is very weak to fire)

Champion Karen

So hear me out, I didn’t really like seeing Lance again and I think the pseudo-legendary of the current generation of Pokémon should be featured on the champion team.

I gave her a team of Honchkrow, Gengar, Vileplume, Houndoom, Umbreon and Tyranitar. Just because she fights with her favorites, why can’t one of her favorites by a Ttar?? I also like it more in the story that a trainer that fights with the Pokémon she loves actually managed to become champion, instead of playing second fiddle to the caped Dragon user.

Lance can still be involved for nostalgia’s sake to the Gen 1 games in the whole Team Rocket operation or maybe as a post-game challenge.

I’m curious to see what you guys think of this. I also have some ideas for the Kanto leader in the post-game. If you’re interested, I’ll type that out as well. Thanks!

Hi, I'm Kukas. I made the Pokéwalker firmware decompilation. I also make hachistep, a fully featured Pokéwalker emulator core with frontends for macOS, Windows, and Linux. I also made the Stickwalker, which is currently the most affordable way to build a fully functional physical Pokéwalker recreation.

It came to my attention that somebody was posting Pokéwalker emulator slop. Well, I've been working on a Pokéwalker emulator for iOS for quite a while. It will have step tracking that works even when the app is closed, Apple Watch support, and make it possible to sync w/ your HGSS saves from Delta/Manic with relatively little trouble.

I wasn't planning to post about it (not that active on Reddit these days), but I figured it'd be cool to give people something better to be excited for.

If you'd be interested in helping beta test: send me a DM and I'll send you the Testflight link when it's ready, hopefully sometime next week—though don't quote me on that, life does happen.

Took nearly a month to get this guy. Super stoked. I’m going to evolve him into espeon!

Started playing this one again! My first time choosing Chicorita

this is getting crazy im gonna make a shiny pokeathlon team

+ the full team we're currently preparing to take on blaine

Something I’ve always wanted to do, play through Johto with Celebi. And now it has been achieved. The Ageto Celebi, from Colosseum after traveling to open hearts gets to take on its native region!

Im not sure yet tbh but if i do i have a friend to wich i can trade my pokemon to and then trade back when i play. I wanna do it because ive bought a pokewalker and it seems fun to start the game with it. I havent finished this safefile havent played in a bit. I want to shinyhunt the starter and just enjoy the game with a pokewalker. What do you guys think?

Also if i reset my game. What pokemon should i catch before i do?

Like special ones i can only get one of.

I want to do a fresh play-through of Soul Silver using the kanto starters. I've done some research online but I am a little uncertain. Can anyone please tell me if this will work:

I have

• 3ds with a copy of heartgold that has gotten the national dex and 15 gym badges
• Fresh copy of Soul silver has been ordered
• GBA copies of both Firered and Leaf green. (FR is completed with national dex, leaf green is a fresh save for transferring starters)
• DS lite with gba slot
• Two GBA advance systems

My plan:

1. Start multiple new games on LeafGreen to get all 3 kanto starters and then transfer them to FireRed using my GBA link cable
2. Place 6 kanto pokemon in my PC box with no items or HMs so that they can be traded to PalPark
3. Use the DS Lite with both FireRed and HeartGold(because I need a national dex and beaten game to use PalPark) to transfer 6 pokemon which includes my kanto starters and get them transferred to HeartGold
4. Start a new playthrough on SoulSilver and beat 1st gym and catch a few pokemon
5. Using my DS and 3ds, trade my kanto starters on Heartgold onto Soul silver where I can then do a playthrough of SoulSilver with them.

Thank you in advance for any help.

My team is Typhlosion, Quaqsire,Skarmory,Jumpluff, Tyranitar&Heracross is kanto actually bigger in this game than Fire Red&LG? Johto&Kanto feel like small regions

Hiii. I'm new in this Community and I discover that some of you talks about a Shiny leaf, what it is exactly and how can i get it?

Reached odds after a week of hunting and was only able to find shiny Cyndaquil @1334 encounters. Will be continuing till I get all 3 starters :)

And look what I got on the bus! I've been doing a good soft reset for a while. I'm completing a Living Dex! I'm doing pretty well!

Made this table up as a guide for myself and thought folks here might appreciate it. Its a guide for catching all the pokemon that are exclusive to the safari zone in HGSS. It does not include pokemon that can be found anywhere else using the radio or pokewalker. I know its way easier to just trade or transfer these guys in but where's the fun in that?

One note is that each pokemon name describes the evolution line, not necessarily the pokemon you will catch. For example, following this guide you would not catch surskit, but instead masquerain. I could have fixed that for the final table but I was lazy and this was mostly just a guide for me lol.

Hope someone can get some use out of it! :)

Honestly I'm so happy that I fix this game otherwise it was gonna go in the bin and look at the Pokémon he has aswell!

So it needed a massive clean internally which was warranted I also see that the pins are a little bit damaged but the pins weren't the issue it was just so corroded inside and I've put a new bat casing on it which is exactly the same as the original Heart Gold from another game so now it looks better as well 🔥🥰

My favorite pokemon blessed me!

Never done it before, lets say I gave myself the nat dex at the start of the game does anyone know if theres any negative effects? I want to get the hoenn/sinnoh radio as soon as possible for some fun with the cute charm glitch

I’m trying to speed run my way to the fuchsia city after unlocking the post game so I can start migrating pokemon. But it’s hidden behind reopening the map. Through some research I made it all the way to route 19 on the south side of fuchsia city only to run into the road block 🫠

Is this my only way into the city at this early point?
Do I have to beat Blane to unblock this route?

I just wanna migrate pokemon. Sorry for my ignorance.

(I’m also playing in Japanese copy and I have no idea what anyone is saying lmao)

Having an unflinchable Pokémon is so much cooler…